With Courage and Fury In Our Hearts

"Repeat after me lads, I would like to RAGE." Literally too angry to die. Part of the http://weareadventurers.tumblr.com collective. Profile Picture is "Setanta Slays the Hound of Culain", illustration by Stephen Reid

[we-are-barbarian]

Vhrak the Barbarian by David Kegg on Art Station

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/N52D0N

Hey guys, I have a bunch of new followers now, and I'm siked to welcome you all to The Horde! Just wanted to remind people that this page is aggressively Queer friendly, regardless of your sexuality or gender identity, and a safe place for people of all religions, creeds, and ethnicities. I am Norse Pagan, and I am aware there is a huge stigma with supremacists in my faith. I will not stand for it, so if you are a Heathen looking for a safe spot to be a racist shithead, this ain't it. If that hurts your feelings, good, get out of here.

Welcome to the Horde, and Happy Raging!

[solidsmax]

God of War: Laufey dev. Santa Monica

[bugak]

Time to repost my Laufey fanart

[min-ah-36]

Quick fanart for the new game!!

[madameshogunassassin]

Charcoal original of the cover artwork for "Conan the Barbarian" #33 by Rob de la Torre

[oldschoolfrp]

A moment of rest (Jennell Jaquays from Survival of the Fittest, solo or co-op dungeon for level 1-2 characters of any class, Michael Mayeau, Judges Guild, 1979)

[we-are-barbarian]

Because @wearesorcerer is probably the person in the collective I have the most interaction with and therefore is my Adventurers Best Friend (tm), I was just thinking about this:

Sorcerers are to mages what barbarians are to warriors.

I will elaborate no further.

[wearesorcerer]

Yes. I and others have said this for, like, ever.

[we-are-barbarian]

[we-are-barbarian]

Because @wearesorcerer is probably the person in the collective I have the most interaction with and therefore is my Adventurers Best Friend (tm), I was just thinking about this:

Sorcerers are to mages what barbarians are to warriors.

I will elaborate no further.

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Barbarian and Castle” Frank Frazetta 1970

[vintagerpg]

Brigands of Mirkwood (1987) is an alright adventure that gives players a new, interesting base of operations and then pits them against regional problems. The hub is Straytown, an enclave of seedy operators in Mirkwood. Sort of a rustic, frontier town, lined with corduroy roads and full of opportunities and danger. A bit like Lankhmar, really.

The first scenario is a check-out-the-neighborhood kind of jam, where a scholar requires the players to purchase a book on his behalf. Some light hi-jinx ensue, but for the most part this is a sightseeing mission. The second scenario has the players raiding the guild hall of the rogues, which is basically a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser scenario. I’m not complaining. The final scenario pits them against the local mage, who is the primary power in the town. He’s also in league with Sauron and has a castle, of course. That’s a fairly straightforward assassination, but disappointingly, his removal likely leads to the dissolution of the whole settlement, which is a shame.

Another Angus McBride cover, so baseline great. It isn’t one of my faves, though and it doesn’t really seem aligned with the module the way most of his other MERP work is. I like that little lizard guy tho. Interior art is again by Jason Waltrip. Much of it is rather cartoony. Like, Disney-level cartoony. Which is an unusual choice. Not a bad one, necessarily, but unusual.

[yesthe-artblog]

Tuor the elf-rizzler vs Turin the elf-fumbler. Choose your fighter

[vintagerpg]

Woses of the Black Wood (1987) is the first of two MERP modules I happened to pick that are set in the same region, Eryn Vorn, a wild forest on the south coast of Eriador, near the mouth of the Brandywine River. In the game (I’ve no idea of Tolkien mentioned the region in his writing), the rough country on the forest outskirts is home to some scant humans with some Welsh cultural flavor. The woods themselves are the refuge of a population of Woses, Middle-earth’s answer to the Medieval idea of the “Wild Man,” hill-dwellers who live an uncivilized life mostly in secret. Then the cape, with its many rocky islands, is the haunt of pirates. As a setting for adventures goes, it's pretty good.

The first scenario is yet another haunting. So many MERP adventures involve spectral figures and what to do about them! This, however, is the first I’ve encountered that involves what I’d consider a typical haunting where the point is to lay the spirits to rest in a somewhat typical, real-world fashion. I have a desire to stick this basic plot in my West Marches campaign to see if the pretty simple real-world solution is naturally obscured or complicated by the fact that it is happening in a fantasy world (the ghosts in question were being tormented by a demon, who was recently released, accidentally, by now-dead dwarven adventurers). I like this one quite a lot. 

The first scenario leads into the second: one of the ghosts was tormenting a girl in the settlement who plugged her ears to block out the spectral whispering. Free now of the ghost, it’s discovered she has injured her hearing in a way that only the local hermit herbalist can heal. Unfortunately, the demon from the first scenario has taken up residence in the herbalist’s house and hi-jinx ensue.

That these nicely interlocking mysteries give way to a dungeoncrawl in the third scenario is somewhat disappointing. The dungeon itself is large and dangerous and there are at least three factions — an undead Wose sorceress and her legion, a Wose party exploring the complex with the aim of resettling (most of the group is neutral but they are led by an evil sorceress) and a renegade troll warrior. The mix is interesting and complex, and any confrontations are further complicated by traps and the narrow confines of the dungeon. I just wish it was more like the previous scenarios.

Good maps and Liz Danforth’s illustrations are always a highlight. Angus McBride on the cover. Love the composition and the movement, especially enjoy the carved stone faces (they remind me in the slightest way of Arthur Machen’s “The White People”) but I don’t love the choice of making the Woses look like Neanderthals. I don’t hate it, either, but I think there is maybe a better visual solution.

[victusinveritas]

[byjove]

Someone mentioned how they were having a hard time creating a world for their fantasy fiction geographically because they kept reinventing the island of Britain, which also happened to my good close enemy George R. R. Martin. I would like to suggest North Carolina. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous but North Carolina has an awesome geographic setup for a fantasy kingdom, I think. Inhospitable barrier islands, constantly shifting shoals in the sound, swamps with alligators, venomous snakes and carnivorous plants, lots of very flat and somewhat sparsely populated farmland, foothills, mines, mountains full of mysterious phenomenon that were originally very difficult to navigate and people still get lost in today. It kind of rocks.

[goth-queen]

I made a battle axe out of monster cans

[blacklotusmuseum]

"Kjeldoran Knight"

Ice Age 1995 | Illus. Ron Spencer

[artistapreguissosa]

🐺🍖🍺👁️ THE MOUNTAIN GREETS YOU!🍻

Good Suggestions? Me do take!

IF I EVER find that they put HIM on the Wolfblade because THE OTHER SPACE WOLVES WERE 'UNCONFORTABLE' around him Because of his "geneseed defect" I WILL BECOME A MAGNUS STAND

Haegr, The Mountain! The "Only Canon Fat Space Marine"™ Not counting whatever The heck is going on with The Death Guard, IS a character com The Blackmane books! This guy famously BROKE a Chaos Dready's leg with a HAMMER that he uses as If It weighs nothing.

Do not be fooled by silly cute way of drawing Vikings inspired By The Handsome Dwarves from The Hobbit, This guy is Pure Muscle and Hunger underneath alldat.

Proud member of The Wolfblades, the Sons of Russ who act as guards and support for the Great Navigators from House Belisarius!

I couldn't find a Very good and clear description of Lady Gabriella Belisarius, The navigator he slightly banthers with, so I drew her as The standart Navigator person™ on the Wiki, Basic Dune COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT from The Guild Navigators stuff

I have read Very little of The Ragnar Books, but I LOVE THIS GUY and The way he talks and how his brothers Just awe at some of The things he does, a Scary Giant, Son of Leman in personality and temper,

Also YEAH I can't remenber If They Mention his hair color on the parts I read so REDHEAD IT IS

These are 2625x3500 digital drawings done on Ibispaint! I used some Already existing Haegr Fanart as inspo for his design here!