Download it Right Over HERE This is a fifteen page free OSR pdf that originally appeared in the world of Khass. There is plenty of old school pirate adventure to be had here. You've got culture, locations, adventure seeds, and more all here for free. Here's the Drivethrurpg blurb:
Chorynth. Fourteen sea princes –squabbling and fighting to be the greatest, some aloof and cold, others hotblooded and brash. All of them dirty; pirates of each other and everyone around them, bearding the world with brass, steel in their hands and a sneer on their lips. Chorynth is called the island of cutthroats and pirates. A standard it bears proudly.
The country of Chorynth was originally found in the World Book of Khaas, Legendary Lands of Arduin. This expanded version has more grit and detail than the original, as well as associated material appropriate for the Arduin Eternal® game system, published by Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures®.
Chorynth makes an excellent pirate haven that can be dropped into any old school game that being said this makes a great sword and sorcery location of scum and pirates. The place has lots of blank spots on the map that can easily be filled in. Pirates always mean one thing when it comes to horror games. Manic pirate undead! The movie the Fog from 1980! Given the propensity of adventurers to end up as pirates especially in an S&S style setting. This free download might get a hell of a lot of play depending on the players. But every party of adventurers needs a place to unload booty, get into fights, and generally have place for the DM to add adventure to his games. This is where this location adds colour, variety, and a much needed injection of intrigue into the mix.
We get a bit of everything with this fifteen page pdf and a nice overview of all of the customs, history, landmarks and more of Chorynth. The level of technology is Renaissance. And the magic level is low as well but we've got a population of scalawags, cut throats, and revears that out matches the Bahamas! We clock in at about 950,000. Reading it over made me think of Captain Blood as well from 1935 with Errol Flynn.
Add a bit of pirate treasure and some friends after the holiday and your ready to go!
These devices have been found throughout time and space across the 'planes prime'. These devices are responsible for the creation of beings of incredible destructive capacity. They were created by parties unknown and can be found throughout alien ruins, dungeons of incredibly ancient aspect, and space wrecks of ancient antiquity. They have even been found in places like the 'flying dutchman of dungeons' Caliban from the wicked pen of Dave Hargrave. These days they have made appearances in 'The Vaults of the Weaver' adventure collection from Emperor's Choice Games
The Followers Of The Hell Hand
The Hell hand comes in the form of both the 'Pulsonic Disruptor' and the Laser Cannon form. Each of these weapons will not function at all without the 'control pendant'. From the diary of government offical Tony Craig we've been able to work out that the 'control pendant' functions as a sort of nanite esper control unit allowing the user's unconscious to act as function for the weapon.
After the March 1 1978 events in a remote small town in Arizona in the United States several vital pieces of 'The Hell Hand' system have come to light. Many of these strange facts have come to light at great cost and loss of life. The work of surgeon Dr. Mellon and the strange 'bio organic receiver disk found within the chest of Billy Duncan. The fictionized account of these events became the basis for the movie 'Laser Blast' brought to the screen by Charles Band and company. The plot according to wiki goes something like this:
A green-skinned man wanders through the desert with a laser cannon attached to his arm. A spaceship lands and two aliens emerge, one of whom shoots the man, which disintegrates his body. The aliens depart on their spaceship, leaving behind the laser cannon and a metallic pendant the man was wearing.
Teenager Billy Duncan wakes up in his bed, seemingly disturbed, and learns his mother is leaving for vacation. He goes to visit his girlfriend Kathy, but her deranged grandfather Colonel Farley makes him leave before he can see her. As Billy drives around town, he is harassed by bullies Chuck Boran and Froggy, and by two police deputies who give him a speeding ticket. Billy wanders into the desert and discovers the laser cannon and pendant. He starts playing with the cannon, pretending to shoot things, then realizes he can fire the weapon while wearing the pendant. Meanwhile, on the alien spacecraft, the two aliens converse with their leader who shows them footage of Billy using the cannon, prompting the aliens to turn their ship around to head back to Earth.
Later that night, Billy and Kathy attend a party where Chuck and Froggy attempt to rape Kathy. When Billy discovers them, a fight breaks out. Later that night, Billy uses the laser cannon to explode Chuck's car, and Chuck and Froggy barely escape the explosion alive. Government official Tony Craig arrives to investigate both the explosion and the desert where Billy found the cannon. Tony informs the local sheriff that the town must be sealed off.
Feeling sick due to an unusual growth on his body, Billy visits Dr. Mellon, who surgically removes a metallic disc from Billy's chest. Mellon calls the police laboratory technician Mike London to arrange for the disc to be investigated. A green-skinned Billy opens fire on Mellon's car that evening, killing him in an explosion. The next day, Tony investigates the wreckage and recovers unusual material, which he brings to Mike London, who concludes it is an alien material that cannot be destroyed.
The next day, Kathy puts the pendant on Billy's chest while they are laying together outside. Billy immediately wakes up with green skin and deformed teeth and attacks Kathy. Billy goes on a rampage, shooting random objects with the laser cannon. Law enforcement officials shoot at Billy from an aircraft, but Billy destroys the aircraft with the cannon, and later kills Chuck and Froggy by blowing up their car.
While Tony questions Colonel Farley and Kathy about Billy, the two aliens land on Earth and begin searching for Billy. After killing a man and stealing his van, Billy travels into a city where he randomly fires at his surroundings. Kathy and Tony arrive in the city and locate Billy, as the aliens spot Billy from atop a building and shoot him, which kills Billy and destroys the laser cannon. The aliens depart in their spacecraft and Kathy cries over Billy's corpse.
Prolonged exposure to the strange radiations of the 'Hell Hand'system creates insane humanoid berserk like mutants. Each fights as a third level beserk with the' hell hand' system. Each hell hand will thread bio synthetic alien organs, systems ,and mutate the genetic codes of their users. The users are conduits of violence, depravity, and unlimited destructive energies.
Many communities of galactic bounty hunters and in dimensional trackers seek those who wield the Hell hand systems as prey. They take it upon themselves to purify the universe of the scourge of the Hell hands.
Each 'Hell hand' system seeks out the correct mental psycho conditioning of the weapons's users. They often choose human and near human humanoid types as users.
Mercenaries who use the Hell hand systems are often some of the most highly sought after in the galaxy and often work for the sheer violence of a job. They are easily angered and often have double the hit points of their species because of the influence of the 'Hell hand system.
Hellhand systems should never be found easily or within the hoards of simple orcs or even dragons. These are campaign altering weapons. They should be difficult to find., dangerous to use, and extremely dangerous to possess. THose who do use them take damage to both life, limb, and their very souls.
Obviously this is a fan created blog entry. This blog entry is for entertainment purposes only there are attempt to violate the copyright or trade mark infringement of the original copy holder's. work. Everything else is a result of my own warped mind.
External Links
You can find "The Vaults of the Weaver" from Emperor's Choice right HERE
From "The Vault of the Weaver's" Caliban adventure copy right Emperor's Choice Games
Ecology of Dave Hargrave's Exterminator Series of War Droids
"The Exterminator war droid looked down on to the smoking remains of the latest series of adventurers or targets without pity or remorse. The smoking remains burnt merrily to themselves speaking volumes of warning to others who would venture into the confines of Caliban. The "Flying Dutchmen of Megadungeons" winged its way between the planes. The wardroid slapped its clip home into the 50 caliber weapon and began its rounds again and wait. Waited for the next batch of fools to cross its path and its guns. It took a certain grim satisfaction in a job well done. Even as it whirled on its treads conscious of someone or something waiting it from far off. " The Exterminator series of Cybernetic Organisms From A Future Darkly Introduction
The Exterminator series of cybernetic organisms isn't simply a collection of devices or government sponsored assassins moving across the face of this scarred Earth of ours. The Exterminator series is one of the most important cyborgs ever to roll off of an assembly line. The "Exterminator Force" created these super efficient killing machines for the purpose of removing certain genetic defects that resulted in mutations that were incredibly dangerous to future generations. A number of these modules were were lost throughout time and space to many different alternative Earths and timelines. These cybernetic killers were drawn from the ranks of the desperate and the damned. Sometimes condemned political criminals and sometimes ordinary citizens were encased in the shell of the Exterminators. These cyborgs were made for doing two things: To act as assassins and to remove the threat of genetic mutations in all its forms giving mankind a chance to survive against the coming onslaught. Anatomy of An Exterminator Cyborg Each and every Exterminator series robot is a blue green spindly humanoid war droid body. Its head consists of an oval over sized set of sensors built into a suite and a mouthpiece that resembles an aviator's oxygen mask. Exterminator cyber systems are usually linked to advanced AI personalities that actually control the robotic bodies up a one hundred fifty miles. The human minds are put into the robotic bodies because because only the "human killer instinct" is needed to create the perfect robotic killers. These robots were used extensively in overpopulated alternative Earth future timelines in the Warrenverse. These robot use conventional military weaponry and specialized Exterminator weapon systems. This innovative cybernetic systems were used in both military and private sector security systems as well as black ops weapons shop. These borgs are complete total conversion organisms. The Exterminator systems are immune to many forms of magic and psionic abilities. The human torso, nerve clusters, spinal column, eyes, skull, minor skeletal structures,and any other human elements are incorporated where needed. All cybernetic systems are there to offer computer council, also assure loyalty to the US government. They also have massive bio storage memory capacity and able to have real time human experience memory interaction. They have both advanced optics and sensor systems. They have high supernatural threat assessment systems and complete mutant extermination data bases. The first of the Exterminator series was launched in its alternative timeline future on February of 2014. The second of the Exterminator series of cyborgs is identical to the first except that he is attached to a tank like vehicle which also has computer systems counter measures, advanced AI assist,and advanced communications systems. The Exterminator series was in operation for three hundred and eighty years.
Variations on a The Exterminator Platform There is speculation that the Exterminator series was the basis for the "Bakshi Peace Project Android Units". These cybernetic systems developed by the "Exterminator Works" scientists also found their way into the advanced android systems of the Peace units. Leaps in the private medical and security sector in the alternative 2014 came as a result of the government sponsored cyber soldier programs. "Adjusting the alien vampire threat" became a top priority during this time. As time went on the Exterminator units were programmed to work with minor mutated beings against Alpha level threats. " Project Mandroid" developed parallel with the various incarnations of the Exterminator Cyborgs. This more human variation on the technology allowed a greater platform for Quisi civilian and and private sector armed forces. This allowed cybernetic conversion of wounded armed forces or condemned criminals into the Mandroid units. The Mandroid units paved the way for "switch and go" weapons options, and extensive off road capable tank tread platforms. These weigh in excess of 3000 pounds or more. Because of the greater human to machine index on the Mandroids there is a much higher empathy level in these cybernetic organisms. There is also the built in obsolesce factor. These units would only last one hundred years as their human organic parts wore out. The real innovation to the Mandroids is the direct mind link interface. This allowed "direct memory" downloads onto any human computer from the human mind of the cyborg. This was a direct result of studies conducted on a captured Exterminator frame. Because of the direct memory interface technology, the Mandroids came with a complete data base of human culture and history. This made them perfect time space explorers. They paved the way for later improvements into the Exterminator series of cybernetic machines In the post apocalyptic horror world of 2394 the Exterminators and even their variations saw extensive action. They were used against all types of Alpha level mutant supernatural threats from vampires, werewolves, even some minor Lovecraftian horror races. The "Exterminators" were the perfect killing weapons. A final nail into the coffins of the so called mutant menace.
Behind the helm of the Exterminator War Droids
The Vault of the Weaver contains monsters not normally found within the Arduin rule books . These "boss monsters" are several grades above the traditional monsters of "Bloody Arduin". The war droids seem to be computer controlled hit men from the same alternative worlds as the Warrenverse . So I simply married the character created by author Bill DuBay and artist Paul Neary. The Exterminator One unit appeared in "Eerie #69, in 1974 and is trade marked to Warren publishing Co. The Mandroid is from The Elimators film. Since I'm doing the Horror VHS campaign I figured this was a perfect fit.
I wanted to squeeze in "Peace" from the Ralph Bakshi's movie Wizards in there someplace. Obviously Peace is copyrighted and trade marked to its owner. I have nothing but the greatest respect for Mr.Bakshi. No doubt your wondering how the Wardroid cyborg got into the wandering dungeon of "Caliban" in the first place . Its a pretty tough call, how the cyborg got into there. How he gets out is the real rub though. Obviously this is a fan created blog entry. This blog entry is for entertainment purposes only there are attempt to violate the copyright or trade mark infringement of the original copy holder's. work. Everything else is a result of my own warped mind.
External Links
You can find "The Vaults of the Weaver" from Emperor's Choice right HERE
All information Regarding The Exterminator series comes from HERE
