Recent content by Erik Growen

After running an adventure and a half, we have come across some things that need to fixed up/ clarified in the rules. 1) Initiative. Who wins a tie on initiative? I have ruled that the Shield Maidens do by default being big damn heroes and all. But this is not clear in the rules. 2) The...

Eighth: Found another rather important thing while running through the adventure today. There are no stats for the centipedes, which you are definitely supposed to fight in order to save a toddler in the adventure. That is a big miss. That being said, it was a fun run again today! The...

So I am running the 'Banished' adventure later today, and after reading it, there are questions again. Not to put too fine a point on it, but some editing here would have cleared up some of this pretty quickly. Oh yeah...spoiler alerts for anyone who might be a player and not a GM...you have...

I have come across a copy of the Hammer's Slammers Traveller book from 2009 and was wondering if it would be compatible with the Traveller rules from 2016 (the core book that I have)? Would many/ any adjustments need to be made to make use of it? I do have the Mercenaries supplement as well...

It went well! 4 new Shields Maidens enter the fray! There was an early realization that this was very much a team oriented game and so the players created their characters accordingly. Once generation was complete we talked about the world some more before plunging into The Sun adventure. So...

Ready to start our session 0 character creation/ session 1 adventure (depending on how long creation takes us!). Everyone is looking forward to taking the game for a spin. For Freya! For the Resistance! Erik

I am about to kickstart a game of SM with my rpg group (tomorrow!) I will be using The Sun adventure as the starting point, but after reading it, I have a few questions. If you are a player - do not read further! . . . . . The biggest revolves around the heist. It is stated that The Resolute...

Well that would be cool!

Does anyone know of any good miniatures to use for Shield Maidens? Vikings but with that sci-fi/cyber/techno vibe to them. Clearly looking for some great ones for the characters themselves, but also something for Fenrir troops, the Pure, Dark Elves, Jotunns, techno-undead and various of the...

Awesome!!!

Is there anything further on Vanaheimr? We are staring at 2026 for scheduling now! Erik

I just got the Tales of Yggdrasil book so I will poke through and see what might work then with an eye at the Banished. Some pre-made characters would be a huge plus for getting people quickly into the game - a download for the Mongoose site perhaps?

I am looking to possibly run Shield Maidens at Ragnarok 5.0 (April 26-27, Kitchener, Ontario) and was wondering if anyone had run any of the adventures in a convention setting? Which adventure lends itself best to the 4 hour window of a convention that also acts as a good introduction to the...

In preparation for running the Trial of Blood I have made a complied table for tracking the Prophesy Points from all of the sidebars in the adventure. It will come in handy for me and I figured perhaps others would find it handy too. It is broken down by section and I intend to just use a...

Wow - that is a whole lot less than a book for sure. I have most, if not all, of these articles already. I was just unaware that they constituted the remnants of the Theif's Companion!