A guide on creating legal codes for games, history, examples, and why bother?

Destroyer of Dynasties, Killer of Kings, Bane of Broods, Curse of the Ruling Elite!

A compendium of the tales of martyrs, the quests of clerics, and the ways of the holy, and all who walk in the graces of the light of the holy hand.

An elder cleric asks the PCs to transport a relic to a nearby city. A simple quest with endless possibilities.

Come visit Qacha’s Neck. Home of the Worlds Oldest Cat

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a name referring to a set of ancient mortuary spells written on sheets of papyrus. Incidentally, it is also a good example of a campaign defining piece.

Three manacles created by a devout priest of the Storm Queen. Connected to the storm queen via one of the shards of the storm they are used to take control of any person who wears one.

A freed air elemental, with a reason to stick around.

Forged with the souls of 12 good lawmen fighting The Darkness, carried by the 13th, the lone survivor, these shining irons have become legendary weapons for The Light.

Skeletons are weak. The armies of darkness made them into something much more suitable.

Thirteen hundred years ago, a mad powerful wizard had an estate in the area that became the county of Corvis. Over his 800 year span, he created thousands of magikal items of various types and power level. While many were "mighty", there were a large number of lesser and trivial orbs and trinkets. This is their scroll

An (un)holy book written in ink created from a Shard of the Storm.

The mind of a wizard is more open to the more esoteric elements of his surroundings - this is why he is able to perceive the weave of the Great Tapestry that is the multiverse, and pull at the strings. This increased sensitivity can manifest in several ways.

In too many games, role-playing takes a back seat to Kewl Powerz, a tag given to the multitude of spell lists, special abilities, and innate powers claimed by a character. Many times this is a problem of munchkins, or blowing up stuff becoming more important in a game than role-playing though alternate personas.

'Let me to battle, Brother. I shall sweep thine enemies as the wind, and thou shalt have vict'ry.' -St. Vedast's revelation to Hural

Winner of The Shards of the Storm Quest.

Players want their characters to be special, and a secret is one way to do it. It is also a way to better connect the character with the game world.

The Land of 1,000 gods, Calcobrina burns under the gaze of the Lion's Eye.

Most Dragons live to accumulate wealth and crouch upon heaps of gold, content to slag troublesome heroes into cinders and distaining the company of men to absolute solitude. Vychan is not such a dragon.

He sat there in shock, not believing what the Guard Captain said. It couldn't be true. His sweet daughter would not be capable of killing the man she was to marry. He watched, helpless, as they took her away.

And then came the trial. Even as he heard the evidence against her, he refused to believe she could commit such a vile act. As the verdict came in, his world fell apart. It echoed in his ears, 'Guilty, guilty, guilty'

James Barley is a hard drinking, minimum-effort working hired hand...