The Edestekai – also known as the Elders but the Ul-Mor and the Kurabanda – are a mysterious race of three-legged creatures. The Edestekai have an advanced social organization run by their priests. Religion is the dominant, factor in Edestekai life, and their religion tends to be very ritualistic. The Edestekai serve a greater being…
Category: The Volturnus Saga
The Kurabanda
The Kurabanda are a forest dwelling race of intelligent creatures somewhat similar to monkeys in appearance. These creatures have a crude form of tribal organization. They are known to have very primitive religious beliefs. They are believed to have a great love of practical jokes. Vengeance for wrongs done to themselves or their kin seems…
Air-Whale reimagined
In my efforts to convert Star Frontiers and the beloved Volturnus adventures over to Savage Worlds, I also wanted to re-imagine it to something more epic, more interesting and more fun. And more up-to-date. Chris Putnam’s vision of the overall campaign structure was a big help. One of the more hokey aspects of the campaign…
13.0 – Volturnus: Outpost Alpha-9
This was an epic night. The challenges of the caverns and then finally the Star Devil outpost. GM Notes: I merged the original material (location map matches the classic version) with Chris Putnam’s re-write and added my own spice. (1) I kept the Lake of fire and did a little lava craft for that. (2)…
12.0 – Volturnus: City of Fire
Reaching the shore, the team felt heat emanating from the cave entrances into the catacombs. Entering the catacombs, the next chamber they encountered had a massive Ul-Mor stone statue on a throne. Surrounding the throne was the wreckage of some kind of control or research room, with console units jutting out of stone and rock. …
The Yernoid (rewrite)
Yernoids are man-sized bipedal reptilian creatures (smaller versions of the Eorna) which have developed a rudimentary intelligence which include tool and weapon making. These creatures usually roam in the caves and underground of the badlands. They are sensitive to light. They are territorial; the strongest Yernoid always leads the group. In truth, the Yernoids are…
12.1 – The City of Fire
Conversion of a D&D one page Background: About 400 years ago, The precursor to the Yernoids used this part of the mountain facility to shelter from the Sathar bombs. Fortunately, they escaped most of the danger. Unfortunately, the crystalline nature of the planet enhanced and reflected the radiation to a point that it mutated those…
12.5 – The Volturnus Saga: Session 1 through 12 Review
The Beginning The campaign started on New Pale (Truane’s Star System, Frontier), a world recovering from war of extreme racial tension between pro-human supremacists and a multicultural military state. Hired by a secret coalition of mega-corporations along with the planetary government of Truane’s Star, the job was to follow the trail a missing mission team. …
