Some Background When running The Dark Eye, one of my players has made a half elf mercenary that prefers to work through stealth, he's...

Time for another villain: While his teacher Magister Ophenos uses the image as evil black mage just to scare the locals away to leave him...

Guild Mages are a type of character found often in a group of heroes (I think it has been years since I played in a group that didn't...

Mercenaries can be hired by anyone with enough money, be that heroes in need of support or villains in need of protection from said...

Valeria Delazar, as a witch, was missing a quite important aspect: her familiar. Familiars can be just a bit of flavour or almost a...

In a way Travia represents a the ideal some of the twelvegods protect through their domains. How could you feel safe in your home if...

Knight of the Order of the black Thistle The Order of the black Thistle was founded by the noble House Fenwasian in the Middenrealm...

Noble from Albernia Albernia is rich in myths and legends, in particular regarding fairies. And quite a lot of those stories are true....

Efferd might seem clear cut, he is the god of the seas after all. In reality it's not exactly just as simple as that. Today I'd like to...

Alrik, the moody guard. After I mentioned him in my first article https://thedarkeyeblog.wixsite.com/thedarkeyeblog/post/npcs-in-tde I...

So last time I talked about TDE mechanics, I talked about how it does an excellent job of supporting games that are not combat focused,...

Rashid Ben Omar, the desert guide Traveling through the Khôm desert, even on one of the more frequented caravan routes is a dangerous...

I read fpruller's great article about Rondra, and thought instead of commenting I might write this instead. The world of The Dark Eye,...

In this post I will try to show you the differences between D&D and TDE - but not in a hard, crunchy way. Instead of comparing how many...

The Blessed One of Rondra is one of the most played Blessed Ones in the Dark Eye. I'm going to look into that as well as dissect the...

The Dark Eye is a pretty well rounded-game compared to many other TRPGs, particularly when compared to something like Dungeons & Dragons....

The Investigator The Horasian Empire is the most advanced realm in many aspects. If you think about the intrigues of the Borgia in...

There are countless RPGs out there and in particular in the genre of medieval style fantasy with knights and orcs and the like you find a...

Every group is different, every game is different. I wanted to preface this post with that statement because everything from this point...

First Example Another GM recently was in need for a villain in Al’Anfa and asked me to help her. She eventually went with a modified...