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NPCwednesdays #14
Morena Horger is one of the two lieutenants Baltram Gorbas (#13) has in his cell of Children of the Rat cultists. She had some previous...

Karsten
Dec 28, 20221 min read
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NPCwednesdays #13
A counterpart to the twelvegods is the thirteenth god, also know as the Nameless One, who is also called by some the Rat Child. We...

Karsten
Dec 21, 20223 min read
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NPCwednesdays #12
It's only fitting that the twelfth NPC is a blessed one of the twelvegods. Praios is the leader of the pantheon of the twelvegods and his...

Karsten
Dec 14, 20222 min read
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NPCwednesdays #11
Alrico is a freelance spy, working in the Horasian Empire. Besides hiding his true identity he is also hiding his magical abilities, ...

Karsten
Dec 7, 20222 min read
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Silent Takedowns
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...

Alisdair Smith
Dec 3, 20224 min read
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NPCwednesdays #10
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...

Karsten
Nov 30, 20222 min read
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NPCwednesdays #9
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...

Karsten
Nov 23, 20223 min read
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NPCwednesdays #8
Mercenaries can be hired by anyone with enough money, be that heroes in need of support or villains in need of protection from said...

Karsten
Nov 16, 20222 min read
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NPCwednesdays #7
Valeria Delazar, as a witch, was missing a quite important aspect: her familiar. Familiars can be just a bit of flavour or almost a...

Karsten
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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Travia, Homestead and Family
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...
fpruller
Nov 3, 20223 min read
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NPCwednesdays #6
Knight of the Order of the black Thistle The Order of the black Thistle was founded by the noble House Fenwasian in the Middenrealm...

Karsten
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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NPCwednesdays #5
Noble from Albernia Albernia is rich in myths and legends, in particular regarding fairies. And quite a lot of those stories are true....

Karsten
Oct 26, 20222 min read
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Efferd - The ever changing temprament of the sea
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...
fpruller
Oct 20, 20223 min read
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NPCwednesdays #4
Alrik, the moody guard. After I mentioned him in my first article https://thedarkeyeblog.wixsite.com/thedarkeyeblog/post/npcs-in-tde I...

Karsten
Oct 19, 20223 min read
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Looking at the Mechanics #2: Combat
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,...

Alisdair Smith
Oct 19, 20226 min read
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NPCwednesdays #3
Rashid Ben Omar, the desert guide Traveling through the Khôm desert, even on one of the more frequented caravan routes is a dangerous...

Karsten
Oct 12, 20222 min read
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Rondra - Family politics
I read fpruller's great article about Rondra, and thought instead of commenting I might write this instead. The world of The Dark Eye,...
Lambert Behnke
Oct 10, 20224 min read
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The Dark Eye and Dungeons and Dragons - a Comparison
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...

Moritz Schmid
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Rondra: The Sword and Shield of the Gods
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...
fpruller
Oct 6, 20224 min read
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Looking at the Mechanics #1
The Dark Eye is a pretty well rounded-game compared to many other TRPGs, particularly when compared to something like Dungeons & Dragons....

Alisdair Smith
Oct 6, 20222 min read
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