The Earthlight Academy

It's midsummer and in the darkest, weirdest wood the fairies meet in mask to feast and fête. Of mortals, the canniest and most wary ca...

I am very late to this party, but you still have two days to get in on the reprint of Metamorphosis Alpha , the original sci-fi RPG by th...

Check out these cheat sheets made by lowlyminion on the Torchbearer forums. Follow him/her on twitter @lowlyminion .

Now that we've gone through all of the elements of a monster in Torchbearer , it's time to actually make one. For some reason th...

Flipping through the "Denizens" chapter of the Torchbearer  rulebook, you'll notice most creatures have a "Special...

Unlike a character's instincts, monster instincts are not for making mundane tests or causing drama. They are simply there to better ...

Whereas Nature Descriptors lay out your creature's concept in broad strokes, the weapons you assign it often provide the most flavorfu...

This will be a shorter entry in this series, mostly due to the fact that the book lays out the procedure for determining the exact values...

Assigning Nature Descriptors is probably the hardest part of creating monsters in Torchbearer . Whereas other games represent the monster ...