little book of swords

little book of swords

A small but surprisingly heavy tome of magic swords. You can most probably find it hidden at a long-abandoned lair of an arch-mage, on the nightstand of a well-read litch, or dusting away at the reference section of your local library.

Opening the book, the colourful illustrations swirl and come alive in front of your eyes...

D6 Heirloom Weapons

Sealed Sword

When these blades are pulled from their scabbard, they are briefly enchanted — bypassing all resistances and dealing critical damage for 3d6 Moments/Turns. 

Once their seal is broken they act as normal swords.

Elven Blade 

These enchanted swords were made by elven smiths in hidden groves at the dawn of a long lost age. The art to create them has been lost to time. Their blade shines with a cold blue light if there are goblins in the immediate Large Area.

Lantern Sword 

Swords made for members of the Long Watch to keep them vigilant on starless nights. When they are thrusted into the ground their pommel lights up as a pale lantern, keeping the darkness at bay.

Cane Sword 

These richly decorated walking sticks hide delicate but deadly blades. Favoured weapon of wandering gentlemen and errant scholars — these hidden blades are next to impossible to detect when frisked.

Bramble Blade 

Swords made for the members of the Order of the Green Knights. At the will of the wielder these swords can grow strong vines — temporarily sticking the sword to any surface or restraining a creature in 1d6 Moments/Turns.

Dark Sword 

This ancient bronze sword is one of a kind — made by a long lost civilization. When the sword is pulled from its scabbard magical darkness bursts out of the blade and covers the immediate Small Area in 2d6 Moments/Turns. 

Licence

The little book of swords is an independent production by Goblin Goulash (David Melhart, Antonios Liapis & Jasper Schellekens). It is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.

What's Included?

The downloadables include a booklet pdf for digital use, a single-page print pdf laid out for a 12-page mini zine format, and two zip files: for the gifs and sprites of the sword animations.

Attribution

The blank pages and book cover are made using assets from the Stonebase UI pack by Anders Gullmarsvik.

The fonts are Pixelify Sans by Stefie Justprince.

The pixel art Human Made logo is made by Hairic Lilred.