Songs for the Bone Harp
Over on itch.io, before the bad times began, some good people proposed having an Appendix N Jam. For those who don’t know, Appendix N was the part of the first edition AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide that listed inspirational materials. It was basically a list of sword & sorcery style fiction. The way it worked was participants got assigned a random “pulpy” sounded title and had to write an adventure to suit. My title was “Songs for the Bone Harp” and this is the grim mystery I made for it:
I wanted something that looked like it came from a strip-mall game store circa 1985. Something that sat between Harn, MERP, and the fiction of Fritz Leiber and CJ Cherryh. The village map comes from Dyson Logos and the picture is the “Skull Lyre” a creepy musical instrument in the Met’s permanent collection.
And check out these submissions from friends:
… and check out all the other entries here.
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