This blog is for my Keturo setting for Ruins & Ronin written by the talented Mike Davidson, a supplementary setting for Swords & Wizardry. He's done a wonderful job of creating a modified ruleset for S&W that's Asian inspired, instead of the typical Western fantasy/pulp that is so pervasive in D&D clones.
I wanted this campaign to be more than just a fantasy RPG setting though. It's more of a science fantasy or sword and planet setting. Think Edgar Rice Burroughs world of Barsoom (Mars) with a Japanese influence. The planet itself is very old and circles a star that's near the end of it's life. As a result of wars and ecological disasters (natural and manmade) the planet's populous has met with catastrophic loss. Eons have passed and now the remaining people are near-barbarian-like, but are still cohesive enough to continue a dark ages civilization. The dead greatly outnumber the remaining people of Keturo.
This world, which was already "on the ropes" as it were, has been assailed by a powerful entity that's re-animated their ancestors and twists their reality to it's strange will. They're looking for a way to defeat the entity or face extinction in the face of a growing army of dead.
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