Fenix English Edition 6, 2020

Fenix #6, 2020 is full to the brim. It is our food issue, featuring articles like Fantastic Feasts on how to add a fantasy twist to a banquet by Graeme Davis and Food for the Gods, a wry tale of Mythological Comestibles and the Powers they Provide for Mythras, by Pete Nash. Once again you get a full on adventure to play, this time The Chasm of Erdugald to Symbaroum. It is 10 page scenario signed Paul Baldowski.

Food of the Gods – a 5 page article by Pete Nash
A Wry Tale of Mythological Comestibles and the Powers they Provide

T’was a dark and stormy night. Lightning tore across the sky, a flash of illumination revealing a strange white stone palace topped with oddly shaped onion domes. Moments later another bolt instead unveiled an ancient wooden temple deeply carved with knot-work.

Through the thunder a tall figure approached the strangely transient edifice. Teeth bared in a snarl, the warrior shrugged broad shoulders under his armour, feeling cold rain trickle down his back and slogged onwards towards what now seemed a ruin of vine covered marble columns

Fantastic Feasts – a 4 page article by Graeme Davis
Graeme Davis on how to add a fantasy twist to a banquet

Almost every book, film, and TV show set in the European Middle Ages includes at least one feast, in which the king and his court sit at the high table above the great hall, consuming dish after lavish dish as the lower orders, ranged along benches below them, gorge on meat and ale. This is a comparatively rare scene in medieval fantasy games, though, and this is a pity. Here are some ideas for adding a fantasy twist to a banquet, complete with magic, monsters, and various kinds of peril.

The Chasm of Erdugald – a 10-page scenario for Symbaroum
The greatest dangers and most treacherous secrets of Davokar come not from the dark and trackless undergrowth or the twisted spires of ancient ruins, but from the unexpected and ever-changing features that seem to materialize from nothing and vanish without trace or warning. Any treasure-seeker worth their salt will never venture out lightly nor ill-prepared, and none will fall foul of the tricksters and charlatans who claim to have reliable maps to untold riches. The few landmarks that persist with certainty have been cleaned out of their easily accessible wealth. Those relics of ages past that have wealth to plunder have yet to be discovered or have only become accessible and may not stay open long. And occasionally, something more dangerous still will well up from the depths, offering the rarest of opportunities to those willing to risk their lives.