bySwarm - built from your creativity and imagination

About

Submitted by protoswarm on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 21:43

The idea behind bySwarm is to collaboratively build an RPG setting using the web site community, which we call the Swarm. As writers, artists, and other community members contribute content to the setting, their submissions will be rated by the community which will earn the contributors recognition within the Swarm and potentially the larger gaming community.

Dark Golden Age

Dark Golden Age is a new RPG setting being built collaboratively by the Swarm.

For centuries, the world of the Dark Golden Age was ruled by wizards and spellcasters. But since magic comes in tides, ages of high magic and ages of low magic alternate and the current Age of High magic has come to grinding halt. Old structures of authority around powerful wizard-potentates collapse, and new groups strive for power. The old magocracy makes place for new kingdoms. The mundane majority which was subjugated for centuries rise again and sheds the joke of their former masters, technological developments which were hold back for centuries through the wizard’s dominance blossom up, while the sheer wonder of magic shrivels.

Recent Setting Updates

Title	Author	Last update
Creature type - Race: Muroideans	robosnake	10 min 3 sec ago
Creature type - Race: Galidines	robosnake	17 min 6 sec ago
Creature type - Race: Lupines	robosnake	17 hours 23 min ago
Creature type - Race: Testudo	robosnake	18 hours 8 min ago
Oranization - The Arcane Schools	robosnake	4 days 13 hours ago

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Gen Con 2010

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Further Setting Development: The Dark Golden Age

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Let's start with something very, very simple:...

Featured Stories

Throw open the gates!

Submitted by protoswarm on Sun, 03/28/2010 - 21:12

The Dark Golden Age and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

After a month of discussion and voting, the system has been selected for the first bySwarm project - the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Almost everyone that voted had Pathfinder Roleplaying Game as their first or second option with more than half having it as their first choice. There will be a lot of opportunity to write setting material as well as to develop new feats, spells and other mechanics that capture the feeling of the Dark Golden Age!

Interview with Till Pohlmann

Submitted by protoswarm on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 23:02

Listen to the interview with Till Pohlmann, otherwise known as Satyr. He is the designer behind The Dark Golden Age. If you have Flash installed, you should see a button to play the audio. You can also download it (20MB).

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