Make Your Own God-Spirits (for a Game About the Mongolian Empire)
Starlight (2024). Collage by me. You are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of your ancestral herding lands by your former brethren, the cursed Shü Ebsö. It is only by the will of the sky god Dusassu and the host of lesser spirit-gods of grain, wolf, and copper that you all will survive the misty Endless Plains with no herd save the horses you escaped on. But you are the Rodnu Ebsö, and you will survive. A sandbox steppecrawl game of religion, survival, and discovery inspired by Genghis Khan's early life. God-Spirits This spirit is found… d20 Possessing a nearby lonely corpse. It sits up from where it lay surrounded by protective stones and moves with little grace. In human form as a stranger, dressed in regalia, looking slightly transparent In human form as a stranger, dressed like a beggar, with strange eyes In human form, as an elder, glowing silver under the skin Possessing a herd animal, speaking with human words, but with a...