‘In the Footsteps of Hercules’ Bonus Content
This page is dedicated to bonus content tying in with Skirmisher Publishing’s bestselling In the Footsteps of Hercules, a system-free sourcebook devoted to a pilgrimage trail that can be used in conjunction with any fantasy role-playing games. This 66-page publication was written by author Michael O. Varhola, includes illustrations by fantasy artist Amanda Kahl and maps by RPG cartographer William T. Thrasher, and is available at the Skirmisher PDF Shop.
++Fiction & System-Free Content++
‘Footsteps of Hercules’/Peloponnese Encounter Table
‘The Most Lamentable Battle of the Nemean Baths’
++D&D 5E Content++
Megalos Ellada: Battling the Mares of Diomedes
Megalos Ellada: Stealing the Apples of the Hesperides
Megalos Ellada: Herding the Cattle of Geryon
Megalos Ellada: Riding the Bulls of Crete
++Actual-Play Game Sessions++
Venture to the Spring of Amymone
Interlude in Nafplion, Across the Wine-Dark Sea, Introduction to Crete
Dancing with the Bulls of Crete
In the Footsteps of Hercules was created as a specific example of a Pilgrimage Trail, one of the 85 general sorts of places that appear in Skirmisher Publishing's Adamantine-bestselling City Builder: A Guide to Designing Communities. As written, this trail is dedicated to the titular demigod and is set in a Dark Ages fantasy version of Greece and located within the company’s Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting.
Shown below are handout versions of three maps by William T. Thrasher, depicting places that appear in “In the Footsteps of Hercules,” the Sanctuary of Ares Stymphalus, the Baths of Nemea, and Megalos Ellada, a large farm near Olympia that has become a popular stop for pilgrims.
