Symbaroum RPG - Advanced Player's Guide

"The Advanced Player's Guide excels as a book of crunchy yet non-binding options for the grim world of Symbaroum. I can't see how a committed player will keep on playing with the Core Rulebook alone when the present treasure trove exists." - RPG.Net review

The chanting of the cultists came drifting with the breeze. Dorael-Ri had tracked them all the way from the settlement of Merel, at the border of Davokar.
A small, human child – one of few to survive the massacre – had asked how he dared to travel the woods alone. “In Davokar you are never alone,” he had answered. “Not me, nor you, no one…”

Aided by mystical rituals Dorael had managed to follow the cold tracks, but now the enemy was close enough for his friend and servant, the owl Strigi, to take over the hunt. He raised his black sword, took a deep breath and placed the Horn Mask over his face; vengeful spirits immediately flocked around him, veiling him from the world.

The sword quivered in his hand, hungering for tainted flesh and blood. “Soon my dear, soon,” he whispered. “For this enemy, simpler steel will do.”

He put the hallowed sword back in its scabbard and drew the shorter blade that had belonged to his sister. Soon he lunged through the forest, with Strigi soaring at his side. The first enemy fell before any of the cultists realized that the avenger had come.