Tsar Rising

"The Tsar is dead!" The cry echoes across Torassia: the cruel tyrant fell in a battle with undead troops, abandoned by the two princes in his time of need. The empty throne creates anarchy and chaos, as the princes and the Tsar's advisor battle for the right to rule. As if that wasn't bad enough, the worst winter that Torassia has ever experienced leaves frozen corpses in villages everywhere. It's a race against time as Sergei, the Tsar's commander in chief, gallops southwards to reach the capital before the forces of hell get their first. Will you brave the coming storm? Tsar Rising is a d20 fantasy adventure for eight or ninth level characters.

Michael Tresca has an 11-year-old D&D role-playing campaign, Welstar, which is one of the six worlds in RetroMUD and where many of his short stories take place.

He's written reviews of role-playing and computer games for Web sites, and Talien and Maleficent's Bookstore. He's also written three D20 modules: "Tsar Rising", "All the King's Men" (April release), and "The Dancing Hut" (August release) from Monkey God Enterprises.