Slaine

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Slaine is a British fantasy comic from the worlds of 2000AD, marking it as one of the rare pure fantasy stories to run in that anthology, which instead tends to focus on science fiction, horror, and Science Fantasy.

How to describe Slaine... borrowing deeply from Irish Celtic mythology and history, but with rampant sexuality, gore and profanity, Slaine could be considered 2000AD's counterpart to Conan the Barbarian. The titular Slaine is a badass brute of an Irish Celt who roams the land, banging women and battling fools and monsters, ultimately being used as the agent of the triple-aspected Earthmother Goddess, Danu. Originally a Science Fantasy comic with some Irish Celtic trappings, it was later revamped to be based more overtly on Irish Celtic mythology, albeit filtered through author Pat Mills' neo-pagan beliefs, such as the superiority of matriarchy.

Like Judge Dredd, Slaine is /tg/relevant because he got a D20 System tie-in RPG produced by Mongoose Publishing, who later replaced it with a Traveller based RPG.

Slaine D20

The corebook of Slaine's d20 RPG was Sláine: The Roleplaying Game of Celtic Heroes, which presented a brand new approach to magic where spells are purchased with skill points and fueled by a mana system, as well as setting-inspired custom rules such as bending weapons and offering up human sacrifice to replenish "earth power".

Playable classes as the Warrior (divided into the Fighter-esqe Noble Warrior and the Barbarian-esque Tribal Warrior), Thief, Druid, and Witch.

Playable races are Human, Dwarf, Warped One, Son of Cymidu, Formorian, Cythron, Half-Cythron, Avanc, Half-Titan and Titan Dwarf.

In addition to the corebook, the Slaine D20 line consisted of the setting gazetteer Tir Nan Og, the four tribal splatbooks The Sessair, The Finians, The Fir Domain, and The Falians, and a four-part campaign made up of The Invulnerable King, Teeth of the Moon Sow, The Ragnarok Book and Way of the Horned God. Four more sourcebooks were planned, covering places and people who aren't part of the four main human tribes, but they were never released. These would have been:

• Fomorians: The Sea Devils of Lochlann
• Norsemen: The Berserkers of Midgard
• The Drunes: Druids of the Worm God
• Dinas Emrys: The Eternal Fortress