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Edit: King of Dust is now released on itch.io - you can buy it here.The Kickstarter for King of Dust, the secret zine project I talked about in my last post, is live! King of...
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January 26th marks the second anniversary of the Archon's Court. Sadly, unlike last year, I don't have a gift. Instead, you will suffer as I talk about the last year of the...
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Last time on this series, we went over the basic premise of Sewer Rats, and built some prep tools to make running the game easier. Now, we continue working on dungeoncrawling...
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I think it's vital to have a filler game - something you can easily set up and run when you're missing people from your campaign, have to run on short notice, or have a...
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A lot of Sunless Horizon posts have been very high-scope: civilizations, environments and overviews make up the majority of the words thrown around about the setting. So, let's...
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This is a pretty short post, mostly to try out a more vague style. Tell me what you think in the comments! Playing a Long Game Keter is, to a point, under siege - the Navigator...
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BlueWolf from the OSR Discord requested: "General sci-fi dungeon room fills. Encounters, tricks, traps, treasures, details for ""empty"" rooms or means of travel between far...
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The Navigator Houses are the most important civilization in Sunless Horizon - as the assumed home of the characters, it'll be the first group the players interact with. Because...
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we are always watching This is a modified version of Oblidisideryptch's Warlock. OSIRIS has been preparing for this for a very long time. They are only the newest organization...
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Open the Gates In my urban fantasy setting, (now called ♎︎) magic comes from Ynn, an alternate dimension where the laws of reality are more flexible and easier to persuade....
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Disclaimer: a review copy of this game was provided for free by the author. This review is based off of a reading of the book, not a playtest. Star Dogs, by Michael Raston, is...
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Let There Be Blood Melee Weapons Each melee weapon has a small 2-row 1d6 table: one row Attack, the other Defense - similar to this post by Daniel Sell. For example, the...
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Happy Halloween! whispering from offstage Happy... Septemberween? Ghost Ship to Planet Transylvania is a collaborative effort between me and John Rattlemayne, following a...
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Note (7/31/2020): This post has been replaced. Read this instead. The peasants of the Navigator Houses are intentionally left uneducated and in poverty by the nobility - an...
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EDIT: updated versions of these classes can be found in Libra, my urban fantasy hack.While my urban fantasy setting's magic-users can be easily created with any of the many...Linked by the ring
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Despite all the words I've thrown around about them, none of my settings have actually seen play yet. The group I run games for has an... incompatible tone for something like...
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Close Your Eyes Forever The Sustainers have been sleeping since before the Retreat. To avoid the dangers of Ein Soph, they took control of the wide-spread cryopod facilities,...
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Everyone's seen Jeff Rients' 20 questions for a campaign. To be honest, I don't know if I need to link them in the first place. However, those questions were very, very focused...
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Otherwise, it's just Cyber. Cosmetic Modifications 1. All of the character's augmented limbs have been skeletonized, keeping only the bare minimum of components the augment...
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A recent challenge being pinged across the GLOG-y types over on the OSR discord is the Curse Class, where some outside event (a bite from a vampire, a message from a god)...
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This post is from back in January, when I made Artifcial Sky. I'd like to make a few posts of little cyberpunk resources like this. Get crawling. Given how much time cyberpunk...
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10 monster settings were created by 3 Toadstools, but since then the formula (10 categories, a monster for each, make a setting out of it) hasn't changed. I want to see if the...
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Engine Heart is a d10 RPG about utility robots. I've made a couple edits to the character creation system, and now an adventure outline thingy I guess. Overview A robot onboard...
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The Navigator Houses 8 Houses led by the Emperor Above Heaven, the highest in a long hierarchy of nobility. The Navigator Houses are the largest nation, and the only one with...
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The Flesh Descends #tenmonstersetting! Intelligent Humanoid: Zern (3.5 Monster Manual IV) Undead: Leftover Special (Eclipse Phase X-Risks) Ancient: Wastewalker (Eclipse Phase...
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Everyone really seemed to enjoy the first set of GLOG reviews, so I looked around to find some more editions. Sadly, I was only able to find one: Mimics & Miscreants from A...
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The GLOG is strange, when compared to other OSR systems: while best known for its levelless magic system, its easy multiclassing and utterly ridiculous amount of classes give...
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Note (7/31/2020): This post has been replaced. Read this instead. Many of the commoners of the Navigator Houses believe in the 3 Peasant Gods, and keep small shrines to them in...
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Wormgod's Harvest is a biotech fantasy setting where the Wormgod consumed the world. Bladebugs Bladebugs are throwing weapons that fly nimbly towards targets before slicing...
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hey infra-red wasn't very good i started over i guess this is also a sample page for the book oh yeah this is going to be a book