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why did i write this Welcome to Richard's Half-Price Necropolis All the Skeleton, Half the... uh. hooray... Here at Richard's, we milk bad jokes for all they're worth have...
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hey none of this makes sense without reading the first one so you should do that ok thanks Bös The capital of Bös is set on the largest island orbiting the Wormgod; this...
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"And the worm consumed the world, and shed the Light by which we live." So, a quick sort of overview of Wormgod's Harvest, another setting because I don't have the attention...
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Disciples of Keter Infopriest Infopriests are commanding figures in Keter's religion: they research scripture, speak to the androids below them, and lead pilgrimages across Ein...
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Engine Heart is a d10-based RPG where you play as small utility robots in a world where humanity is long gone. It can be downloaded for free here. When I first heard of the...
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Due to its setting, Infra-Red's system moves quite far out from OSR orthodoxy. It uses 6 stats: Athletics (ath), Driving (dri), Espionage (esp), Preparedness (pre), Shooting...
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I wrote an elongated version of A Positively Monstrous Way of Thinking for the Silver Swords zine, which you can back here! (It's $1 away from its stretch goal, too!) It also...
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Pendragon's character creation can be best described as insufferable. I mean really; if your book has a heading that says "Allot Prime and Derived Statistics", it should be...
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The Forest of Towers The Forest of Towers is where the majority of Ein Soph's ecosystem lives. Intended to be the ship's hydroponics bays, the water eventually overflowed (as...
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A perfect dystopia. A heaven with no exits, and ten thousand eyes trained on you. The playground of a mad God. The Empyrean is the core of Ein Soph, where Keter holds the last...
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Sunless Horizon is the most self-indulgent setting I'll ever make, taking inspiration from Veins of the Earth, Axis Mundi, HMS Apollyon, Rain World, Orion's Arm, and Duskers....
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Everyone wants to run a long campaign, but short campaigns have their advantages: being able to actually finish, the ability to run multiple campaigns in different settings...
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Pendragon of Mars was a seven session campaign run by Monsters and Manuals all the way back in 2013 (I know it wasn't that long ago but I wouldn't know what an RPG was if you...
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I can't believe anyone's still with me after a year of this nonsense. To celebrate, I give you Artificial Sky: a completed cyberpunk GLOG/Shadow of the Demon Lord hack. Artificial SkyLinked by the ring
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THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THE UNITED STATES IS CURRENTLY RUN BY JOHN F. KENNEDY, A DEMOCRAT. FOREIGN RELATIONS HAVE WORSENED SINCE THE TAKEOVER OF BRAZIL, LEAVING THE UNITED...
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heh, puns Back in 2010, noisms posted a piece on fighting large groups vs. single large enemies. In his experience, D&D is often paired with the first method, where encounters...
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After reading some of Throne of Salt's mini-bestiary entries, I decided to make some of my own from prefixes and suffixes used to give animals their scientific names. At some...
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You all know about D&DWiki, right? Home of strange, unbalanced homebrew in absurd amounts? I've got a strange nostalgia for the place: it was where I first learned you can make...
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The Wound opened in late 1952, in a rural portion of Brazil. after nearly decade of unproven stories of strange, crystalline creatures wandering through Brazilian towns, the...
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Gateway is part of Age of the Ecclesiarchy, an abandoned setting where the ur-god, Ilephoth, looms above the world, wearing the sun as a crown. The world is (mostly) ruled by...
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If you're here because of the link on the cover, welcome! Hack & Slash is far from the pinnacle of RPGs (trust me), but you can add to it easily: if you want a new mechanic (a...
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A Whatnow? The Rhombuscrawl was created back in March by d4 Caltrops. Along with being one of the least pleasant words to say I've ever seen (though I take the blame for it),...
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ZINES "I got some zines. A lot of zines. So many zines. And I need to put something on the blog. Hmm..." So, I'm going to start reviewing RPG zines as filler content between...
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The Tech is a caster/skill character for my SF GLOG hack. It works using the spellcasting rules, with a heavy focus on utility rather than combat. Techs are all wired with a...
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These classes are more for XCOM-style near-future SF than gonzo science-fantasy (because I'm boring). They are also designed with 3 main assumptions, without which they don't...Linked by the ring
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What's this, then? This is a one-page dungeon I made as an escape from Sunless Horizon's more... nihilistic tone. It's meant to be funny, and despite it's lack of stats, it...
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The Seeleh are a race of insectoids, with six legs arranged around a humanoid torso. The entirety of the body is covered in a thin membrane beneath a set of armored plates. The...
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Iyr Titans When the Iyr come to the world in their invasions, they do not just bring their glass and crystal armies. Through their holes in the universe, they drag titanic...
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Atavia - "What, is this the 5th project now?" Atavia is a mini-setting I'm making: condensing the most interesting parts of Age of the Ecclesiarchy (the thing with the...
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The Elves of the Desolation Image Credit: Muglo The elves of the Desolation work in a loose caste system, with the despicable common folk and disgusting foreigners at the...