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Parnassus by H. SiemiradzkiFor a dungeon that I am writing, I need about 30 NPCs. Most likely that is too many, but it represents each major position in a roughly medieval...
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"The Wine Dungeon"A dungeon resulting from having a morning cup of coffee, a random dungeon room/hall roller, and a single sheet of graph paper. I ended up with about 50...Linked by the ring
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Today my campaign reporting moves out of the simmering sin of Nightwick and into the simmering sun of Cuccagna-- InPlacesDeep's other campaign. Since some of the Nightwick...
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I am a servant of MOGI wear the moth mask as MOGI make the hand-sign as MOGI weld the sickle as MOGGI reap as MOGI am still trying to build my own pantheon by writing down gods...
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Art is always a good thing to include on hallways& make it about an upcoming roomThere is a nice blog post here that I discovered in KNOCK! Vol. 1 about not making corridors...
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PURPOSE: After monsters here and here, we have traps and treasure as the next components up for re-skins. Here are the recommendations from OD&D. The purpose is to not really...
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At the end of March, our weekly group hit session 50 (!) of our Nightwick campaign. In order to celebrate this note-worthy milestone, I worked with the player of Sotar to...Linked by the ring
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PURPOSE: As a sorta follow-up to my reskinning of Lair of the Lamb, I was encouraged to try reskinning OD&D monsters for various genre settings. Here are Levels 1 & 2. Below is...
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A rough estimation of what Snorly looked like prior to Session 26. RIP.One aspect of RPGs as a class of game that intrigues me the most is the sorta "emergent behavior" that...
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Not in the dungeon, but the village of NightwickPreviously in Nightwick...Blossom (Rogue 4)Liminal (Chanagling 3)Mayfly (Magic-User 3)Verinka (Changling 2)Yevgeniy (Cleric...
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From the Marigold Tarot amrit@0h_musterniAfter reading Direct Sun's Aberrant Reflections, I realized I think I might have a handful of modules dealing with weird stuff falling...
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I think I have sorta two "styles" to my D&D. The first is a love of the "phantasmagoric" like Through Ultan's Door and the second is what I've called "french vanilla". These...Linked by the ring
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PURPOSE: As a sorta follow-up to my reskinning of Lair of the Lamb, I was encouraged to try reskinning OD&D monsters for various genre settings. Or at least give the Underworld...
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I think one of the best starting adventure modules right now is Arnold K's Lair of the Lamb. And not just me, even the curmudgeonly Bryce Lynch rates it a "Best" and the...
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Previously on NightwickThe party returns in a joyful mood having successfully, as far as they know, rid the Lady Ilg of her burden or at least put things in motion to have...
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PROGRESS: Click here to see this evolving #dungeon23SWITCHING TO DIGITALOkay, I love the notebook but I am creating a lot of work for myself with it because I am drawing these...
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We are back in (hex crawling) action in the Dark Country. The party is on a mission to Lychgate to save the good name of Lady Ilg:Ilg, the lady of Nightwick (wife of Lord...
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Previously...THE PRICE OF CHARITYInvestigatorsEllis Williams PICaldwell Zimmer DrifterEvelyn Dalton PIDarleen Marsh Miskatonic Lady's Track CoachTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1922:The...
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The area around 0109A is supposed to be a moatClick here to see this evolving #dungeon23NESTED ENCOUNTER TABLEI have added a fuller encounter table. I am trying a nested format...
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I have written about Call of Cthulhu before a little bit. Mainly about how I really like Sean McCoy's investigation sheet as a way to turn a CoC game from a horrible revelation...
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THE FOUR HALLSPlease click here to see this evolving dungeonTHE OLD GODS HAVE RETURNEDJudging from Ben L's #dungeon23 round-ups, a lot of the foundational OSR blogs are firing...
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Its not much, but it's honest workHere is an entry I just wrote in a dungeon:06. SPENT KITCHEN: A simple kitchen is here. Empty stew pot. Skull inside.Much like the previous...
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Previously in Nightwick...Since Sotar did not delve this session, Mayfly has put pen to paper once again to recount the adventures in Nightwick.The party awakens once again in...
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Arthur RackhamA small but good bit I have moved over from Twitter. This is why we should always blog our ideas first THEN put them on social media so we don't have to double...
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I feel like I have slight writer's block for #dungeon23 so here are some concepts that jump around in my head.Bizzare garden full follies and patrolled by a medusaMedusa would...
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In part of my brainstorming for #dungeon23 I reached out to three different people I know to get their opinions of on the following question:Really Random Question: If I was...
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For a far fuller session report, checkout Mycelium Mischef for Session 37For Mayfly's downtime, he spent most of the time looking researching the book taken from the Abbey last...
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In an effort to keep to my word to make things more blog-centered, I am going try to read, link to, and respond to more blog posts.Over at Gorgon Bones, there is an OSR origins...
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How Twitter views bloggingWith the recent Twitter turmoil caused by its new owner, there has been a call to return to blogging as a means of communication in the OSR pond I...Linked by the ring
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Like this, but the figures represent levels(the nice calendar from The Blacktongue Thief)In my ideal D&D ruleset player advancement would stop short of 10th level. I think the...