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Nothing new from me, but here is what other people have made for the Quarter-Hour of Writing challenge:Archon's Court presents sufficiently analysed curses.Archon's March...
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I was going through some boxes in the attic when I found my old school notebook from when I was nine or ten years old. It contains what is probably the first bestiary that I've...
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Dwarves need metal. Dwarves eat metal.Dwarven society is stratified into castes, which in turn are based on the metal which a dwarf can afford to eat. (This can be quite useful...
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Here are some desert hexes:Terrain: Sand dunes.Obvious: Tall, ancient tree. Has roots so deep they reach the underground river hidden beneath the sand. Great for orientation,...
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Upon their graduation, each member of the Mage Guild receives an implement which is used to focus and empower their spells beyond the common hedge magery. The focusing stone in...
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Several decades ago, Black Gold Limited completed a new mining station in orbit around the black hole H-485 Phei. With heavy use of spacetime compensators and antigravity...
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Morwena the UnseenUnusually tall and brawny for an elven woman, Morwena is no master of the killing steel as many would guess. Instead, she carries a compound bow three paces...
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Fire is a good servant, but a bad master. Humanity was using and utilizing fire since the prehistory shrounded in deep time, but the DRAGON is a remainder that the fear of the...
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The worldtree, Nancy. The Yggdrasil.I'm looking at it right now.I remember when we had first heard about it after it was discovered. The largest living thing in the known...
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Resurrection gauntletYou may put it on and then touch a corpse, bringing it back to life. The resurrected creature is exactly as they were before their untimely demise -...
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OortKnot of long, multi-limbed insectoid limbs with no central body. Silicon based.Every joint is covered in sensory whiskers. Extremely sensitive to electricity and...
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Give your PCs a shark-skin of deep diving or a bubble breath bauble, then let them explore one of these locations:d12 Locations under the WavesShipwreck full of treasures,...
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2d6 Encounter 2 Paladin armour, animated 3 Rune-cube, floating 4 Ravenous hand, giant 5 Flying head swarm 6 Dwarf, venomous 7 Murderess gang 8 Dwarf, poisonous 9 Botfly swarm,...
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Homunculi are what you get when you plant a kidney stone.Different kinds of bodily stones give birth to different kinds of homunculi. It's a trivial matter to harvest kidney...
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Humanity used to stand proud and tall. We transformed matter atom after atom with nanotechnology. We created AIs that thought at the speed of light. We made our children...
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Raiders of the Weird WastelandHD 1Move normalLieutenant: Any raider with max hp is a lieutenant.d10 What are they attacking with?their own mutated arms (d6)a severed rotting...
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Stars are born in the wombs of nebulae and spend their long, long lives attending the Galactic Court. They dance at the eternal ball, every step according to the Grand Scheme...
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Nobility has nothing to do with bloodlines and birthright, nor some nebulous moral concept. Being noble is a metaphysical quality that literally turns your blood...
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When an apprentice mage gains the second sight, one of the first things they notice is that auras are not of uniform colour. They shift and change, like splotches of new paint...
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Water ChildSouls and elementals are not that different. Both are spirits, one possessing a living body, the other an unliving one. Sometimes, an elemental can be sired by a...
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Trap seals are enchanted with the power to trigger the effects of other objects when certain conditions are met. For example, they could be attached to a magic item to invoke...
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Grave-touched peppers can be found where the soil has soaked through with death; on battlefields and in graveyards, around abattoirs and gallows. The plant is sickly greyish...
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Riftborn buffaloRiftborn buffalos migrate between alternate realities in search of new pastures. Their herds number in the tens of thousands, thus requiring frequent...
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You can throw energy blasts or something. Sweet. But where does this ability come from?d10 Power SourcesAlien: Inhuman biology evolved on a planet with 10 times earthly gravity...
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Silly death spells for wizard ninjas:Boring Instant Death Technique: Like Marionette With Cut StringsEvil Eye of Head-a-splodeBlack Lightning of DisintegrationKiss of...
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Baseline Humans, True MenCitizens of the few arcologies that were not damaged or destroyed.Cults of pure blood are rampant, with all other strains of humanity seen as only good...
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DreamersHumans with a non-intelligent symbiont which grants them psionic powers.The symbiont can cross from one host to another, usually on the host's death, taking some...
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27. 5. 1897Yesterday late at night, the gate has finally succeeded in connecting to a new world. We ventured through earlier today.We emerged into a room within a man-made (or...
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In the ruins of Tolti-Aph, there lies a beautiful grove where the royal gardens once used to be. A songwood grove. The trees are slender and silvery, with leaves like...
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1. There is a land where no children are born. In this land, there is a river and every few days, a newborn baby floats down its stream in a woven basket. The midwives catch...