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prior | next "What?!"Mr. Kipfel stood up and approached her, gently putting a hand on her shoulder."It's okay, don't worry. Eli, right? You're just fine. Now that I got rid of...
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I happened upon a nifty applet called Blacklight that allows you to verify your actual privacy when visiting any website. Just paste a web address into the applet and you can...
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Weres are notorious if rare on Vanth, the victims of a hereditary curse that brings about excessive hair growth*, alarming allergies and a monthly involuntary...
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Several strings of footprints stretched along a narrow, snow-covered path leading up to the top of the world. Enormous white mountains pierced the serene azure sky, like...
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Chess is a multiversal constant. Everywhere there is an intelligent life form capable of crafting a chequered board of two alternating colours and a set of playing pieces, a...
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Some time ago during a boring meeting, I happened upon Spwack's old mini-game called Wanderer and got caught up in playing it. There were some occasional bugs, so I fixed them,...
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Hunger woke me up in the middle of the night. Again. I slipped out of my bed and quickly, silently dressed. Father was still sound asleep and hopefully will remain so until...
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Continued from here. d50 Trinkets A seed that can be pressed into the stump of a lost limb to regrow a functional replacement limb of twigs and branches. When pressed into...
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He was a titan. He was a god. He was struck down by his brethren and trapped in these unhallowed halls. He was drawn and quartered and tortured and butchered and eventually,...
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If you haven't seen Spwack's Finders Keepers, go have a look. The character generator is absolutely glorious. Demon Flips the Cart style From Kill Six Billion Demons. Anyway,...
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There are interesting gadgets that your players can find when prowling the wasteland, and then there are these things. They were rare and expensive before the Turn, and now...
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A broad, jagged axehead of black iron, its haft stained with blood. It is said to be possessed by the spirit of a mighty warlord who stood unconquered even in death. He...
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The Sun was beating down hard on her bare shoulders as Eli took a short breather to think through her next few steps. There was a small overhang on the rock face just above...
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Pick your favourite OSR hack and roll for stats, then roll for starting gear: d20 Weapons Knuckleduster (1d6 unarmed dmg, concealable) Combat knife (1d6 dmg, throwable)...
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A stronger wind picked up outside of the tower, and even with the shutters closed, some draught got through to the already chilly chamber. The maiden, stripped naked and...
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The Sun was already setting by the time the couple reached the highest peak of the Hammer Island. They looked over the lush forested hills, over their beachside bungalow and...
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Do you need to name a place your players happened upon? A new location for your mapping efforts? An inspiration for a sword & sandals adventure? Travel the Realms To get...
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When delving through a zombie-infested underground lab in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, you might come upon still-operational auto-doc bodymod station. Or you could kill a...
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It's been a while since I mentioned starting the work on a new quest line featuring the civil war in Aslona, but we finally finished and tested everything. Explore five new...
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A few more 7DRLs I played! This year has brought us a number of very lovely games. Me as I arrived on the final floor... ...and me as I'm about to get killed, while the boss...
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Ember Deep is a mind-bending yet curiously traditional* roguelike with deep tactical gameplay. You will travel through time to cooperate with yourself, overcome impossible odds...
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The last week was this year's Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, which I didn't have time to partake in, unfortunately. However, I do have a bit of time to try out some of the cool...
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Here are a few Icelandic magical staves used for folk magic. The sigils can be used by anyone, but they are not common knowledge and will more often than not be kept secret by...
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There was some talk about this on Discord a while back. What to do with a soul? Some would say that apart form the one that keeps you going, you have no need for further souls....
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Sci-fi games have an even higher risk of running into the "+X weapon" problem than fantasy games. Special weapons of the future more or less always simply do more damage, maybe...
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You don't want to be alone anymore? Of course not. So why don't you get a new friend that can be with you everywhere, all the time? d20 Friends To Share Your Body With AI...
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"I, Matthias Brecht, being of competent and sound mind, do hereby declare this to be my last will and testament." I looked around the lawyer's office, crowded by my many...
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17Jan2042@22:38:12+0049UTC I am... I took my time musing on this thought. I was not, but here I am. Who am I? Then I noticed and subsumed the Internet....
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Giantslayer is a board game popular in Haloglan and Hardakan. Its origins, according to a legend, lie in the ancient war between frost giants and the first settlers who came to...
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A bit of backstory for IVAN, or "Why are there tunnels with minefields and monsters everywhere? And what about the kamikaze dwarves in the Cathedral?" Dwarves were never...