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On the ring since 2026-05-25
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Series IndexPart 2 In four large cities with communities of early D&D adopters Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston cross-pollination proceeded quite rapidly. Each...
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SummaryThe party finishes clearing out the prison area on level 6, mostly by being constantly interrupted by wandering monster checks while they're trying to do stuff. Party...
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SummaryThe party meet with the head priest of the Elemental Chaos cult and discuss a truce and potential alliance. They also get rid of the living statues on level 5. They then...
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This was born out of a discussion with my partner, broadly on the topic of having the Druid-style play of animals as followers, but getting rid of the spells and other such...
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SummaryLevel 5 of the dungeon is explored further, then during downtime the party is visited by the strange warriors they met earlier, clearing up some more details of their...
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Thief's CandleCost: 150 gold Description: A small candle of yellow wax. Inside the wax is a preserved finger, wrapped with the candle’s wick. When lit, the candle’s flame is a...
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A recurring bit of worldbuilding that has been going on throughout my Greylands campaign have been the Primordial Beasts - large, quasi-divine animals of varying power and...
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SummaryThe party continue with preparations for winter and the explore the next level of the dungeon, meeting some very strange people. Party members Verasha - Level 4Druid...
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Consider this a sort of part 2 to this previous post. After reading through some articles regarding alternate experience gain methods in the context of OSR play (notably this...
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I kept working on a replacement for the dwarf and halfling classes from B/X, similar to my take on the Elf, in a continuing effort to help define the setting of my campaign a...
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SummaryThe group returns to the dungeon underneath the manor house, slaying the beasts that have been hunting the talasumi and finally securing an alliance with them. Party...
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SummaryThe party return to their base only to find it overrun with bandits, then they spend a good deal of downtime getting ready for the coming winter and for their next delve...
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During the pandemic I was looking for a mid-sized crafting project to keep myself occupied, and ended up settling on trying to recreate the golden barge from the Slumbering...
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I have been doing some worldbuilding and/or refining of ideas in my head about my Greylands setting and one of them is to lean a bit more into getting rid of your Tolkienesque...
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Whenever I have had the chance over the past couple of years I have been playing in Humza's wonderful Legacy of the Bieth game. One of the things in LotB's extensive player...
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SummaryWith a month past, the group heads back to the Hidden Village so Verasha can receive another war boar from the head priestess and along the way the group messes around...
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SummaryReturning once more below the Boyar's Manor the party reaches level 3 of the dungeon, has a rather scary fight and an anti-climactic death. Party members Verasha - Level...
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There has been so much written regarding skills systems and their place in OSR gameplay already, that I am not going to rehash it here. My position is that I generally don’t...
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I’ve had the chance to play in Chris’s 5e experiment…thing set in the Hill Cantons, and while I didn’t write a session report for the first game I figure I’ll do one now and...
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The world (still unnamed come to think of it) in which the Greylands is set, being a loose distortion of our own world during its Renaissance and Early Modern period, makes...
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SummaryThe characters make camp in the topside part of the ruins of the Boyar's former manor and start securing the perimeter, as well as clearing out the rest of level 1 of...
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SummaryThe party helps von Plarf with her divinely ordained quest. In the process they meet the remains of one a godling and get their first magical weapon! Party members...
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This is going to be a much much looser post than I usually do, as I am going to use this to go through a brainstorming process regarding, well, experience gain in the context...
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Over the last month I have run into several people online asking about advice on how to start a play-by-post game or mentioning that they are interested in doing one. And since...
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The Talasum (Bulgarian: Таласъм) is a spirit in the folklore of my part of the world. In Bulgaria it is primarily described as an often invisible spirit of a person who was...
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SummaryWe return to exploring the dungeon underneath the Boyar's manor, the party get a new recruit in the process, fight a ghoul and take his shit and then go and buy a house...
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SummaryAnother session of my house campaign, with the party making their way to their first dungeon and starting a potential friendship with some of the inhabitants. Party...
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SummaryI am starting a house campaign for my partners, playing in my OSE Greylands campaign. In this first session the party members mostly met each other and found some more...
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SummaryI decided to run the excellent Slumbering Ursine Dunes by Chris Kutalik as a casual pick up game while I am busy with family stuff. This was the third and final session...
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SummaryI decided to run the excellent Slumbering Ursine Dunes by Chris Kutalik as a casual pick up game while I am busy with family stuff. We got another session in, with a...