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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...
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This post has taken way longer than I intended. A combination of a busy schedule and having too many disparate thoughts has resulted in it being dragged through most of the...
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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. Here's how the first of (what I am...
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SummaryThe campaign goes on pause and the Hedgehogs of Mercy settle in after the big battle. Characters Shimsusa the Archer - 3rd Level Fighter Enlil - 1st Level Elementalist...
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SummaryWe play out the big fight between the forces of Chaos and the Undying City's defenders using a tabletop wargame that I created for the scenario. Session RecapWell...
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As a direct result of the actions of the players in my current campaign, the Undying City now has a fairly sizeable strike force (calling them an army might be giving them too...
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Time for another review! And since I just finished re-reading Muster, let’s talk about it! This is going to be a bit more rambling as a review than the two modules I did,...
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SummaryA side-story set a week before the previous session of characters heading out of the Undying City to figure out where the barbarians that keep attacking it are, what...
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This came to me as an idea originally when I was watching this excellent video about the history of alignment and the planes. Go check it out! So, Alignment. I know, right?!...Linked by the ring
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SummaryThis session was mostly confused on the final preparations for storming the inner gatehouse of the Eternal Bridge, and the actual fight itself and its consequences....
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Look at how boring this all is! Nobody is using feats or special moves or anything! It has taken a while to write this post, mostly because I have tried to somehow form my...Linked by the ring
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SummaryThe Hedgehogs of Mercy return to their home in the Undying City, after a cryptic and urgent missive from Bel of the Lotus, the vampire they freed months ago. Turns out...