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This is my own version of lore24, an admittedly over-ambitious attempt to procedurally generate a 43,000-hex crawl for my homebrewed far-future Antarctica, Antibor. Part 1,...
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This week my first attempt at running a dungeon in something like an 'OSR' style came to an end. The campaign encompassed around 15-20 infrequent sessions over the course of a...
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Much has been made of Vancian magic & its impact on D&D, but after reading The Dying Earth series the monsters have left an even more lasting impression on me. (I alluded to...
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This is my own version of lore24, an admittedly over-ambitious attempt to procedurally generate a 128,000 43,000-hex crawl for my homebrewed far-future Antarctica, Antibor....
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This is my own version of lore24, an admittedly over-ambitious attempt to procedurally generate a 128,000 43,000-hex crawl for my homebrewed far-future Antarctica, Antibor....
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When I was in high school I became fascinated by this random self-published (as a Google Doc!) novel I found called The Shaker. I wrote a fan letter to Stephen DoCarmo, the...
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Once I posted about my pointcrawl dungeon generator I was immediately waylaid by ideas for improving it. The biggest shortcoming of that initial version is that it generated a...
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This is my own version of lore24, an admittedly over-ambitious attempt to procedurally generate a 128,000-hex crawl for my homebrewed far-future Antarctica, Antibor. Part 1,...
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This is my own version of lore24, an admittedly over-ambitious attempt to procedurally generate a 128,000-hex crawl for my homebrewed far-future Antarctica, Antibor. Part 1...
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This is my own version of lore24, an admittedly over-ambitious attempt to procedurally generate a 128,000-hex crawl. Part 1 here. I'll be taking a break from cartography for...
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This post is a submission to the January 2024 blog carnival and, after a fashion, the start of my own version of lore24. A while ago I used real-world data (with some...Linked by the ring
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Someone's probably done this before, but here's Wikipedia's List of Countries by Area with columns calculated for the equivalent number of hexes of various sizes. I've found...
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Been thinking about how a D&D-type game approaches classes can be roughly plotted on two axes: class breadth & class depth. Having high 'class breadth' means that there are...
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After a push to fill in duration and range parameters, I'm calling it blog-ready. Drive link here (the spreadsheet of spell info is here) Design NotesStandalone bookOne of my...
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These refined herbal concoctions are the predominant vice in Antibor. They are typically produced in 26 fluid ounce bottles, but the cellars of decadent Exultants one might...
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This post was initially written for Prismatic Wasteland's January 2023 resolution mechanic blog challenge. It definitely doesn't meet the challenge's desired originality --...Linked by the ring
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I started this blog in 2023 as a creative outlet and because I want to share my work & play a tiny part in building a non-commercialized DIY RPG culture. This year I got into...
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True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank, A ferlie he spied wi his ee; And there he saw a Lady bright Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. - E. R. Eddison Previously, I took a standard...
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I read a lot this year, including quite a bit of fantasy. Below are mini-reviews of books related in some way to elfgame blogging, in the order I think of them. E. R. Eddison:...
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Consider: He is the definition of emo special snowflake OC 'Blorbo', with a detailed, tragic backstory, a nemesis, and a destiny. We are told from page 1 that his life is of...
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I've been tinkering with different options for adjudicating combat in Archons & Armigers, my OD&D hack. OD&D famously doesn't have a fully-developed combat system, and I'm...
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I despise 'blob-elementals', you know, where the fire elemental is a little flame blob, the air elemental is a little tornado, the water elemental is a little whirlpool, and...
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"He had said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours." -H. P. Lovecraft A...
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The Tarim Basin is an expanse of central Asia roughly the size of Pakistan or Venezuela in what is currently China's Xinjiang province. Once an important section of the Silk...
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I’ve been using LaTeX over the past several months to work on my D&D hack Archons & Armigers, write dungeon keys for my ongoing Worlds Without Number campaign, and generally...
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My campaigns are all located on a fictional far-future version of Antarctica (called Antibor), made temperate by alien geo-engineering.1 To lend the world map as much...
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For further adventures in list-making, see the Antarctic Lore Bibliography, the Castle Mordengard Appendix N, and the bookposts for 2023 & 2024 Anon. - The Gospel of Thomas,...
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Note from 10-2-2025: Parts of this tutorial are a bit outdated, due both to QGIS updates and an improve understanding of what people want out of their hexmaps. While there's...
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Step 1: Download or make a csv file with monster stats. I'm using columns A-P of the free and open-source Basic Fantasy RPG monsters from the sheet here. Similar spreadsheets...
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The cleric is one of the weirder things to have made it into ‘canonical’ D&D: A mishmash of crusading knight and Van Helsing with Catholic trappings in a supposedly...