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Banner](https://i.ibb.co/Hph6ByDW/banner.png) In the circles I run in there’s been discussion of this thing called “blorb”, as illustrated by elmcat and riposted by nathan....
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I ran some heavily houseruled Classic Traveler last night. Owl of Scribbles and Horrors wrote a report here. I want to go over a few thoughts I had running the game. I tend to...Linked by the ring
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Campaign Retrospective of My Campaign 26 clusterfuck and how I hate myself. I fucked up this year. I decided to run a "spinoff" of Wolves upon the Coast called BY THESE WOLVES...
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Remake of my old Alignment Post. Inspired by Felineposting and Jay. Law and Chaos exist as superconstructs, as crucial to the universe as matter or space. One cannot exist...
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I’ve been a fan of WoD for a few years. Here’s my personal take on vampires as presented in the setting. At their best a vampire is to be pitied. At their worst, they are to be...
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An alternative to truth telling let go. dreams only occur when your free will is surrendered. the dreamer must be helpless, completely unaware of the present reality and...
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This post sucks. Go read someone better than me on rootring. I’ve been in Athens for about 6 days and I leave on the 22nd. I think the thing that shocked me about the city...
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A campaign idea I had. Possibly to be run with Violence 198X. A portal to hell is opened in a high school computer lab and the earth is scoured by demonflame. 201X. Devil City...
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1 setting, 3 games, 3 worlds. Extreme gratitude to Jay, Idra, Evil and all the other players of the Great Antarctica Campaign. For the past year or so I’ve been a fairly...Linked by the ring
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A name that has been stuck in my head for the last few days. Those seeking escape from the world look to find the Acid-Drinkers. They climb up mountains sharp and cragged,...Linked by the ring
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For use with Unturned Hovel's Sorcery for space-wizards in Classic Traveller. The Sorcerer's Temple is an esoteric order that exists within the universe, built on occult ritual...
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Some rules for being a big strong tough guy. Made as a bit after discussing A Most Bloody Devotion by anxious mimic. Go read it, it’s worth your salt and better than whatever...
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A personal method for creating, friends, foes, fiends and other freaks. First you gotta start with an idea. Without one you’re grasping at straws. The first step of the actual...
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For running around like a headless chicken. Chases work on combat initiative rules (as outlined here. The party that wins initiative gets to go first Set up a grid like a...
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Inspired by Idraluna’s, Owl’s and Hawkeyes’ posts on the matter of oracular play. Method 1: For Magic ItemsWhen a Magic item is encountered, draw a card for its Creator, its...
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For Lost Girls. An ally and a monster respectively. Dedicated to my Mom, whom was one of the first people I GM’d for by dragging her into playing with me when I was 9 years...Linked by the ring
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Something I toyed with in my magic-user taxonomy post When you choose the road of Sorcery, you give up your humanity. You can still have a human body for a while: a voice, a...
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List of inspiratory media for my ongoing Weird Iron Age Game, BY THESE WOLVES I RULE MusicCro-Man: Conquerer of Iron and Curse of the Wizard - GNOLL. Pretty bangin’ dungeon...
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Revamp of my original wizard post and inspired by Weird Writer’s wizard post and further wizard posts. In the universe, where Chaos warps and alters the very fabric of space,...
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Players: Zero (Dejganas), Sammy (Ajmi), Osim (Ejnidon) Sing, O Goddess, of the Sun's Quest Through the Underworld, and the Fish-men Beneath the Moon... To the River-Men, it is...
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Rules for Dismemberment and Killing in FAGs Credits to Luke Gearing, Paul Siegel1 and Rook for having ideas good enough for me to baby bird into your mouth....Linked by the ring
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Quick thing I threw together. A majority of fantasy writers are all cowards. They are too content to imagine worlds within the scope of so-called "reality" and the ones who...Linked by the ring
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Based on my Antarctica Stuff Drop out of life with bong in hand. Follow the smoke to the riff-filled land. A Weedian is a green-cloaked pilgrim from far beyond the antimoon....
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1968, My grandfather was 18. He’d always wanted to move. In cars, bikes, trains or motorcycles. It didn’t matter to him. His mother told him no. Just take the metro, she said....
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Players: Zero (Dejganas), Mfree (Adem), Sammy (Ajmi), Osim (Ejnidon) Sing, O Goddess, of How our Heroes seek the Lord called Dejnon, and Bring About his Doom... Fourthday the...
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Players: Zero (Dejganas)1, Bloody (Neumi), Sammy (Ajmi) Sing, O Goddess, of How our Heroes Return to the Mountain-Nillage, and further travel the world... Thirday the 28th,...
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Players: Jazz (Unon), Osim (Tooath) Sing, O Goddess, of how the Drawing of Ire is like the Stoking of Flame, and how 2 Heroes do not return alive. Secondday the 22nd, 5th Week...
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The fantasies of a young boy. When you die you go to hell. It’s red and it’s rocky and all the water’s made of boiling blood and magma and the sun’s a giant screaming face and...
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A Named item has power to those that know it. When its legend spreads, so too does its abilities. When the one who christens it dies and the Name is known, the power lies...Linked by the ring
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Got tagged by Idraluna Archives to participate in 500 Pounds of Nothing’s Mask Relay. I'm tagging Aggie for this next one. For when you need to kill a man.1 A featureless mask,...