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Below is a set of rules for small scale fantasy medieval combat based on Luke Gearing's Violence at the Street Level. Some key rules are changed: it's a bit less swingy and a...
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For use in your Campaign 26. Wickley: He wears all white and carries many candles. Wickley loves candles, and can cast Candle Come Alive once per day. When hired, he produces a...
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Gentleman’s WayTo hit the target yet not to pierce it. Layer I: Aim your bow, then fire only at the right time. Add 4 to hit but deal 1d3 damage, a sportsman shot. Layer II:...
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Line Of DeathSwordplay is a game of strength; walk the line of death and should you look down you will be taken by the hands of those you slew and dragged to Hell. Fanatical...
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Eight Gates FistA Balaamite general threw his body against stones and trees to better protect his master. In the end he was killed by javelins and arrows and his lord’s head...Linked by the ring
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For use in OD&D and similar games. Whipping PalmA set of techniques developed by a tax collector in Solonn who found he could make his arms into ropes and twist his body like a...
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There are men who have transcended humanity and become minerals. This one is a many-colored man made of salt. He is beautiful and you can see the ridge of his brow, the curl of...
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Today I ran a Super Adventure! What's a Super Adventure? Invite your friends, invite as many as you can stand, to a bangin' all out adventure. The adventure is designed for a...Linked by the ring
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Boots of Flight are among my favourite magic items, next to such esteemed peers as the +1 Sword and the Ring of Protection. I've had multiple campaigns where Boots of Flight,...Linked by the ring
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Mr. Comus wrote up enchantment rules, and it got me thinking about how I would handle it. When you wish to forge an enchanted item you need a wizard's tower and a forge...Linked by the ring
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My name is Batts Jenga, comin' at you from Hell. There are lots of others with me; we just turn this huge wheel, over and over. It's rough but at least I'm not alone. My life?...Linked by the ring
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These are all the magic swords in the world. Munemasa: -2 Sword. The wielder takes 1d6 damage from insults. If they roll a natural 20 they cut their own head off. The head...
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So you wanna build a hexcrawl kid? In the online spaces I travel the hex crawl has become one of the most common formats suggested for structuring a campaign. There's a lot of...
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I've been working on getting my next campaign, Gold Horizon, all slick and cottonmouthed up—it's what the cool kids are doing. In short cottonmouth is about: Laws, not rules...
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Lilith She is pale and wonderful, with lips painted a striking violet. Her black hair falls in a torrent round her body, then trails behind her like a dress; it conceals 8...
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Food. Eat. Plate. Father. ChefAttribute Requirement: Constitution 14 Prime Attribute: Constitution Alignment: N Weapon and Armor Allowed: Any; leather armor and shields Saves:...
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Every year there are a slew of RPG challenges. For 2026 this right here is the main one: that's right, you're reading the biggest RPG challenge of the year. In Campaign 2026...Linked by the ring
- Campaign 26: The Shrike (Quarterly Report I) Against the Cult of the Commodity
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Writers often focus first on character traits, motivations, quirks, and other externalized elements of their person. These interact directly with the plot; hence even...Linked by the ring
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I recently wrapped up running Devil’s World Heroes after 30 sessions of fast and frenetic gaming action. Like Jenx, a player in this campaign, I've written about some of the...
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I've been slowly working on Super NatheQuest for a few months now. This here is a super secret Advanced Class: the Assassin. AssassinAttribute Requirement: Dexterity 12 &...
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In the year 3000 the world descended into global war. Even the children of politicians were given guns and made to fight. Everybody killed everybody else; every nation poured...
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You know blonde Borg, don't you? He wears his hair in one long braid, because his people are from beyond the eastern plains. He killed the twin Ogres, claimed the prized...Linked by the ring
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There are three wheels which spin round and round: heat, cold, and sky. The world is made up of these base energies; to understand them is to understand humanity and history of...Linked by the ring
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The 18th in a series of masks, started here. I was tagged by Katt who wrote a damn slick and sick mask! This is the mask that brims with power, made from crystal cut stone. It...Linked by the ring
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I briefly ran a 5e campaign that changed to a B/X based game after 10 or so sessions. We used the Gritty Realism rules (Short rest = 1 day, Long rest = 1 week) and I found it...
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Hark! I have returned for more wonderful adventures! I, the 3rd Level Fighter Tiramisu, travelled to a wet wasteland and found there a dungeon known for its statues. So, I...Linked by the ring
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Once Godlings from heavens walked the Earth, and stewarded mankind; then, a princess charmed one of the Nephilim and learned from him the art of weapon making. This was the...
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(Orc recipe from Grendel's Stepdad) Hatred ever labours in Earth's yawning bowels to build Orc: that multifarious tyrant that scourges mankind in shadowed places, and kills...
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Strange tribes of headless men stalk the hinterlands and hunt the great beasts of the world. Humans taken by the Blemee are first decapitated, then have their heads displayed...
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(Skeleton/Zombie and Lich inspired by ideas taken from the bad doctor) There are many ways in which the dead rise. The body, untethered to a soul, is dangerous for it no longer...