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A pair of grouse flushed from the sweetgrass. Two swift cracks split the morning air. A lop-eared hound scrambled down the line of fire, reaching one bloodied gamebird before...
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She brushed away a patch of snow, revealing a circle in the stone: A ring carved with a halo of runes. Sniffling in the cold, she picked ice out of the letters with a gloved...
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Over a crown of mountains, the sky opened. And through the parting veil bloomed the autumn moon: Burning, huge, larded in vapor. Smoking like a tropospheric fumarole. Swollen...
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Goardon gazed, consumed by the fresco. It loomed, levitating in the dark, in an alcove deep in the palace’s basalt walls. Illuminated by a single beam of light, the mere...
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d100 magic knucklebones. Surgically implanted, they grant unnatural powers in exchange for the nutrient salts of the wearer's blood. Artifacts, all. Ancient, all. Knucklebones'...
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Adventurers do not abide the competition. Should a rival venturing party be meet in pursuit of the same goal, they are often swiftly bound to violence. In the field, or in the...
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The Reaction Roll: The following is a mechanic from the Incunabuli Playtest: Intelligent NPCs determine their starting disposition toward individual player characters via a...
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In the mild autumn of 3.444, aliens landed on the balmy shore of peninsular Alagór. Aliens in boxy arks with sails battened like webbed fingers. Furry, wet-eyed, long-tongued...
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On the cobbled gatepost, there sat a skull. A human skull, set in a divot midst the stones. Brown and crusted. A fresh wreath of dried daisy pixies, their heads torn off,...
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There exists in the cells of some humans a rare genetic quirk. A survival mechanism mutated seemingly at random and without hereditary president, so rare that it is practically...
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Everyone's got a teaspoon of salt in their coin purse. Everyone civilized, at least. And not typical salt, either, but the magical and curative grey salt grisodate; the mineral...
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To recollect a topic, a character must reasonably possess some proximity to it. It must plausibly relate to their sort, species, background, culture, land of origin, or other...
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A rattleshake is a monstrous scavenger from another world. Where, precisely, none can say. Only that the monster was never ago known in the time of Noren. The post Rattleshake...
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Lotus fruits are a very rare and popular drug. Removed as they are from the isle of the lotus tree, from an unending source of the fruit, recreational eaters need not fear a...
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A name surrounds these mercenaries, these hunters: The Sate of Bandelier. A serpent of contempt, they say, who wields its hate for cutter-kind as a twisted, vengeful business...
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Topples are the archetypal Level-1 cruddy monster. Mission number one: Clear the topples from the old Magister's tower. For bonus XP, get him to stop smoking. For bonus gold,...
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d100 trinkets and minor magic items for D&D and other adventure games. Not magician's tricks, nor recipes for monsters, nor even the source of sorcerers' perverse...
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Linkenden: Carriers of lanterns, candelabras, and torches for stronger parties. Always the first down a darkened hall, sent to scrub away the clinging shadows. Light is...
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A slumber is a person. Or was one, at least; depending on your politics on the relative disenfranchisement of its disembodied contents. It is composed of a vessel. An...
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When a bear, driven by rage, or scarcity, or territorial decline, is forced to prey not on its harmless fare of nuts, and berries, and scavenged meat, but on humans, it becomes...
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They crouched midst broad tuffets of musty earth. Grassy-topped turrets of root and soil carved by floodwater. No water flowed among them now: Only thickly swirling fog and...
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Humans are a remarkable species. They are the original people of the Coast, a folk who once upon a time dominated the world's entire reach by the might of their ingenious gifts...
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Death mechanics from the Incunabuli system playtest. Venturing is a dangerous job. People die. A venturesome cutter will likely witness the demise of many comrades over the...
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In modern times, the smoking of pepperelle is enjoyed throughout the Coast. In the South, where the herb was first popularized, cigarettes rolled from paper and leaf are...
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Better known by all who followed and desired it as a sorcerer's stone: A nervous catalyst, one capable of creating unending life, or even reigniting the vital fires of...
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The clock struck midnight. It rang flat in the darkened cottage. Atonal, shockingly loud in the still night. On the fourth strike, something stirred. In a nest of woolens,...
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Vapor curled from the cast iron pot. Thick, yellow-spiced stew rolling slow within. Peppery; laden with rich, scented oils. A ladle plunged through, came up bearing chunks of...
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A breath went through the pines. Uncounted millions of gold-green needles quavered and heaved, pressed by a mild and resinous wind. The air thickened, yellowed with cloying...
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Three cutters crouched in the underbrush. Three nervous stalkers in sweated leathers, shrouded by dewy leaves. They shifted, uneasy, on the damp earth, worrying the grips of...
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d100 books from a Gothic-fantasy world. A loot table of lore books and rare tomes. Folk of varied sorts enjoy a wide selection of finely produced, if expensive, books. A...