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Put the Meta in Metamagic. Make spells feel uncanny and your players embarrassed. Material components, rituals, somatic elements: what if they were META? Extradiegetic? The...Linked by the ring
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The Cloud, Odd NerdrumI asked myself, "Why must the Weather change?"The weather and the calendar are one and the same. 13 Weather-Months of 4 weeks each. 364 days. No...
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The Bad Durrenberg ShamanHD: 1d6Level as: Magic-UserSave as: FighterWeapons: AnyArmour: Shields only, see belowFights as: No progression, see below. You are What You Wear: A...Linked by the ring
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The word for food is slugs.by VergvotreThe following is the collated work of the late Emeritus Master and Polar Explorer Wimm Oxwoe, who through some mysterious method (now,...Linked by the ring
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Select thy snackSome proper dungeon bushtucker. Hey, don’t be squeamish, it's free HP.For when your players are truly beasts. While quick to eat they are somewhat bilious,...Linked by the ring
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Yeah, I wrote these notes when I should have been being professional. It’s rough, ephemeral, unimpressive content and non-exhaustive but I was surprised by how little content...Linked by the ring
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Low Tidings is a defensive one shot for Old School Essentials. Chiefly inspired by Fritz Lieber's legendary, picaresque Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series of stories, tales whose...Linked by the ring
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Some find that torches and light management generally to be easily forgotten during play. Something easily glossed over. This omission comes, often unknowingly, to the...Linked by the ring
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The Hunting Die - Improving Encounter Rolls or, a Predatory Encounters/Underclock AlternativeRather recently, I shared PREDATORY ENCOUNTERS which is a method to increase the...Linked by the ring
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PREDATORY ENCOUNTERS - IMPROVING THE ENCOUNTER DIE WITH TENSION, STEALTH & DUNGEON REACTIVITY, OR - A SIMPLE UNDERCLOCK ALTERNATIVEDo you want encounters to occur more...Linked by the ring
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Bodies Shall Be Broken: A Free-Form Wound and Dismemberment System for TTRPGs.- Lets lose some body parts.Once per level (e.g. once at level one, again at level two, and so on)...Linked by the ring
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Hwæt! This tale begins in those earliest days when the Elves first awoke, when the world was not, and all things were beautiful. And the elves, whose fascinations were...Linked by the ring
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And lo! From the ancient depths of misty primeval jungles and the murky, antediluvian, ruined worlds beneath our own, there emerged the Ape! Hirsute, thick-thewed and...Linked by the ring
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Throughout the entire RPG blogosphere in July 2024 this mysterious incantation was muttered, chanted, ululated unerringly and with great enrapt fervour: "Words! Linguistics,...Linked by the ring
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Canto II, Tom Phillips, 1981This July I will be stepping-in to host the RPG Blog Carnival. The premise is simple: create a piece of RPG content in-keeping with the month's...Linked by the ring
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Who are these fellas and what are their names? Groupe de sorciers by Lucas RousselMillions of names!Each name is made of three parts. A made-up morpheme, an English word and an...Linked by the ring
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No party wants to sit and watch another player fight a duel. I have and after a point, it's no fun at all. This is the inherent problem with duels in RPGs. Here's a relatively...Linked by the ring
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A magnificent set of posts have been written up for September 2023's Anthropology and Archaeology blog carnival (which I hosted). This post is my roundup of all the entries,...Linked by the ring
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Moulid el-NabiThis September I will be hosting the RPG Blog Carnival. The premise is simple; create a piece of RPG content by September 30th 2023, link it in the comments below...
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Weather. I've wanted a weather system that possesses the following qualities: is simple enough to be memorable, allows for the weather to be naturally and randomly changeable...Linked by the ring
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This is a tangent on my meta-narcotics post and only really half, or the start of, a mad, little idea. Sickness, illness - having your character contract and deal with a...Linked by the ring
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Rolling up a character with the boys (they're impressed by my new method)Everyone has a pet method for rolling ability scores, '3d6 in order' and '4d6 drop lowest - arrange to...Linked by the ring
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The emperor has commissioned an expedition to explore the icy north of the continent – to reach the ruined, sorcerous realms of darkest Hyperborea. What exotic provisions are...Linked by the ring
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War, battles. Everyone has their own system for running them. Here’s my attempt. Whenever two forces meet in a contested space and the resultant conflict would be too large to...Linked by the ring
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I had need of a quick and simple personality generator that could produce lots of different results and be used procedurally during play. I remembered Tony Bath’s personality...Linked by the ring
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Alchemy; as simple as I can make it and have a system that is still loosely playable. PDF HEREAll Potions require 4 things; 1. An Oil (1 item slot, provides adjective) 2....Linked by the ring
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Roll a d6 and a d8 (d68) to determine your background/failed career at character creation to determine your starting possessions and backstory. PDF here Roll Background...Linked by the ring
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Roll 2d6 three times, once for the ‘Descriptor’, ‘Form’ and ‘Home’ of your post-apocalyptic tribe. The first die designates the table, the second designates the result. PDF...Linked by the ring