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I knew there was a Commedia dell’arte roleplaying game somewhere, and here it is: The Penguin Harlequinade. One of many games that have been designed with a lot of ideas and...
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Shroomlings No. Enc.: 2d4 (6d10) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 60’ (20’) Armor Class: 6 Hit Dice: 1 – 1 Attacks: 1 (weapon) Damage: 1d6 or weapon Save: 0 level human Morale: 10...
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It should not be, I guess, but the whole game got an additional quality when my magic user bought the farm and had his face melted by some slime/shoggoth-like creature in what...
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Rogue Thesaurus No. Enc.: 1d4 (3d6) Alignment: Neutral Movement: Armor Class: 5 Hit Dice: 4 Attacks: 7 Damage: 1d4 (biting, thumping, natching, chomping, slicing, chawing,...
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With an expanded sense of the natural one that is “partially reenchanted” experience can seem to be, perceptually, a reason and not just causes. -Mobile Bank Updates on...
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Uruk Hai Requirements: CON 13, DEX 10 Prime Requisite: DEX Hit Dice: 1d8 Maximum Level: 12 Uruk Hai resemble large, muscled humans, their bodies covered in coarse fur with...
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In a way this was the original roleplaying game. It was a bit different from what we know of course. Number one difference: they actually performed. In front of an audience....
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Uhm… why do I actually keep on playing other games if I know that I can run D&D without problems in any case? I tried out my homebrew ruleset with my group and it worked...
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What? No, seriously. What? I just found this on the webpage of my favorite Polish RPG store, but it’s not in stock anymore and the description doesn’t tell me anything, not...
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Blasphemy, I know. I looked at the various versions of Psionics and Psion classes that are floating around the Internet and decided that no, I don’t want any of these. They...
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About a week ago I came across a post showing off one DM’s Dungeons & Dragons houserules. Since then I have been working on my own. The idea was just too good to let it go. Why...
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I did not realize until I read Zak’s post pointing it out: Hobgoblins are Uruk-Hai. This changes everything! Well, not everything, but certainly my stance towards the monster....
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I knew that the Wilderlands of High Fantasy have a reputation of a catch all sword and sorcery setting. Then I looked into it searcing for inspiration for my Discworld...
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Swamp Dragon No. Enc.: 1d4 (2d4) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 90’ (30’) Armor Class: 5 Hit Dice: 2 to 4 Attacks: 1 (bite or breath) Damage: 1d6 or see below Save: F2 to F4...
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Oh… Elves. They show up in not even three novels if I remember well, and are mentioned in a maybe two more. Of course everyone says they know the real Elves from that, but that...
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Clerics/Priests with religious researchers discovering more and more gods nearly every week somebody needs to take care of worshipping them. Priests are generally a bit...
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deviantArt user SM9T8 created this stunning map according to the descriptions in the L-Space Wiki and the Discworld Mapp.
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Discworld Companion: Pretty much an encyclopedia about everything Discworld. These books are indispensible and actually seem to be more complete than the roleplaying books...
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Wizards as magic user, mostly male; Wizards have an established university system with the Unseen University in AM as it’s core facility and for a long time also the only...
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One of the Patrician’s greatest contributions to the reliable operation of Ankh-Morpork had been, very early in his administration, the legalising of the ancient Guild of...
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The Golem: How He Came into the World (Orig.: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) is a 1920 silent movie by Paul Wegener depicting the legend of the Golem. It also is a...
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The point that must be made is that although Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan would look quite stunning after a good bath, a heavy-duty manicure, and the pick of the leather...
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GURPS Discworld I bought GURPS Discworld when it came out with the full intention of playing it. My group consisted of at least 3 other Pratchett fans back then, so I would...
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I knew it was a bad idea from the start. On the second day of Christmas we were bored. No thing to do, no place to go out to (shops ins Poland are closed on national holidays,...
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So, another adventure with these intrepid adventurers in The Dark Eye. This time I was doing “The Ancient Academy” (as I hinted in the previous post). It went… ok, I guess. I...
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The Ancient Academy is one of the first One Page Dungeons, and it is glorious at that. Seriously, in my opinion there are few of those small adventures as comprehensive and...
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The 6th of December is the day of St. Nicholas. At least in Europe.It’s a day when children put their shoes out at night and get some small gift. So this morning I found this...
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So at one point in our first session of Call of Cthulhu my players come across a victim of the haunted house they are investigating, and the poor sod is doing nothing but...
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Newspaper Clipping Generator Because if there is one prop you need for Call of Cthulhu it’s newspaper clippings Speaking of which: Masthead for the Kingsport Chronicle...