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Let me expound on the title. I think the best class progressions let you ignore or even better, break a rule. An example: "A fighter's favorite weapon uses up no slots while in...
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Ghost Nets Every year a shit ton of animals are killed by nets abandoned at sea. In fantasyland, this becomes an issue that fights back. A roiling cacophony of desperate...
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I am a compulsory doodler. A clear sign of the ADHD missed for so many years, childhood margins were filled with twinkling lines and dashes, pictographs and comics. Perhaps...
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You must listen to this first. "orcs,orcs, orcs, orcs marchin' up and down again there's no discharge in the war!"-Rudyard Kipling, probably" You can find meanness in the least...Linked by the ring
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In the style of this and this. Inspired by a quote I found from this: "that was magic, which could be undone, and this was scissors, which could not.""See, Paetus, it does not...
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Last year I was following Gundobad's series on fighter maneuvers has been fascinating or rather was at the time when I read them last year. I love when designers post their...
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I find NPCs to be frustrating little bastards sometimes. You spend hours agonizing over Dread Lord Calamity and his place in the world and then the players want to know about...
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Elfgames have a fascinating and frustrating relationship with divinity. Clerics have been a part of the game since 1974 and have been in every edition since then, much to the...Linked by the ring
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In my last post I talked a lot about Blade in the Dark, fictional positioning and Pyrrhic Weaselry. Here's something gameable for those things inspired primarily by this...
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Woe betide me, I find myself in a fey mood after reading others' posts. I really need to get less suggestable if I'm ever going to finish this labor of love. I read these...
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[This one's been sitting in the drafts a while and I've moved on to new campaigns but I figured this should be posted for posterity! Enoy :]Now that we have a hexcrawl...
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My fantasy heart-breaker continues to take shape and this a hubristic post to discuss one of my favorite things to come out of it so far. Many moons ago I was listening to...
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In the style of this and this.There is in the world, magic. A force so mighty and potent it bears down on light and heat and the great sepulchral gloaming, pushing it back,...
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Inspired by the ever-relevant Philotomy's Musings "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The...
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Where blood is sucked up by the earth, slowly it begins to groan and cry out. The spirits of stone reject the blood, which is vital and supercharges magic. Stone is the element...
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I remembered what I called this campaign two years ago! The New Moon Barrens, on account on of the new moon warping into existence over the land and the barren landscape it...
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A Loamy Winding RoadThe road winding through the forested bog is quiet, no blood reflecting off its old pavement stones today. Perhaps this is due to fog, perhaps not. Attacks...
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Introduction I have a goal, a dream if you will, a vision of a future where a man can run a campaign with only vampires and never tire of them. Where players never grow bored...
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I've never played a Zelda game but that's pretty raw. I did it. I slew the greatest beast the hobby has: THE SCHEDULE. About two years ago through sheer force of will I carved...
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Back last year when I ran my 5e Cowboy game Ghost Town Gunfight (which did not take place in a ghost town but did feature many gunfights), I threw everything just shy of the...
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One of my most successful Fantasy Role-playing Elfgame campaigns (at least in terms of length and insofar as one can describe their own campaign as successful) was about...