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First-level D&D characters are fragile. At best they start out with d8+Con bonus for HP, and a general weapon does d6 points of damage. At worst, you're playing a mage (or B/X...
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From Abu Hamid's The Downfall of the First Caliphate:...In that year the Bieth and their minions (Ar-Rahman curse them!) swarmed out of Qasr al-Malik and over the surrounding...
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Way back when, Mikah and Wilhelm Person asked for rules which allowed players to play magical weapons. Here's my stab at this. The rules are unplaytested, fiddly and require a...
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So Sun-Lord Chris, Robert the Reaver, and Anthony of the Straits recently launched the Slumbering Ursine Dunes Kickstarter. I've helped out a tiny bit in manuscript edits and...
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Spiders Keep Secrets. Jumping Spider Photo by Opo Terser via villageofjoy.com No, I know; you thought "web of intrigue" was just a neat catchphrase. But every time a secret is...
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Several nomad groups, including the Bani Juzayy, customarily tattoo female members of their tribes. To some degree, the practice is a beautification ritual, it can also bind...
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Santicore 2013 continues its triumphal march of destruction. Volume 2 just came out (get it here, and Vol. 1 is available here). My own contribution is in Volume 2, so now I'm...
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When the Muslims took possession of Egypt, 'Umar b. al-Khattab wrote to 'Amr b. al-As and asked him to describe the sea to him. 'Amr replied: 'The sea is a great creature upon...
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WD 97 (via dakkadakka.org) Happy New Year, folks! I've been working on my Punk-Dark Imperium setting for Starslugs, and have made a reasonable chunk of progress. Still need to...
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Rey had a nifty post over here discussing a cool idea, where fighters can wear ridiculous outfits and gain the equivalent of chainmail armor class. My first thought was "I...
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With my primary gaming campaign being on a bit of an SF kick these days, I've been getting more and more excited about an idea I had a few months ago, using Traveller to run...
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One of the marvels that occurred during that battle with the Franks [Baldwin II's attack on Damascus in 1129] was the following. In the army of Hama, there were two Kurdish...
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Fatimid pottery cup, 11th century. From here. Of all the animals, the leopard alone can jump more than forty cubits. In the church at Hunak, there was a window forty cubits in...
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My route took me by the Cave of the Seven Sleepers. So I stopped there and went in to pray at the mosque, but I did not go through the narrow passage that one finds there. One...
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This is a cross-post from a forum I frequent, Intangibility. A lot of the stuff here is commonplace wisdom among the folks likely reading this blog, but I figure it's...
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Flyssa Flyssa Photo from oriental-arms.com, found here. Traditional sword of the Freelanders. Single-edged, with the blade tapering, then flaring out again before tapering to a...
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A short while ago, there was some discussion over on G+ about Appendix Ns (comparing the B/X list with the AD&D DMG, looking at the RuneQuest list which is awesome and includes...
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Chris "Sun Lord" Kutalik wanted a table on How to Kill Elves, and requested something d100 based. Had enough of this lady running around in the woods? "Elf Warden" by Jon...
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A little while ago on G+, I opened the floor to some Joesky Tax style assignments. The first one is from Rey, blogging over at Bum Rush the Titan. He wanted an encounter table...
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Dhees, also known as "sniders", are horrendous creatures that skulk about the edges of the Zone. Giant serpents with four spider-like legs and a multitude of eyes, they seek...
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The T160K project is soliciting donations to preserve manuscripts from the Timbuktu Library that were in danger of being destroyed during the recent conflicts in Mali. Folks...
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So Chris mentioned that Dwimmermount has rival adventuring parties and was wondering how to model their actions and leveling. If you’re in the Hill Cantons, you’re lucky enough...
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Following on from my Titan-bumrushing colleague, I'm going to take a look at some rules I don't really use in my D&D games these days. Alignment - Hell with alignment. I'm not...
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Well, I keep forgetting to bring the maps for Mark of Amber with me, so this will be commentary on the individual room descriptions themselves. Chateau Sylaire is supposed to...
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Zak recently asked for module review suggestions, and I chimed in with Mark of Amber, which was my first D&D purchase ever and therefore intrinsically interesting to all...
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A German adaptation of In Viriconium Flying from Albany to DC, I finally read through In Viriconium and the associated short stories by M. John Harrison. I'd read the first two...
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Abu Fadlan's Finger This thin chisel is wrought in the shape of a stylized finger, with a perpetually flaking lacquer of dark green. It cannot be broken save by magical force...
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Telecanter has a very nice simple mechanic for weather and survival here. Copying it in full: "Each hour you're in distress, roll under your Constitution or take 1 point of...
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Iyad Ag Maha, Freelander (Image from here) Thanks to Robert over at Rogues and Reavers for giving me the push on this. The Freelander is a ranger variant for Legacy of the...
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There's a campaign map up over at the main G+ page for Legacy of the Bieth. On it, you can see that there is an arrow marking where the lands of the Forsaken are. The Forsaken...