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WARPHAMMER 99,000 In the bright madness of the Hundredth Millenium, there is only Chaos. Things that have stayed the same for the last 59 Thousand Years: - There are humans,...
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Expeditions to the Far Lands are terrible undertakings. Those wanting just to sneak a look are more likely to be tempted into the Underground, which connects everything. Some...
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When people in Bastion talk about The War they aren't talking about some bloody mess come right-of-passage. The War is serious stuff. No one power in Bastion has a chance of...
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Right! I'm off to a distant land for two weeks, so don't take the lack of content here as my usual unreliability. Back around the 19th with another IP-infringing OddMod for you all.
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If you're looking to buy Into the Odd, you'll see that print is currently sold out. I can reassure you that another printing is on its way! Further news to follow as I get it.
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OH YEAH IT'S INTO THE ODD PLUS MAD MAX LET'S GO ALL CAAAAAAAPS As Into the Odd Free Edition with the following changes. Creating a Character Roll 3d6 for STR, DEX, MAD, and...
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Someone asked how I prepare for a game of Into the Odd, so it's time for some rapid fire tips on how to run a game exactly like I do (which you won't want to do). DISCLAIMER I...
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It has become increasingly apparent that the network of sewers, vaults, prisons, and transit tunnels beneath our great Bastion reaches further than we thought in every...
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Beyond the light of Bastion, the ocean itself becomes alien. Salty spray and queasy bobbing turn to black-mirror water, singing wind, and surging currents propelling you like a...
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Sail away from Bastion and Deep Country and things start to break down. You'll long for those homelands where the sun's touch was warm, and the rain was cool. Where the stars...
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These will soon be jetting off to some lucky Patreon supporter, but here they are for everyone's enjoyment.
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Due to their very nature, the two regions of the Odd World that I've written least about are the Golden Lands and the Polar Ocean. They're the place you go when you want to...
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Many people give up a part of their identity to a greater power. For Servers this is to Godmachine. Others accept Demons into their minds and bodies, sometimes calling...
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I haven't talked about Hellspace for a while. It's still bubbling away in the background, largely unformed, while I work on the Odd World Supplement. The Crusade Hark! Child...
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What do you get when Mockeries decide to make more of their number? They have no link left to humanity, so lack the cooperation of a loyal mockery. They are born without eyes,...
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Extract from Chief-Pen Shunnock's closing lecture to the Bastion Grand Society of Cartographers, on the day of their final dissolution and demolition. Over...
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The Mockra is easily in the top ten stupidest things anyone in Bastion has decided to build. It has many mock-heads attached to one mock-body and the result is always...
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Did you notice that since I started the Patreon I've been posting fewer entries? It's mostly coincidence. I've had less free time for writing, and the more I progress with the...
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So if you want people with truly unique skills you know Orders. Those guys typically have their own agendas and, although you might work alongside them at some point, they...
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A letter sent to the Exiled Voices magazine by the creature formerly known as Miles Worriffer, printed shortly after his execution by cannon battery. Esteemed Minds and...
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Outside the gates Bastion's New Progressive University, a canal-yacht beckons freshly graduated students, with some of their parents' money left to burn. For just 50s you can...
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I finally got a the schedules of myself and four friends to line up, so we sat down to play Into the Odd. They'd all played CRPGs, Boardgames, and Warhammer Tabletop stuff back...
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Following in Arnold's wake (although I totally already wrote about this topic years ago) I wanted to try an experiment in monster differentiation. The Into the Odd Equivalent...
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Everything is complicated in Bastion. And nobody knows who's in charge. So, if you need something official written on a piece of paper, you're in...
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Bringing Bastiard Characters to Auldskunterroy It's easier to get horribly injured here. Use the Injuries and Worse rules. Guns work here, but nobody has access to what you...
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Go far out into Deep Country and you might encounter the gnarled old giants of Massiff Country. Beyond even that, or maybe in a different direction (the maps are inconsistent),...
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Everyone is in the Royal Lottery, whether they know it or not. If you win, a Royal Herald invites you to tea with one of the many "rightful" Kings or Queens of Bastion. If you...
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Bastion is the only city that matters, and it's so big and complicated that nobody can rule the whole thing. So you wouldn't expect to see the sort of grand field battles...
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Being a Gazer isn't about gazing. It's about seeing. But we aren't seers, we just feel it, y'know? It's really all about gazing. Just put yourself facing in the right...
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Arkbound know that humanity's best chance of survival is to stay on the Ark. Some people say that the big ideologies of the Ark don't fit onto a spectrum. We drew a diagram to...