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Boneheads don't need Godmachine. It got us this far, but it's clearly just a busted piece of machinery. Idiot worshipers interpret every engine rumble or flickering light as...
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The Oddegon is a huge blue steam train (12hp, Armour 3) with the face of a screaming old man. A year ago it blasted off on its maiden voyage, overloaded with three hundred...
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Or, why has there only been one blogpost in all of May? Hellspace has sat on my back-burner under various names (Arkbound, DIE BONEHEAD DIE, Odd Future) for long enough. The...
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The star cults believe there are things in the cosmos, unfathomable power making them the only worthy gods. Their Arcana are coveted, but it is shallow power. There's only one...
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This week, I played a Dinosaur Cleric in +Arnold K.'s game. Why it's taken this long for someone to use the idea of extinct dinosaurs eating their way up the timeline is...
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My standard model of running an adventure with a handful of characters is sort of like this. 1 - Referee describes the situation through the characters' senses. 2 - Players ask...
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There are stories of people stumbling into made-up lands. These aren't real, they're just from novels, paintings, or old wives' tales. The might be very distant, but nearby...
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Mock Fellows are the human equivalent to Mock Animals. Although built for purpose, they're too susceptible to slapstick outbreaks to be truly useful. They have all the usual...
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Hate Player Agency? Got no one to play with? Miss peeking ahead to cheat at a solitaire game? This is so terrible I'm not even going to invoke my Patreon Supporters for it....
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Everyone has a Goal, and a Plan. Their big mission in life is to fulfil their Goal and they will do this through their Plan. This gives you the core of how an NPC is going to...
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Not everything is aliens. These cults base themselves on a site of great importance to their idol, and interfere in the lives of people that don't see their idol as a holy...
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The Terror-Stones show three groups of six beings falling from the stars and performing terrible deeds in the name of their group's single Virtue. Since then there have been...
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This blogpost is supported by generous Patreon backers. Infantry armour is generally rather binary in Into the Odd. Either you're armoured, and reduce all damage against you...
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Another blogpost supported by generous Patreon backers! Middly-Wacking A high-walled refuge of quaint village life and rampant rollocking right in the middle of Bastion. You...
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This week's content is being supported by my generous Patreon backers. A ship in Into the Odd might look like this. The Rusty Whale (12hp, Armour 1, Mortar-Battery d12, 50...
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All aboard the grandest megaship-come-hotel ever to cruise the rivers of Bastion. There's really no better place to stay, from its Pamper Suites (10g for a night you'll never...
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It's telling that Bastion has railways, but nobody really uses it for long-distance passenger travel. Who'd want to go to the Failed Cities anyway? Grand Duchessy of Harfluff...
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Sooner or later you're going to upset someone important in Bastion and get hauled into a jail. Roll d6 to find out who's running this place. 1. Dira Deff STR 15, DEX 15, WIL...
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Enjoy my blog content?Having fun with Into the Odd, and craving new content?Itching for the Odd World Toolkit to be released with even better art than the original game?Wanting...
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Bastion is Big, but Deep Country just goes on and on forever. Head out in the right direction, keep going past the end of the canals, rails, and roads, and you'll reach Massiff...
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Someone recently asked me how Bastion would feed itself, being a city of millions with only a backwards Deep Country and a few Failed Cities as potential trading partners. It's...
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When Bastion needs an army, at least two Generals will rally to the call. Make a WIL Save for each to see if they can resist the passive-aggressive put-downs of their supposed...
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More familiar animals make their home in Bastion alongside the stranger creatures. If in doubt as to whether an earthly creature can be found in Bastion, remember Everything is...
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Bastion is a creative city, and many of the creators are fascinated by animals. Despite some similarities to Animal Sovereigns, Mockeries are very obviously different. Limbs...Linked by the ring
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Nobody really believes these things exist unless they've encountered them first hand. It can be assumed that multiple Sovereigns exist for every type of beast out there. Animal...
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Mass Combat in Into the Odd uses a dead simple detachment system. A detachment is the rough equivalent to 50 decent infantrymen, and acts as an individual in all ways other...
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So I'm way behind on this but here goes. Into the Odd's world in 25 words or less. Alien artifacts, muskets, bayonets, tricorne hats, pan-dimensional terrors, brains, industry,...
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Forget your roaring steamships, majestic ships of the line, and prototype submarines. These ships are just flat out crappy. Cheap though! 1: Pile of Old Furniture (50s, 7hp, 10...
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Of course there are settlements between Bastion and the Golden Lands. Some of them sit on little islands, so let's see which one you hit. 1: Library - A few brick houses...
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I've spoken before about how the concept of an Iconic Monster doesn't fit with Into the Odd's guidance of making monsters unique and unknown. But really it's clear. Humans of...