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Adventure games that lack Reaction and Morale rolls baffle me. Tense stand-offs with powerful beings. Chasing down fleeing minions before they alert serious guards. Rallying...
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To find the architectural style of a particular chunk of the city, roll d20 and d20+10 and mash the results together. On a duplicate, it's a purist vision of that style. 1:...
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Into the Odd isn't a game about running a business, but money is important if you want to move onto bigger expeditions. With this in mind, I've included a simple method for...
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Roll d20 and d20+10 and mash the results together. If you roll duplicate, it's a hyper-exaggerated version of that trend. 1: Psycho- 2: Dirty- 3: Leather- 4: Brutal- 5:...
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Key Principles of Odd Traps1. They announce themselves.2. They give you opportunity and reason to mess with them. 3. Once triggered, they do their job very well. Key...
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Expedition into the Polar Ocean Nobody knows what's beyond the bright mist. Each brave soul leading the expedition brings a retinue of troops rolled on the table below. Roll...
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The Odd World 1. Bastion is the only city that matters. 2. Mysteries sit in plain sight. 3. Somebody has been messing with the world. Bastion 1. It has everything. 2. Nobody...
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Today is your last chance to buy the Into the Odd PDF before it's removed from the Lost Pages store. It will come back up once we work out a solution to crippling new tax laws,...
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The Polar Ocean is the Edge of the World The ocean leads into a bright mist, which leads to a place beyond anything you expected. The Polar Ocean is the Edge of Reality Seas...
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The Golden Lands are New Expeditions have been there, but barely scratched the surface. It's a huge, un-mapped continent there to be explored. You'll be placing the first...
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Deep Country Lost It wasn't really a contest. Bastion industrialised, grew, and sucked in the majority of the population for its factories and terraces. Noble estates lie...
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The Golden Lands Supplement for Into the Odd is going to deal with how to handle large scale expeditions in your game. Naturally, a part of this will be handing large scale...
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Bastion is Old Nobody alive remembers when Bastion wasn't the hub of mankind. Trends have come and gone, buildings have risen and crumbled, and regimes have fought to rule...
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The Oddvent Oddpendium is a a 22 page compilation of material for Into the Odd, including: - Three Adventure Sites. - Random Tables from What's on that Island? to I push the...
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Chewing gum is huge in Bastion. Some flavours are designed for freshness, others are designed to show off how tough the chewer is with bolder flavours. A pack of five sticks...
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Mask STR 14, DEX 18, WIL 12, 14hp, Armour 1. Featherless-Wing (d6). Wants to find out everything about you, and lie about its identity. A 9ft tall, unnaturally elegant,...
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+Joe Banner has inspired me to push out this option for anyone that thinks Into the Odd isn't horrible enough. When you suffer Ability Score loss, but survive, roll on the...
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Roll d8 on each table at the start of every morning, afternoon, and evening in Bastion. How Bad is the Traffic? (d6 in Morning, d8 at other times) 1-3: Things worsen by one...
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Some musings on Into the Odd Supplements for 2015 Into the Odd is a game about going on expeditions. Typically a small group. The goal is to find Arcana and wealth, and advance...
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There's no world map for Into the Odd. No timeline. No list of NPCs that rule over Bastion, or legendary explorers of the past. The cities outside of Bastion aren't named. You...
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Into the Odd has a complicated relationship with Dungeons & Dragons. To put this relationship into context, let's look at Skull. Skull is a beautiful game built around...
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The Gigondines - Exiled noble line. Leader: Arin Gigondine Unified by blood. 200 Members 20 Noble Horsemen: 12hp, Armour, Longaxes (d8), Pistol Braces (d8). 40 Family Guard:...
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That's right! It's finally here! Choose between PDF and PDF+Print. Into the Odd contains everything you need to create a character and explore an industrial world of cosmic...
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To make up for the delay getting Into the Odd released, have three pages of stuff that didn't fit into the game. Tired of playing regular explorers? Give these three new...
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Put this dungeon wherever you need it to be, but in my game it'll be hidden away in the Golden Lands, requiring an expedition of significant distance from civilization. This is...
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A short list of rules that won't feature as mechanics in the final version of Into the Odd. Skills - If you want to be good at something, put your high roll into the...
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Recently I've been getting quite a few comments from people newly discovering Into the Odd. Those unfamiliar with my previous posts might wonder what I'm hoping to achieve with...
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D&D Fighters grow in power as they level up. Their bonuses increase, they become mountains of HP, and in later editions they get incredible powers worthy of mythical heroes....