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Ever an opportunist, here's how to convert D&D 5e Monsters to your Into the Odd game. HP: 1hp per HD. Maximum of 30. Armour: Noted Armour grants Armour 1, and any extra noted...
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Your one-hitpoint Fighter meets an unglamorous death thirty minutes into the game. You shrug and roll up a new character, who comes out with six hitpoints and STR 17. What kind...
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A thousand years from Earth. Still no sign of the new worlds. I trust the Shard. Its body protects us, its computers guide us, and its heart loves us. It loves each of the...
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Tactical Infinity is the beauty of RPGs. You can go anywhere, attempt any action, imagine your character however you like. You might think the GM has the same sort of luxury....
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Death is inevitable. No, really. If you stand and fight with an enemy for more than a few rounds, one of you is going to die. I ditched separate to-hit rolls some time ago, but...
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I love disposable items. Not healing potions and wands, but flasks of acid, flaming oil, and caltrops. Deciding when it's time to use your flaming oil is an innately...
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For the next few posts I'm going to be talking about the most recent changes made to Into the Odd. The most recent version is now up, so check it out on the sidebar to the...
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Here's a pretty great generator for inspiring new Arcana. It just spat out the names of these five things stored away beneath Bastion in a mostly secure Vault. Harpoon of...
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What are you afraid of? It makes magic too powerful? Sounds like you're using lame Spells. They shouldn't be safe and reliable. Unleashing one should be a terrifying moment for...
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In some games, a character sheet can feel like a horse's blinkers. This week I've read reports from a number of players talking about their character sheet like a list of...
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Ooh, you really aren't supposed to be in The Rusted Vault! Immediate room contents are listed. Contents in parentheses require further investigation to discover. Roll 1d6 when...
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Did I ever tell you about the real power behind this great capital of civilization? The High Council? An old boy's club that lock themselves away, drinking and smoking while we...
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So your players need to pass through a chunk of Bastion's Underground? Don't just send them through a featureless tunnel Send them through the Lair of the Gore Cloud. Immediate...
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When the galleon, Emerald Sky, returned from an expedition to the Golden Lands, its entire crew were missing. Instead, the ship was being piloted quite expertly by an unnatural...
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My first ever attempt at hand-drawing a map, inspired by Dyson Logos. Of course, I couldn't resist mangling it through pixlr to make it look suitably odd.Linked by the ring
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Every child in Bastion has their own stories about the Underground, but they all know of the Maggot Children. The legend claims that babies thrown into the sewers grow into...
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Need a dungeon right now? Grab a sheet of paper. Throw down five dice. Draw a room around each die that landed on the paper. Throw away those dice that fell onto the table. ...
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The tunnel network underneath Bastion serves as sewer, catacomb, smuggling route, and homeless shelter in equal measure. Neighbouring caves have been disturbed by all this...
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A mini-module for your Into the Odd game. A mess of makeshift shacks fills the gaps between old, stone houses. A high, white wall keeps the residents in, and guards in masked...
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Suburbia is a city building, tile-placement game by Ted Alspach. We've been having great fun playing it, and I anyone looking for a tabletop Sim City, or more complex...
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Hear me out. I don't want gear lists for Risus. I don't want a bunch of modifiers and special rules for specific weapons. It isn't that sort of game. Risus already has a...
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In Risus combat, the winner decides the fate of the loser. This could range from embarrassment to a badass scar or even death. Sometimes you'll want to put that down to a roll....
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In Risus, regaining lost Cliche Dice is left entirely to common sense. The guidance suggests that it depends on the nature of the conflict where the dice were lost.I like this,...
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I'm still deep in a Risus phase at the moment. This happens regularly. Today I've been thinking about those weird little one-point Cliches that characters often end up with. At...
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I love Risus, but the game begs to be tweaked. Here, my goal is to make it easier to set TNs, remove those vital seconds spent adding die pools and make combat even more fast...
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For the mundane Into the Odd character, not interested in Arcana, you hit a peak of offensive ability quite early on.Get yourself a set of Modern Armour and a Field Weapon....
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When you roll a duplicate item on the previous table, roll on the table below to see what special item Frank has in stock. Duplicates are discarded. 1: Flip Bolts (30s): Three...
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Frank Regal - Expert Entrepreneur STR 14, DEX 8, WIL 14, 11hp, Duelling Pistol (d8), Officer's Cane (1d6), 1d6g. A travelling salesman of great repute. Wears a faded naval...
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This is your one-stop-shop for bringing a FLAILSNAILS character from D&D to Into the Odd. 1 - Convert your D&D Level to the appropriate Experience Level, rolling your new HP....
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You might notice a big change in the current edition of Into the Odd. - Saves are now "roll equal or under the appropriate stat". Nothing modifies this roll. Here's my...