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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what goblins get. You can also use this table for folks like half-orcs or maybe even tieflings,...Linked by the ring
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There's nothing revolutionary in this post, but I think it contains generally good advice and feels worthwhile articulating.When an RPG gives you something generic, a player...Linked by the ring
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Another year and the Bloggies have come and gone! I'm very pleased to have taken home some medals in the Best Series category!Gold: The Designing Dungeons Course, or, How to...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what hobbits get.You can either roll a d10 for your culture to get a result from a...Linked by the ring
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Sometimes when you're writing a dungeon room, it can feel like pulling teeth. The empty space and the stocking result of "Trap with Treasure" mocks you.Here's a technique to...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what elf-friends get.What are elf-friends? Well:The master of the house was an elf-friend—one...Linked by the ring
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what elves get.This is ostensibly for the Middle-earth Hexcrawl project but I think it can be...Linked by the ring
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It's February. I posted my finished Shire Hexcrawl back in December and stopped making regular updates about the Middle-earth project. But I haven't been idle, dear reader. I...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what humans get.You can either roll a d9 for your culture to get a result from a tightly-bound...Linked by the ring
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If you're running a game like Dolmenwood, a fun, realistic detail is that shops have variable stocks based on the rarity of the trade good. For example, if you go to...
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It is 3 AM and I cannot sleep because I woke up with these random mechanics coming into my head. But one of the reasons you keep a blog is to have a place to dump such...
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Schwew. OK. This turned into a long one. Break!! has the best crafting rules for an OSR game that I've ever seen. Originally, I was trying to borrow them for my little house...
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I worked on this over Christmas. It's a little late but perhaps you (like me) haven't quite cleaned up your tree yet. I have limited exposure to war games. I have played WH40K...
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A magic item inspired by Phlox's version, here. Approaching from my premise that +1s are boring magic items, how can I adapt the classic periapt of wisdom?The periapt of wisdom...
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0501Southwest: Valley of Eternal CheerSouth: SnomesSoutheast: Jinglebell BarrensRANKIN/BASS PRO SHOP: A pyramid of silver and gold. The single obvious entrance at its base is...
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0203North: Conifer MountainNortheast: Three CalvesSoutheast: The GrumpusSouth: Gingerbread Village HOUSE OF THE KRINGLES. A snowy landscape in the domain of the Winter Warlock....
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As I've mentioned before on this blog, I'm currently doing a preorder campaign instead of a "traditional" crowdfunding campaign for my first big project for His Majesty the...
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Back in September of this year, I began a daily writing prompt inspired by this year's reread of The Lord of the Rings and Idraluna Archive's excellent hexmap of Middle-earth....Linked by the ring
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An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. From the beginning of the project, I knew it wasn't...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what dwarves get.You can either roll a d7 for your house to get a result from a tightly-bound...Linked by the ring
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In case you missed it, I'm currently running a direct pre-order campaign for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon The Castle Automatic. Become an Early Worm now!But what's...
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On the matter of writing empty hexesI've already talked about my approach to writing Tolkien content, here. I've learned that I need to create actionable, discrete details--not...
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An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series.In the east of the Shire, north of the Water, are...
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In case you missed it, I just launched a pre-order campaign for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon The Castle Automatic. Click to become an Early Worm!Instead of doing a...
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Hoo boy. Okay. The Castle Automatic's great gears sat still for an age. Now, His Majesty the Worm has begun the machines again…Become an Early Worm!The Castle Automatic is a...
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An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series.We previously visited the Northfarthing near Long...
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Hookay, writing this blog post not because I have good ideas, but because I don't have any ideas. Bashing my head against a writing prompt is a good way to unblock creativity....