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On the ring since 2026-03-17
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The following is how I deal with random encounters, spoor and signs, wandering monsters, and time tracking in my homebrew game. Please note that I use the major arcana deck...
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From Darkest Dungeon DIY & Dragons recently had a post wherein they said, quote: "I have also literally never heard of a game session where the characters actually ended up...
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Brian Froud, How to See Faeries What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of...
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TOOT GRIMALKIN- Levels as halfling- Thief skills- -2 to stats on Mondays- Can eat extra ration of lasagna during short rests to heal 1d6 HP RAISIN GOLEM- Levels as dwarf- Dwarf...
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I'm two faced. My favorite campaign settings are Tolkien analogues--the closer to the mythological source material, the better. My favorite class is the monk. If you make the...
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One of the most important jobs a game master has is managing expectations. This is a hard won lesson because I'm actually pretty bad at it--both personally and professionally....
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Like most fucking RPG nerds, I've done my fair share of worldbuilding. Most of it never sees the light of day and that's okay. It's usually a fun thing to do for its own sake....
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This is a light follow up to my Battles in Wilderland post, but it doesn't have anything specifically about to do with The Hobbit. It's just house rules about fighting I'd use...
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Battles in Wilderland From Pinterest. Artist unknown. “That would be no good,” said the wizard, “not without a mighty Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors...
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This post is a follow up to my post about magic in my Wilderlands setting. Reagents in Wilderland, or, Herb Lore and Why It Matters Jimmy Cauty hung on my wall all of my high...Linked by the ring
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Rise up Comus, sing your song, bewitch the maiden, the day is long Cast your spell, sweet music crack her virtuous shell Enchanted damsel, curious ear, Comus music dispel all...
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A focus for my current project, His Majesty the Worm, is interpersonal conflict and a focus on downtime. When the players camp, the GM can provide some discussion prompts and...
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Despite it being out for some time, I only recently picked up Broodmother Skyfortress by Jeff Rients. And boy oh boy, it rules. The basic premise of the adventure is that...
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One of the features of OSR games is "quick character creation," and for the most part that's true. Even so, it requires SOME fiddling before a one shot game to wrangle...
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For my fantasy heartbreaker, His Majesty the Worm, I recently ran the party through a doppelganger encounter. It was fun! We had about three sessions of doppelganger nonsense;...
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John Howe, Celtic Myth The knights of the Round Table were sent out as a measure against Fort Mayne, and the choleric barons who lived by Fort Mayne took up the cudgels with...Linked by the ring
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The word lich means "corpse." (It is sometimes more polite to call a lich a "flesh body bodhisattva" to their face.) A lich is a corpse that remains animate and...
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A continuation from my last post, I wanted to investigate the sort of fairy-tale magic you find in The Hobbit. I wrote my thesis about magic in The Lord of the Rings, and found...
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I only recently read this post, which speculates about what the Middle-earth intellectual property would look like if The Hobbit existed in isolation. It is a good post and the...Linked by the ring
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Sometimes writing random tables is hard. You know you need a few more interesting entries, but your brain isn't working right. Well, worry not. The internet exists, and it has...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves...
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(Pssst. These were stolen from formed in collaboration with Chris over at wayspell.blogspot.com.) Beneath the streets of the City is the first floor of the Underworld—a section...
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The Bare Bones Roll under your attributes to succeed in a check. If a skill would be relevant for a check, add +2 to the attribute being tested. Saving throws are attribute...Linked by the ring
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Ha ha long time no post. That is a good trick I know how to do. Please enjoy my long stretches of silence! This post barely qualifies as a break in the radio silence. It is...
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"Therefore Ilúvatar gave to their vision Being, and set it amid the Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart of the World; and it was called Eä." - Valaquenta...
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In the Halls of the Mountain King A dwarf is a creature of obligation. They are defined by their oaths. Dwarven oaths are made to their clan. The clan is the center of a...
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One of the divisive bellwethers of old school gaming is the "race as a class" concept. You can be a human fighter, a human thief, a human wizard, but you can also be a ......
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I know I got the core of this idea from some forum, but that thread seems long gone and I didn't want to forget it because it seems like it has merit. So, kudos to you,...
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I pulled all the rules from my past few posts about playing halflings and put them into a single document. It's kind of ugly without the art, but it'll do. Get it here!(Psst. I...
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The Four Seasons An agrarian society, the Commonwealth is close to the wheel of the seasons. A halfling's life is built around the change of the seasons, the lengthening of...