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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...
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The Commonwealth The Commonwealth is the home of the halflings. Visiting the Commonwealth is like visiting a human fairy tale. It consists of many hills with homes carved into...
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Professions They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools. When...
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No Adventures, Thank You The flow of a Under Hill, By Water game is a little different than a standard dungeon-crawling game. You're not some stupid burglar going into troll...
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Under Hill, By Water In a hole in the ground there lived... (Psst. I actually published this game in a fuller form. Check it out here!) Under Hill, By Water by Rise Up Comus...
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I know I've all but abandoned this blog, but I've been focusing most of my creative writey time on chewing on my fantasy heartbreaker project. Stupid, I know. Today, in...Linked by the ring
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Out in the Far Realms, thoughtforms and concepts are active with intention and purpose. We call them "spirits" in a generic sort of way. The least of these spirits are spells:...
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One thing that I liked about Dungeon World was that each class had a different damage dice. It made sense to me--a fighter is so skilled and so well-trained that no matter what...
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I discussed in my previous post how I want religion to be relatable (yet weird) and meaningful. I'm still trying to articulate to myself why I think the Greyhawk-esque deity...