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Lightning is the purest expression of strength. Where it lands, grass burns, trees split, and men die. It is the fire born of water, creation and destruction in one dread...Linked by the ring
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In the choking vacuum of the Machine Space, there are islands: sealed pockets of material in the mechanism of the Structure, waiting to be cracked open and stripped bare by...
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It's not what you know. Matter of fact, it's not even who you know. It's what you have. Everything in the world exists in relation to money. You especially.You don't really...
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There is an empire broken apart, in flames, brother soon to be turned against brother in a war which will set the course of history forever. It's best to remember what you have...
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Here's a sad story in six words.FOR SALE: RPG SETTING, NEVER RUNAs bloggers, we have reams of loreposts and toneposts and appendices N and classes and bestiaries and all the...
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The bandit is an underrated sort of monster, because it's a real monster. There are few fire-breathing dragons in our world. There are, however, a great multitude of people...Linked by the ring
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Frankly, if we were all stranded on a desert island, we'd be eating each other alive before the boat even left the shore. Unrelated to any brutal power...
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The Presbyter taught that there was no mercy in this world save but that which we gave one another, and for this, he was killed mercilessly. No wound or cruelty on this earth...Linked by the ring
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The thrill-seeking gambling addict wizards of Level Die get a missive:To the sorcerers of Level DieA challenge:Come to Caesars Atlantic City and I will kill you.I have a...
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The First and Last populated the world with many things, and set many people to rule them. The first were the bright-eyed djinn, born of fire, but God does not work with fire...
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Another Glåugust Glogtember GLOGTOBER, post. From the famed Archon's Court: a small regional hexcrawl.Ilya Zankovsky Maybe you found a ring, and thought yourself a more...
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For Invisible Hands.Texas is burning. Dust Bowl, Alexandre HogueWhen it all went wrong, it went very wrong here. All the violence and fear and hatred that could accumulate in...
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Here we are, back to my personal monster manual. No further elaboration required.Cockatrice3 HD (12 HP), AC as leather, 7 moraleSAVE +1A disease among dire fowl, a retrovirus...Linked by the ring
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It was one of those ideas that seems good when you've been living on black coffee and Yonah white.They obsessed over it. A dozen Giant laborers taken out into the wilderness,...Linked by the ring
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Special thanks to Archon's Court.There's a certain way things go. The throughline of history. Fate. It's written in the whispering of advisors and traced by knives in dark...Linked by the ring
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Piscomancy Or Ichthyurgy AKA Ahabs, Aquamen, Casters, Ickies Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat forever.You fish because you are...
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SURPRISE! This is a double-dip on prompts: a Paladin of an Unorthodox Law.Or, more accurately, a Monk.Quoted from the linked post, so you don't have to jump between there and...Linked by the ring
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This is a post of two purposes:1. For Glåugust challenge 6, fulfilling the prompt "a dungeon with a river in it".2. A trade of prompts--a dungeon duel, if you will--between the...Linked by the ring
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Remember the Cloak-and-Sword bandwagon? The one with the single-template classes and Esprit mechanic? I really don't. I was pretty deep into an addiction to nasal decongestant...
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1995. In the Battlefield Mall, a war is brewing. Two karate dojos, alike in indignity, battle to see who is truly worthy to call themselves the inheritors of Juan Matus...
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This isn't for the Beholder bandwagon. I don't know what that is, or what a Beholder is. I've never heard of Hasbro™ or Wizards of the Coast™ or Dungeons and Dragons™ or of the...Linked by the ring
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Monsters. It was monsters that got me into this whole thing. The first RPG product I ever bought was the fifth edition monster manual, which I spent countless hours just...Linked by the ring
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What even needs to be said? You are a pebbled worm, never to be smiled at. Any who know you fear you, and rightly so. You are a god of the river, an oasis king. The mighty...
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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the...Linked by the ring
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The warrior occupies a place of prestige and admiration, but always at an arm's length; your presence is a sign that if something hasn't already gone wrong, it's about to. In...
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Another installment in my Unfinished World bootleg series.Manufacturing, the First Art. The magic of making something out of nothing. The working of Hot Metal....Linked by the ring
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FOR QAL ASHEN(And for Halloween.)You were here first. Before Time, before Death, before the world was ordered and numbered and described, you were here. You're a dreadful...
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Special thanks to Glass Candles for his excellent item suggestions. They think they can tell you what to do. They think they know better. They can all go to Hell. The world is...
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This was a one-shot run by Glass Candles for yours truly and Bamzolino, who as far as I know has no blog to link here. In the nation of Arel in the cold south of a world not...
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Here is how I create: I don't. My mind is a vast and dark sea hidden under miles of stone and clouded with silt, and sometimes a good idea will appear in the sludge like coins...