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For the charmers, liars, deal makers out there! The RakeAttribute Requirements: Strength and Dexterity must be 5 or lower. Hit Dice: 1d4 -1 To Hit: As Thief Saving Throws: As...
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These are my initial observations after running the first half of my Super Adventure. I will be writing more concrete advice on how to structure one after that one finishes up...
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I've run two sessions of Classic Traveller in the past week, one in the gay beholder server and another at my home table. Instead of doing a big AAR for both I have the time to...
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Party Bronir - Diaz Daranth - Me Grundle - N Olyandor - Oly Rosrolar - Stroszek Ulia - Deb Oldskolgmr - GM SessionWe start on the road to Elkoi (sic) westernmost citadel of...Linked by the ring
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This post is full of good advice. A lot of folks toil under the expectations of the hobby and what they feel they need to write or run an RPG. I've talked about that in the...Linked by the ring
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ThoughtsClassic Traveller continues to amaze me with how well it lines up with my sensibilities as a GM. I've never had a system that was so easy to prep and play before. CT's...
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ThoughtsReally cool the players found one of the few areas in Dolmenwood that directly ties to the Cold Princes and would know the consequences of the actions the main party...
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Troika! is the new OD&D. And after looking at these fantastic OD&D backgrounds I was thinking about Troika!'s luck applying to the classic Five Saving Throws. When a PC Tests...
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Idraluna has an excellent point in the back of the Littlest Brown Book about how some of the XP rules were written with longer play sessions happening multiple times a week and...Linked by the ring
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I have recently fallen down the Classic Traveller rabbit hole. I think about UPPs in my free time, design spaceships in my mind, and play the character creation minigame to...
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Farmer Required Skills: none Required Equipment: none Players' Information Out in the countryside a disheveled young woman corners the players when they are away from prying...Linked by the ring
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Army Officer Required Skills: none Required Equipment: none Players' Information: While walking around the city, the players are approached by a scarred man in homespun...
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Bateman's excellent Facilitating Fiendish Fights should be considered a sister piece to this article. It is filled chock-a-block with good advice for running combat. It's...
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The party has gone off to train for level 6! So for the next two weeks we're going to the other party up in the northwest who are basically bandits. I could probably be more...
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Hard to get by in the Spokelands when you're hard up for gold. 1000 Statues got too hot. I heard that Tiramisu fella got run out on a rail by some fearsome robot. Fine by me,...
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Lightning in a bottle blog posts hit the scene and arc from community to community inspiring a new wave of ideas and what makes a good game. We've seen it happen with all sorts...
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Play reports are important folks.... We all know it and that's why we gotta write them! I don't remember the beat for beat stuff as this campaign has been going on for a while...
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Well I never would have thought that a bunch of Level 5s could have taken on the AC20, +8 to hit, bile breath beast that was the wyrm. And if they had fought any other way but...
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When I was running Delta Green every week I had to think of ways to expedite prep without sacrificing the sandbox nature of investigations that I really value in my games. One...
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I got into the hobby late compared to most folks, no dad that grew up in the advent of the hobby or brother to let me play at his table jealously. Tabletop games occupied a...
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The rumor tables really put in the work of getting the ball rolling with today's session. The players latched onto the rumor about the mossling bones being used in the brews...
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I was having a conversation with my friend Liquid Video the other day about how piracy acts in the Far Future. He wrote a great response and I wanted to share it. __ Well, hey!...
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Troika! is just for one shots. It can't handle long term play. It's a silly game that takes place in a setting you can't take seriously. I've read a lot of things in that ilk...
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Since the classical times man and beast have engaged in bouts of friendly strife. It is a great honor to enter the circle and try to throw another. This great pastime can be...
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Today's session notes are written by Vecktrex. Players & Roles Liquid Video as Andred Underbuck Breggle Knight Flynn as [Redacted] Woodgrue Thief TheValibuk as Wumbus Eggmumble...
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Buy it! https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/cairn-2e/products/the-door-in-murex-canyon-for-cairn-2e-rpg-and-b-x-ose Writing, Design, Layout by Stella Condrey Editing by Jarret...
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Travel speed dictates how many hexes, grids, points, etc can be traveled along during one day's travel. The size of these hexes doesn't matter and these rules can serve as a...Linked by the ring
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Today's sessions notes were written by Vecktrex. Players & Roles Liquid Video as Andred Underbuck Breggle/Knight Flynn as [Redacted] Thief/Woodgrue TheValibuk as Wumbus...
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When King Ollie found me I was as far away from humanity as could be. Up in the mountains of West Virginia, alone in my cabin. My wife Barb and my daughter Jo Belle both left...
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Magic started when the first wizard was slain by a mob. They took his magic and went corrupt; then later in other dark corners of the world they were killed for "miracles." So...