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GLÅUGUST HAS PASSED AROUND THE SUN HELLO. LAST TIME I RAN GLÅUGUST, IT OUTPERFORMED MY EXPECTATIONS AND I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. THIS GAVE ME CAUSE TO SUPPOSE THAT MY...Linked by the ring
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It bears repeating.It bears repeating. In Qal Ashen, there are two kinds of dungeon: refuges and sacred places. The former are places where things were hidden from the wrath of...
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The coldest place in the World Above is Ayfen, the Province of Winter, a region of Outer Magnos cloaked in, well, winter. It gets only barely warm at the height of Summer, and...Linked by the ring
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THE USA IS, The branches and mechanisms of the government of the United States have been subsumed into the paradigms of differing New Gods. The House is in the thrall of...Linked by the ring
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The Maul of America is the primary dungeon in Invisible Hands, a campaign I have thought a lot about but not run. Here are even more monsters from the economic depths. If you...Linked by the ring
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Using the Monster-Making d666 I made with Garamondia. On the island of Idaeg (not that far from the prosperous port of Uran Aeg) lies a gigantic old-world ruin, nowadays...Linked by the ring
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For a theoretical game playing a gang of criminals in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Draad. I realised that the standard set of Scribe, Astrologer, Signatory, Knight and...Linked by the ring
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A solid 50% of this post came to me in the inspiring confusion between waking up and being awake, where dreams are washing out like the tide. You play as a disgruntled...Linked by the ring
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The meaning of life is to get things and stuff them into your mouth and hope you choke on them. Influence - A Sidebar that will be necessary for this post to make much...Linked by the ring
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Gonna be real, Josie did all the heavy lifting here - but I was there to assist, sort of like a mildly helpful court scholar later known in history for dying in a really weird...Linked by the ring
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This dungeon was revealed to me partially in a dream. It is set in the Unfinished World. You have been heading northeast from the Holy City, Anyang, for a fortnight. It feels...
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I do as others do - but with less charm!Linked by the ring
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Carrefour Bunker is a military emplacement from the days of the Union, in the rocky moors northeast of the ruins of Amacos. Amacos went empty all at once, every soul, at the...Linked by the ring
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I was complaining, whining and grousing the other day (or, well, on 19/03/2025, which will make this funnier and funnier depending on when this post actually came out.) I was...Linked by the ring
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You are a living relic. It is possible you are the only member of your instinctual and dreamt-of order left on the continent. More advanced technologies are available to you,...Linked by the ring
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While Manteu is obviously the heart of the Cloak-and-sword, off to the north and east of it is the Inferian Empire, or just Inferie for short, a sort of sendup of the Holy...Linked by the ring
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Time-displaced class design. I’m going to start using Esprit more. Class: Noble’s ManNot a Nobleman (or even, probably, a noble man).You are the servant of an NPC. He is a...Linked by the ring
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When you get hit, you die. Just to get that out of the way.However,If you have something you can stake instead, you survive the blow.A given piece of armour can be staked a...Linked by the ring
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The Maul of America is the primary dungeon in Invisible Hands, a campaign I have thought a lot about but not run. Here are some of its monsters. Sidebar: InfluenceHuman souls...Linked by the ring
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The dark waters of the Sovereign Sea reach right up to the cliffs under the black walls of Broxon House. Down there, at the foot of the cliffs, skerries and reefs under the...
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EVERYONE LOVES GLOGTOBERHOWEVER, OCTOBER IS COLD, AND ALSO BUSY, AND ON THE FUCKING MOON-HAUNTED ARCTIC ISLAND UPON WHICH I RESIDE, THE SUN IS GONE IN OCTOBER. THIS MAKES IT...Linked by the ring
- An Unusual Crop: Fermentation (#4 GLÅUGUST 2026) 1-in-6 Traps
- Resurrection shouldn't be easy (#3 GLÅUGUST 2026) 1-in-6 Traps
- Resurrection shouldn't be easy (#3 G L Å U G U S T 2 0 2 6) 1-in-6 Traps
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- Nominations for GLoGgies 2025 Seed of Worlds
- Gloggies Nominations 2025 Whose Measure God Could Not Take
- Mounted on a Pin (Aclas Dungeon) Archon's Court
- Paladin of Gravity (GLÅUGUST 2025 #6) Seed of Worlds
- ⛮{CRY ME A RIVER}⛮ (Morning Stars Dungeon) Madman's Menagerie
- Bridge War! (Adventure Location) Whose Measure God Could Not Take
- Commission for the ethical sourcing of construct souls (GLÅUGUST 2025 #5) Seed of Worlds
- Under the Evening Moon I Keep on Killing Mosquitoes (Cloak and Sword Scenario) Whose Measure God Could Not Take
- Enter the Saurodrome (Glåugust) Idraluna Archives
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I requested a theme for a dungeon from Garamondia, and was given: Machine. Zywy Island is a small shoulder of rock in the subterminal regions of the archipelago of Zaramirond....Linked by the ring
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In the World Above, the Sun King lays a heavy hand on all aspects of life - in his eunomy, something can either be vaunted, controlled, illuminated, or banned, forbidden,...
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The GLOG Discord Beholder Challenge ought to take off. Here’s a couple. MAZUTThe entire body serves every purpose. The Liminals scale perfectly with size, every part is hand,...
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This post is a challenge from Garamondia, and utilises the Monster-making d666 we wrote up together. The challenge was → 1d2 Monsters and 1d4+1 Rooms.I recommend you give it a...
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Alamut stood here, once.The word Assassin, in variant forms, had already passed into European usage as a term for a hired professional murderer in this general sense. The...
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The Psychopaladin’s Daemons have been knocking around in my brain (appropriately) since the post was posted. Here are some knockoff versions from the rotten depths of my...Linked by the ring
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Ever been a peasant in a dungeon and wondered how it is you suddenly developed magical powers or sword-training? Me too. Here are some miniclasses to represent the other side...
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Inspired by this post.You could put them in most settings, I think - your average shitworld morgleborgle dungeoncrawl 1HP murder crawl would be improved by jealous little kami...
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(Art by Zezhou Chen)Here’s an idea that struck me - I like metamagic and I like magic instruments (cf. my Wonder Worker), so I’ve been pondering how I might implement these...Linked by the ring
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Cogs - Summon [sum] gears, arranged in any way you choose so long as they are interlocking. Gears can be up to [dice] feet across and can be connected by a total of [dice]+1...Linked by the ring
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Dungeon I wrote for deus ex parabola's PBP game Right for the Wrong Reasons. Features electricity and dead bodies. Click to Perceive.Linked by the ring
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The northern coast of Extranor is dotted with exploratory bases. Little grey and black mould-spots in the pristine white of the frozen outerland. Extranor is a series of lumpy...Linked by the ring
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Bandwagon! Bandwagon!Visitor - Summon a ghostly entity. It resembles a human shape made of black fog. It has [sum]HP and can only be harmed by lightning. It has three physical...
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THE MYSTIC+1 Paradigm and +1 Power per Template. A - Crown, Focus, InsightB - TelekinesisC - TelepathyD - Manifestation ParadigmsParadigms are restrictions, in a sense (as we...
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THE UNIVERSE IS A CORPSEHuman machinations have dethroned the divine, defiled the sacred places, torn the world and shown the old truths to be lies. Chaos reigns. The world is...Linked by the ring
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Answering the Famed sites of disastrous battles of the Blood War for Glogtober 23'Katechon GulfFormerly, a sea of acid on Cathrys, a layer of Carceri dominated by deadly...Linked by the ring
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The original “Counter Spell” is older than recorded history, probably - it’s extremely crude, temperamental, and unreliable. Basically nobody uses it, because about 3-in-6...Linked by the ring
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Or, well, for Penny Dreadfuls, which is Victorian Buckets of Blood, because… I don’t know.The East EndThe year is 1860. Twelve evil wizards are meeting one week from now, in...Linked by the ring
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This class owes an obvious debt to deus ex parabola’s Fighters and Rogues.THE DUELIST+1 to Hit per Template. A - Panache, Style, Parry & Riposte B - Like a BirdC - FlynningD -...Linked by the ring
- Your Only Move Is (GLOG Class: Hustler) Spiceomancy
- Dynamics (classes for 2+ pcs) Spiceomancy
- Birds of a Feather (Dungeon) Pillar of Worms
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- 8 Fighters from Beyond the Wall Pillar of Worms
- clan-as-individual-as-class-as-npc Spiceomancy
- Those Fragile Bridges (Aclas Hexcrawl) Archon's Court
- To The Nines (GLOG Class: Cosplay Knight) Spiceomancy
- Sustainer Cell Character Background/Classes (Lanthanide Horizon) Archon's Court
- Kissing Death's Mouth (Class: Contender) Numbers Aren't Real
- THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS IN THIS POST Spiceomancy
- 5 Duelist Styles Spiceomancy
- How to Fight Ghosts, and Yourself, and Everyone Else (GLOG Duelist Subclasses) Archon's Court
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This is not an exhaustive list.INADVISABLE DECISIONS𝚫 - Noticing the ProblemPoint a powerful telescope at the darkness between the stars, become aware that it moves. You can...Linked by the ring
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Inspired by this post. I wanted this to be a small post but I got inspired so fuck it. Avrendus the Black-robe, Great Necromancer, Goldenhair, The Tall Man, MarkhandsTerror of...Linked by the ring
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This is a riff on Vayra’s Illuminated Paladin and Oiled Paladin, and, much like them, is intended to fit somewhere into deus ex parabola’s Unfinished World. The Yellow...
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THE NORM is a tiny bubble of reality floating in the PSYCHODARKNESS, an endless sea of hungry non-existence, teeming with grim and terrible THINGS which swim through the...Linked by the ring
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Mammon, the Lord of Minauros, is the operator of the largest treasury in the Multiverse. He keeps and counts all the gold in Baator, operating Asmodeus’ baroque and insane...Linked by the ring
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Your boots crunch in the snow, down Magpie Alley way. Your guide, half your height and totally silent, snuffles exaggeratedly. The noise is deliberate theatre. You fix your...Linked by the ring
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This isn’t for any of my other settings. I suppose it’s self contained?Howl’s Moving Castle is a movie that is near and dear to my heart. I love it so much, earnestly. I...
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Dispater, the Lord of the Iron City of Dis, is unshakeably convinced that every devil in Hell is out to get him. He’s completely correct. He can’t trust other devils. At all....Linked by the ring
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For GLOGtober, I think? Grod Gral FynHe’s long and grey, with stretched and rooty limbs, and a crude-metal mask for a face. He has two tails and halfmoon horns. He lives in a...