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I previously mentioned that I will maybe be writing a DCC patron, depending on the result of a crowdfunding campaign. The campaign is Joshua LH Burnett and Leighton Connor's...
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Around this time last year, I started collecting links when people posted about resource management on their own blogs. Aaaaand, then I kind of forgot to post any of them....
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Darkvision is fairly common among the character races in D&D 5e. Dwarves have it, elves have it, gnomes have it, half-elves and half-orcs have it, and so do tieflings. Only...
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B is also for BATTLE Roll 1d12! There are two ways to ways to use this table. The first is to set a flat 1-in-12 chance for each combat to be interrupted by a random event. The...
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Under Victorian Microscopes, an Enchanted World Olivia Campbell JSTOR Daily "As they became more powerful and more affordable, microscopy became an increasingly popular...
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A couple days ago Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque posted an old link to Githyanki Diaspor. I suggested calling this the "New New Crobuzon Challenge" and following the...
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Price" would make a pretty good set-up for a campaign. I feel confident saying that because apparently the makers of Star Trek...Linked by the ring
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Joshua LH Burnett (Bernie the Flumph) and his writing partner Leighton Connor have announced a Kickstarter campaign for a DCC setting and adventure Leopard Women of Venus! The...
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B is for BOOKS Roll 1d12! There is a cumulative 1-in-12 chance per dungeon level that a found book has Special Properties. Random Special Properties of Books 1 The book is...
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The Allure of Black-Colored Food Ligaya Mishan New York Times "So what does the color black taste like? More precisely, what do our brains tell us it should taste like? From...
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There are three ways I think about information in roleplaying games. Information can be landmark, or hidden, or it can be secret. This division can apply to locations on an...Linked by the ring
- The Keys to My Heart newschoolrevolution.com
- Historical Reconstruction as Play To Be Resolved
- System Considerations for The Donkey Kong Island Hexcrawl Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft
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- Let Players Generate Your NPCs Bommyknocker Press
- Quick Character Leverage Billhook
- Silly & Strange Magic Items Orkish Odyssey
- Patchwork Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 36) Patchwork Paladin
- Structures and Procedures Ladino's Rogue Thoughts
- Why Didn't Silent Titans Change the World? Valeria Loves
- People Walk Too Fast Valeria Loves
- Dissecting Carcosa, and Levels of Gameability Orkish Odyssey
- Investigation as Exploration - Designing an OSR Style Scenario for Call of Cthulhu Atmospheric Underworld
- Elements of a Key 4: Rules for Key-Writing Being an Asshole to a Goblin
- Fullstack Refereeing AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Designing Location Blocks The Play Reports
- Table Talk: Treasure Hoards Writings
- Rating Every Room in White Plume Mountain Prismatic Wasteland
- Designing Lore Blocks Explorers Design
- Navigation Games A Knight at the Opera
- CATMAIL #1 AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
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The Lessons of a Hideous Forest William Bryant Logan & Damon Winter New York Times "The deeper we walked, the uglier the woods got. The invasive oriental bittersweet and...
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A is also for ADVENTURERS Roll 1d12! Rival adventuring parties usually have a leader plus 1d6 additional members. Whenever the player characters encounter a rival party, there...
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Brother Juniper from Goblin Flowers recently asked a question about alternate monster lists that jogged my memory for a few classic ones. Roger G-S from Roles, Rules, and...
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E is for ECHOES Roll 1d12! Random Inexplicable Echoes of the Underworld 1 Everything player characters say is repeated back in Igpay Atinlay. 2 Echo has a horribly unconvincing...
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Over at Throne of Salt, Dan has set up a series of generators for making alien cultures, at least partial inspired by Ursula LeGuin's Hain Cycle of books and stories. Dan...
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Lost Continent Revealed in New Reconstruction of Geologic History Robin George Andrews National Geographic "This continent first separated from what is now Spain, southern...
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D is for DOORWAYS Roll 1d12! Random Pain-in-the-Ass Doorways of the Underworld 1 The door opens draw-bridge style, falling on whoever opens it for 1d12 damage and pinning them...
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Okay, so your player characters are trying to gather information. Maybe they're detectives on a case, or chthonic investigators looking for clues, maybe they're picaros out...
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H is for HALLWAYS Roll 1d12! Random Pain-in-the-Ass Hallways of the Underworld 1 Hallway looks twice as long as it really is, walls narrow and ceiling dips to the point where...
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I was going through some old files on my computer recently, when I came across an idea I had before I started blogging, one that I actually continued to write about even after...
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Box Full of Boxes is a relatively new blog on the scene, but they've already written several interesting random generators, including one to create a small extradimensional...
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After a summer hiatus, Blogs on Tape is back! And, I'm honored to report that the most recent episode was a reading of one of my blog posts. This is the second time...
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Cacklecharm from The Manse wrote a series of random tables to generate islands on an Underdark ocean. These tables work together quickly, and I had little trouble assembling...Linked by the ring
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Two of my favorite random tables are Dreams in the Lich House's Campaign Events for the Black City and Dungeon of Signs' Starting Minor Magical Items for Darkly Haunted Noble...
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SCHOOL OF RED MAGICRed Mages are polymaths and dilettantes. They try to bridge the divides between martial prowess and magical insight, between the "white magic" of healing and...
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. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Arielle North Olson, 1970 . Ronia, The Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, 1985 . The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan, 1991 . The Antelope...
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So I had this idea for a slice-of-life ballet set in a restaurant where a human waitstaff serves cat customers. All the romance and visual euphemism and innuendo of traditional...
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Below is a list of occupation lists I might use in my own DCC games. I like occupation lists, both for the way they paint an immediate picture of the game world, and also for...
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The Invid were one of the first monsters I ever wanted to fight. The Invid are the villains of season 3 of Robotech. The villains of season 2 of Robotech, the Robotech Masters,...