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Beyond Formalhaut recently wrote about wilderness exploration, and it got me thinking about a pair of posts I've been wanting to write for awhile now, comparing the two major...Linked by the ring
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In Dungeon Crawl Classics, there are two ways to save a dying character. First, a character who drops to 0 hit points starts bleeding out, and continues bleeding out for a...
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The Mutant Crawl Classics core rules have tables for determining mutant appearance, manimal subtype, and plantient subtype. Each table takes a similar form, roll 1d30 to pick a...
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The Mutant Crawl Classics core rules provides separate tables for starting occupations (hunter or gatherer) and character genotypes (pure-strain human, mutant, manimal, or...
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I have no immediate plans to run it, but I rather like the idea of a campaign where the characters are not particularly out to find ordinary, interchangeable gold, but where,...Linked by the ring
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I played in another online game set in the weird city of Scarabae around a month ago. Here's a link to the referee's session report on Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque....
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I saw a photo in the Kathmadhu Post of a group of elderly people playing the boardgame Bagh Chal. It appears they've drawn the board on the ground using chalk, and they're...
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In Dungeon Crawl Classics #72: Beyond the Black Gate, author Harley Stroh introduces a patron called The Horned King, the king of the Wild Hunt. Stroh writes "The Horned King...
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Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (released May 2015) The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (released September 2015) The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith...
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Here is a summary of my third adventure in the weird Gothic world of Scarabae. This time around, Traviata was re-joined by the pugilist Mortimer and the werewolf-ish Leonid,...
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Last year, I played in a couple playtest sessions with Gaming Ballistic, and I recently found the play reports while poking around on his blog. The test was for Dragon Heresy,...
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If I were creating my own "Appendix N" of inspirational literature to base my games on, the first book I'd add to the list would be Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and...
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Here is a summary of my second adventure playing in the New Weird city of Scarabae. The Scarabae campaign is open-table and episodic. Each time I've played, a broker of some...
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Characters Emil Durkheim (shaman 1) Totem, the raven totem-animal two wild dogs Petruccio (human 0) played by Emily Hitch Huxley (mage 1) Gambino, the loyal manservant (human...
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Below is a map of a district of mostly-intact buildings that my players found on their first voyage into the ruined Imperial city of Mor. The orchard the players found is in...
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I recently played in an online game in Tales of the Grotesque & Dungeonesque's open-table Scarabae campaign. I usually take contemporaneous notes when I play, because I think...
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Characters Paralee (elven enchanter 1) played by Julia Hirelings Tony (human 0) Vinnie (human fighter 1) In the second week of spring, while her friend Emile ventured into the...
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Characters: Emile Durkheim (human shaman 1) and his crow, Totem played by Emily Fabio Proudfoot (elven courtier 1) played by Megan Kierhan (elven enchanter 1) played by Chris...
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MYCETES-THRAX Mycetes-Thrax, the Great Sleeping Growth, lurks beneath the soil. This titanic entity is a single fungus that stretches for hundreds of leagues under the earth...
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Characters: Emile Durkheim and his crow totem animal, Totem (shaman 1, played by Emily) Vodka Gimli and her automaton, Rosie (dwarven machinist 1, played by Stephanie) Fester...
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Characters: Poseidon, the Majestic King of the Sea (merman warrior 1) Jim Morrison, the Cultist (gemcutter wizard 1) Sid "Vicious", the Astrologist (sage wizard 1) Johnny...
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One of my in-person players is spending the summer abroad, so our adventures on the Island of the Blue Giants is taking a hiatus until he gets back. In the mean-time, I've been...
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Below is a map one of my players drew of Trondo's house (The Alexandrian's Halls of the Mad Mage) over the course of the first two sessions. The map is drawn on the back of...
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Characters: Poseidon, the merman Batman, the flyer Jim, the gemcutter Beastmaster, the animal trainer Will, the smith Kerhs, the half-orc Litoli, the cave-woman Sid "Vicious,"...
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Another recent story from the Gray Lady includes an illustration of a rhythmic gymnast looking rather magical. Seen here, a bard uses her ribbon apparatus to cast light,...
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Below is an index of snail-related materials I might use in my own games. At the time of creation, this Index has content from Dyson's Dodecahedron's "Snail Lords of the Salt...
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The second use for the boomerang in the Legend of Zelda games (besides stunning / paralyzing your enemies, as in my earlier post) is picking up objects and carrying them back...
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I like the idea of weapon-specific deeds in DCC, because they feel like an easy way to add "tricks" that certain kinds of warrior can learn (possibly by "questing for it")...
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Characters: Peregrine, the pilgrim Poseidon, the merman Batman, the flyer Jim, the gemcutter Beastmaster, the animal trainer Will, the smith Kerhs, the half-orc Litoli, the...
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Since the holidays, I've been wanting to referee my own game again, and for the last couple months I've been mulling what kind of campaign to run. Part of me has been tempted...