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People have some differing thoughts on what exactly 1st level PCs are in the game world and what distinguishes them from an average person. However helpful they may seem, level...
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A name is almost always the first thing a person learns about a place, so it carries a lot of weight. An evocative name has the capacity to convey the "feel" of a place in a...
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The overloaded encounter die is OVER in 2024. A monster will appear at the same time your light source goes out while you need to rest and you will LIKE IT.But the idea of...Linked by the ring
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2023 was the year of the dungeon. For me, at least. But among the blogs I've read this year that seems to be the case for many others.I am not just referring to Dungeon23,...
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"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and...Linked by the ring
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THE GREAT GLISTENER The only constant, such as it is, is change. All that exists can be altered. Not even the gods are spared from change. In many cases, the act of change is...Linked by the ring
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It looks like a normal sword, of course. Doesn't detect as magic, immune to remove curse, dispel evil, etc. etc. When a PC picks it up, tell the player to pick another player...
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We know that rolling ability tests or skill checks for social situations is an ill-considered way to resolve social situations because it stops players from thinking—it turns a...
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The boat was abandoned and empty. Its motors sent up slow violet motes through a rift in the deck: small worms of light that clung to the metal surfaces, fastened on...
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Most advice on how to design factions can usually can be summarized as “[group] wants [goal], but [complication]; fill in the gaps.” This is a solid and fast way of getting...
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The technopriests—numinous technologists of the science-fantasy future. While they don’t follow a specific deity per se they revere an entity known as "Techne," which in one...
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I love magic swords. They're one of my favorite parts of the game, let alone one of the elements I find most compelling in fantasy literature and media at large. To my great...
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This is the second installment in the B/X race-as-class variant series. Elves can be found here.My approach to dwarves is slightly different than to elves. Makes sense to me,...
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Whenever I talk with new school D&D players about B/X, the biggest sticking point for them is always race-as-class. That’s understandable. It’s a big departure from what...
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Angels are etheric beings aligned with the axiomatic force of LAW. All angels hail from the Empyrean, which is a celestial demiplane that looks kind of like a birds-eye view of...
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Ok bear with me here...
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Two of the six players in my game quit their jobs and have embarked on a cross-country road trip with their girlfriends having what I hope is the time of their lives, flying...
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"In the goblin lair lives a goblin king," reads the goblin entry in the Moldvay monster section. I like the phrase; it's got a pleasant meter to it that lends some appropriate...
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If you’re experienced with Excel or Google Sheets, this will be painfully obviously endearingly quaint. If you aren’t, you’re in luck, for I have delved the hoary depths of the...
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These are some creatures I made for my homebrew Last Planet setting. There isn't really any "natural" fauna in the Last Planet, instead all creatures are some flavor of mutant...
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What is magic? Magic is the process by which the unreal is wrought upon the real.How does it work?The prime material plane is made up of countless minor dimensions all stacked...
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They are mostly known as Quistids, and they are exactly as wretched as you would expect. They stand around four and a half feet tall and have fuzzy mosquito heads. Their arms...
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Here is an Appendix D-style generator for cyborgs. Enjoy. AC: Ascending: 14–17 (13+1d4) / Descending: 5–2 (6-1d4) HD: 4–9 (3+1d6) Attacks: 3 per round. Determine attack...
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A perfect disk of pure silver, perpetually spinning on its axis. It controls and channels the flow of magical energies based on its angle and proximity to earth. Wizards spend...
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I've been thinking about this idea for months now. Clowns are just one of those things that people love, hate, and love to hate all at once. Goofy yet grotesque, sinister yet...
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December kicked my ass well into January. I'm sure I'm not alone there. Anyway, I'd like to start off the new year (18 days in) with a quick tip for making hidden rolls...
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To a mundane eye, silver gleams the same as any other precious metal. Its luster arouses a deep-seated yearning in our minds, an innately human drive to seek beauty—and covet...
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This is how I do combat maneuvers and make fighters suck less in B/X (or whatever).When you want to do any sort of combat maneuver, you and your enemy both roll 1d6 + your...
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The Metal Waste is a wasteland in a literal sense, where the inscrutable refuse of a time-lost culture (advanced far beyond our own) accumulated over untold centuries. The...
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Part 1: Generate EverythingI have a vision, a dream if you will, of a campaign created fully and exclusively from rolling on random tables. And not just for the obvious stuff—...