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I think this just might be our first B/X-specific beastie! I can’t say that I’ve ever really used a Caecilia in a game, which is a darn shame. They seem that they’d work...
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Did you hear something? No? Then it’s probably Bugbears. The description in OSE only really tells us a few things: Large, Hairy, Ungainly, Goblins. Their penchant for surprise,...
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I received a request for Dryads, and I felt that they’d be fun to fill a table for. Since B/X – OSE doesn’t contain Nymphs, Dryads can occupy a portion of that niche nicely....
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Avast! Much like the Bandit to Brigand relationship, Buccaneers and Pirates demonstrate some interesting overlap. I tend use these more as Privateers, Vikings or Coastal...
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Although I tend to use them more like rapacious Mercenary Companies, some of the entries on the Bandits table could also be considered somewhat interchangeable. Here are a...
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Backtracking to bring you Bears. I’ve placed each type on a single sheet, with ten Ursine entries apiece along with a table for “all Bears” so a d20 can be used. Might expand...
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From another request, here are some Encounter Activities for the lowly Kobold, even though I really resent that distinction 😊. I suppose I end up running them as the more...
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Just a quick detour directly to the Monster at the end of most manuals! I know it’s the last one in OSE at least. I received an interstitial request to create one of these...
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Every Dog has it’s day, and today is for Blink Dogs! One of very few Lawful creatures in the standard critter list (Did you realize that Neanderthals share this alignment?...
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I’m fairly certain that the venerable Quasqueton was my introduction to the concept of Berserkers traipsing about dungeon halls to harry players. Their presence in the...
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Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beetles! I’ve always been fascinated by the ecological implications of insects growing this large, and as a casual observer of local coleoptera I’m...
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Release the Bats! These are a staple set dressing for any kind of cavern exploration, but I need to remember to use swarms of them in Forests/Dungeons more. There’s something...
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Although I prefer the octopod, lizard-like Basilisk, some gaming tables lean hard into the serpentine. Mine prefer to petrify their victims to preserve them (much how a spider...
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Stand and Deliver! Here are one hundred lawless undertakings to embellish your Bandit encounters. Bandits have been fairly frequent entries on Wilderness Encounter Tables since...
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What are those scaly and squamous folk up to? Old School Essential’s lovely and laconic layout tells us of only two preferences: one of armament and the other of appetite. So...
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Here’s another entry in the OSE Encounter Activities project: the dreaded White Ape! Sufficiently variable animal activities and behaviors might prove difficult to fill up an...
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While leafing through Old School Essentials the other day, I was struck by another project idea: wouldn't it be wonderful to have at hand a few "Encounter Activity" tables for...
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It’s a relatively common conundrum: You’ve placed your concealed or secret doors in a lovingly designed dungeon but may have not bothered to give much thought to how they’re...
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Here’s another d100 table to provide a little environmental dungeon dressing and furbelow. One often finds themselves fixating on the visual elements in descriptions, but...Linked by the ring
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I was reminded today about the existence of Safari Cards. Here’s the commercial from the early 80s that some of you may remember: As a child, I positively adored these things....Linked by the ring
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I’ve been thinking about Mountain Ranges a bit lately in preparation for some supplemental tools/tables for generating some names and flavor for the Mountain Hexes. In my...
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Found myself fiddling around a little bit with the Layout for the Gorgon Trail TROIKA! Backgrounds. The document itself has been updated with a few more Backgrounds. Hoping to...
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Psst...I’ve started whipping up 36 Gorgon Trail Backgrounds for TROIKA! This is a living document, that I’ll be adding to as I get some free time, so check back for updates!
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I decided to take a bit of a breather from the foliage of the Forests for some fresh Mountain Air. Alpine terrains are always interesting to me and were even the first terrain...
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One of the first things I like to do these days when I’m contemplating Settings is to start with player facing materials. For the Tex-Crawl project, Gorgon Trail (a...
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I’ve managed to somehow saddle myself with yet another project that I’ve been spending some spare time on. This one’s taking shape as a Mystara-style Gazetteer for a Fantasy...
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When it comes to Magical Potions (or any magical items really), I’m particularly fond of effects that are less “duplicate an existing spell or class ability” and more “can this...Linked by the ring
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Foraging through a few orphan folders, I found another d100 table that has been languishing at the end of some content on my Yoon-Suin Resources page and decided to whip it...
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Here’s another quick d100 table. This one may prove useful if and when the party trespasses into decidedly Sylvan territory. As you will see, I prefer to paint my Elfs with the...
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Another entry for my ever-growing “Goblin Project,” this time we have some seemingly servile Frogfolk. Forced into a sad state of serfdom by the stringent Storkfolk, don’t be...