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Recently, I’ve been brainstorming with the brilliant Alex Schroeder on adding some additional content in the form of tables and items for his absolutely phenomenal Hex-Describe...
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Finally reached the half-century mark! These Forest Hexes as part of my ongoing Wilderness Hexes project (browse the hexes tag on this blog for more). This time we have: A...
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Here's another attempt at wrangling unruly layouts and the “Just Use Goblins” concept into something useful for handling encounters and descriptions at the table. This time,...
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Some recent discussion on Reddit got me blathering on about Backgrounds. One of the things that draws me to skill-less systems is the freedom they provide to the players. A...Linked by the ring
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As a follow up to a previous post (These Village-folk Are...), not all local-color need be campestral. The exciting urban sprawl of a fantasy city can be a tempting destination...
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I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m a huge proponent of Just Use Bears when it comes to monsters and have been exploiting this chicanery for ages. Like many DMs that have...
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The party has been slogging along through the unwelcoming wilderness for weeks now, and both rations and morale are at an all-time-low. A dry bed, balmy bath, and a home-made...
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Happy Friday! Here are five more Forest Hexes as part of my ongoing Wilderness Hexes project that I'm working on in idle moments. (browse the hexes tag on this blog for more)...
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My beautiful physical copies of the Troika! Numinous Editions arrived the other day and I've really enjoyed reading through them. I grew up with the Fighting Fantasy series (I...
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Here we have five more Forest Hexes (almost halfway to one hundred for just this terrain). (See prior posts here and here for more.) This time we have a Forest Fire, a tempting...
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One of our many local taprooms (a growler joint I believe) is selling custom-designed, D&D miniatures with a "Local" theme. My town has a resident cryptid...
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Another submission for the The Harry Clarke Bestiary Get your submissions in! Cavegirl's blog post features a plenitude of inspiring images, and a gallery with even more.
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Cavegirl has posted about a new OSR Community Project in the vein of Ford's Faeries (I reviewed her excellent The Gardens of Ynn here): The Harry Clarke Bestiary I absolutely...
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Here's another handy-dandy table for adding some more botanical flavor to your fantasy wildernesses. Again, my focus is still on Forests for the time being, but Trees tend to...
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A gracious and patient individual took the liberty of loading all the table entries from my Herbs & Plants document into an online tool that quickly generates results: ❧Fantasy...
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Work is gradually progressing on my ambitious Wilderness Hexes project. Attempting to get each Terrain up to one hundred entries apiece is proving to be a challenge, but the...
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A bog-standard Sword +1 is a boring blade indeed. Here are a hundred extra features to make a magical weapon more magical than just the basic bonus. These are largely system...Linked by the ring
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I've whipped up an updated version of the d100 Random Impedimenta Table. This one is a single page and arranged vertically for easy printing. It's a handy table to have behind...Linked by the ring
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Here’s another bit of Google+ Content that I threw together a while back and forgot to share here. It's a Herb & Plant Generator that I whipped up based on some scattered notes...
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Over on G+ a while back, there was a solicitation for Bestiary entries inspired by the artwork of Henry Justice Ford. I've loved these illustrations ever since I first read the...
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With the demise of Google+ announced, I’ve been going through some of my older posts and migrating some of the soon to be orphaned content over to my blog. I’ve created a new...
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An older post of mine seems to be getting some traffic, so I went ahead and compiled my First Level Spell Features into a single PDF document. Embedded below:
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The Gardens of Ynn is now available in print on demand and in PDF on rpgnow. The PDF is currently only three dollars and an exceptional value. Billing itself as “A delightful...
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The standard Hexagon can be sub-divided into twelve lozenges/rhombi. This makes it very easy to simply roll 1d12 to place an item within the interior of a hex. The illustration...Linked by the ring
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One Hundred Wilderness Hexes, all linked in a single compiled document [direct link]: Current Terrains include: Forest, Mountain, Desert, Swamp and Ocean. EDIT: Looks like some...
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As a lad, I saved up some money and visited a local and quite remarkable used bookstore. It was in the RPG section that I noticed several small yellow stapled booklets with...
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The Stalwart Level XP HD AV ST Slots Groups Raises 1 0 1 10 9 1 2 - 2 2,000 2 11 10 1 2 1 3 4,000 3 11 11 1 2 1 4 8,000 4 12 12 2 3 2 5 16,000 5 12 13 2 3 2 6 32,000 6 13 14 2...
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The Charming Level XP HD AV* ST Slots Groups Raises 1 0 1 10 6 1 2 - 2 2,000 2 10 7 1 2 1 3 4,000 2+1 11 8 2 3 1 4 8,000 3 12 9 2 3 2 5 16,000 3+1 12 10 3 4 2 6 32,000 4 13 11...
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The Cunning Level XP HD AV ST Slots Groups Raises 1 0 1 10 9 1 2 - 2 2,500 2 10 10 1 2 1 3 5,000 2+1 11 11 1 3 1 4 10,000 3 11 12 2 3 2 5 20,000 3+1 12 13 2 4 2 6 40,000 4 12...
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Skerples has released an adventure entitled Kidnap The Archpriest. It is available for purchase on rpgnow here. Billed as a “Heist” module, it’s 54 pages and surprisingly...