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Patrick Stuart's Veins of the Earth is now available, after years of bated breath you can purchase the PDF here or, if like myself you prefer physical items, from the LotFP...
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I received my copy of Perdition from Lulu a few days ago, and wanted to share a few thoughts. I don’t normally review things, so bear with me. I like it. It smells good. I...
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Inspired to stitch together this post out of my languishing House Rules document by this post over on Papers & Pencils. I also like to use “The Middle Road” approach, with a...
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Third Level Shrines o Primary Benefit: Level 3 Cleric/Druid Spells o Activate: Turning Check vs Vampire o Area of Influence: 1 Hex Level Three Shrines are generally...
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Second Level Shrines o Primary Benefit: Level 2 Cleric/Druid Spells o Activate: Turning Check vs Mummy o Area of Influence: 1 Mile At Each Level, Shrines generally become...
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First Level Shrines o Primary Benefit: 1st Level Cleric Spell o Activate: Turning Check vs Wight o Area of Influence: Line of Sight These are generally smaller affairs:...
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Levels 5 – 9 (Wilderness Exploration) During this tier, the intent is to move the adventure “out-of-the-dungeon” and into the larger world as a whole (Hex Crawl). I have a few...
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More brainfood from Papers & Pencils concerning excess player wealth and what to do with it. The general issue is in a 1 gold piece = 1 experience point system, what can...
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Here are three Javascript Generators that use the tables in the previous post. Heavy-lifting provided by the Last Gasp Grimoire: Generate Using Traditional(BECMI) Word Pairs...
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A post on Papers & Pencil’s entitled “Spell Lists Suck. Here are some Magic Words” got me thinking about different ways to handle magic. I’ve always been intrigued by...Linked by the ring
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I dreamt something strange: I wanted to get a mock up together as quickly as possible after waking up and before it faded forever. In that strange way that the subconscious...
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The Putri Coldheart You guessed it, more awful art by me. The Putri Coldheart is Nāga, but tantamount to a rebellious adolescent. About seven months ago, she slithered away...
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Vèlô the Slug-Man Merchant Prince The corpulent scion of one of the wealthier Monograph Mogul families within the Yellow City, Vèlô fancies himself a bit of a playboy and...
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“Snappy” Jàla Khan Jàla Khan is the reigning megalomaniacal monarch of all bivalves within the Gulf of Morays. He is also the democratically elected regent over all shelled...
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Figure 1 Apex Predator | Egg | Sculpture | 2014 When hurled in the direction of a target (close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades is fine), the egg explodes in a hail of...
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I've been musing a little bit about one of my main issues with Skill Lists that have been inserted into D&D and the various clones over the years. I understand that defining...
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The intention is to provide a little more "Magic" to First Level Magic-Users, including up to six unusual choices for most of the standard starting spells. This should help...
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See this post for explanations and more information. Sleep 1. Spell Book Feature: Manual of Oneiromancy – Place your spell book under your pillow and cast Sleep on yourself...
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See this post for explanations and more information. Read Magic Everyone should start with this Spell in BECMI, and it should be useful in some way. I tend to fold it into to...
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See this post for explanations and more information. Protection From Good/Evil 1. Circles If you spend 1d6 turns creating a Magic Circle and expend this spell on completion,...
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See this post for explanations and more information. Light/Darkness 1. Selfish Spells You can prepare a special version of Light/Darkness that only effects you. Quirkily, you...
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Floating Disc 1. Feather Fall Charm You can cast this spell on a specially prepared charm (requires the feather of a beast with at least 4 HD, [so that's where Owlbears come...
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See this post for explanations and more information. Analyze 1. Avaricious Eyes If you have this spell prepared, you can instantly enumerate large sets of the same or very...
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On Jack's lovely Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Blog, Barry Asks: I am looking for OSR rules that use armour to soak damage rather than make harder to hit - anyone...
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Rules Cyclopedia Hacks & House Rules: Page 109, Character Saving Throws I've been toying with coupling each Saving Throw to an Ability Score, either to incorporate the Ability...
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Rules Cyclopedia: Page 25, The Elf Class Here's an alternative implementation of the Elf Class that shifts the focus from the traditional D&D Elf to something a little stranger...
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I'm really enjoying Brendan's Hazard System for procedural timekeeping. My brain is already brimming with potential hacks. I hope that this kind of tinkering/spitballing is...
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The two d6s rolled for surprise can be consolidated into other pre-combat rolls. If you let the players roll one of them (knowing your side is surprised doesn't really change...
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For the purposes of these Examples, a cast is needed. We'll use Basic (Rules Cyclopedia because I have it handy) Rules, and these excellent Homesian Fantasy Names...
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Determining the order of actions in an abstract combat system seems to be the topic du jour. Here's yet another idea to throw on the pile. In most situations, use the To-Hit...