rootring
rooted in blogs, linked in a ringWhose Measure God Could Not Take · linked by the ring
Posts by Whose Measure God Could Not Take that other blogs in the ring have linked.
view: picked up recently most linked
Picked up recently
-
When designing a downtime procedure for a long-running campaign, you want to know how involved you want the procedure to be. I’ve run campaigns where domain management is the...
-
As part of my weekly Endless Eon game, the party eventually gained access to the aid of the wise man Jake, an orthodox adherent of the Emulators of Jake. Conceptually, he's a...
-
Sundered over on his blog asked to hear about others' methods for coming up with the names featured in their games, even being so kind as to call me one of the good...
-
These are the terms we’ll be having people pick up starting in early 2027 and ongoing through the following five fiscal years, to accommodate the need for rhetorical conflict...
-
Writing on the theme of "Dracula!!!" at the request of Purplecthulhu, for Glaugust 2026.Like the One Ring, the character of Dracula is so well-executed and so effective in...Linked by the ring
-
This is not largely for dungeon rumors, but the sort of thing that people might talk about happening one town over, or on the other side of the kingdom. Basically all rumors...Linked by the ring
-
Akhs, like all thoughts, can be helpful or destructive.These ones are harmful. Akhs in Yarfu are useful alternatives to classic D&D diseases and curses. You can hand out akhs...Linked by the ring
-
Over on Craggenloch Tribune, the author discussed his dislike of empty rooms and offered three creative “dungeon-stuffers” to quickly populate an unexpected and undescribed...Linked by the ring
-
When I was first getting into Vampire: the Masquerade, it seemed like the perfect setting for an urban sandbox campaign, but as I learned more it seemed the procedures just...Linked by the ring
-
In 2019, Anne wrote a partial survey of the big names and blogs related to the GLOG scene. Seven years on, the landscape is a bit different, and you may be interested to see...
-
Everyone has a homebrew ruleset, and everyone wants to show it to other people, or at slap it around until it's presentable. And a lot of people are interested in your fantasy...Linked by the ring
-
Like many people, I like to rely on a random name generator for the names of incidental characters in the games I run. This is problematic in the context of a game set in the...Linked by the ring
-
See previous magic item posts.d20 Magic ItemsMandrake, an infant plant like a weeping buddha. Bury and water her, and in a weed a small forest will have grown, ever your...Linked by the ring
-
Hit points and damage, it is often observed, don't "make sense." They're wonderful game abstractions that persist because they are fun and work well, even if you sort of have...
-
I was never really satisfied with mechanics for fighting really big guys. Vaulting up to a cyclops's eye or clambering along a dragon's scales to stab at its heart should...Linked by the ring
-
Whenever I heard people talk about Holy Mountain Shaker, they seemed to converge on the same conclusion-- that it's a beautifully illustrated, well-written, and competent...Linked by the ring
-
Whether your game is set in the distant future of the year 200X or the hundredth year of the Sword Age, sprinkling scenes with stupid made-up words is a fun way to create a...Linked by the ring
-
I got the chance to speak with friend of the blog Hilander the other day about the Cairn adventure he's kickstarting, the Valley of Lune. Fair warning, I like this guy and his...Linked by the ring
-
Grace of Choir of Fire described a few different ways of running games on a very literal level of personal habit, which inspired Louis of Garamondia to describe his own...
-
art by Rebecca Storm Casting a spell requires a free hand and a strong voice. The aspects in the soul (housed in the organs) can't be entrapped in armor, but may be...Linked by the ring
-
This hive dungeon serves to introduce some of the marquis monsters of the setting, created by random generation. While a little bizarre on their own, I believe confidently...Linked by the ring
-
It is an oversized owl charm, silver on a silver chain. The eyes are set with flints, and a fil de fer runs through the silver links of the chain, forming a silken iron...Linked by the ring
-
If I post this and three other articles, I'll have posted an average of one blogpost a week, which would hearten me a bit. When Disco Elysium came out in 2019, it was broadly...Linked by the ring
-
At Hilander's suggestion, here are examples of a great cheap trick to make normal D&D events feel more connected to the characters while still being very play-focused. "You...Linked by the ring
-
Where other culture groups build towns and cities as a collection of dozens or hundreds of free-standing structures, Vo cultures usually construct hives, labyrinthine...Linked by the ring
-
This year, the Gloggies follow a democratic process, in which members of the community are called upon to nominate the posts that stuck with them and inspired them, for later...Linked by the ring
-
Merry Glogmas to Mr Ampora! Very happy for your new blog, and hoping many good things for you in the new year.1st LevelCure Light Wounds (also called "Cup of Cheer")Detect...Linked by the ring
-
Four years ago today, I made a generator for Vampire the Masquerade to represent the vampiric population of the United states. It was a neat toy and fun to make, and it was...Linked by the ring
-
By now you're hopefully used to my eclectic gaming interests. This is hardly one of the OSR topics that serve as my blog's bread and butter, but I'm running a Vampire the...Linked by the ring
-
Hi folks. I'm going to be running a game of Cataphracts, set in a region somewhat like the latter Han Dynasty. If you're interesting in being a commander, reach out! Leave a...Linked by the ring
-
In describing his logistics-based army game Cataphracts, Sam Sorensen had an interesting problem. It's hard to fully describe a game in which some of the rules, the entire...Linked by the ring
-
To aid brainstorming for those who are considering running a Cataphracts game and want to give different factions unique units. I have since added a couple oddball generators...Linked by the ring
-
I love treasure maps, that odd, often-eschewed item old D&D instructs you to periodically hand out in its magic item table. They're just so neat, and they have the pleasant...
-
Roll this when a PC is exposed to exotic Dimension Rays, thrown into the space between worlds, or reads aloud from a wizard's spellbook without first studying classical...Linked by the ring
-
As one of the last people to jump on the cloak-and-sword bandwagon, I've decided to make myself useful and compile some of the setting details you can find dispersed elsewhere,...
-
Hopping on the "bespoke single-level Cloak-and-Sword class" bandwagon, started by Locheil's Noble's Man, and continued with Grace's Lutteur duelist, Primeumaton's Detenu...Linked by the ring
- i've set a fire in the corner of the 2025 Gloggies Nominations and its burning down around me Spiceomancy
- Gloggies 2025! Garamondia
- The Sky for Roof, Mountains for Walls (Class: Cossack) Pillar of Worms
Show 6 more
- Moderation in All Things (Class: Humourist) Pillar of Worms
- Cloak and Sword: Oaf On Unnamed Horizons
- Enoch 10:16 (GLOG race-as-class: Paladin) Madman's Menagerie
- Card and Calendar of Gentry (Class: Noble's Man) Nothic's Eye
- glaugust post tinker tinker tinker tinker On Unnamed Horizons
- Damosel (for Phlox) Garamondia
-
Naparmian Fire, being composed of gelid flame, that it may bedevil any whom it contact.Sicharum, being a mixture of alchemicals to adulterate tobacco, that it renders the user...Linked by the ring
-
We like fairness, don't we folks? The oldly new idea that if our PCs fall in a pit, it's because we the players failed some minor challenge, whether of preparedness or of...Linked by the ring
-
Because some find it hard to get excited about a ruleset, I've made a regioncrawl to go with this one.I wanted to write out a ruleset that encompassed lesson I've learned and...Linked by the ring
-
More fun playing with Loch and Louis's monster generator. This time, I mostly went through a list of half-formed monster ideas and used the generator to flesh them out. This is...Linked by the ring
-
Part of the bandwagon started by Louis and Loch. Use this generator, and make 1d2 monsters in a 1d4+1 area dungeon. -I hear that great town Sekahii was wiped off the map, torn...Linked by the ring
-
I've been running a couple sci-fi games recently, and felt the desire to write up a classic fantasy dungeon. art by Angus McBrideDungeon below, or if you prefer it as a google...Linked by the ring
-
Discordian FifthDragon posted an image of this tumblr post the other day:Interesting for sure, and with a very fine piece of art to go with it. But as people in the glog...Linked by the ring
-
It is a tricky class to write. You want it to be social, but at home in dungeons and adventure situations. You want it to be capable, though it draws from a character type...Linked by the ring
-
The man who everyone wants to kill will only die by mistake. Whoever wins the hate of their people must have cruel guards and impervious safeguards, else they would have been...
-
I'd like to thank the stalwarts and luminaries who I have consulted in making this post. I have played in domain games with each of them, and hoped to mitigate the narrow bound...Linked by the ring
-
It's been too long.These don't follow that outline for cursed objects I wrote once, mostly because I started writing these in the back of a car on vacation and brevity saves...Linked by the ring
-
Alan LeeThis is a procedure for that early Assassin's Creed-ass situation where you must carefully navigate a city controlled by an antagonistic force, one where thousands of...Linked by the ring
-
riffing (badly) from here.8. a key and a lock9. a skeleton!(funny and/or sad)10. a dungeon self-destruct trigger11. a vat of goo12. a potential cave-in prevent you from...Linked by the ring
-
All credit to Spwack for his list to html generator.Drums in the Deep Show tablesLinked by the ring