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Playing around with the Appendix A generator I made a while ago, as well as the dungeon generator I made for my Endless Eon, I notice that each does some of the work for you,...
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Satisfying PRIMEUMATON's prompt for Glaugust 2026 by bringing on a guest star, Mergo-Kan of A Sense of Immersion. Together we provide interesting objects and artifacts for...
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A "short" "adventure" "about" a printing press, a very loosely fulfilling one of Locheil's prompts for Glaugust 2026. Acqua DolceA hexcrawl inspired by Renaissance Italy and...
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Still from Dracula (1931) featuring Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra and Count Dracula as himselfFulfilling my own prompt, reviewing another's blogpost, for Glaugust 2026. I...
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Quick premise on da boss's orders: Shrewfield-On-Avon, a rustic village whose particular location has swamped it with glaziers and pane-mongers after a longstanding window...
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Battle Scene, by Samuel Johnson Woolf Written in the words of A.E. Housman, at the request of Ms. Screwhead, for Glaugust 2026.Encounters1. lads, in love with the grave.2. new...
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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...
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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
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A stronghold for a New God for Locheil’s Invisible Hands setting. Don’t seek the nest of Economy itself, for it guides fittingly enough by an invisible hand, a spectre haunting...
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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
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The first and last stories are essentially direct adaptions. The others are original. These are for my nephews but also I am proud of them and want to share. See also my...
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Imagining a pulp globetrotting Cthulhu campaign. I’ve played and enjoyed Call of Cthulhu, but my taste wends away from skill-based systems these days. What if a player...
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Some notes:The generator is stupid. It won't assign a color or colors, so mentally replace the "M"s in its casting cost and activated abilities with whatever makes sense. It...
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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
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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
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My nephews have recently started asking their dad for stories about Odysseus, that complicated man of pain from the Bible. Hearing about my brother’s stories inspired me to...
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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
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Experimenting with regions in the vein of Luka Rejec's Holy Mountain Shaker. There is a new drug, though some say it's ancient. You take the leaves of the Lotus of Simne and...
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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A few years ago, I played in a game of Vampire the Dark Ages that ran from 793 to about 1463. It was my first real introduction to the World of Darkness, and was a great way to...
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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...
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A submission for this month's big blog hootenanny. I don't normally write for these things but I guess I came to a turning point and found my inspiration.Art by Jon DunhamIf...
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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
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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
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Preliminary matter one- Recently I've felt a little pressed by my current schedule. Not stressed out really, and actually getting to do a lot of enjoyable and enriching...
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After reading Seed of Worlds's review of the book Fief, I knew I had to take a look. I've been on a British and French medieval history kick after starting Tuchman's A Distant...
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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