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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
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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
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This is part of a series of blogpostsCampaign framing, timeline, and general detailsMinor tweaks to hex descriptionsThe Lost Wing,The Dawnward Path, and coda. (this post)In...
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This is part of a series of blogposts:Campaign framing, timeline, and general detailsMinor tweaks to hex descriptionsThe Lost Wing (this post)The Dawnward Path, and...
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This is part of a series of blogpostsCampaign framing, timeline, and general detailsMinor tweaks to hex descriptions (this post)The Lost Wing,The Dawnward Path, and coda.In...
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Jack Edward has pointed out that it would be cool to have more treasure hunt modules for existing hexcrawls, and one would be especially neat for Dolmenwood. I happen to have...
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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
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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
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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
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For some reason, we all like to see real-life places covered in hexmaps. Because the six-mile hex can contain so much, it can be easy to assume that you can fit something like...
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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
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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...
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(That's the equivalent of d12.45 Armours, for metric readers)When I wrote my d30 Rings post, I put together a little random generator at the bottom that randomly selects from...
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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
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Inspired by the history of Milwaukee, this is a small adventure location with competing factions and easy connections to other underground lairs. It is also a dungeon with a...
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An introductory adventure for any number of Cloak and Sword PCs, that should be a good start to a long campaign or a simple one-shot. The DM should be explicit that conflict...
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While working on some example region contents for Manteu, I tried to lean into my keying mantra, a principle so simple as to be obvious, but which is easy to forget. "What is...
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The original rulebook seems to have been taken down, but I still have the player-made summaries.(Technically, this satisfies Archon's Glaugust prompt "city adventure".)
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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,...Linked by the ring
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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
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The love of Summer burns me soreThe love of Summer runs with hasteA dame I met, deranged for warA man I met, bold and unchasteThe dazed armies march my land throughWhat land do...
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After rereading Nick LS Whelan's outline for exploring "flux spaces" and resolving to dig into Glaugust, I thought I would combine the two and make a flux space for the prompt...
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Recently got into a short-series VtM 5e game, and have been interested to see how it differs from the Revised edition game I have played and run (PC generator here). As...
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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
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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
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John CoulthartI have for you a hexcrawl, a Romanian/Moldavian-inspired fantasy region afflicted by the inadvisable procrastinations of the the wizard Xaximox the Prolific...
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It is a time of concord. It is a time of discord. Peace has finally come between the thousand warring lords of Alba, but it was not won through friendship. A warlord holds the...
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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
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You see a lot of empty kitchens in dungeons. Often lacking any adventure-critical features, they're a great example of an "empty" room that isn't actually empty, being full of...
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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