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I recently had the joy of listening to Fellowship of the Ring in audiobook format, and took the opportunity to take notes about the journey the characters took as they traveled...
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The use of loyalty and morale in adventure games is well-trod ground. I like to introduce slight variations. An example rule for standard loyalty might be something like"Each...
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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
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Friend of the blog Archon's Court recently published his excellent Mothership module, Owe My Soul to the Company Store, as a zine on Itch. I thought it would be interesting to...
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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
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"I fell through the floor, and there I was..." for GLoGtober 2024.Alan LeeIf you look at floorplans of centuries-old palaces and temples and castles, there's all these gridded...
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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
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After reading this goblinpunch post, I was inspired to make a dungeon with many secret areas. This has been a long-time fancy of mine, so I decided to combine that fancy with...
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Romance for GLoGtober 2024.Howard PyleWhen I think about romance in adventure games, I immediately consult Udan Adan's Romance Plots in RPGs, which provides a great framework...
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"Death and Divinity" for GLoGtober 2024💀d20 Findschess set, but all the black pawns are knights and the black king has a skull instead of a crownhand mirror. Shows all the bad...
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I want to describe an aspect of some games that I really like, and I want to give a bit of advice about how to play into it. I don't want to make a formal argument for why I...
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"Feuding poets and their ruinous verses" for GLoGtober 2024. Some people say 5e strongest build 2024 phb crypto bitcoin osr dice set. Me? I say D&D dungeons and dragons best...
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Acrostic GLoG class for GLoGtober 2024.Edward PenfieldBought DeathCommencing Skill: 1. Archaeology, 2. Glassblowing 3. CamelsDevices: gauzy cloak (as leather), worn staff,...
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Spooky Halloween monsters for GLoGtober 2024.Skara Woundbite- party attacked by four 1 HD orcs. After the battle, one is still alive but in pain. You gotta put her out of her...
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Wrote up a quick adventure location, an abandoned Victorian cottage built around an observatory. Good for placement in suburban hexes.Click here.Initially, I wanted to keep...
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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
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After years of siege and a night of slaughter, the richest man in the world finally has the most beautiful woman in the world back in his house. They drink, and they brood,...
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Something neat about rings is that to use one (if we imagine it has some use), it's fair to say it must be warn with nothing over it, allowing it to be seen by all. This means...
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Cool manta ray cloak. When you put it on, it bites your shoulders and halves a random attribute while doubling another. Taking it off requires surgery and a save vs...
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All credit to Spwack for his list to html generator.Drums in the Deep Show tablesLinked by the ring
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A Halloween ago, I began a short-lived play-by-post game with G.R. Michael, HalflingTrouble, Josie, Locheil, Mergo-Kan, and Renfield. The curse of PbP games prevented us from...Linked by the ring
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Made for the Eon setting, where there are sci fi features and people from any era may coexist.For each of these two dungeons, I set a 30-minute timer and attempted to find a...
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For a potential home game. First generator mostly stolen from Dungeon of Signs' Monster Design and NecessityEncounter Second generator stolen from Luke Gearing's stocking...
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This is not one of the promised side dishes to my megawildernesscrawl project Before I Sleep. Instead, this is the maps for each normal-type country in the continent of...
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deus ex parabola has sent me this picture, in order that I might explain it to herOn False HeartsOne does not need to live in the world for long, and have their hair go white,...Linked by the ring
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Potential retainers or rivals, appropriate to encounter in a tavern or on the road. If an adventurer is of higher level than the PCs, they're unlikely to aid them except at a...
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Continuing with my plan to post "side dishes" to my megawildernesscrawl project, here go my notes about the troubled kingdom of Ancién. It is the most direct spiritual...Linked by the ring
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Much of my creative energy has been going to my countries-as-megadugeon, or "megawildernesscrawl", project, a setting I have begun to call Before I Sleep. As I worked on the...
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This is a way of getting experience points through having intense experiences, turning the money-for-risks carousing house rule common to early OSR games into an excuse to...Linked by the ring
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In the vein of my classic goo table and my more recent shrine procedure, I have come to value these workhorse lists and tricks that can be referenced or tacked onto the design...Linked by the ring