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On the ring since 2026-03-23
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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...
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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
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Sometimes, when I'm writing up a shrine or other location where PCs might encounter the image of a divine figure of some sort, I feel like I want a standard procedure to...
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In Wuxia storytelling, the term "Jianghu" refers to a rustic otherworld, a secondary society at the margins of the official and the regulated. It is a backwater where all the...Linked by the ring
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Yochai Gal recently pointed me to a tool he has been working on for the warden's guide of Cairn 2e. It's a procedure for generating a setting using a combination of dice-drops...
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Fifteen years ago, the wizard Oqamun Thendris excavated an old ruin and made peace with its undying cultist occupants to serve as his base of power. He used strong magics to...
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This is an attempt to adapt the first floor of the B1 In Search of the Unknown dungeon into an overland realm, in the style of a previous attempt. In so doing, I'm pretty...
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In the vein of Signature Moves for Humanoid Combatants, this is another simple generator, applying one number on your character sheet to another number. This kind of mechanic...Linked by the ring
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In certain uncertain times, the archer was a strange talisman. They enjoyed a sort of elite status in wartime, but were often drawn from the remote and lonely parts of the...
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An unsophisticated generator combining slightly edited versions of Elfmaids and Octopi's d100 lists: Childhood Tragedies for Noble Folk, Superhero Love Life Gone Wrong,...
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In celebrating the life of Jennell Jaquays and observing the renewed interest in her work, I wanted to go over the method of Jaquaysing dungeons, facets of the practice, and...Linked by the ring
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To make this adventure location, I asked the good people of my GLoG server on discord for rumors, then I built the dungeon around what I received. In accordance with common...
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Another adventure component, this time an entry in the NSR server's Door Jamb Jam, a celebration of the sorts of games where you get really fiddly about exactly how you open a...
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The Unfinished World is a setting by G. R. Michael of Numbers Aren't Real. This is a pulpy, stupid module in which the PCs go on a cross-country adventure. Its structure is...Linked by the ring
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“To be overtenacious in the midst of trifles is the mark of a mean understanding.”The second-most important consideration for me as a relative bumpkin in a world of many...Linked by the ring
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I'm fond of saying that that each campaign should have its own ruleset, even if it's just a couple house rules you tack onto your favorite retroclone or GLoGhack. I also like...
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Mostly summons, as a discussion in the glog discord server reminded me that I think summoning spells are cool and easy to write, but they so seldom appear in the...
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A simple generator for an ability to give a group of combatants an extra tactical feature, maybe even something to hang a hat on. Thanks as always to Spwack for his generator...Linked by the ring
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At the request of George Michael and Semiurge, this is another entry in my Deltora Quest locations after the Poison Woods.Rumors1. The Grail is so cramped and poor that...Linked by the ring
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For the past few months, I've been interested in a very interesting book, a handbook for traveling the American west written by US Army captain Randolph B. Marcy, published...