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In a campaign where everybody knows your name, the random encounters may not be so random in-fiction. This is a procedure for random encounters with groups that already have...Linked by the ring
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A couple months ago, I spotted a thick book in my local library when searching for something interesting in the nonfiction section, Mark Girouard's 1971 The Victorian Country...
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Written in celebration of Pilgrim Procession's birthdayBukti- born from a potters' field like a snake from an egg when a people long suffer and groan for relief. Over the...
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Look freaks, you don't need pages and pages of dozens of different kinds of poison for your RPGs. Most purposes you need can be fully covered by a poison that kills quickly...
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I like spellbooks. I like to imagine all the notes, marginalia, and non-spell contents in them. To spur that kind of detailed artifact on the fly in a game, I've made a...
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Hello again.This "delta" class was designed to fit in with systems like B/X where there is still some slow form of advancement, and the cost of certain moves reflect that. If...
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Dungeon random encounters, it is said, are meant to deplete resources, communicate specific ongoing threats in the immediate vicinity, and contribute to the challenge of the...Linked by the ring
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This adventure location was the result of an experiment in more freeform design. I still tried to keep a good mix of empty rooms, special sections, monster chambers, and so on,...
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Like other campaign generator posts, this is largely for my reference.supers event hideout More generators tbd
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Another "adventure component", like the Cabinent of Banes and Boons, intended as an exercise in compressed dungeoneering. Unlike the cabinet, this one doesn't have a fun...
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Recently I was reading through my 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose, and in between all the amusing stories, cack-handed censorship, and racism against the...
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I link here to the Cabinet of Banes and Boons, which is intended to be easily added to an existing dungeon location to give it a bit more pizazz. Sometimes, those complicated...
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This adventure location is inspired by the blog of someone called Juliette, covering their construction of a model Victorian home. It seems like the house was never finished,...
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I wrote this procedure for a session of my Great and Terrible duet campaign. This is the procedure that involves an improbably melange of D&Disms and industrial American...
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There is something going on with knights these days. Something about the faceless helmets and moral ambiguity of different depictions, spurred on by spooky and zeitgeisty...
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Many people, including myself, often create fantasy settings that feature worlds which rhyme with the cosmologies and figures of real-world religions, often the unadulterated...
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Lantern of pig-iron, wrought in smudge-covered, perfectly-fired glass. The flat top is inset with a disc like obsidian which captures the heat of the sun and casts light when...
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Rereading the archives over at Numbers Aren't Real, I was at times transported to the GLoG boom of 2020, and to the campaign set in the Unfinished World I got to participate...
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For the planned second edition of the Charcuterie Board, Arnold K of Goblin Punch and I wrote this collaborative dungeon location. This map by Dyson Logos, “the Spectre’s...
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I don't need to tell you or anyone how to make a character for a roleplaying game. It's natural to human invention to play pretend and to invent with great facility imaginary...Linked by the ring
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I won the majority of this post from mx. Numbers Aren't Real in a draft exchange. Like the Godchild class, I made out like a bandit. Assume all good ideas are theirs and all...
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I've drawn inspiration from the article "Monsters and Treasures in the B/X Dungeon" on Spriggan's Den. The simple insight it makes is converting the dungeon stocking...Linked by the ring
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Have been reading through the Prairie Traveler again as inspiration for the Americacrawl. I think I'd like to one day review the book for RPG purposes. Until then, some magic...
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The story I have been told is that early adventure game campaigns featured adventuring parties of varying levels tromping across a small region pursuing their own interests,...Linked by the ring
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Generates a moniker, some signature items, and a spell list for a wizard that draws from B/X's base magic-user spells, a few from other sources, and a collection of original...
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Regions in the hexcrawl are distinguished by whether they are quick, safe, or free."Quick" regions are easily traversed in at least one way, or offer little chance of getting...
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The little terms we use in this game culture always seem to trip me up. Something has convinced me that roleplaying games will somehow be better if the jargon of each game fits...
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Was playing around with chatgpt. It's pretty good at giving dungeon and spell prompts, even for the old-school games I favor. AAAAAAAAAAHThe Lost Temple of the Lizard GodLong...Linked by the ring
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Very pleased to announce that I will be kickstarting a submission to Zinequest this year, alongside talented illustrator Thorø Larsen.The Realm is a domain play ruleset most...
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See also here and here and here. This time, I wanted to do some more mundane objects, and ones that mostly lacked names. I feel like in some campaigns a magic pepper mill...