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See also here and here. Blessed Bag. Sanctified to carry relics or perhaps an important skull. Will preserve what it contains and protect it from evil forces. If you put a...Linked by the ring
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The story I have been told is that the fellow who originally came up with the thief class, Gary Switzer, originally pitched a skill system very different from what made it to...Linked by the ring
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in a classic murder mystery, circumstances limit the number of suspects to a handful of people. The killer cannot be someone we've never met before. This generator will...Linked by the ring
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Feels like it's been a while since I've done a quick, uncomplicated GLoG class.art by Dia NakStarts with: cool sword (d8, describe with at least three adjectives) that you...
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After completing the latest draft of Great and Terrible, my America hexcrawl, I decided to treat myself to a smaller project.See below the link to Great Britain and Ireland in...
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It occurs to me this would seem totally out of left field and on the border of poor taste if one wasn't already familiar with D&D's beloved, mostly useless official harlot...
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I've always enjoyed the ransacking portions of adventure games. Opening a chest in a way that renders my PC safe from the poison needle trap, investigating the cupboard until...
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This dungeon is, surely, the first of many from all over the blogosphere that will redress the issues mentioned by Anne Hunter on her blog.Ludvik SkopalikCenturies ago, a cruel...Linked by the ring
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Once several weeks ago, Sundered of the Sundered Shields and Silver Shillings blog generously offered some art as a prompt for a dungeon. This is what I came up with, a...
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Recycling 5e subclass concepts into singular abilities to be found, learned, or defended against in a more old school game world. Consider this article. Also these ones. I’ve...
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Succession-anxiety roils under the skin of society. We are accustomed to peace and have forgotten the value of harmonious prosperity as it is hollowed out in its own name. Our...
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This is a character generator for a hack of En Garde! I am working on.The generator will leave a blank space for your knight PC's coat of arms, which you should decide...
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Today I ran a one-shot of Flame and Fortune from the Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet blog. I did this to fulfill my own challenge for Reviewvember: play with content from someone...
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This is a post about my theory of creativity for adventure games.In our adventure games, there are two different ways which can be employed in creating characters, items,...
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Horse wizards often work as leatherers, hoping to perfect the art for the crafting of saddles enchanted to protect their mounts.art by Dragon_WizardDouble Jump- (1st) lets a...Linked by the ring
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I've compiled a few abilities from GLoG classes published in the past few years, scavenging some of the features that really go hard or were in some way neat to me. They seem...
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For GLoGtober 2022, "Vampires".I vant to suck your levelsThere are some classic D&D monsters which feel weird to encounter at random in the third level of some dungeon space....
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"Player-relevant social traditions" for GLoGtober 2022One idea that I've been coming back to over and over is the reinterpretation of a core gameplay procedure through the...Linked by the ring
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Hello good people of the OSR blogosphere. Out of love for the community, but mostly its blogs with their rich backlogs and its people with their jovial wit, I offer this...
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"The opposite of Dark Souls" for GLoGtober.Death in dungeon games is a strange thing. The penalty for a PC dying is typically that the player must make a new one, perhaps of...
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This post contains notes for running a hexcrawl still in development. I may add new notes and generators to it, or remake it later. These notes will be of limited use to others...
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"Feasts" for GLoGtober 2022This small scenario is designed to be easily slotted into any settlement with a ruler, and should be modified to fit the setting into which it is...Linked by the ring
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(Base-building for GLoGtober 2022.)Everythings made this with an AIIn the gradual development of a party of PCs from dangerous scoundrels to dangerous scoundrels with a...Linked by the ring
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"Fun magic item creation rules" for GLoGtober.What is the difference between a +1 flaming flamberge and a mercenary company? In many Dungeon games, the answer is that you...Linked by the ring
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"Slang, jargon, and symbology" for GLoGtober 2022.There's a fruitful question in roleplaying games of how to depict languages. It's common for a character in a dungeon game to...
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If you talk to BX/OSE afficianados, they will justify the maligned thief abilities in a variety of ways, ways that I sort of doubt are totally clear in the text but which...
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Having cut my teeth on D&D 3.5, I always wanted to reproduce the binder class, which had a great feel to it, if flawed in execution. Fifth edition's warlock class seemed like a...
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A collection of half-formed ideas inspired by a recent return to the beloved game of dungeoneering and overland travel. Half-way to a list of Cheap Tricks.1. Magic dust that...Linked by the ring
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Largely unabridged generator of motifs from the Thompson Motif Index. This is your fair warning that some motifs may seem base or unappealing for a variety of reasons. For...
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(Thank you to Mergo-Kan)He sits in his house, moving out to his porch when it's too hot inside. The town youths cut up his firewood, and the taxman from the city leaves him...