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On the ring since 2026-03-23
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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...
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I will be traveling this week, so I'm leaving this tool for myself. It will roll dice when I'm driving and I don't want my passengers to try to roll dice for me. I know there...
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This generator modifies the OSE rules as they can be found on its system resource document. It also employs ktrey's alternative thief skills. Thanks to deus ex parabola,...Linked by the ring
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Use this generator whenever a rival adventuring party of level 4+ is rolled and you want to give them a bit more history. It can also be used if a campaign is starting at...
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Having recently finished my reread of the Deltora Quest series, I noticed that it often featured one-off and consumable items of ingenious design or minor magical providence,...
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Today I brainstormed a small dungeon with my spouse, using the proportion and room suggestions of Yora in this Spriggan's Den blogpost. I think it worked out pretty well! They...
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I love the format of the monster entries in the OSE Referee's Tome. Though streamlined, it retains information not only on the number of a particular creature appearing in an...
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Please enjoy this dungeon space, the smuggling den of a clique of wererats and their mutoid allies. It features more traps than I typically employ, as well as a...
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When a magician lingers in their tower, studying spells, they are essentially studying magic tricks. Figuring out how to turn sticks into snakes is like a life hack. It's like...Linked by the ring
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A lot of good monsters in stories and games are those that are easy to grasp. They have striking concepts, even when they lack total coherence. Medusa (if we want to call her a...
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The Deltora Quest book series portrays a remarkably grim and perilous fantasy world where danger is often ameliorated by simple riddles and logic puzzles. Each book would...Linked by the ring
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The OSE Advanced Fantasy Player's Tome has a racial class both for elves and half-elves. By doubling the difference between elves and half-elves, we must surely be able to...
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Once, I saw a tumblr post about a dream the writer had, in which the new D&D rulebook had a frog person class but you could only play it in a campaign if you survived a...
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Apparently, I can't stop working on these. Added more terrain modifiers, more monsters, and many more town issues. Made otherworldly portals half as likely, replacing some...
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An updated version of the previous hexcrawl key generator, with an eye towards expanded variety and greater detail. art by Thorø Larsen of False Idols. (Edited with...
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I feel my last generator was misunderstood. Hopefully this will be more clear.Generate
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I was playing around with the d100 Unusual Thief Abilities table by the prolific creator ktrey, and thinking about its various uses. The B/X thief abilities existed not only...
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(Superceded by this sequel) This tool, using Spwack's list to HTML generator, will make a largely system-agnostic 10x10 hex key for a classic D&D region. It does not generate a...
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"Red alert, gang! Turns out that compassion, justice, and singing those church songs actually brings you closer to God. Turns out that we're all a part of God, separated long...Linked by the ring