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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
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Nerds in their basements talk of "fighting men," soldiers in the battle between Good and Evíl. Their games are always set in some magical past, with Kings Arthur and Rings of...
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Some old-school dungeon modules have the bad habit of including secret doors, unspoken trap mechanisms, unpickable locks, and other keyed items that make sense in a certain...
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Here, you'll find some horses for Four Devastating Judgments. It is also where I will put extra HORSE rules, if it comes out that they're needed.Hope-Anew Charger (dull grey)...
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d6 Random Encounters on the way to the Cavern1. The robbers from area 2 (entrance)2. The dangerous animal from area 4 (mountaintop)3. Cloud of locusts. No damage, but will eat...
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If you want to better understand something, take it apart and put it back together.AtticLooking out of the windows, one can see that they are on the second floor of some...
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Inspired in part by https://hexculture.com/2019/12/home-again-home-again.htmlThe empire and the remnants in the cities use golden currency, usually in fragments of golden rods....
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After reading through the second chapter of Legacy of Fire, the House of the Beast, I decided to imitate the inimitable Joseph Manola in his ongoing series condensing...
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See here.SoldierStarts with cruciform sword, a second soldier’s weapon, sundered buckler, stick of yellow chalk, claw hammer, candelabrum torch weapon_notes 1 (Veteran):...
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See here. And here.This is a hack with specific goals: it depicts an exilic state in which all the wealthy and artisan natives have been kidnapped, it fuses dungeoncrawling...
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There are fewer rulebooks that make me feel more conflicted than those for Vampire: the Masquerade. The system is fine, but the ideas are sometimes, to my eyes, at...
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1. Find a random map of a small dungeon. One from an old game you ran, or one of Dyson's Delves.2. Tell the players that the Krampus has stolen all the village children and...Linked by the ring
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Sometimes, you make it to see if you can do it. I wanted to make a generator that would show you the vampire society of a given city with a single click. But in order to do...