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In college, I would attend these "murder mystery parties," day-long affairs where everyone's playing a character trying to solve a murder, but actually mostly to pursue...
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I've been playing some Vampire: the Masquerade, and it's struck me that there seems to be a paucity of online tools to aid Storytellers. To make things easier for myself and...
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I enjoy ecosystem-based encounter tables, but the very best are hard to find. They can be so broad as to lack any evocation of place, as with endless "forest" tables that list...Linked by the ring
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I think people are pretty hungry for simple joys. We don't walk in the woods as often as we like, or eat a hunk of bread in flickering candlelight, or study the play of light...
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Salty Goo, of Gooed GLoG fame, recently produced a "Fantasy Land Generator". It describes a region by hex-size, biome, and notable features, as well as drawing from many...
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In a case of nominative determinism, this piece is by "Chase Stone"Beloved one-page dungeon the Skyblind Spire includes a brief piece of lore-- the impossible architecture of...
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Slimes and puddings are often deployed to great effect as monsters or traps due to their liquid property. But the stakes are too often life or death. Whatever happened to vats...
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(sic)The ancients knew that bear mothers licked their young into shape. (So do dragons by the way, which is how humans force captive dragons to make dragonborn.) The substance...
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I once wrote a list of ten quick, cheap tricks a DM can use in their games. Here's 20 more. Please please please turn this into a trend and write some cheap tricks, publish...Linked by the ring
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This last week, I ran my first B/X game (OSE) for my spouse and their parents, neither of whom had ever played a roleplaying game before. The experience was a great learning...
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Patrick Stuart and Scrap Princess, auteurs of the independent RPG scene, are kickstarting their latest adventure module, Demon-Bone Sarcophagus. Check it out! Only nine days to...
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Pick a starting arrangementFamously, AD&D had a dungeon generator for its first appendix, allowing you to painstakingly roll up a dungeon corridor by corridor. I have adapted...Linked by the ring
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Click this sentence for the link.HighlightsContinuing in the vein of bronze age folkloric lots.Three attributes: THEWS, LORE, and GRACERoll-under.rephrased defense and based...Linked by the ring
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art by Jean-Baptiste Siméon ChardinAdventurers have a romantic view of magi. They are not the usual targets of arcane predation-- they have no children to steal, and if the...Linked by the ring
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BONEPUNK is a beautifully-formatted game in which you play the undead who are exploited in an industrial necromantic society. It is awesome in the "play a giant gorilla...
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This small dungeon-space is at-home almost everywhere. I put it on an abandoned island in Acmori. The inhabitants of the nearby island claim a wizard lives within the...Linked by the ring
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"There is something of the devil in the thief's voice when he boasts, even if his message is nothing but the truth. There is something in the traitor that enflames the heart...Linked by the ring
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Secret rule: You can play one of these in any Vain the Sword game you're invited to.art by Daniel Romanovsky“Every new order requires enemies, and must preserve its enemies...Linked by the ring
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Thanks to semiurge, Vayra, Regalia, Renefor, and most fully ☆ deus ex parabola.There is a grand epic written in blades-- the sword-song Cov Cuvaʒuth. Every sword possesses...
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Force-Lords Oppressing Multitudes WOE! It is a time of suffering in the galaxy. The loosening arm of the GALACTIC STATE has given way to pirates, petty tyrants, and the lurid...Linked by the ring
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Rangers are an odd thing. In their original D&D incarnation, they were potent fighters who got two hit dice at first level and only got experience if they were essentially...
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We have seen that I can take any tired class archetype and make it wired, be it barbarian, paladin, bard, or druid. To finish the set, we consider the Monk.This is a class of...
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Updated 9 June 2021Sometimes, people ask questions like "what is a delta class" or "how do deltas work" or "oh yeah, big guy-- what are you gonna do about it?" So for ease of...
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After the passing of generations, the center of life shall be smote and my people will be in confusion. Each man shall do what is right in his own eyes and the nations shall...
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Exercising the old brain-muscles with a short scenario. This is meant to take place over a few months of downtime, perhaps while the player characters are pursuing their own...Linked by the ring
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(This owes obvious homage to the masked clerics. Thanks to the many folks of the GLoG discord who offered thoughts.)The collared clerics are successors to Uden, the first...
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It is seven billion years in the future. The sun weighs heavy in the sky, numbed by all the deeds perpetrated in its sight. It looks over Bius Station, the last of two hundred...
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(Special thanks to Renefor and Xenophon of Athens [but not the one you're thinking of] for their suggestions)The Acmori Sea is not traditionally mappable. Locations are reached...
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In imitation of TRAINER LEXI's survey of the Cataclys Region, I submit my own impartial legadex of the Lonstone Region, with field sketches by TRAINER RENEFOR.Lonstone is also...
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"I shall attain the pinnacle, as no two climb the same mountainTheir attainment is my proof, their refinement is my ownNo mortal man may Legamon know who does not walk the...