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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...
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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...
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This is a dungeon for a game that doesn't, technically speaking, have any rules. Be you warned.Climbing the wooded hills to the shrine, you see its eroded walls and its...
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Automating the tables collected in the main Legallydistinctémon post at Numbers Aren't Real.Use this website for names.By Min Nguen. Legemon reclaim an ancient templeCatch Em...
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Three Encounters on the Ice Show tables Route Map Show tables Prophecy Ecosystem Show tables Realm Event Show tables Names
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For an exercise of the method laid out before, our GLoG discord server wrote a small hexcrawl we came to call Sungrave, the site of the joyful destruction of an evil sun and a...
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Why are we tired in the middle of the day, but not as tired in the evening?Grimlucis on a GLoG discord server has assigned me homework: one GLoG druid. This is tricky, because...
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This is inspired by a think on a GLoG discord server.Despite the unending variety of classes and character options available to an enterprising system-hacker, there are certain...Linked by the ring
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In the Acmori campaign paradigm, player characters go on adventurous expeditions during the winter, and in the off-months they participate in the affairs of their island realm,...
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In my previous article, I laid out a proposal for a campaign heavily dependent on "Route Maps" (or "treasure maps.") These are ways for the player characters to choose which...
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Most hexcrawl procedures are too complicated for me. I think many rulesets strive to make travel an interesting challenge, while I would rather serve other ends. I want it to...
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"Ere he had fallen to the depths, and died a victim for mortalkindA strange being, who has no body nor mind.Dodkul, the master of the dead, gives life to the dead, and death to...
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(Let's see. How to write up a module? No time for playtesting, or any visual aids whatsoever. Better do what I always do, and make vague, evocative historical and mythological...
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Made in collaboration with purplecthulhu of Velvet Inks and Crystal Fires.art by Eelis KyttanenIn the mystic holy city where the gilded temples slouch, where the miter-mounted...Linked by the ring
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The question: how do you construct a world that is compelling and complete through implication?The other question: how do you convey that in the game?I. Man by his Speech/ is...
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More of this! (from Vayra's Rat Warrens)You can do a lot to make a space feel authentic with some sensory specificity. When writing up, say, a dungeon, it pays off to list...Linked by the ring
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Cosmic Orrery has made a list of things they wish to see more of in fantasy tales. I have added to this and turned it into a simple generator. Behold!Generate Show tables
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See here. Also here.The Magma-Marred Clavicarcerum of the Scribe JamesusKey1a. "Court" the Tyrant once visited. Salamandar Turnkeys rebind a burst fasces. Each has a basalt...
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Matthias of Liche's Libram has attempted to steal the pong intended for my dear semiurge. This cannot be allowed to stand, and I am utterly destroying it the only way I know...
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Like an enemy HE has bent HIS bow;HIS right hand poised like an adversary,HE has slain all who pleased HIS eye;HE has poured out HIS wrath like fireon the tent of the Daughter...