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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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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...
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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...
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In games with character levels, I'm intrigued by dangers that persist regardless of where a character is in the track of advancement. (Opponents in head-to-head combat are...
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As I am nearly finished with a dramatic update to Vain the Sword, I thought I'd collect everything a player needs to know for a one-shot in one place, so they don't actually...
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Vayra asks...1) What class knows the most martial arts? Are they real martial arts like kung fu, or made up ones like krav maga?Woops, I didn't make any martial arts-classes....Linked by the ring
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A few months ago, I tried to arrange a community project called the Desolate Dustcrawl, in which sixteen different people directed the creation of one dungeon each,...
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In old-school D&D parlance, a "caller" is a player who acts as a designated suggester for group actions in situations where collective decision-making is required. When a party...
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All dogs are good, but some are better at following an adventurer's orders. Dog "hirelings" do not have a loyalty score, rather they have a "good" score and a quirk. When given...
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It was a project, a community game. We said we would take Arnold K.'s GLoG ruleset and change it, one person making a new change, one at a time. After a full rotation, we had...Linked by the ring
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Many players, famously, are uninterested in the minutiae of worldbuilding and social customs. In dungeon games, they want to tell a story together, and while drawing on a...
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In ancient times, we called ventriloquists "gastromancers," for we knew they told the future. We let mimes set the aesthetic agenda, because their genius spoke louder than the...
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Stocking Roll and Random Room Show tables
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On December 31st, I ran a one-shot game, a session of Baal's Bonepunk. In accordance with a madcap, light style I prepared little beyond the premise and allowed myself a bit...
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(Content warning: Hell, brief mentions of gender, xenophobia, slavery, studding people, misery, suicide.)On December 29th, I ran a one-shot game, a playtest of Xenophon's...