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(Full disclosure: I know this game's author. This is not an objective review. I am positively disposed to both F. Killian and Stone Dark Bruceman Games)art by F. Killian on...
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Dan of Throne of Salt fame periodically publishes excerpts from his slush pile, tidbits of inspirations and lore for games. These are some of the most useful blogposts for my...
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D&D tends to minimize the differences between core playable races. In D&D 5e, they usually give you small bonuses to primary attributes, small perks, and maybe a racial...
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Ancalagon of Of Slugs and Silver listed some of their favorite GLOG classes by other people, and asked for others to join in. Continuing this spirit of kudos and unearthing...
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Standard dungeon generation style(?): create a certain number of empty rooms, guarded rooms, treasures, and oddities. Arrange them with interesting connections. Come up with a...
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In the vein of Advancement that isn't leveling up, here are some items which are designed to feature as treasure in a standard dungeon, fortification, settlement, or company....
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Since alignment languages are beloved-- so common as to be seen at every gaming table-- it is shocking that no one has tried to outline fully what such a language would look...
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art by 宋 跃然 -BARBARIAN- A barbarian is someone from a very different civilization to the one that the story takes place in, regardless of the customs or attainments of that...
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In the style of previous generators, these are primarily for my own use in ongoing Vain the Sword games. They all owe a tremendous amount to myriad writers. The encounter...
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"We've dug a million trenches and have cleared ten miles of ground. and a meaner place this side of Hell I know has ne'er been found. We've drilled in dust and scorching sun,...
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The Caliphs of Noual know how to maintain a cultural myth. A couple days' travel downriver from a range of ancient mountains is Zheijaali, the Trophy City. Whenever the...
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With apologies to Rudyard Kipling... They laid their heads together that were scarred and lined and grey; Keen were the chardun ringswords, but the ground was keener than they;...
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Discord user "Great Job!" once facetiously suggested an adventure scenario: "Julius Caesar battling it out with Odysseus and Achilles over Enkidu's grave goods." Taking...
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Inspired by HLOG. A simple generator, giving you a creature type based on Magic: the Gathering, an alignment of one or two colors, and the name of the abilities you get at each...
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In solidarity with Throne of Salt and The Mad Queen's Court, I offer an incomplete travelogue of previous PCs. (Also Linden) Pre-high school youth: ???, half-elf ranger. My...
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It was requested that I write more about prospecting in Hell, so instead here's how to improvise riddles. Lo, your party has been defeated by a foe, or else needs to pass by a...
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The gold rush is a great trope for a D&D setting. An economy in upheaval, the promise of gold for foreigners invading the land, the alienation of anyone currently living there....
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I have pilfered class ideas from Dan of Throne of Salt. These were salvaged from his many Notebooks of Unfinished Wonder, which I am led to believe is their purpose. EGiJ...
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In continuation from Friday's post, I would like to investigate how high-level GLOG PCs should be able to acquire amazing capabilities and arcane secrets, such as the fabled...
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Updated January 11, 2026 Community ProjectsDiscord ServerTeleGLOG explanation postDesolate DustcrawlGLoGtober 2020Sungrave Community HexcrawlLegallydistinctémon generatora...
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In many GLOGhacks, characters stop gaining levels or stop gaining class abilities after level 4. Emphasis, it is thought, should be placed on advantages and changes gotten...
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Divvying up different advantages to different primary attributes is the joy of any industrious game designer. Since three-attribute systems have been in vogue for a while, I...
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In the wake of the proliferation of microclasses, people may find themselves playing some kind of magic-using class that claims to use traditional GLOG magic dice, despite...
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Classes names torn from Penny Dreadfuls and AI. Class abilities from the creative people of the OSR discord. Compiled here by your humble servant, and by deus ex parabola. (It...
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This is a dungeon for when your party has been eaten by a wolf. It takes place within the wolf, but is not a realistic internal anatomy. There are flat walls and doorways. This...
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SunderedWorldDM says "orbs are cool and there aren’t enough of them", but also has a criticism for orb-centric adventure design, in the wake of my orbseeker class, which has...
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To grant myself reprieve from making classes for the Action 50 (only five to go!), I would like to check out another list, a group of 18 class ideas from the blog Sundered...
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Trying to keep a brisk pace. Continued from here and here. The last class listed here is by Thorø larsen, the illustrator for Vain the Sword. See also here and here. I have...
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GLOG is easy once you start. I wrote this amid requests for people to explain their GLOG process. This further exists in a context where, for ideological reasons, some people...Linked by the ring
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I am constantly looking for ways to give players useful information and embed them in the society of the game. To do this, I create expectations. Players quickly learn what the...