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FEATS At first level, and every four levels thereafter, a character learns a feat. This is a little specialty or advantage that might distinguish one character with a certain...
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I enjoy the concepts of classes that derive their power from their personal relationship with a specific entity that you can talk to. However, it seems like many classes that...
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A class for when you rolled poorly, or when you want an audible gleam in your smile. PRODIGAL (rake, fop, bard, scoundrel) 1 Fail Forward, Hedonism 2 Blunder 3 Charming 4...
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SORCERER (warlock, mage, medium, blooded) 1 Spells, glint 1 slot per day 2 Second Magnitude 2 slots per day 3 Mutation 4 slots per day 4 Third Magnitude 7 slots per day 5...
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COMBAT AND INVENTORIES When combat is initiated, each character rolls and adds their wisdom modifier. Characters act in descending order. All characters are considered...
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WIZARD (scholar, shaman, philosopher, alchemist) 1 Spells, familiar, cantrips, +1 language point 1 slot per day 2 Second Magnitude 2 slots per day 3 Learned, +1 language point...
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Especially in 3.5 and Pathfinder, rangers are sort of misshapen. Now they share a class with paladins and knights-- each a guardian of a certain range, whether its a town or a...
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THIEF (rogue, spy, burglar, assassin) 1 Deft 1d6, Greed 2 Skilful 3 Deft 2d6 4 Skilfull, Anticipate 1/day 5 Deft 3d6 6 Skilfull 7 Deft 4d6 8 Skilfull, Anticipate 2/day 9 Deft...
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If you happen to be a materialist, it can be easy to unlearn what magic is supposed to do. Some people say that magic, as opposed to the natural world, is somehow not...
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When fantasy authors want have a substance with some strange, fantastic property, they often create a fictional element whose sole defining characteristic is that one property:...
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FIGHTER (soldier, martial artist, brawler, berserker) 1 The zone, attack +1 2 The quest, Defining the zone 3 Privileged position, attack +1 4 Defining the zone 5 Resistance,...
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TESTS AND SKILLS Most simple tests are roll-under a given attribute. There are sixteen categories of tests that are connected to “skills, which a given character is either...
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Daniel Romanovsky Alright, so I'm doing that thing everyone eventually does where I reinvent the wheel of D&D. The basis is like Skerples's GLOG rules when it doesn't say...
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The Bastardess The Red-Yellow The Croatoan The Flash-and-Guile The Linerunner The Skull of Kings The Fightin’ Jezebel The Black Wave The Goldsides The Ambrose The Ventner The...
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This is straight-up ripped from the wikipedia page for the Lesser Key of Solomon, a book of demonology that wants to be a random demon table. King Bael Duke Agares Prince...
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During the Second Great Awakening, a lot of weird religious groups formed, wandered around northeastern America, then died out when no one wanted to join their club. Now you...
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Seed bank Listening post Tunnel-boring drill port Cryonics storage Server farm Barricaded missile silo Psych trial Brave New World exile Refitted airport Coffined immortals...
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Harpyshaft! is a delightful D&D scenario by by Matt Halton of the I Don't Remember That Move blog. It's a joy to read, but the humor, background, and hypothetical text makes it...
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H.L. Mencken, Prejudices The time has come. Feats and...
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Perhaps my favorite mechanic in any role-playing game is found in The Warren, a game that has players take on the role of rabbits in a world that was made to kill rabbits. Good...
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Art by Ilya Repin Abd al-Rahman, the nephew of Al-Asma’i said: I called on al-Jahiz and I asked him, ‘Tell me about the qualities of different countries.’ He said, ‘Yes. There...
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On the OSR discord, there was talk at one point of an in-universe monster manual, which PCs could find and consult. I've decided to take a crack at it for my Holy Selmat...
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My brother and I wrote up a murder mystery party for our friends. It was about 25 people, with brief character prompts and very light mechanics, so the majority of preparation...
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Last night, I dreamed of a game where the PCs encountered a succession of strange skeleton people. They were not hostile, and came with the party, but only ever one at a time. ...
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I was very pleased to read [a creator]'s recent article which included spells themed around Jewish folklore and faith. While Holy Selmat is not directly a depiction of the Old...
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Final Fantasy VIII As my Holy Selmat game involves a lot of religious archaeology, I expect there will be a couple of times when the party is investigating a generally...
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William Blake. A crisis bears witnessing When the world was being formed and focused, God required witnesses to look over the mortals to come. So was placed the city of Gath,...
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot Meaningful choices requires knowledge. Why should we go to place X instead of place Y? As soon as we know even one thing about one of the places,...
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Art by James Jacques Joseph Tissot In Lou Keep's The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life, he describes the real life use of substances called Gri-Gri: "In 2012, the recipe...
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Age of Conan: Unchained concept art In Holy Selmat, the people are especially pious. Accordingly, I've made a rumor table to represent the cruft of folk beliefs, theories, and...