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Level OneAll levels of the dungeon are made of stone, with 10 foot wide corridors and 10 foot high, vaulted ceilings. There are torches evenly spaced along the walls, but these...
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There is an odd entity that the academics call the Mirror Intelligence. They do this by default, because it has never deigned to give anyone its actual name.The Mirror...
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PC Morale(thanks bamzolino for pointing out that this is an assumption in the Barony classes that is not sufficiently unpacked!)Separate from hireling and enemy morale, which...
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Since we are White City posting, I thought I would put down some thoughts about the standing army of the Emperor. The army and the city police are the same institution....
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Citizen of the White CityYou are a player of the image games of the White City, a citizen-soldier and an Imperial patriot. To people in the Barony you are almost a separate...
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I'm slowly pulling together my first properly large and complex dungeon as a sort of capstone to the Barony content that I've been collecting recently. The basic layout is...
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Before the subclass, some setting notes:A Steward is a type of personal servant, someone with a close, dedicated, domestic relationship with a single employer. The role is...
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In the Barony, and in the world at large, there is a disease that everyone gets at some point their life, and most people get more than once. It's called the Salt Sickness, and...
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The Barony setting document I put up a couple of days ago is built around a set of 11 classes, and two of them, the Academic and the Artist, significantly make use of a new...
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UndeadUndead in the Barony are relatively rare, but, since they cannot be killed or easily destroyed, the population tends to grow slowly over time.All undead (and all undead...
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The SurfaceMagda's Needle is a well known landmark, and a site of dark rumour.King Magda is a regional noble (Kings and Queens rank below the Baron), and has a reputation as a...
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UPDATE: See the following for more detailed writeups, maps etc. Part One, The SurfaceSet Piece: The Mimic HellThe Dungeon: Levels 1 + 2Bestiary: The UnderworldThe Dungeon:...Linked by the ring
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She was delivered to the kitchens as a child, and she does not remember anything before this. She grew up avoiding people and trying not to be too visible. Then it was...
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The first pass at the Minimal Setting Document is complete! You can see it here. I'm quite happy with the result, and would love to hear what others think. I will probably...
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The final element in the original trifecta, a language list for the Barony. All elements of the minimal setting document are now complete, and I plan to stitch it together and...
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Before the subclass itself, some notes on the gangs of the Baronial Capital.In this setting all humans, between the ages of about 16 - 24, undergo a period of what we would...Linked by the ring
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'The problem is that he ended up in the wrong profession. He should have gone to work as a hit man, or a prostitute, or gravedigger, which are less complicated jobs than trying...
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The original wager was that a setting document needed only three things to properly function - a class list, a language list, and an equipment list. The classes are coming...
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Apparently I am no longer able to stop making blog posts. All to the good, I'm on holiday.I have always hated DnD Barbarian classes (Conan was a Fighter/Thief, as everyone...
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CHEMISTYou are an artisan, dedicated to experiment and enquiry. There is a good chance that you trained in the capital, but chemists are also rarely self-taught. Your services...
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Some more notes towards a coherent setting document. The Wyrms of the SkyEveryone knows what dragons are. They fly, they breath fire. They are clever and ruthless. Knights...Linked by the ring
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In the setting I write and play in, disease is very prevalent. The further you burrow into the earth, the more pockets of sickness and miasma you are likely to find. The...
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This foray into OSR dnd comes by way of my fiction writing. CatDragon, of Glass Candles, recently asked me about the empire from the Chemical Courtesans post, and I thought I...
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These notes are a followup to the class document I put together yesterday, and try to bring together some thought on how the magic system presented there (basically a summoning...
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One of the things that genre does is define a field within which the artist or writer can work. This can lead to work that is formulaic and bad, but it can also be a productive...
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Cunning FolkCunning Folk are always part of a community, be it a single village or an ethnic diaspora, and hold considerable respect within that community. They have practical...
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I have recently joined an OSR Discord, which seems to be where the diaspora hangs out these days. There, in jolly cooperation, I have been writing ups bits and pieces of...
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Hell is Hell, and if you're extremely unlucky you will be taken there when you die. Heaven is something else, poorly understood. Getting taken to Heaven is rare and it's not...
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The following are the notes from actually running Magda's Needle. Quite different to the preliminary notes (here)! Thrak is, of course, an expy for Thak, from the superlative...
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Hell is Hell. Everyone knows what Hell is - torture, heat, despair, inhabited by demons. It is where evil souls are punished after death. Everyone knows about this, and...Linked by the ring