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"Hunting is the labor of the savages, but the amusement of the gentlemen." - Dr. Samuel Johnson Incited by FĒONDAS, ultimately from Luke Gearing's Monsters &. ...Linked by the ring
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Best Case Scenario is live on Kickstarter right now. Buy my book. Buy my book. Buy my book.You want some more art about dudes in black body armor about be vaporized...
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Louis and Locheil had a monster generating table and a challenge: 1d2 monsters in 1d4+1 rooms. I got Form: avian Danger: watercutter Mien: cthonic Habitat: deep places...
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Many people all over the world have been saying things along the lines of, "Michael, can you write a list of other works that have influenced you? I need to know because...Linked by the ring
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Good evening. Two or three months ago I had half of an idea for a haunted house in a swamp for the Char3terie Board project of the secret GLOG server. Events...
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Oh trouble, oh char the tree, my dear, my lover, oh kiss me on the lips my lover, Apollo, my lover, oh G_d, destroy me. Oh eternity, I have burned my fucking flesh for...
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Here's the first dossier from semiurge, get in loser it's time to get organized. Seven artefacts one might find, or at least read about, in the Facility. Pτ PHENOMENON -...
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I use a fair number of magical drugs and substances in my games, and out of the goodness of my heart and my universal love of all mankind I will share a few with you....
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I was going to make a wizard school for each traditional school of D&D magic (Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy,...
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I'll repeat a few things here from the Bazaar of the Memorable, just for ease of reference. That post dealt with caravan management; money, trade goods, and camels....
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On the secret GLOG server, semiurge said somebody ought to write a monster post. No setting stuff, no Lore, just 'orrible monsters. Here you go. Source: Thomas Nast,...
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This is a post for the Obol Desert, a setting I've been working on with friend-of-the-blog Eos of Nobless Goblige. This one mostly focuses on caravans and caravan...
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You are a mystic, whose psionic techniques circumvent the need for magic and arcane tradition. You have a pool of psions used to fuel your powers (fun fact: the term...
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I'm a big fan of the old Hitman games. I'd count Blood Money among the greatest videogames of all time. I've often idly thought of an all-assassins game, perhaps set in...
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Hello. I have many names, but most of you know me as G. R. Michael. I come before you, the fantasy roleplaying community, with a brief plea. Once again I am begging you to...
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The Hydra’s head glinted in the afternoon light and replied; that I didn't have to try to destroy it. That some dark things may live in caves. That the sun was not entitled...
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I have been considering this setting ("Hyrkos and the Parch", name pending) for some time, and have decided to post the result of some conversations I've had with members...Linked by the ring
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They are firing, we are falling, and the red skies rend and shiver us, Barbara, Barbara, we may not loose a breath — Be at the bursting doors of doom, and in the dark deliver...
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No, it wasn't. Realistically, that honor probably goes to Apocalypse World, whose innumerable descendants we are still plagued with 14 years later. But Abandon All Hope...
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Crouched in the broken shadow with the sun at his back and holding the trap at eyelevel against the morning sky he looked to be truing some older, some subtler instrument....
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It was my idea to do this picture pong thing, just so you know — as with all brilliancies the source can be found in me. But I had to let the ideas lie fallow for a little...Linked by the ring
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Good evening, good evening. This is a small post just to say I finally got around to updating the houserules on the sidebar of this blog. My opinions on The True & Only Way...
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There are dozens of intelligent species in the System, but only a handful have a significant presence in interplanetary space. Producing spaceships requires the kind of...
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Better off shedding your own blood on the groundThan shedding your self-respect on a court's floor. Better off worshiping foul idols than a man.That is my teaching. Heed it and...
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In imitation of a friend of the blog. Source: Solid City, by Paul Klee Wretched MockeryTwo identical statues, wrought images of your g_d, joined ankle to ankle, wrist to wrist,...