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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,...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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,...
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Got a couple of classes rattling around in my brain. Thought I'd publish them here, so at least someone might get use out of them. "Chocolate"! AI generated, with a...Linked by the ring
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Stephen Crane was an odd duck. A well-beloved writer, poet and Darwinist, you can read about him on Wikipedia as easily as I did; and his poems are all in the public...Linked by the ring
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"All schizophrenics are mad, and none are sane. Their behavior is incomprehensible. It tells us nothing about life and gives no insight into the human condition. There's...Linked by the ring
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There are a number of spells I've written which have no wizard to accompany them as yet. I've decided to write them down, so that someone might get some use out of them...
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On the western edge of the world, north of Los and south of the unfinished continents of the animal-men, is the Basking Coast. It is a cold place, lonely even in company,...
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It has been some two centuries, many many generations of the smallfolk, since the goblins of Hybrasil threw off the yoke of their ogre masters and chased the invading...Linked by the ring
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Signs that a creature is resistant to Holy damage: covered in holy symbols faint ghastly glow it's a karma thing, you can Just Tell some parts of the body clearly made from...
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This one's from friend-of-the-blog Phlox, who did a draft trade with me (in return I sent him this monster hunter). It's a wizard school with a gimmick of greyhound-racing...Linked by the ring
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The latest engine of death to appear is appalling by its uncanny invincibleness. They hurdle trenches, crawl over shell craters and walk through forest unhalted by intense...Linked by the ring
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A few months back I posted a list of random encounters from a weird Napoleonic war zone. This was a snapshot of an alt-history bio-horror setting I have occasionally mused...Linked by the ring
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This one's off the top of my head, no playtesting. Compare to Locheil's Magos, Demonologist and Sacred One, from which I stole most of the mechanics. Sorry for copying your...