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On the ring since 2026-03-25
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One cool spring morning, a young man named Johannes Proft ventured into a deep, dark forest. He was a junior contributor to a publication called The Almanac of Complete World...
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The White Wardens are a martial order dedicated to maintaining peace and order wherever they travel, or so they proclaim. Beyond rote-sounding answers about justice and...
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Sorcerer/Wizard (Evocation) As you speak the incantation, you gather chaotic energies into the space between your hands. The power coalesces into a projectile that shimmers...
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Pyrotheurges are mystics with a great affinity for fire. Most spend their time cloistered in small communes or in secluded hermitage. But some, who chafe at a life of quiet...
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You’ve tried your hand at a lot of things, some more successful than others. You’ve lived in a lot of different places, some longer than others. But in your heart of hearts,...
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Sorcerer/Warlock/Wizard (Evocation) Invoking the dread name of the primordial dragon, you smite your foes with seething, iridescent fire. Every creature in a 30-foot cone...
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And I’m back with another exercise in brevity, this time coming up with thirty one-sentence NPCs. Hopefully there’s enough meat on those bones to make a meaningful encounter or...
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The idea for this had been kicking around my head for awhile, but the format was inspired by Zedeck Siew’s recent player-character concepts for A Thousand Thousand Islands. You...
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MOCKING BEASTA lanky, simian creature tufted with long quills. Troops of mocking beasts are typically found in grasslands and prairies, where their spiky coats helped them hide...
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Warlock/Wizard/Sorcerer (Illusion) The caster draws back the string of bow and an arrow fades into existence in their hand, nocked and ready to fire. An ephemeral arrow seems...
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As a challenge to myself, I tried to come up with one sentence descriptions of extraordinary items. I tried to be as system neutral as possible, but a lot of them assume your...
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Magic-users who don’t know, or more likely don’t care, about properly disposing the by-products of their experiments run the risk of spawning gristle-bairns. They arise out of...
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A primal path for barbarians. BLOOD AND SANDStarting at 3rd level, whenever you make a melee attack that drops a creature to 0 HP, you gain temporary hit points equal to your...
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Warlock/Witch/Wizard (Transmutation) Possibly created by traumaturges, abominate twists a creature into a hideous parody of its normal form. The spellcaster can target an...
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Huge giantAC: 15HP: 90 + 10d10; saves as a 10th level fighterMovement: As a normal, unencumbered human.Attack: Punch, kick, or stomp +10 melee (10 foot reach, 1d10 damage and...
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A supple leather jacket festooned with spikes. The havoc jack provides physical protection equivalent to medium armor, but counts as light armor for the purposes of...
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No. Appearing: 1d4Armor Class: Light (slimy hide + low Dexterity); scrapeworms take half damage from bludgeoning weapons.Hit Dice: 12d12 (78 hp), saves as a fighterMovement:...
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All sorts of danger lurk just beyond the reach of the explorer’s light, simultaneously attracted by the novelty and repelled by the brightness. BasicsNumber of Hit Dice: 1 – 10...
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Druid / Wizard (Conjuration) Dinner plate-sized slabs of stone emblazoned with glowing symbols rise out of the ground and begin orbiting around you. You summon three slates...
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SLAPSTICK Beginning at 3rd level, when making an attack with an unarmed strike or improvised weapon, you can elect to deal no damage and instead impose the deafened, grappled,...
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Once, there were gods in the earth. Far past any mortal memory, they cavorted and roamed in the emerald dawn of the world. But they are gone now, and little evidence of their...
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Druid/Sorcerer (Evocation) Tapping into your anger and aggression, you wrench a jagged shard of rock out of the ground and hurl it at a target you can see within 30 feet, plus...
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Jitterbud Mildly addictive The immature blossoms of the purple caladock, when roasted and steeped, produce a refreshingly tart beverage that helps stave off drowsiness. Chewing...
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Floating silently, a vaguely humanoid network of blood vessels throbs in time to the pulsing organ at its center. AC: 16, immune to bludgeoning damage, disease, and poison, and...
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Evocation Cantrip You cause a 5-foot-by-5-foot patch of ground within 30 feet to energetically erupt, tossing soil and stone into the air. A creature standing in that area must...
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Normally, there are many layers of functionaries and factotums that prevent the aristocracy from getting within spitting distance of people as disreputable as adventurers. But,...Linked by the ring
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When you tell others you serve Nothing, they regard you with incomprehension. It is difficult for a mortal mind to grasp the absence of existence. Nevertheless, you contemplate...
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Some people become so warped by the power of the wrack-glass that they can no longer stand upright. Far from being disabled, these wrack-wretches lope about on all fours like a...
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Necromancy This spell requires a dagger with a handle fashioned from human bone. As part of the casting, the magic-user invests the dagger with their own essence. By...
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More funky weapons to tantalize, or torment, adventurers. RAT-TOOTH So long as a person holds this dagger between their teeth, they can crawl up, down, and across vertical...