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Every year, over the course of the entire Dry Season, the Gormlings march from one side of the Mound's surface to the other in as straight a line as their little legs can...
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I've been in the process of revising a lot of my notes from the last few years, in order to make them more usable / post-able. And lately, that's included a lot of thinking on...Linked by the ring
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Adoring FanStarting Items:2d6 pieces of merch from your Idol1d10000 (4d10 for different digits) of financial debt, in appropriate currencyan idol of the object of your...
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Wise Old ManStarting Items: comfortable plain clothes, a flask or pipe to warm the cockles, a cane or walking stick, some kind of geegaw or bobbin or thingamajig or other...
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Earlier some various folks on the Discord were talking about efficiently adding personal stakes to a dungeon via making things personal (see the link to Phlox's post in...
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With the arrival of the Moon and the push to colonise the Mound's surface, the need for raw materials has boomed. Traditions regarding the exhuming of pre-Splash debris have...
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The Gudgeon Moon constantly bathes the surface with it's eerie light.This light has become a precious resource that has allowed surface-dwelling societies to thrive. Gudgerfolk...
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From the Mound up through every world that hangs in the sky, there is tragedy and suffering. And from that, there is Monstrousness.If a character is Unbalanced, in Shock,...
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With a shout throughout the air,delivered at the doorway,"Please, just one more cup we'll share?"As the travellers prepare,its the exact phrase they saywith a shout throughout...
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"I fear not the wizard who has practiced 10,000 spells once, but I fear the wizard who has practiced one spell once." I don't normally write mainline-GLOG classes, so apologies...
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Wax from a hot candle, flicked onto the wrist, will pool and form into auspicious writing on the outstretched palm of a Ghoul. If a suspected Ghoul does not submit to this...
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Ite, the Four-Fold World, was the first recorded Splash. If the stories of the Pilgrims of Yordsk are to be believed, it was a world divided into four tetraspheres by huge...
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This is just a quickie character generator for HOU, in preparation for running a game for some folks later. Thanks to Spwack for the provided quick table tools!Eventually I...
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About a week or so ago, the wonderful Hilander prompted me to get back into writing up proper dungeons.A lot more of my personal experience I feel has focused on cultivating...
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Different GLOG / OSR posters - This kind of is a given for everyone sharing these I guess? But I felt the need to state the obvious. I've been reading different blogs for about...Linked by the ring
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Back in 2023 I made a short sort of video-pitch for a setting linked on the blog here. In the years since I've been fleshing it out into a big bloated setting thing after work,...
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I put out my homebrew ruleset back on 8/18, and as part of that I had a second document drawn up of Features (which are sort of analogous to Delta Templates, except instead of...
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In a previous post I gave some broad thoughts on generally using a FILO Initiative System.I also am going to be testing out using (relatively) static Initiative Values, which...
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A while back I shared my previous versions of a Word-based spell casting system. I've heavily revised it since though so, consider this a fresh-ish version. The basic guts of...
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(I laid out a sort of post-plan previously but not even one proper post in and I'm abandoning it. Sorry! But it's in the name of "just post" energy).I mentioned my plan for a...
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original art provided by my lovely wife, CV PhamSince I read this awesome post at Was It Likely, I've been itching to give my house rules a radical rewrite. For what interests...
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Remember that one brief month when people were hacking Cloak and Sword games into classical murder mysteries?Class: L'Inspecteur Starting Paraphernalia: relatively modest...
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The province of Angevine is located along the far borders of Manteu, nestled in the valleys of the Bebrye Mountains.It is an afterthought in the minds of many noble families...
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The recent revival of the old Cloak and Sword bandwagon has been so great, I decided to revisit it.Chivalric qualities are measured against those that decidedly do not possess...
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Never could leave well enough alone, could you?MCKEEVER, NEW YORK, IN THE ADIRONDACK FOREST PRESERVE - Anne LaBastilleClass: TinkerStarting Equipment: the smashed up guts of a...