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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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My post output is entirely dependent on my anxiety at being beaten to a punch vs my anxiety at engaging with a community of people way cooler than me vs my anxiety at sharing...
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Another big update!- A lot of Features have been overhauled. In general: a lot of Schemery or Fighting stuff has been broken up, so that each technique is a little more akin to...
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A close friend of mine is starting up their art blog again. Please go check them out here.As part of that: she's posting some art of characters from a past campaign I ran that...
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Thank you for everyone who gave the prior version a look! This new version is mainly focused on being a little more friendly for reading and use. Namely:1. It's WAY shorter....
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Sorry for the godawful title- this post is specifically an examination of the Muted Verse (32.1) and Melodramatic Enchantments (26.1) Features from my stuff here. The change in...
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Per the sound advice of CyberChronometer on Phlox’s server, I’m going to try and do write-ups on some of the moving pieces of OUH- arbitrarily jumping in with the Magic system...
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I started work on OUH in college, back in 2017ish. It's undergone a lot of changes over the years- this Feature included- but a lot of the core DNA has remained intact since...