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For some of us, distance is best measured in miles. For others, it is best measured in time. For wizards of great power, to whom the mysteries of the universe are daily and...
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Fortune can be an uncommon word for adventurers! They’re more likely to have the opposite befall them and foul their quests, given that their world teems with traps, monsters,...
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The fishermen, washerwomen, pearl divers, and dockworkers all know the risk of the muck. In the wet sand of the shore, where kelp and shells collect from the gentle wave, there...
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We’re all used to adding fun downtime mini-systems for carousing and consorting with the seedy sort so our parties full of borderline brigands and alcoholic wizards can paint...
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Welcome to the town of Promise, a frontier town struggling to live up to its name. Located at the edge of rugged grassland of rolling hills and shallow valleys, the town was...
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Desire is a funny thing. It motivates almost everything we do to some degree, and dungeoneering is no different. Gold, power, vengeance, whatever it is that calls your...
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I will do as the prophet Busta Rhymes once said, and flip it on ‘em. Flip mode is the greatest. Instead of directness, indirectness. The fastest way from A to B is a straight...
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I think one of the very best things D&D 5th Edition did was codify the concept of lair actions (and legendary actions, for particularly noteworthy “boss” monsters) for the...
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I am a very tall, loud, animated dude in real life. It’s probably cultural to some degree, growing up in a family of Italian-Canadians. Say what you will about stereotypes, we...
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For today’s entry to RPGaDay I could write some kind of rule for exhaustion or resisting great wounds or perhaps encumbrance, but honestly I am here to give the people what...
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Perhaps a bit strangely, because of my upbringing, the word “regard” for me is often “regard”/”regarde”, in French, especially when I read it. In French, it means to...
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Maybe it’s because I play a Death Knight in World of Warcraft, a class centered on spreading foul pestilence to do damage to its foes, but when I hear the word “strain” I...
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Oh, woe betide those who grieve! Today’s magic word conjures images of weeping mourners, stoic heroes overcoming tremendous personal hardship, and perhaps edgy histories...
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To display tact in a world of violence, brutality, danger, and magic is perhaps the most valuable skill of all. When a dragon can scald the flesh from your bones in a single...
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In the bustling Dock Ward is a storehouse with a secret. Behind a dusty pile of unclaimed goods, the wall of a crate hides its true purpose as a door to a staircase leading to...
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They crowned him King Teupos, first of his name, but he was born Cotta, son of the king and a washerwoman, and with the crown he finally laid claim to the birthright he had...
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For resolve I have again dodged an obvious excuse for a dice resolution mechanic post in favor of hewing closer to the suggested theme of characters. This is, for me, mostly...
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Mercy has many faces. This is just one. Tesamsa’s Mercy The old warriors sit each day at the edge of town and struggle through menial tasks as they stare out across the...
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For me, “reach” can only mean one thing in RPGs – poking my foes from behind a shield wall of hirelings! I’ll take just about any opportunity to draw polearms and talk about...
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Happy Wednesday, friends! Today we encounter the prompt, “Burden,” and the most fun way I could see to utilize that prompt (besides another alternative inventory and...
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Another day, another prompt! Today’s RPGaDay magic word is “Charm”, which is an easy one to ascribe to charismatic characters but is much more fun to define along the lines of...
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Welcome back to another day of RPGaDay 2026! As I mentioned at the outset of this event, I probably couldn’t manage a full month of characters alone, so to change it up a...
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Back at it for Day 2 of RPGaDay 2026, and that brings us to “Stature.” While this might have meant social standing, and surely there are many character types that would suit...
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It’s the time of year for RPGaDay once more! I have done this in prior years and usually I have a very fun time of it. This time of year is actually pretty much a marathon...
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It’s time to get back in the blogging business and catch up to the RPG Blog Carnival of the month before July is gone for good! Before we get to it, a word from the Caution...Linked by the ring
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Lately I’ve been reading comic books. I’ve probably read more comic book pages in the last six months or a year maybe than in the previous decade combined, and then some. I...
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Let’s take a quick look at six India and sumi inks, shall we? A bit off-topic, I suppose, but I’ve never let that stop me before and I won’t today, either. I use dip pens for a...
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Let’s just go all out for it with the grande finale: we’ll squeeze three great words together for this one! Meet Zelatrix Aurora of Cabaria, sworn by oath to the order of law...
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Fair is fair. Earlier this month I posted an article about Kickstarter making a frankly harebrained and chilling business decision centered on the same sort of...
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Ypotryll The ypotryll is a hideous animal which gathers in large herds of fifty or more animals across the Hyrkanian steppes. Ypotrylls are most often described as having the...