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The “chosen one” destiny is central to fantasy. Like it or not, it’s been part of the milieu for centuries, and insofar as modern, codified genre lit “fantasy” is concerned,...
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Everywhere you look are signs of civilization and travel. Sometimes the signs are quite literal, like these: 1d12 Signposts Sometimes the signs are mere traces, echoes and...
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Healing in D&D can be achieved in a number of ways, especially as the editions marched onward. Most modern incarnations of the game have more-or-less on-demand self-healing and...
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Nalathraxx was once a favored princeling, elite even amongst the innermost circles, a governor of the treasuries of hell itself. In his exile from hell, much has changed. What...
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There’s nothing like a rumor to get an adventure going, right? The goblins have a lair not far from here, filled with their plunder. The wizard’s tower contains a powerful...
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A whodunnit can be an unexpected break from the normal play loops of Dungeons & Dragons, but never so much as when the victim is your enemy! At the simpler end of things, the...
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The Shrouded Market The Shrouded Market is a great disc of obsidian, inlaid with copper and quartz. It drifts afloat in the endless expanse of the void, the darkness between,...
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The Sorrow Wood is a haunted locale, tucked between two spurs of Basilisk Mountain. It is spoken of in hushed, reverent tones; it is, after all, the graveyard of an entire...
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One of my favorite things to think of is food, because I am a doughy Italian man and that has been bred into the very fibers of my being. But I have a huge soft spot for the...
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In riverine hamlets the people warn their children not to stray near the waters after dark. They warn them of the monstrous fish and vengeful spirits that drag babes to their...
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In a world where gods and demigods are real, sometimes it’s nice to have them drop by and make some weird stuff happen. For adventurers, the strange can become normal, but for...
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Who doesn’t like a nice little hexcrawl? Day number 8 of RPGaDay 2025 is Explore, a theme central to the world of role-playing games. For years, though, a six-mile hex was...
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I really considered making this post just a series of Journey songs one way or another. I spent more minutes than I’d care to admit searching Journey lyrics and albums for...
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Ulterior motives. One thing is certain about playing make-believe elf games long enough is that sooner or later, you’re burned by a classic bait-and-switch coming out of...
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Followers of the blog in its heyday may recall that I occasionally do posts about things I like, usually stuff I am interested in which inspire me or which may be easily turned...
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People have left signs on this earth as long as we’ve had the cognition to comprehend “later” and “others”. Some have had great permanence, such as cave art from tens of...
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Still cracking away at this prompt list! Today, it’s on to the humble taphouse, the watering holes frequented by goodly knights and villainous knaves alike, the familiar...
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Sometimes quests have time as a factor – rescue the princeling before the cult sacrifices him on the night of the next full moon, reach a solution to a territorial dispute...
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Well, hello there, friends! It’s an understatement to say the blog has gotten a bit dusty and rusty! I’m going to shuffle some stuff around to drag it out of the past and get...
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I’m getting deja vu for some reason… Oh right, RPGaDay was the last time I was active on here, at least on the public side, around two years ago. I’ve half-heartedly poked at a...
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Well, since we’re doing catch-up posts, it’s time to get around to transferring my Bluesky responses to this annual prompt list over here to the blog! I added the prompts into...
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Okay so this was originally the post for Swordtember days 5-10 of 2022, but I never posted it and here we are now. It has been converted to the ultimate half-remembered...
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With the death spiral of Twitter I have found my way to two other places to feel the brave new world out. One – dice.camp, a Mastodon instance – I joined in November of 2022,...
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It’s no surprise to anyone that the interminable fool Elon Musk has butchered Twitter through hubris and incompetence or some dramatically-unforgivable political agenda whereby...
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Time for a Swordtember post, I suppose, because I need to write some stats for a big ol’ baddie and I also need to regurgitate lore that has been percolating in my mind since I...
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So it was the middle of the night, and, unable to sleep, my mind wandered to thoughts of the fantasy trappings of my youth. It’s not entirely easy to describe – though I am...
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One thing I sort of focused on at the beginning of 2022 was challenge events, and if it weren’t for some time off, I may have managed to complete a few more than I have...Linked by the ring
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Well! I guess I finally got around to working on this project in earnest a week or two ago and I suppose it’s time to share the first part of the draft. For those unaware, the...
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I’d say this post is comprised of two elements. The first being some things that caught my eye and those which I backed; the second being Kickstarter’s continued handling of...Linked by the ring
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Sometime at the start of the month, I posted my first-ever file to itch.io. I made Sword&Sorcery PocketMod available for the One-Page RPG Jam, because why not, and that’s how...