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Cigognes (Stork Fusiliers)Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel: Woodcuts as game material. The Cigognes, a loose group of mercenaries also known as the Stork Fusiliers, are...
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OD&D - Lantern Lizard No. Appearing: 2-5 Armor Class: 4 Move: 15” Hit Dice: 6 % in Lair: 35% Treasure Type: D No. of Attacks: 1 bite Damage/Attack: 2-6/tentacle Special Attack:...
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The one where Lee is cursed, then charmed.
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Resolve mass combat in 3 rolls
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IntroFollows is a campaign retrospective for my Ashes Without Number, Cities Without Number, Stars Without Number mashup game set in a hollow planetoid soon after humanity...
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Continuing my annual tradition, here are some of my favorite things from the last year. I think this is the first year where I've had to decide not to shout out things I'm...
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IntroHavoc recently linked a post describing a method of generating a noble lineage. I wanted to learn more about Hohenthal, the ruined town above the dungeon in my Solo...
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I wrote these monsters up a while ago, back when I was running a Wolves Upon the Coast pbp game. The rainbow/purple OSR server recently made a bestiary channel and Crow posted...
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I love making worlds. I spend a lot of my time thinking about imagined places and peoples. I do it mostly for myself, but I still find it useful. When I run a game, the time...
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This isn't going to be a full review but I want to say, Draw Steel is a very fun system that makes combat a dynamic team based experience and when it hits, it HITS. I also...
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A simple system for running a "montage" style challenge for an extended segment of travel, stealth, or social gameplay.
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Risk of Imminent TraumaIf you clicked on the link to this post, I imagine you have either played, read, or are at least preparing to run a game of Mothership’s Gradient...
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¿Cómo se crean los PNJs en Ars Magica? peor aún, ¿Cómo se crean rápido?
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Don’t read this if you’re playing in my game on Monday lol
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A rite of passage for TTRPG blogs: I'm throwing my hat in the taxonomy ring.
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A pair of grouse flushed from the sweetgrass. Two swift cracks split the morning air. A lop-eared hound scrambled down the line of fire, reaching one bloodied gamebird before...
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Havoc Brigade I love this game. I'm admittedly a Grant Howitt fanboy (possibly to an obnoxious degree) but I think I can look at this game objectively and still say that it is...
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Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the deadline hits. This is a small...
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By Sabrina Hawthorne To begin - massive credit both to Julie Coker and Gabe for talking about this with me at length. This framework is as much theirs as it is mine - I'm just...
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This post by subjunctive moods earlier in the year got me thinking about ablative mechanics in combat, and Phlox’s All Damage As 1d6 reignited some of those thoughts.. We all...
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note to self
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and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked creatively. Playing games...
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Rolling 2d6? Make doubles matter!
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Since Blades ‘68 is almost out the door, I’ve been thinking more about my next game. I’ve been thinking about system, and setting, and how I want them to dovetail....
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Alexandre Gustneau is an Artisan. An esteemed scholar of more than thirty years, he has advanced the field of Conjuration into the modern age—largely through his methodology of...
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Man, Chrono Trigger is rad as hell. I'm not a JRPG connoisseur, but it's definitely my favorite of the genre by far. Nothing from my childhood will ever be cooler than seeing...
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If you haven't seen the initial prep I did for this campaign, you can find it here Secondly, if you are one of my players in this campaign, Leave now! There will be heavy heavy...
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A Knightcore Adventure. Content warning: demons (in various icky representations, including children), hell, torture, maiming, curses, hags, burning, and miscellaneous adult...
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I talk about Godbound a lot (free version available here, and the deluxe version available here; free version is complete and has everything you need, the deluxe version just...