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I've been taken with perusing random GLoG stuff, so without any prior experience, I am choosing to make a GLoG class inspired by the Deep Apiarist. I chose this class because I...
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Demons are a lot like humans, some of them are devious schemers… and some are just jerks. Tormentors are the second kind. Medium outsider (demon)No. Appearing: 1d6+2Hit Dice:...
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When extracting goods from a corpse, plant, or quarry with sufficient tools, roll d6 to see how it goes: GOODS Find more Mythic Bastionland greatness on the Syllabus! Looking...
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There was a discussion in a Discord forum I inhabited about how realistic the encumbrance of ration is in BX D&D. That doesn't interest me. What interests me is what the PCs...
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There is an empire broken apart, in flames, brother soon to be turned against brother in a war which will set the course of history forever. It's best to remember what you have...
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One of my first ttrpg white whales was been Magic: The Gathering - and it lingers around my shores to these days. Before I even knew more than one ttrpg system, I was already...
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I've been writing some non-fiction pieces and considering writng them in an epistolary fashion. I was noodlin' on how this could be applied to ttrpgs as all bloggers are wont...
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Search on the web is so broken right now. Ads, auto generated "answers", "related" searches, LLM slop—the list goes on and on. In an effort to curb some of this crap, I spent...
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It is finally ready! My rules for alternate dungeon crawling or exploration for Cairn 2nd edition.
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A Spell-Circle is a collection of glyphs capable of manifesting a magical effect. They are all circular, or at least radially symmetrical in shape, and must be drawn or...
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Start with (2d20)...3d-printed katana (cheap piece of shit)sweat-soaked ankle weights (jump twice as high when they're off)niche extrasolar media fixation (+1...
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Due to new medication, I'm battling insomnia this week. So today I want to talk about health, and to share how I sustain my creativity. This post is inspired in part by this...
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The Play Worlds discord has released our first free zine!
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My upcoming Libra game is built in the same way as my prior modern urban sandboxes. These games have usually included a patron - a mostly-neutral contact of the PCs who hands...
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Convention season is coming up for me, so the next adventure that I'm going to talk about is one that I think is absolutely perfect for a convention game! Here is The Perilous...
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Another Table of Magical Wonders (to be dutifully added to the Generator eventually!) This one focuses on Belts, Girdles, Sashes, or other Straps like Baldrics and Bandoliers....
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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, To start this Gamma World campaign, I am using the original map from the 1st edition...
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Afraid of Play Reports is a series of blogposts where I write play reports of the campaign that I have finished or currently running. I name it that way because I keep on...
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Press the Beast shared a criticism I enjoyed of some parts of the OSR, and the obsession with products as the output of the hobby. The post is a bit of a rant—to put it...
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The man that brought you Fuck You Design brings you a rant about fancy-ass zines: “Am I language policing here? Sure, why not. I think the original sense of the word matters...
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Sorry, I just need to exorcise a thought real quick to convince myself why it’s a bad idea. The impulse is I realized that Cinco! doesn’t have swords +1 and I was like, oh, how...
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Each player has $(3D6 - 1) to purchase items their character happens to have in their pockets when they get spirited off to the magical realm. Players go in a circle and may...
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More than enough!I wanted to post a little bit about the starting area surrounding a campaign megadungeon. This is sorta a riff off the "Just Three Hexes" post...
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Schwew. OK. This turned into a long one. Break!! has the best crafting rules for an OSR game that I've ever seen. Originally, I was trying to borrow them for my little house...
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I give my impression of Shadowdark's Cursed Scroll #6, and walk through how I would prep "The City of Masks" to run as a sandbox. More
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I thought it would be a fun idea to regularly call attention to the great posts that the writers of the RPG blogging communities gift to us. I am not the first to have this...
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Stuck? Try riffin, because you and your players can make some beautiful music.
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A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCredit: Joe Sparrow, from Dungeons & DrawingsStrap in, because there are a lot of M monsters....
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Nerds love taxonomy; it gives order to the world, and provides a meaningful sense of control. Of course, it's all an illusion. At best taxonomy is a useful tool, and at worst...
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I’m not the first to remark that a lot of what we’re calling “zines” aren’t really zines. They’re fine, glossy magazines, or beautifully crafted books. While these products may...