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0501Southwest: Valley of Eternal CheerSouth: SnomesSoutheast: Jinglebell BarrensRANKIN/BASS PRO SHOP: A pyramid of silver and gold. The single obvious entrance at its base is...
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A solid 50% of this post came to me in the inspiring confusion between waking up and being awake, where dreams are washing out like the tide. You play as a disgruntled...
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The urchins of Troika city have it rough. Dead parents, crushing poverty, constant owl attacks. It’s truly a miserable experience. If by age 6 they are not able to find a job...
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Just as there is a Mythic Underworld and Mythic Wilds, why not also cultivate Mythic Oceans? Perhaps when one spends a bit too long aship, or adrift and lost, the Sea begins to...
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Many GMs find running sandbox-style games hard relative to the trad style of a plot-driven adventure or campaign. Which is really unfortunate because sandboxes should, in fact,...
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Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Violence Master Page Bending the laws of the universe is not easy! Unless this is very poorly balanced.SPELL DIFICULTY: DCEASY: 6HARD: 10 Easy spells...
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0203North: Conifer MountainNortheast: Three CalvesSoutheast: The GrumpusSouth: Gingerbread Village HOUSE OF THE KRINGLES. A snowy landscape in the domain of the Winter Warlock....
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My contribution to the Christmas 2025 blogwagon, written with apologies to Max Gladstone. Bonus points if you know why he deserves said apology. NeighborsNorth, Northeast,...
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Experimental mechanics that combine Mausritter inventory, Tetris, and engine-building into an alternative Vancian magic system.
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Sunken plains of mire and rust.Filthy skies and sticking dust.Would that one could be of good cheer,But nay the poison swamp draws near.(Old Elvish Rhyme)PART OF MERRY HEXMAS -...
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I had been playing RPGs for many years before I ever even considered getting into homebrew. Of course, I wasn't against homebrew. I routinely took homemade gameable content...
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Why adventures don't need to be serious in order to be taken seriously.More
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Generators for my own purposes. Glory as ever to Spwack.Name Hive Name Encounter Treasure
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Gathering the Eldritch Lore When some normal games didn't pan out because of the usual winter scheduling problems, I started pulling notes out of the previous world building...
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And so we come to the end. Did I know this would be the last session of the campaign? Hard to tell, but I posted about it going on hiatus shortly afterwards. This session ended...
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It's that time of the year I guess, let's talk about the games I've been playing. VaesenI started the year doing a monster-of-the-week style game with Vaesen in the D&D table...
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My musings on burnout as a GM, pre-written adventure modules and what helped me succeed.
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Winter warlocks are the mortal agents of the otherworldly entity known as Ithaqua, the Wind Walker. They haunt the coldest corners of the world, where the nights are long and...
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Representing a full fourth of the Random Results when Scrolls are generated as Magical Treasure in most of the earlier presentations, Treasure Maps can sometimes end up making...
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The bandit is an underrated sort of monster, because it's a real monster. There are few fire-breathing dragons in our world. There are, however, a great multitude of people...
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Hey, did you hear it’s the Year of the Beta (at least according to Prismatic Wasteland)? And did you know that the year is… almost over[1]? Well (ready or not) I guess I have...
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This session was all about trying to make friends. The players had a zany scheme: dress up a slaver in the space alien amour they had stolen from a tomb in order to convince...
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Another great recurring collection of TTRPG news, links, and discussion to add to the growing list (already containing Indie RPG Newsletter, Shiny TTRPG Links, OSR News...
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Welcome one and all to the first annual Lizzies, a celebration of all things Liz (that's me)! 2025 has been...a fucking year to be trans in America, so we're going to end this...
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The Nightwatch by RembrandtAn amazing work which is huge!I participated in the “Purple OSR”’s 2025 Secret Santicorn and received the prompt “Never Meet Your Heroes:...
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I wrote this autofiction-style a few days after going through some personal stuff and having a wild experience. I regret that my conscious mind is not able to organize and...
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Dungeon, but make it Anti-colonial.
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An apology for my silence as I launched this new site and a sneak peek at my Zine Quest project for this coming year "The League of Dark Few."More
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More slaver killing antics, as the party heads north to investigate rumours of slaver activity. The party had liberated the Orange Man citadel North of their home base of Invak...
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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...