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Planar Travel (Getting to Faerieland)
There are other planes. One of them is Faerieland.Travel to other planes is (almost) not accomplished with portals and teleportation spells. (While wizards cultivate that mythos, they aren't capable of...
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God Hates Orcs
This is a direct continuation of a previous post about orcish prayers.Haruspex (n) - a diviner who bases their predictions on the inspection of spilled entrails.Sacred Violence Orcs believe that the...
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Last Night I Dreamt of Monsters
GuinosThey look like hairless weasels with kissy-face lips and bulging eyes.Once a guino bites you, it never lets go. An enzymatic/magical reaction fuses the guino to its host, like a male anglerfish....
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High Elves and their Creation Myth
There are two kinds of elves. Low elves (wood elves) are the cliche ones. They build tree-houses, live in harmony with nature, and are highly magical and aloof. They worship beauty in all of its...
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Homemade Unicorns
They are playing some game of their own invention, but the rules of the game make no sense to me. (Perhaps there are no rules.) They scamper and clop heavily up and down the stairs, their horseshoes...
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FIS (Feral Infant Syndrome)
Something spooked the horses.There are two leading theories about Feral Infant Syndrome. The first is that it is a type of lycanthropy, which only affects certain infants, and is brought on by the...
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Silent Bell of St. Dorbaine and d12 Relics of the Church
Saint Dormaine helped found the early church and was later mutilated by the removal of his uvula and tongue, so that he would be unable to cast spells. However, the saint was so precious in the divine...
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d12 Effects of Eating Star Carrion
So there are megafauna that swim between the stars and sometimes they fall to earth like a giant meteor made of meat. (There's a place in Centerra where this is the entire ecosystem.) This is what...
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The Knights of Kel Dravonis
This is another post about the Star Beast Gravelands. It is home to three roaming cities, of of which is Kel Dravonis, the city of necromancers.It is wrong to call them death knights. Sure, they (or...
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Dream #1
I think I might start blogging my dreams, if they are D&Dable enough. I like the idea because I'm lazy, and also because it seems very post-human to upload my dreams to the internet. Anyway, this...
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Kel Bethor, the City of Necromancers
Kel Bethor is the walking city of the necromancers. All of the buildings have some form of mobility, so that the city can move to the site of the next cosmic megafauna impact. In Kel Bethor, this...
View ArticleRacial Ability Score Modifiers, Redux
Elf: +2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution.I never quite liked that, since it could lead to starting stats higher than 18, and I abhor anything that could possibly lend itself to min-maxing.What about:Elf:...
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Loonies
Eldritch Americana SettingTakes place in 1929 United States, 39 years after the cthuloid-apocalypse, fall/mutation of all Earth governments, and mass immigration of extradimensional entities. With...
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Dungeon as Reef
I can imagine a certain sort of dungeon. This dungeon is not built or maintained, except that it functions as a passage between two distant, more desirable locations. Traffic keeps the dungeon open,...
View ArticleMutant Dinosaur Generator
CLICK HERE TO GENERATENote: if you get an impossible result, such as an icthyosaur on land, it doesn't matter. Make it make sense. Your dinosaur fish now slithers along like a snake or something.Base...
View ArticleCorpulum and Screed
Thinking about Scrap's Planescape and Spelljammer. I want something like that. I'm going to fold Synthexia into here, and expand it somehow.CurrencyThe most common currency is nutrient pills, which...
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Random Encounters in the Abominable Island
Thinking about this dungeon.Also works if you want to stock some sort of fish-man prison-cult reef-statuary dungeon of your own design. Every turn (10 minutes, or whenever a room is entered) roll a...
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Phosma and Blue Breath Devils
Hollow Earth TheoryIf you go down far enough below Centerra, you'll eventually end up in the Interior. The planet has a central sun, which is dim and blue and cold. It wavers in the sky, like rimless...
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Random Fishmen and Prisoners
Still working on the Abominable Island, after writing its random encounter tables last...
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Halflings and Goblins
Halflings are all vegetarians. If a halfling eats meat, their mental facilities decline. They begin to behave chaotically, even insane. They become extremely willing to sacrifice themselves for...
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