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Hungry Coffins
Up ahead, you see a quartet of tombstones, right in the middle of the road. For about a foot around each tombstone, the dirt looks fresh. The headstones have a skull at the top, and a decorative pair...
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New Class: Spherical Wizard
Spherical Wizards are a race of wizarding sphere-people.A bug collector and a muscular puncher gaze upon a powerful spherical wizard.Illustration by +Grey Wiz, who is also illustrating the incredible...
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So my laptop is broken. This has prevented me from posting and releasing the nice PDF that I promised my Patreon backers this month. I'm sad, too.How a Scholar Explains GeniesGenies don't exist....
View Article4 Legs of the Table Mimic: Where Interesting Combat Comes From
Alright, there are 3 big ways to make a monster more interesting.1. Interesting mechanics.2, Interesting tactics (and strategies).3. Interesting environment.Did I leave anything out? Oh yes. Just the...
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Yeti
Photographs on this page by Charles FrégerThe yeti had an advanced culture before it was wiped out during the Time of Fire and Madness. Now they exist mostly as a race of disinherited mountain...
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More Bug Collector Ecosystems
This is a continuation of my ecosystems for the bug collector class. You can't be a bug collector without bugs to collect, can you? Detailed here are the Desert, City, and Tundra ecosystems.by...
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Undead Psychology
art by reauThere's no such thing as mindless undead. When you raise the dead, you are not puppeting them, not quite. You are inviting an alien soul to occupy the body, one that the reanimation spell...
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Tales of Abasinia
The Five People You Might Meet in Abasinia1. A dust eater. Smears of brightness stain his lips. His rags whip in the wind as he slouches between the pyramids. He will beg for money, or steal it. If...
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Dwellers of the Great Necropolis
If you approach Vangol* from the lowlands, you cannot miss the City of the Dead.It is the spine of a giant, a low ridge of conical spires and broad-shouldered mausoleums. The city is built on top of a...
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Flying Snails
Flying Snails are huge for snails. They have about 10 pounds of mass, and 0 pounds of weight. They fly by spinning their bodies, travelling through the air like a drill while paddling their heads...
View ArticleThe 5 Types of Ethical Dilemmas
This is going to be a contentious post, I think. Prepare yourself for strong sensations of OPINION.This post may be of some use to people who want to insert ethical dilemmas into their games, or...
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The Simurgh
The tower rose at an angle, neither vertical nor horizontal but also both, in a beautiful duality. The tower was also a single staircase. Standing at the top, the Simurgh looked down at all 777...
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Kioz
art by Lius LasahidoKioz is the shell of the eternal snail. It is over 15 miles across, and lies at the foot of the Great Gyrus.Kioz is tunnels. It glints like mica, hums like an electrical...
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Character Fusion
Philosophy #166: Attack all parts of the character sheet, including who owns that character sheet.So there are things that swap brains around. Sure, if you put a mind flayer inside a portable hole...
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Intellect Devourers
this is my favorite pictureBiologyIntellect devourers are small animals, the size of cats. They walk on little cat legs. They have been compared to "brains on four legs" because of their rugose...
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Hexcrawl: Abasinia
Well, my Tuesday group and I have finally played enough sessions in Abasinia that it has started to feel like I need to do a proper hex map for it.This will be my third hex map (after Revanwall and the...
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New Class: Poet / Storyteller
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - John 1:1by Kay NielsonSo, I was trying to brainstorm a class for Abasinia, the most Arabian Nights-ish place in...
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Paladins in Hell
by David C. SutherlandHell was finally conquered in 788 TFM, in a brutal chapter of military history called the Last Crusade. Asmodeus was destroyed, the gates of Hell were sundered, and all over the...
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Corpsegrinder Worm
HD 8 AC chain Bite 2d6 + grabMove 9 Burrow 3 Int 5 Mor 6Barf 1/day30' cone, 3d6 damage from bone shards (save for half) and covers targets in acid (1d6 damage each turn). One turn later, 1d6-5 animated...
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Knights of the Pit
from Mad Max: Fury RoadKnights of the Pit are basically fighters. Give them the attack bonuses of a cleric, and instead have this ability:Suicidal Tendencies: Whenever you are below half HP, you get...
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