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d4 Wisps Better Than Will
Stop trying to turn wisps into shitty little taser ghosts. (Are they ghosts or air elementals? Either way, you shouldn't be able to beat them to death with a piece of wood.) They were cool when they...
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Rat Master
The point of this class is that you get to command large swarms of entirely disposable rats. (Disposable minions are extremely useful for dungeon exploration--even tiny ones.) You also get extra...
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Revamping the Undead: The Shadow
History and CultureShadows are undead, but they were never alive. They are from the Ersatz (the Plane of Shadow and Mirror), where light is not only unknown--it's impossible. (Have fun adventuring in...
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Revamping the Undead: The Shade
A Different Sort of DeathThe paladins are rejoicing. A sinner has been redeemed. After six years in a labor camp and thirteen as a squire, the murderer has been knighted as a paladin. This is a rare...
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Dragon Cult Barbarians
When a dragon rules over an area, it is called a desolation (similar to how merfolk rule over mazes). It's meant to imply a barren, inhospitable land, but these places are usually fertile and support...
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Gretchlings and Grues
They are also called grey goblins, deep goblins, or lesser goblins. I wrote about them before, in the Book of Mice. That's actually a gretchling up at the top of this page, as part of the Goblin...
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Impressions of OrcaCon 2016
So I went to my first con. I wouldn't have gone if Vic hadn't bullied me into it, so thanks, Vic.It was awesome. It was like a zoo full of nerds. I spent a few minutes gawping before I found myself...
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New Class: Demon Blade
One path to immortality lies through undeath. This is lichdom, and it is frequently sought by spellcasters. Another path lies through demonhood, and it is usually a warrior's path.Like the process of...
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Sometimes I write dungeons. Today I wrote a checklist of things to put in the dungeon. The first couple items are pretty obvious, but it's still good to enumerate their usage.How to Use This...
View ArticleDwarves Are Lazy Because They Are Hardworking
The industriousness of dwarves is well established, even across multiple settings. They're also dour, obsessed with gold, and possessing of an ambiguously Scottish accent. They don't like elves or...
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Detaching Advancement From Levels + Secret Monk Techniques
I'm a big fan of detaching character advancement from level progression, for three reasons.It makes a character's increase in power more gradual, and less staggered. It gives them something to look...
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Bottle Imps
by Jeff HaynieThere are many demons you can summon from hell, and the least of these brimstone-belching brutes are the bottle imps. Bottle imps are small, usually only one or two inches. They come in...
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A Few More Words on Dwarven Culture
Dwarven ReligionDwarves don't worship the dwarf god. There are no dwarven gods (possibly because no dwarf has been creative enough to invent any) and in fact, the whole notion of gods usually requires...
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MY FAVORITE MONTH IS DISMEMBER
I rewrote the Death and Dismemberment table again. As well as the Insanity table. I did this because I am a crazy.>CLICK HERE TO GET IT<Goddamn, the old one was complex. I don't know why I...
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Regional Classes - Kaladar
Why not have regional variations of each of the four basic classes? Regional subclasses. Like in one part of the world, fighters train in this style, and in another part, they train in this style....
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Ogres and Their Hungry Kin
You must first catch a child between the ages of four and ten. It must be shown no gentleness, nor hear any kindness. The child must be kept from other children, lest they feel sympathy for others in...
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Bardic Services
Bards are a service that the players can (and should) seek out in town, similar to how they seek out sages and alchemists. They usually offer the following things:#1 InformationBards talk to a lot of...
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Foreign Angels
Go read a list of demons and you'll notice how Christian they are.I don't mean that the demons themselves are Christian, just that they are designed as an evolution of human morals. Demons are often...
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d100 Horses With Chris McDowall
Me and +Chris McDowall had a baby. And then we had 99 more. And all of those babies were horses. And now we are putting them up for imaginary adoption, because you want some of these horses in your...
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The Never-Ending Guild
Sane people who have not been there regard it as a single city, occupying a single point on the map at the south tip of the Meltherian peninsula. Those who have been there know better.It is tough to...
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