The GLOG: Pregens
Here are some level 1 pregens for the GLOG.>HERE<Patreons: You won't be charged for this post. It's too minor.
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God Throat Paladins
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - John 1:1There's a part in the Bible that seems to imply that the Word (the Idea of God) is that same as God. The...
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The GLOG: Testing Stats Upon Leveling Up
One rule that I've recently become enamored with is testing ability scores upon levelling up.It works like this:When you level up, you pick an ability score.Roll a 3d6.If the roll equals or exceeds the...
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Hungry Joe
So I had another session of my irregularly-scheduled hell game. I might as well write about it.It's a hellcrawl. The party is running a pirate ship called the Adamantine Ogre, sailing across the...
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Owls
The Simurgh is the ruler of all birds. They are her subjects and her flesh.But owls are not birds. To us, they look like birds, and they act like birds, but they are not. They are some alien clade,...
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Nymphs
It is impossible to see a nymph and not fall in love with her. They are not beautiful in the strict definition of the word. They don't conform to any particular beauty standard (such as a specific...
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Where the Elves Go
There aren't very many high elves in Centerra. This is because Centerra is small and boring and it is impossible to do anything of any consequence there. They leave for the same reason that people...
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Caster Differentiation and Spellcasting Mechanics
I've given a lot of thought to casters. I want them to feel different from each other. Not just numberwise (wizards get +4 flarp while sorcerers get -2 flarp, etc) but with their own subsystem.When I...
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Making Bets on Reddit
Synthexia got mentioned on reddit today and I am suddenly nostalgic for it. That was a good burst of creativity from the DIY thinkosphere.We should do another crowdsourced hexcrawl.ANYWAY HERE ARE...
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3 Locations in Synthexia
The Block PartyA city block flies through the air. It fires confetti from its cannons, and sewage drips from it's exposed sewers. Lasers and strobes flash through the steam that streams over its...
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Outsider Psychology
I've written about Outsiders a fewtimesbefore. I don't mean outsiders like angels and demons. (Those things are part of the normal moral/ethereal ecology of Centerra.) I mean proper Outsiders, from...
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Guilder, the City of Green Brass
antikythera mechanismOut-of-work harpooners, clad in whale leather and shivering from sea-curses. Salvage divers selling more warped brass machinery, pulled up from the Brass Coast. Inventors looking...
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The Ungreya
OriginThis is their second time through. A million years of dynasty, brought to a halt when their empires ran into the temporal kingdoms of the elves at the end of recorded time. Older than the...
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HookA dragon is carrying off our cattle. Go kill it."But we're level 1!"Just stab it when its sleeping. Or poison it. Here, take this huge bottle of strychnine.Alternate HookThere's a dragon living...
View ArticleGelatinous Cubes and their Masters
Okay, let's get one thing straight. The gelatinous cubes that you bump into down on the second level dungeon aren't really the unit that is worth talking about.The gelatinous cube, as you know is, is...
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Nameless Queen Yama and the Queenscult
Heresy can be defined as knowledge which corrupts merely by being known, even if that knowledge is never spoken aloud, acted upon, or even consciously thought about. This damage can be direct (as in...
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Non-Euclidean Geography
This is a continuation of my non-Euclidean architecture posts (part 1, part 2) where I'm not going to postulate anything new, just expand on an idea in part 2 about multi-directional gravity. See...
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Filling the Dragonhole
In this post, you get to watch me try to flesh out my dragon hole dungeon. This is just me spitballin' ideas, in preparation for actually writing the thing.So we got these six dragons, right? And a...
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Starfighter Samwise
I normally spend my lunch breaks writing down D&D ideas on the backs of receipts and then losing them in my car, but today I spent my time thinking about an idea for a video game.I'm a fan of...
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The GLOG: Wizards
I'm not happy with it, but I'm getting real fucking tired of rewriting it.My OSR-compatible rules for wizards can be found right. . .HEREThey include the Illusionist, Necromancer, and Orthodox Wizard...
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