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Some Words on Dwarven Gender
GenderThe two dwarven genders are miner and blacksmith.Gender is among the first ways we describe someone, along with age, name, and where they're from. "My new boss is this woman from Texas." Most...
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Dwarven Puzzle Tomb - Part 1
This is my Week 3 contribution to Dungeon23. I'm writing a dwarven puzzle tomb.>>>HERE<<<I'm trying to take my own advice on puzzle dungeons to see if my advice is worth a damn....
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Dragons
Although their abilities defy classification, their forms do not.Dragons of the Upper AirOf unknown provenance, perhaps even more powerful than the elder wyrms. Forganthus Valore is the only own that...
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Dragons, Part 2
Here's Part 1.Elder WyrmsElder wyrms are widely considered hermaphroditic, although Makamendo Balette believes that they instead change their gender at will. Boshmuir describes them as sexless.All...
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Derelict Armies: Rose Army of Dzorum
So I've been playing Elden Ring and I like the idea of all these dysfunctional armies scattered all over the place. Soldiers without a war. Beaten, diseased, scattered.The City of RosesThe city of...
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GLOG Character-as-Class: Viklof the Butler
Class-as-class is cool.Race-as-class is cooler.But have you ever tried character-as-class?It's essentially a unique class. You can get them to join your party (Final Fantasy style) either as a...
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Dragons, Part 3
Here's Part 1 and Part 2. First, here are some things that people believe to be true about dragons. The Doctrine of Draconic ApocalypseDragons are the divinely sanctioned executioners of the world....
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Critical GLOG: Base Resolution Mechanics
It has not escaped my notice that GLOGhacks are sort of a thing.There's even a subreddit with a list of GLOG resources. (Holy fuck.)Usurpers, know that your challenge has been heard. I am Very...
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GLOGHACK: Copper GLOG
I've been challenged to write a GLOGHACK in a single day, I accept.Here's a game that only requires a single coin.This idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while. It's not brand new, so I'm...
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Gigantic Attack -- Resolving Combat in One Roll
So tonight I'm going to be writing the first draft of a mechanic that is meant to replace an entire combat round with a single roll.I first had the idea back when I was recording Go Die in a Hole with...
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Monsters of the Mythic Underworld, Part 2
A while ago I wrote some monsters for the Mythic Underworld. (See also Exultations of the Underworld at the bottom of this post.)Basically the Underworld is actually Overhell. Reality is hostile and...
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The Dwarf in the Glass
There was once a dream called the Charcuterie Board. A GLOG zine, it was a messy heap of delights, like a squirrel nest in a candy store. There were plans for a sequel, and so Phlox and I co-wrote a...
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Antimodrons
Modrons don't have a morality like we do. They have a prescribed set of behaviors, and many rules they must follow. But desire is never in question--all modrons want to follow the rules, as certainly...
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How to Handle Parley as an OSR DM
One of the most unforgiveable things that mainstream D&D has ever done was to make Diplomacy a skill.Weapon skills and knowledge skills, sure. We can't model sword fights around the kitchen table...
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THE UNDERCLOCK: Fixing the Random Encounter
For a long time, I had the same random encounter table rules as everyone else:Every 3 rooms (or 30 minutes of exploration time), roll a d6. If a 1 comes up, a random encounter happens.After a couple...
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The Cult of Flesh (and the Three Great Gifts)
The Third Age In the Beginning was the Authority, and his house was the Throne. In the First Age he created the stars, but their songs disappointed him. In the Second Age he created the Holy Mounds,...
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The Wives of Barago
Another post about Lon Barago, but also a continuation of Forms of Government.HistoryKing Barago was the first king of Lon Barago. After his death, his son ruled, and his son after that.But with each...
View ArticleScarabin, the Beetle Knights
KnightsFrom a distance, a knight clad in plate. Your torchlight glints off his dusky armor. But his footfalls are quiet, and his gait peculiar.Closer now, and your error introduces itself. There are...
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Everyone Has 10 HP
I think it would be fun to make a ruleset where everyone has 10 HP--dragons, PCs, everyone.Nothing invigorates a return to blogging like slapping a few sacred cows.Variant 1: Everyone Has 10 HPMaybe...
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You're Doing Demons All Wrong
In the older conceptions of “demons”, they were invisible spirits of wisdom, messages, or disease. They twisted fate and puckered men’s hearts. It’s pretty long list, since so many types of evil...
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