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Guns for the Children
Browning Automatic RifleHere are my comprehensive gun rules for Eldritch Americana (the House of Hours setting). I've tried to make them (a) simple enough to learn quickly, (b) fast enough to be...
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The Witches' Laundry, etc
Here are a couple more things from the House of Hours. The Witches' Laundry also known as grendelwear, murdergarments, swaddlewraths, garbenstrangThe Laundry moves as a parade, a long line of dancing...
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Specialization and Assumed Competence
GROGNARD WARNING: This post is going to talk about things like "game balance" and "character builds". Bear with me, because the conclusion is one that you'll probably agree with.Imagine a dungeon X...
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Review of A Thousand Dead Babies by Zzarchov Kowalski
I've never written a review of a module before. I guess that's the sort of thing that blogs do, though.+Zzarchov Kowolski was kind enough to give me a pdf of his adventure, A Thousand Dead Babies....
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Weird Swords and Not-Swords
Mostly inspired by +Gus L's excellent page of +1 Sword Equivalents.So here are some flavorful magic swords and other weapons. I envision them as +1 swords with a few more bonuses and penalties, but...
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Yanivel, Bee-Lady Extraordinaire
Here's an NPC, presented without any comment.she looks nothing at all like this, reallyYanivelLevel 2 Bee LadyHP 8AC 15Str 11Dex 11Con 14 (+1)Int 12Wis 7 (-1)Cha 9Longsword (6 notches on hilt) +1 to...
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Supercharging Chargen with History, Personality
One of the cool things about Traveller is that it has a sweet character creation gauntlet. By the time you've created your character, you've already got a history. It's the product of a random process...
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Items from the Pit and the House
Here's a selection of thingamajigs from the East Pit Marketplace (the ruins of east Pittsburgh) and the House of Hours itself. Players can read--there's no spoilers here.The first few of them are...
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Career Paths for 3d6 Fantasy
So I finished the career paths thing I was working on. It was a fun little project. Defined goal. No risk of it going over 10 pages. It's sorta generic, but I guess that's the intent, so that...
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Alternative Spellbooks
Apparatus of AuchindoaThis is an enormous contraption of brass, glass, and gears. At one end is a chair. In a compartment beneath this seat is a set of 9 magnesium rods (although there is room for 23...
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And by player skill-based, I mean PLAYER SKILL-BASED
Character skill is the stuff written down on the character sheet. The +3 to-hit bonus, the Acrobatics +6 skill, etc.And player skill is the guy behind the curtain, who makes decisions. Like whether...
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The Inexorable Beast
Some people call it the Questing Beast. It quests for you.The fools have opened the Book of the Beast and its curse has fallen upon them. There is nothing that they can do. Though the Inexorable...
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Fresh Meat
D&D is well-insulated.The people who write the dungeons tend to be the ones who read the most dungeons, who have been playing for the longest time, and who sometimes go online and talk about...
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11 ULTIMATE MAGIC POWER SHIELDS
Magic shields are more difficult to invent than magic swords. By their very nature, shields are reactive--you don't choose when you use them, your enemies do. So, I've tried to keep that, but make it...
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Monsters from Synthexia (and 1 Motorcycle)
I'm perpetually sad that I haven't gotten to play Synthexia, a crowdsourced Hexcrawl started by +Jacob Hurst. Then +Ramanan S compiled the whole thing here. I also wrote notes for a dungeon in...
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Procedure vs Consensus in Mechanic Assignment
+Brendan S posted a brilliant article about Proceduralism. I'm going to talk about it, so if you haven't read it, you should probably read that first.Basically, what (I think) Brendan's is talking...
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The Madness of Avool
Avool pan Ankhri was a failing con artist. He made a living by selling snake oils, false cures, and famously--pamphlets. He worked out of Shar, and could often be seen on the streets selling his...
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Lands
Land of Angry OceansLand of Electric PeopleLand of Singing MountainsLand of Lambs and PlasmaLand of Buffaloes and BeerLand of Mud and MonkeysLand of Furious DrumsLand of CollapseLand of BeastsLand of...
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Gengrigar
This excellent Gengrigar was drawn by Claytonian.He runs KIWF and is working on The Wizardarium of Calibraxis.It demonstrates a Gengrigar's smirking trollface.Giant, round, soft, laughing fey....
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Frogstar Peninsula Rumors
I've started work on a hexcrawl. It's swamp, but also some hills and a small peninsula.It is said that there is a bright green star that can be seen from no where else in the world. It burns in the...
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