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Dungeon Scrawler – Sun, 31 May, 04:30 AM
There are many reasons why people enjoy dungeon crawls. In brief, it is an activity that's well structured, viscerally satisfying, mechanically tight, comparatively easy to prepare, and frequently evocative--and as a core element of roleplaying games from the beginning, it enjoys the benefit of deca... read more.
Throne of Salt – Sat, 30 May, 09:47 PM
I mentioned at the end of She Sings At the End that I had a half-written essay about how I did it. This is the refurbished version of that essay, merged with a different essay I'd been working on as a follow-up to TLN asking me "How do you do it?" after I posted What Do People Know About the Mythos?... read more.
TRAIPSE – Sat, 30 May, 08:38 PM
One for the Sex Bandwagon. Sex with a succubus is much like sex with anyone, which is to say it's absolutely horrifying. The first time a Lawful character sleeps with a succubus, they lose one point of Wisdom as the very foundation of their moral core has been fractured. Chaotic characters gain one ... read more.
Beneath Foreign Planets – Sat, 30 May, 07:03 PM
By Frank FrazettaA miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and oozing body-horror. Map, Monsters, gods, NPCs, Magic Items, 28 total rooms/subrooms - 5 pages. Free.Seriously though, this took forever to write and was at times, a massive pain. The map was generated via Dave's Mapper (my favourite online ma... read more.
Seed of Worlds – Sat, 30 May, 05:39 PM
Returning to RT-87, our hivecity to peek at a roster of its NPCs and also do the "TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam". 1. Morer Baranyx - Carnotaur Arena Knight-Pledge - recently granted their augmented-carnotaur, already a decorated cavalry officer, now they fight in the great arena to prove... read more.
EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Sat, 30 May, 04:38 PM
Gen Con plans for Dungeons & Dragons, reviews of the new Player's and Dungeon Master's Workbooks, and more!... read more.
Azukail Games – Sat, 30 May, 03:22 PM
100 Sights To See At An Arcane Academy and Locales of Sundara: The Fort, Ironfire’s Temple to Charne are now available to buy from DriveThruRPG and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Impossible Lands VII is available from Pathfinder Infinite. Places where magic is taught can be home to strange sights and... read more.
Elfmaids & Octopi – Sat, 30 May, 02:49 PM
Still playing with these as prep for a gamed10 Awful Faerietale Background Types1 Orphans underclass2 Magic Medows3 Witches4 Goblins!5 Sylvan6 Underland7 Aquatic8 Faerie9 Giants10 Monstrositiesd100 More Awful Faerietale BackgroundsRoll again, results are cumulative on your fabulous storyA proper jo... read more.
All Dead Generations – Sat, 30 May, 01:53 PM
A FISTFUL OF CRYSTALS SUPPLEMENTARY CLASSNEW CLASS - IMPERIAL NOBLENote: Imperial Nobles are a sort of “advanced class”, a substitute form the traditional “elf” and reference to OD&D’s confusing fighter or Magic-User method of leveling elves. Creating a noble is a more complex task than creating ... read more.
Rise Up Comus – Sat, 30 May, 11:40 AM
Sufficiently advanced technology blah blah blah. But I do think it's helpful thinking of wizards as people with access to out-of-place technology as a way to conceptualize what they can do vs what they cannot. Yes, I can receive real-time updates about the collapse of my country. No, I cannot change... read more.
Patchwork Paladin – Sat, 30 May, 09:21 AM
Spring is well underway and the RPG scene is as lively as ever! This week I didn’t write a new post (boo!) but the most popular posts from the blog in the last week (excluding the newsletter) were Kickstarter Whales, Dolmenwood Retrospective, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Let’s Talk about Player Ski... read more.
400 independent bathrooms – Sat, 30 May, 04:57 AM
the further you depart from narrative baseline, the more cognitive load it takes to visualize and understand the world - mindstorm press possible orcs include a tortured and corrupted elf, a fungus with a cockney accent,[...] - whimsical mountain you don't need goblin. you have monkey monkey is... read more.
Throne of Salt – Sat, 30 May, 12:00 AM
Slushpile IndexAlmost enough to do a random table of these.Qlm Hogii - Random pocket-text and fantastic name for a Star Wars OCXeno’s Arrow: near-light speed ramming maneuverGraffiti: "FREE CUDDLES" - headless squat humanoid, torso dominated by fanged vertical mouth. arms outstretchedGod wiping swea... read more.