Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) who had only played 5e and Emily (Bagira) who has played many of my games. If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
System: B/BX.
Players: Emily, John, Erin.
We played as if Sasha's character simply wasn't there. If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
System: my Knave hack. Players: Emily, John, Erin and Sasha
If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
Chapel of the Rotted Claw
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By J. LasardeBroken Rat GamesS&WLevel 3 A mile from the village of
Breckdell is a solid oak door built into the side of a steep hill. Rumours
claim that th...
Powers Enumerated I
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Spells By Any Other Name Would Cast As Harsh. POWERS ENUMERATED:OLDTECH &
FANTASCIENCE These are the accepted and known secret sciences,
indistinguishable ...
The Greatest Book in the History of Books
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Do you know about the Japanese kids' book phenomenon, *Kobito Zukan*?
Literally translated it means something like 'dwarf encyclopedia' or 'gnome
encyclo...
Juicy Details
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Nova wrote about the concept of *Hyperdiegesis*, teaching me a new word in
the process. I chimed in on discord, so I get a nice mention in there too.
I g...
Saga RPG - The Hiven (Player Character faction)
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I have been running a Silmarillion inspired play by post game all of this
year, where the players take on the roles of creator spirits and then the
leade...
Class Social Features
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Unsatisfied with the number of class features in PF2e/5e that pertained to
the social characteristics of each character class, I went and wrote a few.
Th...
The Werewolf Rule
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Ever since the nose-blind apes succeeded in driving them away, wolves have
carried their hatred in their guts, like a cold embryo.
Humans are slow, stu...
Awful Green Things In The Dungeon
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After many months of being like Oh man I gotta do that, my friend recently
dug up the copy of *Awful Green Things From Outer Space *that he first
played...
An Interview! With Sarah Carapace!
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1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good
friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core
(li...
d100 - Magical Axes
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Another Random Table devoted to those marvelous Magical Items. This time we
have One Hundred Magical Axes. Just like with my other magic item tables,
the...
Lancer: 1:35 Swallowtail Scratchbuild
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Back in the day, I suggested that the best mech system is a mechanics-heavy
RPG system, but scaled up.* D&D 4E *seemed like a good candidate. Mech
system...
D&D Player’s Handbook 2024
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Being an incomplete, visual review of the 2024 Player’s Handbook. I got a
copy of this almost entirely on the strength of the new cover art: (This is
the “...
Draconis 2024
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My illustration for the Montreal's TTRPG festival is
online:https://www.facebook.com/FestivalDraconisMore info on the
convention: https://www.festivaldrac...
Concerning the Future of Traveller
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I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various
books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as
from Ma...
My Barkeep Jam Entry - The Cockatrice Tail
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*This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I
wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous
pubcrawl locatio...
Skull Rabbits and The Pale Lion
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A silly kitbash I did (*"What if _______, but skull??"*) that felt
afterwords like it needed lore:
Skull Rabbits appear much like regular white rabbits -...
Notes on a semi-successful skill system
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When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things
that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to
keep...
Unlawful Update
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Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind
y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I
continue ...
New Home!
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This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I'll no longer be
updating on this blog primarily due to all the spambots that plague this
platform. ...
As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks
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Remember STEAL THE EYES OF YASHOGGHUH? Still working on it.
The post As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks first appeared on Last Gasp.
Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release
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A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012
Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at
Dr...
Thursdays in Thracia – Part 21
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This is Part 21 of my Thursdays in Thracia B/X Dungeons & Dragons Campaign,
an actual play of Jennell Jaquays’ The Caverns of Thracia. For more
context, st...
Migration
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A note to anyone checking this blog:
I've moved my blogging activity to https://necroticgnome.com/blogs/news.
This blog will remain indefinitely, but will ...