RPGaDay 23: Surprise August 23, 2019

One thing you learn as a GM is that your players will always surprise you. No matter how hard you prep, they will do something you never thing of.So remember that your plan will not survive first contact with the players.

Dragons Are Real

One page setting: The Shrouded City August 23, 2019

Created with watabou's fantasy city generatorAnother one-page city setting for Earth-at-the-end. The previous two are the Haunted City and the Mad City.This time we have the city of Gaulot, where people have been living an idyllic life, protected from seeing the horrors their city is built on by the sea of coloured fog that surrounds […]

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Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat - Take 2 August 23, 2019

Several nimble spaceship fighters swarm a large space cruiser, each firing lasers at the other. (Take 2) For those interested in following along, I’m using the Ship Combat from Stars without Number: Revised. Check out my previous playstorm. You may also be interested in my Let’s Read Stars without Number series, in particular, Let’s Read […]

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Western Oerik and “that map” August 23, 2019

Long-time readers of this blog, and even longer-time Greyhawk fans, will recall that originally the western portion of the continent known as Oerik was completely unknown to us. All we had was a partial map included in the original 1980 Read More

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Spirit Teleportation August 23, 2019

Most demons worth their Evil have teleport without error, and actually most Outsiders and powerful magical beings in general will have some form of teleportation, as instant relocation is just that good. This presents an option for new flavour - surely not every spirit uses the same teleportation spell?The shape shifting trickster disappeared, but did […]

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Super Hero RPGs Part 2 August 23, 2019

I first started Role Playing when I was 19 years old and a sophomore in college. My first RPG was Champions 4e, the "Big Blue Book". It was like learning a program language and we we all had enough free time to do that. However, even though Champions was the game we were playing, I […]

Cross Planes

Liber Zero Character Creation Card Reference Pamphlet (PDF) August 23, 2019

And now, the truth can be revealed: yesterday’s XP Bonus Table was a lead-up to this other thing I’ve been working on, the Liber Zero Character Creation Card, first of a series of LZ reference sheets. It’s a trifold pamphlet, but this time, not a dungeon or village map. Instead, it’s an index card-sized character […]

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1001 Dungeon Entrances August 23, 2019

Look at an interesting or spooky entranceway and I start to imagine it as the entrance to a dungeon. This is a never-ending source of inspiration. Here are some examples:Post some of your own, here or on your own blog if you have one.

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RPGaDay 22: Lost August 23, 2019

When I think of the word Lost it think of the TV Show Lost. This started off as a very mysterious story of these people stranded on an island after a plane crash.What transpired is the script writers had no idea how the show was going to develop and that they truly didn’t believe the […]

Dragons Are Real

Oculent (Wermspittle) August 23, 2019

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche Oculent No. Enc.: 1d3 (1d6) Alignment: Neutral (Cruel Tendencies...) Movement: 90' (Float/Guided […]

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More maps of lairs from the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System (ACKS) Lairs & Encounters book.

There are some lairs I’ll be skipping, either because the maps technically already exist (as in the Death Charger, which is just a copy of a map that you can find in another book) or because they aren’t caves, or buildings, just trees or something that a map isn’t really needed for.