Carapace King

Cast: Emmett the Astrologist Calhidon Starstrider, Elf Liu-Chang Xhan, warrior and duck wrangler Bavon the butcher cleric Sneed the Thug Months pass after our previous adventure, but we ea...

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Presented as written by the party chronicler, the best thing to ever happen to my game group. Enjoy! Dubious noblemen, so many bulls, and a mighty duck -------------------------------------- ...

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Oh hey. I started a new DCC campaign so I better start dumping setting content. A city in the wastes. Ben-Dagra. Ruled by a sinister queen called the Hag or Beloved. Protected from the blisteri...

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Tower of Babel by Brueghel The party approached the central spire and see an enormous wooden gate. Mangus pushed the gate open "respectfully but firmly". Inside was a dimly-lit wide hallway...

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The Big Fish eat the Little Fish, Hieronymous Bosch The party slow came back to its senses, stumbling around blind and confused for a moment, so they decided to make camp to recover. The unn...

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The adventure continues at the bottom of the SUNKEN PIT. Rifling through the gnome's belongings, they find a pouch of 60gp, a heavy pick, and a light crossbow. They continue exploring and find...

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE Vamosh Amuerte, elven glassblower Mangus, tax collector and warrior-for-hire Arden Diodross, guild beggar and sellsword Annemarijn the Astrologist, herbalist and wizar...

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The past year I've ran a biweekly game of Dungeon Crawl Classics set in a fantastical Netherlands I call A pastiche of every psychedelic Northern Renaissance painting I could get my hands on, ...

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A gall is an amazing thing. Formed by a plant when a parasitic wasp injects an irritant into it, they take a huge variety of forms. Check this out. That lights me up. So many gameable possibili...

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Did you miss me? The last year has been a whirlwind, but I start a new job soon which should give me a little more breathing space for things like running (and playing!) more games. Never mind S...

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Numenera does interesting things with characters, effort, and health. They're composed of a trio of pools which act as both a resource pool to use to make tasks easier or attacks more damaging, b...

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I've sat on an adventure for the last two years waiting till I had time and everything 1000% perfect before I release it unto the wild. That's never going to happen, so I'm biting the bullet and ...

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> Continuing my series on the Lake of Woe, here are two of the biggest > threats in the area. BRINEWING All dragons are forces of entropy. They may put on a veneer of civili...

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The Lake of Woe is a salt lake in an unpeopled corner of wilderness. It is fed by springs descending from the glacial peaks to the east. Five years ago the lake was fresh. When the dragon Brine...

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This will be the last NUMENERA session report for a while! The group has dissolved for the holidays, to be picked up some time in 2014. Hopefully. Part 1 Here . Part 2 here . Blocked from retr...

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This is part 2, part 1 is here and part 3 here . Descending down a spiral ramp the party discover a body slumped against a wall. It was a man, alive but near death. On his neck gaped a set of...

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For the last few months I've been running Numenera. It’s been a lot of fun, the system is light enough to grasp immediately but with enough hooks and crunchy bits to keep it all from feeling t...

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An entry for +John Till 's From the Zones community project! Zones are places where the laws of reality roll up like hot linoleum. One of the stranger anomalies are what has come to be kn...

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The Nemean lion, Jaws, the White Hart, all exemplar animals of extreme rarity and potency. These kind of singular creatures are common in story and myth. Outside of dire whatevers D&D doesn't ha...

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THE CREW Jason Slade, big damn hero Gold-Gold-Mauve, gun-amoeba Squishy, nee-"Greenie," eukaryote bullet-sponge Grug-Ugh-ng, turret puncher Private Kipley, man of action Skrillix, squid misanthro...

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The Hulks & Horrors rules mention pirates as a relatively common occurrence while surveying systems, but outside of the "Sentient Crew" encounter at the top of every table leaves the specifics ...

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I had two new players for this session of my Hulks & Horrors campaign for a total of three new characters after the rout last time. After getting the new players up to speed (and troubleshooting ...

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Hulks and Horrors is a scifi retroclone combining the human-scale ruleset of D&D with a stripped down Traveller stellar model. It comes equipped with some amazing tables for generating advent...

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Gusty over at Dungeon of Signs has been running a contest for a map of tHE TOMB OF THE ROCKET MEN. This is my take on it! If I ever run the thing myself I will absolutely jam pack that pristine...

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I desperately want a better word for butterfly than butterfly to use in this post. Butterfly is like the limpest name for a critter that, at least in my campaign, is big and scary and cast spell...

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