DEEP SPORE Armor Class 11 Hit Dice 1/2 No. of Attacks special Damage special Movement 20' No Appearing 1-4(2-8) Save As Normal Man Morale fearless Treasure Type NIL XP Varie...
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Shadow Survey about D&D and WOTC: https://youtu.be/zSmslPWzzxs?si=T6mxxDl7BvHRCUSn
So Yeah starting HP for 1st level PC's are garbage in old-school games. It's a perk... it's a feature...it's a darned annoyance even when the longest part of character generation is buying equi...
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Haven't posted a lot lately but there's no way I'm passing this up. D&D is 50 as of 1/27/24! 50 years of a style of game that would move throughout media and entertainment. Too bad the curren...
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"I thought Ogres would be Tougher"- Following two rounds of combat initiated by a party of 1st and 2nd level pcs vs a pair of Ogres. Something I have experienced for decades outside of playing ...
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My most preferred current version of fantasy dungeon games is BFRPG, there are no alignments in that game. This frees players that want their characters to be heroes to act as heroes and those th...
http://aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com/2023/12/secret-alignment-system.html
I added round corridor layouts to my map generator, here's a rescaled copy of a random output. Door placement on thus could be tricky but I'll figure it out.
http://aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com/2023/07/another-random-megan-dungeon-map.html
a Randomly generated Megadungeon map: Generated from a program I'm working on. Each tile on the map is 10' by 10', the image is scaled up 200% after generation. No doors just yet and ther...
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Congratulations of Chris and everyone involved with the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game on getting the 4th Edition of the rules out there and under a new non-WOTC license. Solomoriah Speaks...
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So this week in RPG-land I've heard that PAIZO is ditching the Drow for a whole host of reasons including how the Drow are still linked to IP controlled by WOTC. Here's the best reason to ditch...
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Surely, you've noticed PCS and NPCs in Gamma World, and Mutant Future have a lot of Hit Points? You must have also noticed high tech weapons and some mutant attacks do a ton of damage but old-fas...
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Fiddling about last night with programming a retro-stlye RPG map generator to spit out "city-size" ruin maps for games like Mutant Future and Gamma World. It's got a lot of work if I really wan...
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Basic equipment list The Outlaws of The DragonWrack campaign. General Equipment Item Cost Item Cost Cooking & Food TRAVELING & EXPLORATION Ale (1 quart) 4 cp Backpack 12 sp Brandy (1...
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ASHBOG Move Cost: 8; Search Cost: 12; Riding: -4 swamps of vile grey vegetation struggling in quaking bogs of muddy ash. Ashbog Hazards 2d6 roll 2 Bog Tentacles 1d4 Tent...
Here's a terrain type as it currently appear in my draft notes for my Outlaws of The Dragonwrack campaign. Move cost is from a daily total of points qual to the movement rate of a party. Sear...
One of the players for my upcoming campaign has created his first PC and sent him along to me. DALGRAN FIREALE DWARF CLERIC; KIN: Stonelander Dwarf; Religion: Celestial; Languages: Commo...
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Exiles, for even the Dragonwrack is not entirely beyond the reach of The Overlord and those his law do not break or enslave are sent here to endure. Fugitives that have fled the wrath of The...
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Of Dragons. Dragons the great wurmmes of the earth once swarmed the world in vast flights scouring the lands of all it could produce feeding upon the populations of the old world as a wild beas...
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Here's the campaign pitch for my latest campaign: They came with shriek one summer day as a plague of locusts, their cries were deafening; their breath burnt the air as it boiled the sea and ...
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Reality snuck up and stole a month. Luckily it didn't steal all of it and I got a chance to DM for a new crew of players lined-up. My wife re-connected with an old school friend who had a group...
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I think Dragonfist did kits right. The kits weren't just a package of over-powered crunch but actually provided the tools to fit the character in to the campaign. Each PC had to select a kit...
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In Dragonfist (The Forgotten D&D Editon) there are 4 character classes Fighter, Wizard, Shaman, and Thief (yeah Thief not "Rogue"). Kits are applied to focus characters more on the style of p...
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Let's look deeper into DRAGONFIST the forgotten editon of Dungeons and Dragons! The 1st level Wizard spells Backbiter Charm Person Cobra's Breath Detect Magic Elemental Charm Give...
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Once upon a time there was an edition of Dungeons and Dragons released as pdf only. This was DRAGONFIST. Released in 1999 it got eclipsed and generally forgotten with the release of...
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A planner/reference graphic for a game project involving spacecraft on a hexgrid. Not a complete official illustration just a knocked-out sample for my own reference. Got to work on the de...
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