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     Broken States: a Cyberpunk Future

    July 6, 2022 / Comments Off on  Broken States: a Cyberpunk Future

    I am doing the RPG Writer’s Workshop again this month. This is an attempt to break my writer’s block, among other things. This time around I decided to write an adventure for a system other than D&D for a change. This time I am working on a cyberpunk genre adventure for Modern AGE by Green Ronin. It is a system I wish I had more time to play. As part of this adventure, I decided I needed at least a rough background. I am not writing this for an existing world, so I figured I should have some world information to put in the adventure. Just enough to have a…

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    June 25, 2020
    Medieval Drawing of skeletons

    Different Rules for Death.

    September 23, 2017
    Image of a metal skull in flames

    Something in the future wants you dead

    May 18, 2021
  • Blogroll,  Games

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 5: the Licensed and not so Licensed

    March 9, 2019 / Comments Off on The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 5: the Licensed and not so Licensed

    My last post about the various licensed & slightly unlicensed settings that appeared in D&D over the years.

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    February 2, 2021
    A collection of DC Super Villains

    More Thieves Guilds To Further Your Criminal Endeavors

    August 9, 2017
    The compelling Planescape logo by Tony DiTerlizzi

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 3: The Meta-Settings

    January 1, 2019
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    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 1

    November 28, 2018 / 4 Comments

    This idea started as a twitter thread. I started listing the various settings of D&D. That was both useful and a reminder of the limits of Twitter.  What I ran into was the limited character count of twitter. This made me abbreviate  the list in places where I shouldn’t have. I also failed to list a couple of major items. This post is part of my attempt to be more thorough.

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    4 Grand Thieves Guilds

    July 22, 2017
    Illuminated Text

    The School of Vitomancy

    August 15, 2020
    Jacob Wrestling angle line drawing

    The Way of the Grasping Hand: a Midgard “monastic” Tradition

    June 23, 2018
  • Blogroll,  Games

    5 Things Superhero RPG’s Should Have, in my own biased opinion

    September 18, 2018 / Comments Off on 5 Things Superhero RPG’s Should Have, in my own biased opinion

    I have been thinking alot about Superhero RPG’s lately. I am a fan of them and I have been since the TSR Marvel Super Heroes Role Playing Game came out in the 80’s. I went on to run multiple games in multiple systems, but Champions certainly got most of my time.    I love comics…let me restate that…I LOVE COMICS!   I read a whole bunch of comics. I have been reading them pretty much since I learned how to read. Most of them were superhero stories, so enjoying superhero RPG;s ties into that. I fell off playing the superhero RPG’s about a decade ago. Over time as the design…

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    June 18, 2020
    Warforged Warrior and Sorcerer

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    February 24, 2013

    The many names of spells and how to change them.

    November 7, 2018
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    Honor Among Thieves

    January 2, 2018 / Comments Off on Honor Among Thieves

    Honor Among Thieves They say there is no honor among thieves.  That is probably true, but there are rules. There are societies, crews and of course guilds. I have written up a few guilds and there are plenty of others to draw on, but it can be hard for some folks to figure out how to use them. The easiest use of course is adversaries. They steal the PC’s stuff and the PC’s have to get it back.  Either that, or they beat the PC’s to the loot. That is fine but is not always the most compelling answer. Many players are into the whole idea of playing criminals. There is something to the…

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    Elemental Beasts part 2

    June 25, 2020

    Spell Books of Infamy

    January 7, 2017

    Undead Beware the Gravedigger’s Wrath: The Gravedigger Rogue Archetype

    June 11, 2017
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    The Plan 2018 Edition

    January 1, 2018 / Comments Off on The Plan 2018 Edition

    So….new year.  Last year was not great on so may levels. It was a bad year.  It gets no biscuit. Now we begin a new year with a new plan.  The plans may go off the rails, but you got to start somewhere. A plan is not a resolution. A plan is structure of activities and goals.  Here is my plan for 2018.

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    Researching New Spells

    April 19, 2017

    An idea for a scifi game using 5th edition part 1

    November 25, 2016
    A collection of DC Super Villains

    4 Grand Thieves Guilds

    July 22, 2017
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    Rules For Spell Books (Or how I learned to relax and hang out in libraries)

    January 20, 2017 / 2 Comments

    I think I have established I love spell books.  The spell book is an integral part of the wizardry motif.  The book, the object, is a needed part of what wizards do in D&D. The current rules do require you to record your spells, but I do think it could be even more emphasized.

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    Setting Project: Redefining Humanity for Ballad.

    January 16, 2020

    New Spells for new Spell Books

    April 12, 2017

    Spell Books of Infamy

    January 7, 2017
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    Spell Books of Infamy

    January 7, 2017 / 1 Comment

      I love spell books.  I did a video about them and everything.  They are fascinating elements to magic in fantasy.  Wizards are supposed to be wise. They got that way because of what they learned. None of that is cutting deals with powers, thank you very much.  I am looking at you Warlocks. Books are where you store that knowledge.

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    Other Than Gods

    May 11, 2019

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 4: Micro-settings

    January 26, 2019
    Movie poster for the hobbit

    The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

    December 17, 2012
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    More Scifi fifth edition, with more background

    January 1, 2017 / Comments Off on More Scifi fifth edition, with more background

    First post of the new year, and it isn’t a resolutions post?  What silliness is this? Nope, I am going to post another in my series on doing a scifi game in 5e. The first post can be found here.   Where was I? Ah, Backgrounds.   Backgrounds are awesome. It is one of the most interesting aspects to 5th editions is the idea of backgrounds. It adds more depth than just class and race. It adds variety to characters, flavor, and themes. Things like it had existed before, of course. In 2nd edition, there were the kits, which sort of tied to a background, and also added some subclass…

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    Criminal Variants: Con Artist

    January 8, 2018

    The Vigilante Rogue: The Justice Found In The Dark

    July 27, 2017

    The many names of spells and how to change them.

    November 7, 2018
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    SciFi 5th edition experiment part 3 fun with Aliens

    December 6, 2016 / Comments Off on SciFi 5th edition experiment part 3 fun with Aliens

    A few things.  First, you can find my earlier posts on this Science Fiction 5e thread here, and here. Second, let me know if you like these.  I will keep writing them if people are getting anything out of them. Third, sorry it took a day or two longer to get this out.  Writing races is not as exciting and writing classes. I also had some other issues going on, but real life is like that some times. I did briefly consider doing my own artwork for these, but remembered I am not a great artist.  

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