tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70742908996106383042024-03-05T15:43:37.459-05:00games with othersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-26817768030889577762015-10-14T00:48:00.001-04:002015-10-16T20:04:19.319-04:00MONSTERPARTS ADVENTURE/IN THE WOODS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In The Woods is a <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2013/08/monsterparts-attribute-less-d.html" target="_blank">Monsterparts</a> adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PDF is for sale <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/fWSrw" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has all the rules you'll need to run the game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is designed to make Monsterparts into a longer running game rather than an episodic freakout game (a first).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An hex map with 64 entries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11 magic items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 monsters, including the below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">384</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- as a member of a vigilante justice cult (and possibly the only/last member), you get a motorcycle</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Strength Crits (Successful melee attack rolls under your Str score Crit): you go for the gore and the condition of their body stuns your target for a turn (no save)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">roll d100 twice per level advance, including first. You can pick any of the first 00-45 values instead of rolling a die. You can re-pick anything you’ve already rolled if re-rolls are mentioned. Once maxed, subsequent rolls of the value should be re-rolled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">00-15</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 Hit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">51-80</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+d8 damage with melee weapons (max +2d8)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">61-70</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 Str, Cha or Con, then Wis Int or Dex. 18 max score.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">71-75</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 action in a combat turn 1/session (max 3/session)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">75-80</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+automatically succeed in a Cha check by acting sexy and </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dangerous 1/session (re-roll, 2/session, then 3/session max)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">85-90</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+upon landing a crit, your radiant beauty heals d4 HP (then d6, d8, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">enemies to make a morale check</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">97-98</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+radiant skin. 1/session your beauty erupts: immune to radiation </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">damage or deal half your damage in radiant damage to all in melee </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(re-roll pick the other option, then increase uses a session for both </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">until 3/session).</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">99-00</span><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 Great Map Fragment</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-71234384856000787272015-08-31T18:37:00.000-04:002015-08-31T23:17:36.432-04:00ARMED (D&D LOTFP Fighter hack for ROT)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feats </span><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> used to: treat a failed Saving Throw as a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> success, add another die to a damage roll, figure </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> out how to use a weapon you can normally carry, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">128</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">256</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">384</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.3333333333333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stone</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">magic</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">advantages</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Strength Crits (Successful melee attack rolls under your Str score Crit): add as many die as you’ve extra (ie, more than 4) limbs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Carry [your level + 1] many weapons without being encumbered by them</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sidekick </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one hired merc becomes your sidekick, a Weapons Expert</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STACK</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">roll d100 twice per level advance, including first. You can pick any of the first 00-45 values instead of rolling a die. You can re-pick anything you’ve already rolled if re-rolls are mentioned. Once maxed, subsequent rolls of the value should be re-rolled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">00-20</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 Hit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21-30</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 Saves</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">41-50</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+d8 HP</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">41-45</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 AC (max +2), then treat as a roll of 46-50</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">46-50</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+d8 damage with ranged weapons (max +2d8), then Dex Crits</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">55-60</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+d8 damage with melee weapons (max +2d8), then treat any </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">standard melee weapon as a throwing weapon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60-70</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">+1 Str, Dex or Con, then Wis Int or Cha. 18 max score.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Lato; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of them are intelligent. Many are arrogant. Fleshed dead use zombie stats (but move as humans) and the Old dead use skeleton’s stats(but move faster than humans and can climb sheer surfaces). City bureaucrats are Shadows and higher level officials are mummies or mummy lords. There are no liches other than Ix as necromancers are forbidden. <span id="docs-internal-guid-0f7f2cc9-08d8-8693-f9a5-8068f0e15e9c"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Ixian generals are vampires, giant albino bats, always hungry, violent. </span></span>The dead do not increase in number. They are all the original citizens of Ix. As such they predate many of the gods, let alone human beings. What they remember is unclear. Surely some remember everything and they are the most well regarded and powerful. They are also the most likely to suffer attacks, recriminations, censure and exile. Their memory is likely potent and can be translated into a spell of the last/highest two levels or into a kind of spell-key into vault-lands long forgotten, great graveyards of creation, ready for robbing if only you could get back out again and if only the terrible things waiting in the bad, failing geometry weren't waiting for prey like you, prey that could lead them back to your home and a new creation to unwind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Somewhere between 1941's </span><i style="color: #222222;">The Wolf Man</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and when seven, eight or nine year-old me got his hands on D&D, werewolves had ceased to be something that were, in essence, frightening.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm picking on werewolves here but this is true of a ton of our monsters, right? Like I think some monsters enter our common consciousness long after 1941, sometimes enter it precisely because of D&D, and still they're already old hat. The problems are many.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Like, ontological: I think the werewolf enters the modern psyche as an archetype for ersatz cannibals and violent madmen, maybe with a little fear of nature in all senses of that word thrown into the mix. It's not a very potent or moving or upsetting archetype as it describes fears I doubt many of us have in a present way. Maybe worse, it wraps those fears in an animal form that I think might read more furry than anything else these days. Do any other D&D monsters fare much better? I'm not sure they do, personal squeamishness about things with lots of legs aside.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">And then in the context of a game where people have magic, things get worse. Changing into a wolf is scary only if wolves and/or people changing shape are scary, right? In a game where wolves and people changing shape are standard tropes, where the response to a metamorphoses into a wolf leads the wizard to go, "Oh, I have that spell too," the were-creature is already old hat <i>prima facie</i>. I mean, it's fun in a creature-feature reference way, but it isn't essentially frightening and as Referee I feel like I'm wasting everyone's time talking about it transforming, but have to anyway because there's that whole ritual necessity to stories where, "it turns into a werewolf" falls flat because everyone wants the same boring thing about changing faces and tearing clothes and oh, how terrible is the widening mouth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Like, fantasy games create these spongy boundaries, so you can't just go: whoop, <i>it's arms are too too long</i> and everyone is like, oh god what is it? They're like, oh, do we know about people with long arms?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then there are rules. We've got both cultural and mechanical rules getting in the way. Werewolves have culturally established rules involving ways to kill them and those rules work in favor of the player every time. Like, if its a werewolf and silver doesn't work because it's a special werewolf, there are players I've had, there are always and always have been and always will be players who will just see that as Referee bullshit. And everyone else that plays along will only play along so many times.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And every monsters in D&D has rules to kill them and while it's perfectly OK, in my mind, to include a nigh-unkillable monster in a game, it's shitty to provide an entirely unkillable monster, and no one wants to play in a game of D&D where all the monsters are unkillable or even nigh-unkillable, so if they just run into a furry half-man, half-wolf in some cave, it's totally reasonable of my players to expect to be able to kill it <i>somehow</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which is to say werewolves still work, but they work <i>only </i>or <i>mostly </i>when they are nigh-unkillable and mechanically frightening.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And so much of the baggage (resistances, powers, ecology, etc.) that our monsters bring with them is boring or mostly boring or is mostly only interesting when it's in the context of something else interesting, like, "what kind of monster is this?" or "this whole town is werewolves and a full moon is rising" or "turns out that silver we bought was just spray-painted on." Which is fine, but kind of dull for me, as a Referee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Then there is Grendel's mother, the </span></span><i style="background-color: white;">aglæcwif</i><span style="background-color: white;"> (monster-wife), who, though,</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>idese onlicnæs</i> (appearing as a woman) is also mother of monsters, and a <i>brimwylf </i>(briny shewolf, lit. sea she-wolf). Never called a <i>werwulf</i> (man-wolf), she yet remains a wolf creeping up from a hell of black water and serpents, arrayed in the form of a woman. She holds court in those depths, her vassals are serpents and monsters, her reign twinning that of noble Hrothgar on the surface, her treasure halls similarly stocked. It appears she can breathe under water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grendel's mother scares the shit out of me. She is human and not, monster and not, maybe almost a bit of a god. There are no clear rules.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What seems frightening to me is not the mythologized, animalized, damaged, violent person, which <i>werwulf </i>probably signified in the Nordic context (some poor dude with PTSD and/or diminished intelligence and shit luck), but the actual damaged, violent person who is, at times, possibly an actual monster, because we don't really know the rules with them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>True Detective </i>worked so well because we never were quite sure if the villain's gnostic pretensions were true or not, right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what does a werewolf look like? Something like Hisako Horikawa here:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Imagine that transition between human and some stranger, tighter, more urgent form, as it buries its face and hands in the soft belly of your friend, working its way through the organs and up into the ribcage to find the lungs and heart. And then the transition ceases. Maybe you see it ripple along the body of some kid you encounter outside of town on the edge of woods, maybe you see your linkboy undergo a similar change out of the corner of your eye.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">*</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I wanted to talk about </span><i style="color: #222222;">manitou </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and Louise Erdrich's </span><i style="color: #222222;">Antelope Wife </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">too </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">but I can't find my old notes; I mention both only to indicate they're influential here too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solution One (already covered): change how you talk about monsters when you run a game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solution Two: change what "monster" means. Move it beyond or outside of D&D (or most other roleplaying games I've encountered).</span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; white-space: normal;">As discussed already, a monster is not just a rupture in the natural order, it is also a sign of the same. It is the beast and it is its call in the night, and it is the prophecy that foretold its coming and it is the calf born with two heads when it sidles by the barn to pluck a young farmhand from asleep in the hay.</span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is what hearing about monsters does to you: you are nervous, worried, the world feels unsafe, you jump at loud noises, avoid shadows, mistrust everyone, all of which takes its toll. In <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2013/08/monsterparts-attribute-less-d.html" target="_blank">Monsterparts </a>(and the thing on which I'm working) I called these Secrets, but the name is secondary. They deplete your health. If you have x HP, now you have x-1 HP just for the thing existing. Being around the monster, being in its lair is worse, more depletion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-night vision: eyes reflect light like a dog's</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-little statues in home shrines to a wide mouthed little god, similar signs scratched newer sewer entrances, but no one says what god to which they prey</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-general starvation, crop failure, horribly skinny people eye you from rags, slowly chewing or sucking on a bone or what must be a strip of leather</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-lethargic governance, no one does anything to help, pretends there is no problem, men meant to watch in the night stay inside and hide, fearful</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-scratching in the walls of your room, holes in the walls much too large for a rat</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-people leave bowls of blood out on their stoop, in the morning, the bowls are empty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">-crude maps of the insides of houses, with much more attention paid to where people sleep and to the spaces between walls</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">-its corpse is marked with a brand on its forehead, knife-shaped, though its children have no such mark</span></span></div>
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3. IN THE TEMPLE IN THE VAST, DARK FOREST
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Faction the horde Monster scrambling eaters
For Later a pit into the terrible underground, a maze of the spaces inside walls</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7000007629395px; white-space: pre-wrap;">attributions: Sankai Jutsu, Sam Wolfe Connelly</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-33085471411982572222015-03-30T12:46:00.004-04:002015-03-30T16:05:08.197-04:00MONSTRUM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word "monster" comes from the latin <i>monstrum</i> where it means both a thing which is not of the natural order but also a sign, omen or portent of the same. It is both the thing in the dark, but also the claw marks it leaves on the door, the way animals walk backward when it is near, an eclipse heralding its birth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2015/03/inside-outside-about-scary-games.html" target="_blank">Also, we've got internal/safe spaces and external/potentially dangerous spaces.</a> Horror has monsters lurking on the outside, trying to get into the safe spaces or it has a revelation that there is no internal/safe space, that the whole world is monstrous (or it has some combination of the two). In both cases, we're talking about ontological rupture of the first order, of the truest essence: something that makes being human as we understand "human" deeply problematic if not impossible (or at least, I feel like <i>good</i> horror should do that).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">YOU CAST YOUR EYES BEYOND THE VEIL, ON THE HORIZON... SOMETHING</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. When you make a Magic-User, tell the GM what is out beyond the veil, chasing you, trying to get in. You might be wrong, you might have seen it incorrectly. It might have changed its form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Whenever you cast a spell, roll a d20 and tell the GM the result. The GM keeps a record of the results. It's always getting closer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D&D provides two approaches to this. On the one hand, you've got points of light in a howling wasteland populated by the monstrous (Greyhawk, the encounter tables in the first edition of D&D and the map it suggest you use for your game world all are of this order); on the other hand, you've got relatively civilized, late medieval peoples living their lives and then tucked away in a few dark corners is an alternate world of monsters (B/X and most of the Basic modules have this more Beowulf feel to them). The former seems to often be the end result of a campaign, the latter its starting point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both can work as a kind of horror game. Where D&D really falls down on the horror front is the monotony of dungeons and the way it deploys monsters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they are in a dark tunnel and they see eyes in the dark, reflecting like a dog's, and they hear oncoming steps, quick breathing, the sound of metal hitting stone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one of the magic-users throws a torch forward and they see something human shaped, clothed in rags, moving towards them at a run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the aftermath, they find a body, mangled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Players: What was it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You: Do you want to look at it? How are you going to inspect it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Players: We'll poke it. If it's lying face down, we roll it over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You: (because rolling it over sounds good and because you want to be verbose) it's human-shaped but small, maybe like a teenager or a malnourished teenager. It's bony and its skin is sort of grey, but it's also very dirty so you'd need to wash it off to tell its skin color for sure. Maybe the proportions are a little off? Maybe it's legs are a little short? It's wearing rags that look like they might have been clothes once. It's not holding anything. It has stringy hair. It doesn't respond when you poke it, it's like poking a raw turkey or chicken. You roll it over with a pole, which one of you is doing that? How close are you getting?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Players: I'm rolling it over and I guess I'll put a torch down by it and get close, but I'll have a shield up, in case. I'll have my spear like, on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You: OK. You roll it over with a pole and its arm flops to the side. It's nose is bloody and its face looks mostly human, though its mouth looks too big, maybe? There's something weird about its mouth. Anyone want to put their hand in its mouth?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Players: Nope. So is it like a human?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You: It's <i>like</i> a human, sure. It <i>looks</i> a lot like a human."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What they've just fought, in terms of stats, is a goblin. When they find more goblins later, they all look like the first one. There are also children like this goblin, and they're just as dangerous. Some don't speak, others speak in a language no one recognizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's possible that in another bolthole there are goblins that look like this first one. There are certainly other goblins that look the same but who work differently. One can only be harmed in the light. Another heals whenever it's in the dark. A third heals any injury, even fatal ones, if buried in the earth. Others make elaborate traps. Some worship something made of blood and fire and it is their king and it gives them great strength and sight beyond the veil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's part of the puzzle anyway. The other part has to do with mechanics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>attribution: <a href="http://www.samwolfeconnelly.com/" target="_blank">Sam Wolfe Connelly </a>(who is amazing)</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-70567305799012696592015-03-19T16:34:00.001-04:002015-03-19T17:06:15.982-04:00INSIDE OUTSIDE, ABOUT SCARY GAMES<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is an inside and an outside. Inside is always safe. Outside is maybe not safe. The imminence of danger outside and its desire or propensity to test the boundary or how leaky the boundary is describes your living circumstances or, if you're a character in a book or a game, your genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adults have a much bigger inside space than kids. For kids, inside is your home and maybe some grassy area nearby. Maybe not your home all the time, just when it's well lit. And maybe not certain parts of the house, the places that are alcoves and behind a number of turns, where no one goes and being there feels like you're almost not in your house anymore. This is how you get to Narnia and this is why Pennywise peeks out of the sewers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't really rational, it's about feelings. It's about feelings and space and other living things and our senses interacting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senses and experience help make things inside.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Mother%27s_Call" target="_blank">Sight is always better than sound</a> and sound is better than smell and taste is pretty shit. I'm not sure where touch goes, touch seems to often betray me (why is it wet and slimy?). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-If experience says: a dog bites the dog is outside and being confronted with the dog I may find myself suddenly outside too; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-If experience says: a dog is warm and friendly and maybe even a protector and an ally, dogs are inside and I am inside when I'm around a dog;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-If I hear a dog and experience says: that's a dog, then we fall back to the previous constellation of things one could feel about dogs upon seeing them;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-If I hear a dog and experience says nothing about dogs, then I default to "animal"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-If I hear an animal, and animal reads "probably another rabbit or something" I'm still safe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-If I hear an animal, and animal reads "could be a coyote" and then I think about teeth and claws or just rabies, i'm teetering on</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the border between in and out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think about this and then think about what it's like running or sneaking through a forest at night or a dungeon with the short radius of a light a torch casts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I HEAR AN ANIMAL AND THERE ARE TEETH AND CLAWS AND COILED MUSCLES FOR LEAPING</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is something nearby, something potentially outside, testing the boundary. Confronting it may leave me immediately outside, leaving it be may mean it gets in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lacking sufficient experience or knowledge, imagination jumps in and supplies possible answers to, "what is it outside?" and imagination gets dragged along by lizard brain until you're imagining someone living the crawlspace, scratching at the floorboards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The point is: what is reliably in and what is likely out is learned but there are ways you trick yourself or let yourself be tricked out of knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For players to be frightened they (a) have to be willing to be frightened and (b) have have something to be frightened of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can't do anything about (a), really. (b) requires a subtle series of traducements and something they care about that is being threatened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Jaws</i> and <i>Alien </i>and <i>Phantasm</i> and ghost stories and possession stories and slasher movies are usually about something implacable that emanates malevolent outside, something whose sheer presence gobbles up the safe inside and spits out outside and then navigating a small space with limited options to get away, to find your way back off this ice or out of the water and into safe territory. You don't see the monster all that much because being around it enough to really get a good look gets you dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lovecraft and Ligotti and others are about the anxiety of outside getting in or that you've mistaken the outside for the inside and realize you are suddenly in deep, dark waters and something is brushing your feet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the second mode, there is a hint of something wrong and then other hints and the players pull the thread and the whole thing comes apart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A boy stands inside his house looks out a window at night, and the light outside is dark blue, and the boy sees a shadowy man he does not know burying a sack at the base of the tree in his backyard. He is inside, watching the outside act like the outside. When the man is gone and things feel less outside, the boy digs up the sack:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-style: italic; line-height: 22.7391986846924px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He opened the bundle, to find a human heart inside. He recognized its shape and color from the picture he had seen in his encyclopedia. The heart was still fresh and alive and moving, like a newly abandoned infant. True, it was sending no blood out through its severed artery, but it continued to beat with a strong pulse. The boy heard a loud throbbing in his ears, but it was the sound of his own heart. The buried heart and the boy’s own heart went on pounding in perfect unison, as if communicating with each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-<i>Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</i>, Haruki Murakami</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's the outside: dangerous, enigmatic, alien, unknown, communicating <i>something</i> almost understandable but not quite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>attribution: <a href="http://osric90.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Osric90</a></i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-87122114635813187302015-03-18T01:42:00.000-04:002015-03-18T01:42:11.194-04:00Monsters, new ruleset sort of<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on new rules. Endurance is like HP, HD (hazard die) is what's rolled for damage. Here are some monsters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All children grow up and the way Wendy knew this was that adults are inconsiderate of children and talk about mortality in front of toddlers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some children avoid growing up by remaining forever children, though, perhaps not, technically speaking, human.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a well known fact that a small percentage of children walking down lonely footpaths in wild woods or unkempt fields of shoulder-high wild flowers, that little boys and girls hiding in wardrobes among the tall smooth and buttoned coats that hang like vines in a jungle, that those hiding behind curtains or under beds or in bushes so large they have a space by the root which is almost like an inverted nest, the bare and brittle limbs like a poky cradle, have hid so well that they have hid from the eye of reality, slipped beneath the skin of perception and fallen or perhaps climbed or else woken up in some place very different but in many strange ways quite the same. Search parties find nothing, or rarely anything. Occasionally a missing shoe or a torn pair of pants, none of which are very convincing to anyone but the police who, it should be noted, would very much like to be convinced and then out of the cold and back in the station around an electric heater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children of ages 8 to even as old as 16 are possessed of skeletons whose proportional characteristics render them susceptible to similar effects and fields as our migratory birds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example: a child now lost in a strange and difficult land may be able to navigate their way to a safe place by following the stars (second from the right, straight on til morning) or by testing the moss growing on trees for any clever, well-read child knows that moss and other wet, dark green things hide from the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children lost and wandering in this manner usually find themselves at one of several places: the Fort in the Woods; the Castle in the Caves; the Ship on the Island. On the way there or once they've arrived, they find themselves a bit changed. Perhaps a bit grey or scaly and possessed of eyes larger than normal and teeth which are certainly sharper than they used to be. The change isn't dramatic, just enough that they might appear like-themselves-but-not-themselves should an adult compare their photos to a registry of missing children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These lost children have the same stats as goblins, though they have greater variety and many of them are missing a shoe or a pair of pants or are wearing a magical scarf and use kludged weapons and wooden swords to attack (doing damage as normal).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More on variations, each of the places the children live, and on Wendy, Peter and terrible elves in another post (or two).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>attributions: Nintendo, Berserk</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-7730877498754273832015-01-25T01:27:00.000-05:002015-01-25T01:46:30.074-05:00Childhood Staring for Too Long<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PCs who are children or teenagers who rescue other children or teenagers or fail horribly trying to rescue them. For tactical reasons and emotional and spiritual ones. (<a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2013/08/monsterparts-attribute-less-d.html" target="_blank">Monsterhearts</a>. Over the Garden Wall. Adventure Time. John Bellairs. Gorey. Shintaro Kago. Takato Yamamoto. Maruo)<br />
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Wizards are from some wizard academy and they are all hot, condescending rich kids that don't really give you the time of day. like this one.<br />
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Dopplegangers not so much in the D&D monster sense, but in the literal sense. Jealous alternates. And places that are dopplegangers. (If a PC dies when no one is around, ask the player in secret if they want to come back as the malignant, weird version of themselves. They weep after killing a monster. When they think no one is looking, their character stares into the distance and they detect as neither evil nor good, but they are terrified of _sanctuary_. And they gain a fetish for masks of any kind, always wear them.).<br />
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Animals that wear clothes and act like people but also eat one another and don't really understand language and just pretend at civilization and stare too long at the humans that talk to them. (there is a 1 in 3 chance that any village or town is animals instead of people. The shops take nuts (squirrels sell books and clothing and rations and tools) or worms (birds sell spells and secrets) or fresh meat (weapons, armor) instead of money, the courts determine things with fights to the death using only claws and teeth (you can probably convince the judge that a sword or something is like "your claws" if you do a good job of miming. otherwise charisma check or something))<br />
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People riding deer that seem to understand them like a person would.<br />
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Fairytales and Ovid and things where people are punished because the world is unfair and because they weren't clever and hadn't figured out the secrets. (dryads trapped in trees by thug boyfriends. nice people turned into monsters because the mayor didn't like them. children raised as killers because their parents are awful. the emperor is the worst of all, like a monster pope.)<br />
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Gods that are monster.<br />
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Orcs that are just racist regular people in white robes and pointed caps with lots of muscles that worship something horrible and all fuck eachother.<br />
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Goblins that are just the lost boys and their king is a scaly peter pan. They are at war for esoteric reasons with other goblins led by the serious and kind Wendy (who is an <a href="http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-alice-pc-class-for-any-kind-of-d.html?zx=fa0065438cd0cce0" target="_blank">Alice</a>). They have magical scarves made by mothers they've forgotten (cantrip 1/game and then the scarf is ruined, the scales fall off and the boy or girl starts growing into an adult).<br />
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Magical longjongs (always warm or jump high or better AC).<br />
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Landscapes that are the maps of people's minds. Like <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2013/07/ghostland-is-coming-to-end-you.html" target="_blank">Ghostland</a>. Or the <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-limbo-d-little-bit-of-spelljammer.html" target="_blank">limbic crust in Limbo</a>.<br />
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Things with eyes like flashlights. Like that frog in the fiend folio.<br />
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<a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/ghouls-5e-d-race.html" target="_blank">Ghouls that glow like ghosts in the night.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-896298839492917882015-01-14T01:38:00.001-05:002015-01-14T01:52:51.584-05:00The Red Saint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are are seven Saints in the garden, five of which are known and two of which have wrapped themselves in secrecy. One of the five is presented here.</span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">a. give them resistance to magic; </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">b. none may cast spells, but my use <i>teleport</i> 3/session, <i>geas</i> 1/session, <i>gate </i>1/session and <i>true polymorph</i> 1/session; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">d. except for the Red Saint, they don't really look like they could be undead and none detect as such.</span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each has a phylactery hidden like a splinter in the eye of a demon prince. The princes are tormented by the phylactery, but no demon may remove them.</span></span><br />
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<b>THE RED SAINT/THE CRIMSON LADY/SAINT SUSPIRIA/MOTHER OF SIGHS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Red is a pretty, emaciated, young woman in a tattered dress. Wounds describe her body, some fresh, some necrotic, a few still sport darts or arrow shafts. Her legs are wrapped tightly in dirty bandages so that the flesh of her thighs and calves bulges through the gaps, like purple marble. Her nails are broken and filthy and when she is thinking, she runs them through her endless, greasy black hair. She coughs despondently, frequently. She is bad at feigning piety and compassion and mostly moans to cover up her disgust with supplicants.</span><br />
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<i>It's said</i> she takes pity on doomed lovers, especially women, and those suffering from afflictions; it's also said that she is most fond of the gallant and chivalrous.</span><br />
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<i>She hates </i>the blue saint most, then doomed lovers, then the gallant and chivalrous, then everyone else</span><br />
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<i>Hidden on her:</i> behind her hair, along her back, are hundreds of faces of various size, many no larger than a wart, but some the size of a hand. She uses these faces to replace her own should it be damaged for she cannot stand disfigurement of her visage. All these faces and the one she now wears are identical in appearance; also</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">buried into her arm, the base just protruding from below the wrist is a needle-like <i>wand of hemorrhaging </i>with four charges (being buried in her flesh recharges it) (treat as a <i>wand of fireball</i> but damage is dealt by leaking blood out of various orifices for d3 turns).</span><br />
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<i>When no one is watching</i> she is popping one of the faces on her back like a pimple (listen for the tiny screams). With each pop, she shudders sensuously.</span><br />
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<i>If near death: </i>she'll <i>gate</i> to a demiplane that's a red flesh landscape pulled taught over numbing needles walking about likely causes paralysis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she unravels a bloody bandage from her leg luxuriously. Stuffing this in your mouth heals as if rested. A character can only enjoy this effect 1/session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the blood, heart or liver of something magical or exotic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cure all diseases afflicting a person</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">places the soul of one thing of 3 HD or less in a doll in a red dress. The dress and doll slowly fall to pieces, turning to a charred stake in 1-2 weeks (the Merchant will say three), at which time the soul returns to its original home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one’s soul (must obey the commands of the Merchant 3 times, after which the soul-let is relinquished)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can make a red knife, or long long red sword, magical, +damage against living things as it causes profuse bleeding and welts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the heart of a mighty creature; or the death, maiming or face of whomever is connected to the person making the request that would be most awful to choose*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1/game</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*so like, if a woman is asking for her lover to be returned to life, the Red Saint will grant the request if the woman surrenders her face. That sort of thing.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-65343423513097145242015-01-02T11:21:00.002-05:002015-01-02T11:21:47.226-05:00something something something (what I've been working on)I have been largely absent because of not-game things. I continue to work on a hexcrawl that's also kind of a pointcrawl. I dunno. One of the few times where I care less about the mechanics than I do about the thing itself.<br />
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*Humans made themselves out of tools and so they make weapons and armor but they also make gods that are just and kind.<br />
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*Elves are thin and beautiful and perfect and cruel. If humans were monkeys before they were humans, elves were wolves.<br />
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*There are a number different version of the world, each with its own dominant peoples. It's not clear why this has happened, but there was one world and now there are an untold many: a world of elves and its all dead leaves and long teeth and hunger and there is a wold of humans and its all making things making rubbish and leaving it behind and controlling others and organizing and being safe and looking out of windows at the dark, and there is a dwarf world where the trees feed machines and everything feeds machines because the dwarves are making another world and the dead are piled like mountains and there is poison everywhere and a shimmering gas, and there is a proto-world that eats the other worlds and its full of dopplegangers and ghosts, etc, etc.<br />
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*there is a lake of suicides that connects the human world and the elf world, there are also hiding places in bushes and cupboards and under beds that are small enough for children and that open into black and wild places in the elf land<br />
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*children that were always monsters, but some that are getting better and one that is trying very hard but can't stop and feels terrible and sad about it<br />
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*knights in white armor fighting and hurting everyone else but not eachother because they have great armor and are actually monsters themselves<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly all of the dwarves in modern fantasy are from Tolkien. Tolkien's dwarves are an amalgamation of the Hebrew language, second temple period Jews, the more negative characteritics of certain Norse heroes (stubbornness, alcoholism, violence, volatility) and the Nordic Dvergar (short, wise earth spirits, experts in crafting and mining who dwell in mountain halls or below the earth).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">*their laws of utmost importance, but they disregard the laws of all others</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">*proficient in battleaxe, handaxe, throwing hammer and warhammer</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">*speak read and write Common and their own language</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">(ie, as PHB for dwarves)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Forged eventually wear down and collapse. Stilled Forged rot within seconds and are gone within hours, as if designed to leave no trace or else be immediately forgotten. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">The body is Still, but the spirit continues and m</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">ost Forges give voice or even spectral form to the Still. The Still of Gaz'sham retain some form, like ghosts or specters and work alongside their fully corporeal cousins. Gaz'sham is more dead than living. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Similarly, t</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">he Still of Formost are rooted in place in the sea bed fathoms below their stalactite home, are composed primarily of photons and speak in gargling Deep Speech. They stand and sway in the deep, softly glowing in the trillions, making the ocean bed like a moon, like an endless bed of anemones (their knowledge of the deep is said to be fathomless).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">The Still Dwarrow retain no form but are a cacophonic voice and force, rolling stones and cracking trees but at times have appeared </span></span><i style="color: #252525; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">en masse</i><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">, as a tribe of ghostly mountain warriors stretching from the observer to seeming infinity and it is in this form they have their centennial games of ninepins in remote mountain vales. They know the names of most things.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Still Agnians disappear, their burial cave sealed tight by elves. They will someday break the seal and pour over their home like a tide of ice, freezing many to death, locking their homes deep below ground, fouling their own forge unless aided. The Agnian Still regularly seek aid from any they can reach, but have reached no one as of yet.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Each Forge is fortress- or city-sized. Some are worshiped (depending on the Forge, the Knowledge, Tempest, Fortian, Forge or Void Domains). Most are embedded in rock and only partially excavated, the Forged living in their empty spaces, not within the Forge's bulk, where its workings are.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Most Forges are clearly enormous machines of some kind, usually composed of brass and a dull super hard metal as well as poured stone and each Forge is unique in its design. M</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">any are inert, humming and twinkling but cold and otherwise dark. Others are superheated, churning, literally deafening or blinding if you end up in the wrong place or look into the wrong port or hatch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Some are gears and clockwork and Modron scholars explore and catalog the interiors when allowed and others are gas and coolant and tubes and cold green displays and Illithids and Gith try to steal their guts and there are whole ecosystems living in those tubes, most of them stow-aways from somewhere and time very, very distant, their minds like a map to cities no Common-speaking sapient has ever heard of let along visited or else a spellbook of great and alien power.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Most Forges have some motive power, likely all can teleport anywhere in an instant. The Forged have never discovered how to enable these fucntions and those Forges that do move mostly hover or scuttle a centimeter or so every year one way or the other, listless.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Most Forges contain writing composed largely of arrays of lines, some leaning or curling, as if composed by an </span></span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">impatient, brutal hand. The language shares roots with Giant and Infernal and takes loan words from Deep Speech. This is called "Dwarvish".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">Forged keep records of all the other known Forges and they lock these records up tight and keep them encoded and cursed. Most Forges are keyed to the others, making travel from one to the other a matter of tapping a portal key to a portal, though the portal keys are largely lost or else have been intentionally disseminated, to allow certain individuals ready access to the Forges. Forged will pay great sums or craft mighty devices for the return of these keys. Some portals are dead and others are prohibited or malfunctioning. The portal for Formost, for example, is shut. When it was open it just spewed crawling piles of flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">*Forges are some biomechanical computer or sentience of alien purpose or intent and Forged are some kind of maintenance race or defense system or both</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">*or that the Forged are some kind of very specific defense system: the Forges may be thought structures of pure order, crystallized into matter, the Forged a response to sapient life or perhaps a means of communicating with them (in which case there is a fundamental flaw or break in the communication relay because the Forges don't speak to the Forged; an alternative theory is that the Forged are, themselves a kind of language or symbol - akin to the plaque on Pioneer 10 "I see you, I understand you and make things like you" as well as some kind of maintenance or defense mechanism)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 17.318561553955078px;">*the creation of the Forges is often attributed to old, lost creator deities, usually a demonic titan (creator perhaps also of the <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2013/06/other-frontiers-dungeons-megadungeons.html" target="_blank">Dungeon Virus</a> and Elves and other soul-less beings)</span></span></div>
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When they aren't fighting, they are making things or plotting how to get more materials to make more things. Ownership and personality are not distinguished: a Dwarrow's axe is the same as its arm and anything in Dwarrow land not only belongs to the Dwarrow but <i>is </i>Dwarrow in some fundamental sense. Loss of an axe is like loss of an arm and physically hurts (though not as much as the pain a human suffers upon losing a limb - the Dwarrow have so many limbs, the nerves are attenuated). This also means that, at least when within their Dwarrowcraft (the term extends to everything the Dwarrow makes, including its section of Dwarrowhelm), Dwarrow can <i>feel</i> the theft of something (a singe coin like a pin prick, a prized possession like the loss of a child). </div>
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The Sightless, preaching a dual concept of communal self that was coterminous with the ends of a Dwarrow's sight, built massive claiming/observation devices at the tops of mountains and rallied great armies of Dwarrow who claimed and named all they could see. The Sightless's empire was eventually toppled, and its survivors were blinded by those reborn into the Iteration. The Sightless persist among the Still, fomenting perpetual expansion from their spectral generalships.</div>
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<i>attributions: <a href="http://armandeo64.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">armandeo64</a>, Carl & Linda Sagan & Frank Drake, Mignola, Blanche, Adrian Smith</i></div>
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I am on vacation, but I still ran the first episode of <i>Hoard of the Dragon Queen</i>. This isn't about that. This is about reading the first episode (I have a rule about not talking about something someone else made without playing or running it first. My notes are too long and copious and also I left some of them at someone's house. <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/100747085754234335719" target="_blank">+Bryce Lynch</a> is doing fun stuff though, look Bryce up on G+.).</div>
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An important trade center is under attack by mercenaries and kobolds. The town has no walls but is a center of trade. We should rob this place blind and make a new home with the money, and the new home will have walls, and then we will invite everyone from the old town to come live in our new town and they won't stay mad at us, because walls make better neighbors than no walls and bandits forever.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And from the seed of Mary, rotten, teeming, turgid, swollen with life, a great pregnant mystery hidden in the rock, came a new life so that we may live again.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we proclaim that we are Her people, set apart, we keep the festivals, we punish the corrupt, we keep sacred the night, we carry Her word, our flesh a monstrance our lips trumpets.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ghouls in our catacombs and slums are a symbol of a final hunger, a need that turns one's mouth on its own flesh. It borrows its name and its lethal ability from the Arabic, where it is grasping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <i>ghul</i> is like a nightmare about gluttony so total it transforms the man into a hyena that hunts its own kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ghouls of <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/kievs-part-of-5e-d-ravenloft-hexcrawl.html?m=1" target="_blank">Kievs</a> are gluttons, forever hungry for power, order, control. They form empires, they prolestyze endlessly by sword and church and culture. They are intellgient, forming symbiotic relationships with the larva they host (their skin translucent, often luminous, cilia waving, appendages dark cyanotic shades), devouring the unfaithful monstrously, alive, gouts of gore drenching their smart imperial uniforms, confecting and submitting to self-perpetuating machines of torture and correction, massing huge serf populations to build earth cracking mining machines and factory-cities. They retain armies of artists and craftsman as everything must be embellished, epaulets, claws, tromplouiel, frogging, liveries, all the signs of imperial power, acknowledged by the ghoul but never appreciated, just a skin to pull over walls and clothes, to make them acceptable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kievs is bound to a meteor lodged in Limbo's primal soup and the meteor draws to it lost cities and in the meteor is a larva and it has made our leaders pale and cruel and beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mag, evangelist of torment and living saint of the church of christ unburied, with her parasitic double (Gog), is Mary. Or an incarnation of the Maggot Bride. Or she made the whole thing up, but she visited Kievs before it was much of anything, and she visited the ghoulgiving larva upon them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The larva crawled from some lab dish or some holding pen in Inner Kiev and infected the scientists and crashed Inner Kiev into Outer Kiev.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The larva are some experiment in exploration and colonization of extreme places, gone out of control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ghoul life cycle goes larva > moth > ethereal cyst > astral mites > larva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The larva attaches to the base of the skull, requires a weakened host (or one recently dead, mostly intact), is white, with scrabbling black forelegs and a long, fat body and hard tiny head. It gestates for hundreds of years, eventually blossoming into a butterfly like the moon, wet and beautiful, eating rational thought and grammar (so that words happen, but never conjugation or sentences, and scientists are uncertain if this indicates a similar loss of memory or memory - making ability or if the past is locked behind a failing, broken communication machine) and all the colors but black, which is like poison to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then excretes rationality like a filthy black shell, wraps wing over wing and buries itself in a cyst on the tissue of ethereal matter, causing ghosts paralysis, seizures, clogging the flow along the Astral plane, bulging and then hatching thousands of crawling Astral mites, plaguing the hunting hounds of elysium, keeping Odin up at night until they grow fat and long and white and then swimming back down to limbo, called by some strange magnetism back to Kievs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The larva consumes colors and blood and other humanoid waste, like it was made for it and filters out a blood substitute, like a second heart, kidney and liver. The ghoul grows pale, then translucent, its skeleton visible beneath strangely fleshy pulsing tissue, the coursing of circulatory matter obscuring the tissue. Watching or talking with a ghoul is disorienting, like talking to three different things at once (bone structure followed by lagging tissue and fluid exchange structures while trying to pick up the common human expressions).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Damage to the human tissue, if extreme is regrown as waving cilia. The scalp and forearms, neck and chest are sometimes gouged to produce ornamental rills. The digits and cilia, at their extremes are blue, purple, black cyanotic flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ghoul art is nearly entirely mimetic, hyper - realistic copy of life or aping of the art stolen from some other people or place (conquered or coveted). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poetry is generally accepted as the true and most authentic expression of ghoul self/ves, the humanoid self writing mostly doggerel, the larva, in Deep Speech, writing about dreams of wings and another birth and strange shores planes away and travelling astral tides and what cerebus tastes like. Ghouls refer to themselves in the plural, or as 'ves (drop the "sel" or short for vessel) as either an adoption or royal affectation or as an honest assessment of their personhood. It's unclear how much of the larva intrudes on Ghoul thought. It appears to be inconsistent. The Ghouls talk of a walking ves and a dreaming ves, and, among conservatives of a certain streak, male and female ves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art is also often terrifying. The less sensible and mimetic it is, the less it can be like a metaphor or a set meaning, the more it may contaminate the sleeping ves, making it wake early in confusion and revulsion, leading to the death of half ruptured host and unripened larva. </span></div>
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Advantage against poison, impurities of the blood, the extreme pressure of deep sea and space<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rituals are broadly defined by effect. To cast down a foe, to find what is lost, to learn a true name, to learn a secret of an enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Books and scrolls found in old and lost places may contain ritual instruction though wizards and the like may discover a ritual by spending as many days (or hours, if the effect is duplicative of a spell known and trivial to the caster) in contemplation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ritual foci are required for ritual's not confected by magic user contemplation, and then are still strongly desirable as they guarantee success. Foci tend to be macguffins, and confected rituals have pseudo foci kludged from pledges, the casters will and body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Time and Power. Takes a day for its relative power (a d100 ritual takes seven days, a d4 one). To speed things up, add another half die to the inertia or another 2 pledges (reduces time by one step or d20 hours).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By an internal logic similar to Aristotle's striation of the sublunary sphere into concentric elemental slices, the biomes sinking around the Slaad are oriented to one another by temperature, climate and native life such that the temperate biomes often agglomerate into a band on which either side is a more tropic and more arctic band. This isn't universally true and fingers of ocean - impossibly deep cracks teeming with ocean life - span biomes and offer routes for trade, transport and communication (both via sail and submersible, especially the latter, as many share subsurface tributaries). Similarly, deserts and arctic cankers may sit in the middle of a jungle and while, over long centuries, each biome wanders along its borders and the oceans spread and swallow deserts and jungles flood or dry out, natural processes are much too slow and the inevitable inclination toward ultimate dissolution and end in the primal soup of Limbo prevents more serious transition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More jumbled: the agglomeration of biomes can be both vertical and horizontal, meaning that there may be forests under forests (one the mirror of the other, their roots tangled or else actual layers where the roof of one is dotted with the root-tips of the other) or a forest swallowed by a swamp. The inhabitants of the Slaad's districts refer to upper- (lit by the weird light of the Slaad's mind palace) and under- (usually lightless). Oceans may fill such undertructures, but many are dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gentry of the Witchocracies that populate Slaad-touched swamps talk of going to under-forest and upper-swamp, and weave into their long black hair the little bones of the birdlike and lamp-eyed goblins that roam those lightless woods. Some such places are lodged like a bezoar and have petrified, bushes like sharp grey teeth to the touch, or are otherwise well preserved, treasure troves of older technologies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The city-states of the Slaad lands (Ariesne-Orlay, the Atlantis-Ys Protectorate, <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/kievs-part-of-5e-d-ravenloft-hexcrawl.html" target="_blank">Kievs</a>) all have on lease from Gaz'sham traitor-pirates drill-tanks, boring rigs, assaying instruments the size of a house, are seeking caches of lost technology sufficient to kill or incapacitate their Slaad or one another or rocket themselves either out Limbo or at least keep them from sinking further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Had satellite imaging existed, those distinguishing features of civilized life - towns, roads, cultivated expanses - would have been mostly invisible to the camera eye under their canopy of primeval growth. Beneath the green scrim, millions of wolves roamed the twilit forests, packs prowled the rutted streets..." (<i>God's Crucible</i> pg 152-3)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What remains: roads left to the depredations of forests, roots and erosion, and the casual habitation of highwaymen and independent tollbooths, aqueducts full of stagnant life and weeds, their vast cisterns home to salinae burbling water songs in brackish or water-goblins making earth-bombs at the behest of beings vast, ancient and aqueous, factories (into which teams journey to salvage metal) in which lurk old guards in rusting armor and books of inscrutable power, museums and laboratories to be ransacked for arcanum and histories, castles being squatted in by revolutionaries or sorcerers looking for help or people to use or someone to do some nasty work, cities teeming with people from a multitude of biomes and planets, refugees from a collapsing or long lost biome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memories of one's home being taken by the Slaad are consonant with myths of cataclysm and apocalypse; Slaad capture mechanisms are as different as possible from the subtle engagement of Ravenloft.</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xaositect cells pamphlet civilized areas, establish dischoirs, overthrow tyrants and recruit the more democratically inclined. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">MAJOR THREATS</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Over all this looms the Slaad, and over the Slaad, its mind palace, radiating psychic abreality and chaos and entropy, a forever mouth and gut swallowing whatever is around it, </span>pullulating monstrosities, Slaad-intention spreading over the sky like a foul borealis moving in waves of mutation. This is a place from which the eye is averted, to which no maps lead, but to which every compass points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slaad mind palaces are like machines, massive circuits of chaos and maleficence, its hooks and conduits like flumes into other planes, chutes down into a gnawing and total chaos, its few pools and more still chambers huge networks like dungeons, teeming with nastiness, mutation and horror, hordes of psychic weapons and engines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And into which come Xaositect Legions on their continent-ships, nothing offends them more than the vestigial order and civilization that clings to Slaad land masses and they often attach great weights or engines to drive these masses into the primal soup at a much accelerated pace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some Slaad share biomes at their extremes, most, however, do not and at the far end of any biome is what appears to be a vast sea of alien, inhospitable landmasses floating according to obscure tectonic action, swallowing and shitting out one another like amoeba, blind and idiot flagella, geometries that sicken the mind, over which or through which crawls the black ships of Gaz'sham or the cumbersome 'zerai missile boats.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attributions: me and Avalon Hill</span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-36294229340034993672014-08-14T16:09:00.001-04:002014-08-15T17:53:00.447-04:00In Limbo (D&D/Planescape, little bit of Spelljammer)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>LIMBO IS A DUMP/A SUMP/ A DYING BRAIN</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Limbo is the swamp of the planes. It has primal soup ("fire and earth") but it also has clusters of places in the broth:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> there is the endless valley of Fennimar, infested with hermits and where civilization is outlawed Xaositect engines hum in shaded glens, gathering, gathering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and Shra'kt'lor, last hope of the Githezerai, seven-walled and iron gated and domed, this war-city of millions houses the mentat throne of the 'zerai god-king. Its colleges and general-governors produce military leaders of psychic and martial puissance, its forge towers weapons, siege devices, psychic armaments and world-enders. At least once a week, a Githyanki death squad attacks or a Xaositect bomb artist self realizes along the outer walls of the city</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the Floating City is a warren of tenements and temples (all for the god-king) massed around the Mage Spike, both temple and academy of magic, a miles-long meteor of abmetal mined by the 'zerai for psychic augmentations and thaumaturgic acids from the depths of Limbo's primal soup. The tenements are a horror of thieves and desperation and the worst of human chaos and poverty of spirit, maintained by the 'zerai to train their spies and thieves and assassins and chaos evangelists, each neighborhood (a "Believing") led by a temple. There are more halflings here than humans, and their family names are stricken from the rolls of polite hobbit society. The temples provide fences, informants, food, money, bribes and take or buy all of the same. There are a number of barely-tolerated home churches of Chaos Catholics here too, nurturing pacifist crusader cells</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the factory cathedral of the dwarves, Gaz'sham, slowly being swallowed by the primal soup, a city-planet reclaimed by the dwarves who desperately try to halt its descent and destruction. It is still belching out ships, t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he dirge walkers of Limbo, black metal barges like blinking boxes or cannisters, slowly plumbing the depths of Limbo's soup, or using ponderous logic machines to squeeze through planar pores</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the breeding stone of the <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/slaad-d-5e-gods.html" target="_blank">Slaad</a>, a lumpen, be-cogulated and ponderously limbed nugget, the petrified, stolen fetal twin children of dead Primus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the pincipalities of malordering, thrones of the Slaad, their twisting hallways like the sinuses in a skull that is all sinuses, submerged in rotten soups of water and acid, the gagging fug of plant decay thick, whole biomes of temperate and tropical zones collapsing into the swampy water and then falling into Limbo, the greedy siege engines of the Slaad pulling down more and more from the material plane, organizing destruction and dismantlings. whole insect populations, mosquito men on giant stirges, have been created here and will live nowhere else and will someday be swallowed again. the Slaad sit like enormous kings over the rot of existence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the shaping academies of the anarchs, custodians of Limbo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and then the limbic crust</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mind over Matter</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use the higher of Intelligence or Charisma and multiple that by 10 square feet. You can maintain this much space without effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can maintain 1.5 times as much with concentration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can maintain half as much and give it some mobility (about 20'/round).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For as many bonus points afforded by the higher of your Int or Cha, you can add architectural/sculptural details with concentration (each 10 square feet of detail costing 1 point)</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A GRAVEYARD A BRAIN THAT IS DYING</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine a ridge long enough so that all things in the material plane could be balanced atop it ponderously. Down one side is dragged all things growing, ordered, being built or re-built, the act of building, the act of creation, down the other side, all things decaying, falling into madness, heat death, disintegration and Limbo sits at the bottom of that side, like an inevitable pole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a person dies they go to some hell or whatever. Their temporary meat time portioned out and expended, their meat falling to Limbo while the perpetual substance floats from the material, no longer bound by gravity or the girdle around the material plane with all its wide open pores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a person forgets, when ideas are discarded, art forgotten, languages and words fallen out of use, architecture and theories and books and all the rest of civilization's rubbish abandoned, it falls toward Limbo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Others have noticed Limbo's usefulness as a dump, the always-entropy of the place and use it as a dump - mostly for things not dangerous enough to dispose of properly, though there are a multitude of examples of people tossing into Limbo things much too dangerous to throw away and leave to time and chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This waste accumulates and slowly deteriorates, but is being accumulated faster than it decays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This detritus of the limbic crust has self-organized, accreted into a system and that system retains intelligence. It knows everything within it, so it knows nearly everything that is forgotten, rarely speaks, is thoroughly insane and largely hostile, full of regret and hunger for all the good things not discarded. It sees Limbo as death, it sees anyone on its structures as a parasite, it sees itself misused by the universe and it knows its made of junk and it wants the good stuff, the stuff no one wants to throw away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't be found out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of all the brain hates the <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/places-in-limbo-universal-encyclopedia-d.html" target="_blank">Universal Encyclopedia</a>. It sits alien and immovable like an old nail bleeding rust in the constituent stuff of the brain. It wants the nail out, but it also wants it cracked open, it wants everything added to itself and the Universal Encyclopedia sits there, mockingly. The limbic crust will promise anything if you can undo the Encyclopedia and empty its contents into the crust and it will betray you. Accordingly, there is usually at least a few demigods sitting outside/under/around the crust, pelting it with megaton radiant bombs periodically to remind it that its being watched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the limbic crust grows too powerful, there are a number of deities of order that will simply aim creation engines at and blast it with things until the things that constituted the crust's thoughts and ideas are pushed into limbo or overwhelmed, its consciousness effectively wiped, its thinking structures, perhaps, destroyed or disabled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>FUNERALS AND DIRGES</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each accreted loci or brain segment in the limbic crust is called a Funeral. Funerals are organized around a central concept. Dirges are portals, conduits or just plain roads connecting one Funeral to another. Dirge walkers crawl through Dirge space, studded with instruments or plating or weapons, hung with sacramental writ or draped in blasphemic totems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The largest Funeral by far is the Funeral of Logos, where reason and arguments and knowledge goes to die. Its artificial valleys and hills are reams of rotting paper smeared with ink and ruined books and effaced cuneiform obelisks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Funeral of Angles is a tangle of geometry and metal and stone and most doors here open to Pandemonium. Most things here can be used as doors to anywhere, if you know the trick, and gravity works by perspective. Its outer limits are rimmed with buildings and ruins, slowly sinking into Limbo proper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Funeral of Music and Poetry is home to the College Discordant, a center of Xaositect music and philosophy, its oceans of sound waves and meter home to parasites that eat the order of sounds, who swallow phonemes and scales, who infect whole languages until no one can speak to or understand anyone else. Anyone infected speaks increasingly in gibberish, their voice increasingly modulated, like in a vocoder until it just becomes a high pitch static burn. Xaositect terror chemists weaponize these parasites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>RAVENLOFT, MATERIAL PLANE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ravenloft sits somewhere between Limbo and the Material Plane. The Material Plane itself, like a Dali clock, tends more and more toward Limbo as time progresses. No one knows how to stop this. Chaos Theorists (and many others) suggest that the Material Plane may be just a huge, secondary limbic crust, the scab of a previous civilization. Xaositects call Ravenloft the Funeral of Comfort and the Material the Last Funeral.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>attributions: Paolo Girardi, Druillet, Ravenloft, Slaad, Xoasitectcs, Shra'kt'lor, Fennimar, the Floating City, slaad, anarchs are all thinks TSR did. I just changed all of them.</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-24297110507713229742014-08-14T08:49:00.003-04:002014-08-14T13:29:11.093-04:00Nimrod in the Universal Encyclopedia (D&D/Planescape)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>NIMROD</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An ancient dwarf whose toenails and beard have reached prodigious length, he wears purple robes of Bebelith Silk and gold torcs and his crown the metals of which have fused to his flesh after eons of slow nuclear leak, he is Nimrod.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He guards the entrance and exit to the <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/places-in-limbo-universal-encyclopedia-d.html" target="_blank">Universal Encyclopedia</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He can remember very little and nothing about himself and spends most of his time shuffling around or sleeping in a chair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing pleases him more than visitors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing angers him more than thieves, which, for his purposes means anyone trying to take something out of the Encyclopedia without permission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He assumes anyone sneaking around is a thief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His memory is held in a certain prison on the Happy Hunting Grounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is, in fact, a muscle lich and is still quite muscular. His phylactery is what was once his favorite book (a book on flowers, long ruined by all the flowers and plants pressed into it). He will be overjoyed and weep if the book is given to him, but he isn't sure why. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He hasn't bothered to memorize spells in ages and the spells he once memorized have been horribly jumbled such that he can neither really cast nor memorize spells (can't free up slots).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STR </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DEX</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CON</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INT</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WIS</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHA</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can take 3 Legendary actions on <b>any</b> turn and always uses one of the random effects during his own:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />1. <b>Move</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. <b>Punch/Headbutt</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. <b>Grapple</b> anyone he thinks is stealing a book or trying to sneak away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. <b>Investigate/look</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The following effects occur (roll d8 each turn), assume it effects everything within a 60' radius of the Tender but for the Tender, unless otherwise noted. Spell-like effects that have a save use DC of 23:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. <b>I Forget</b>. Everyone, including Nimrod stop what they were doing/loses a turn and can't remember the turn. Whatever happened at that point had still happened, just no one remembers it. Any spells being cast fizzle. Nimrod forgets why he was angry and looks around at all this mess, tutting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. <b>Where Are My Glasses?</b> One target has to spend his next/current turn moving at speed away from Nimrod, looking for its glasses (he doesn't wear any and is only supernaturally-sighted, having long since lost his natural vision. This is deeply confusing for him. If you give him glasses, though, treat subsequent rolls of this as a 1 until such time as Nimrod forgets about the glasses).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. <b>EONS of Papercuts</b>. Tiny wounds appear on the body </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">causing 27 (5d10) damage</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, making anything you do with your body done at a disadvantage and causing and dealing another 10 (d6+7) damage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. <b>Hush</b>. No speaking or communication of any kind this turn. This nullifies 6 and 8, but only for this turn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. <b>SPELLLS</b>. Casts <i>Power Word Stun</i> on one target (150 hp or less targets are stunned and must make a Con Save each turn or remain stunned), <i>Teleport</i> one target into a room at least 120' feet away, and <i>Magic Missile</i> (for 29 d4+1 darts)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. <b>Wait, What?</b> Casts magic mouth-type effect on all within radius, including Nimrod. Now whenever someone speaks, it sounds as if a different affected person is speaking (who is speaking for who changes each time someone stops talking/someone else starts talking). This will confuse Nimrod for a turn, after which time it no longer cares and continues being angry. Lasts until Nimrod no longer angry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. <b>Hide and Seek</b>. Casts a variant of <i>Magic Jar</i> such that one target's soul is dispossessed of their corporeal tether for d4 turns (after which time they can return to their body). They can "possess" another item and move it about and try to possess another sentient creature (which kicks out their soul) (all Cha saves to resist posession). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. <b>Wait, WHATTTT?</b> The associative links between intent and physical action on the one hand and speaking and narration/description on the other are crossed:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> i. if a <i>character </i>tries to do something, they only say what they are trying to do (this includes saying, "I am going to try and sneak past Nimrod" out loud instead of actually sneaking). this doesn't count as an action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ii. if a <i>character </i>tries to say something that they could attempt to do, they instead attempt to do that thing. If they try to say, "I think we should sneak around Nimrod next time" they instead just think about sneaking around the Tender. If they try to say, "let's not attack Nimrod any more" then they get "stuck" and can do nothing else that turn because their action-grammar is funky (they can't </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">think-act for other people. If they had instead tried to say, "I don't attack Nimrod" then they'd be fine.). To speak x you have to say that you are trying to say x.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Lair</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nimrod lives in the only regular entrance into or out of the Universal Encyclopedia. He sleeps in long chairs or in his old chariot or on or under old wooden desks amid seemingly endless stacks of books, scrolls, papyri, skins, wax boards, slates, and every other writing surface ever used. He doesn't eat but can't remember why. Is shocked if you suggest he is a lich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>When reduced to half his health or less (the first time)</b> </i>Nimrod immediately stamps his feet in frustration and books and scrolls and tablets, etc fly from their cubbies and nooks and buffet the room (Nimrod is struck, but unaffected), dealing 7 (2d6) damage and knocking everyone prone (DC 23 Dex Save to avoid the knockdown).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Whenever reduced to 0 hp (but not killed because phylactery)</i> Nimrod collapses, exhaling grandly. This breath blows like a gale and unsettles <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2014/08/places-in-limbo-universal-encyclopedia-d.html" target="_blank">Dust of Tongues</a> (see bottom of blog entry) in the area, filling the room with a cloud of Dust of Tongues (totally obscuring regular vision, requiring a DC 20 Wis Save or else fall victim to the Dust's deleterious effect.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE UNIVERSAL ENCYCLOPEDIA</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All things are retained in the Universal Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia looks like a tower of arches on a spiraling, ramped pathway. It is on every plane and there are many ways in, but the primary entrance is on Limbo, in the Funeral of Logos, amid plains of failing words that burrow into the skin like rot grubs and burst novel and useless vocabularies from your corpse, whose moldy paper hills and drab watercolor trees are stalked by bands of thought thieves and of course, the Jabberwocky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Encyclopedia is a bit like a pin piercing the planes, and like the proverbial pin, is nearly impossible to find until you step on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside, it's stacks and shelves and cages and cases. Marble floors, columns, walls. Water runs down (sometimes up) most walls in sheets from somewhere far above (theory: it's coming from "Dam, Broken" or maybe its "Lake" or "Ocean"). There are endless rooms and cubbies and reading nooks, stairs up and down. If there is top or bottom, it hasn't been sounded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The use of fire and lanterns is strictly prohibited and the halls are unlit but for the holding cages, whose lights blink and fluid glows softly (treat as a candle).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are books but also scrolls and tablets and nearly every other media on which words may be printed. Some writing has been transcribed from older texts into newer media - there are, for example, holographic lexicons of Sumerian cuneiform - and other clever or desperate or capricious lexographers have recorded languages not yet spoken in places not yet made on scrimshaws. There are animals in cages and animals roaming about and everywhere is cluttered with the trophies of Nimrod's glory days (strange animals, stuffed). Every kind of thing is there, literally (people that lived, people that will live all of them sleeping on all planes and in all ways, unable to wake or do anything while in the Encyclopedia), everything but magic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accordingly there aren't spell books here, because magic is selfish and secretive and not a part of anything/something else entirely. Wizards could still probably find spell books because <a href="http://gameswithothers.blogspot.com/2013/07/gnosis-logos-and-esoterica-magic-users.html" target="_blank">Wizard's minds are a mess</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything is cataloged</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, but Nimrod (the guard/docent/custodian) can't remember where the catalog is (it is, of course, under "C").<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>GOD LOCUS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Universal Encyclopedia ("Oh, Ark of Knowledge, Oh Sum of Forms") is worshiped by academic-clerics, priest-librarians and mathologizers and idolized by knowledge pornographers. Worship grants clerics either Knowledge or Trickery Domains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">DIEGITIC LICH</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Entries in the Universal Encyclopedia are diegetic lichs: their form may be carried out (borrowed) but their essential substance remains in the Encyclopedia. Destruction of an Entry requires destruction of the idea/substance of the Entry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Destroying anything in the Encyclopedia removes it from all existence everywhere for all time until someone else invents it again. Destroying things like hunger and hatred and evil never do much as we just immediately re-invent them. Pacifist-terrorists, Chaos Catholics, revolutionaries, and other persons and peoples intent on reality schism still try, from time to time, and their corpses litter the hills of Limbo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cleaver terrorists will hire saboteurs to destroy apex predators or a single person in an attempt to destabilize ecosystems or powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are, of course, a great many things in the Encyclopedia that destroy ideas/substances either purposefully or as a byproduct - fascist logic engines, parasites that devour ideas using language or other ideas or art as vectors, a machine that makes new things by crushing up old things completely and entirely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BORROWING</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When attempting to carry an Entry out of the Encyclopedia, the borrower finds themselves drawn inevitably to the exit guarded by the Encyclopedia's guard: Nimrod. The exact mechanism is any mechanism that works, usually through a kind of <i>suggestion </i> or <i>mass illusion</i> or, if those fail, the Encyclopedia just shuffles its page-floors so you wind up at Nimrod's exit.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rule of the Encyclopedia, as is clearly stated in all languages on the walls, column, floors and molecules in the primary entrance/exit hall and, for the ease of the visitor, in all possible sizes, colors and spectrum as well as in thoughts, ideas, songs and images, require three things for the borrowing of an item:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. a deity's permission</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. an item of equal value (meaning: you have to create a new idea or a new kind of thing of equal value [according to Nimrod] to be able to take the thing you want with you)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. one must not acknowledge in any way the thing one is borrowing (cannot speak to, cannot look back at) while still on Limbo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(there used to be two rules but Limbo didn't like people taking potshots with just-borrowed cross-planar mortars or releasing loaned planar mites into its flesh, so it poked through truth and fact and added a third rule)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IT ROTS AND THESE HALLS ARE FULL OF DUST</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time passes and entropy reigns and the lich fails and an Entry must be restored by its substance. Husks of Entries, empty book-forms like brittle chrysalis crunch underfoot and the leathery shed skin and rotten guts of the animals and people lay at the feet at the Entry's current incarnation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dust reaches the waist in places, often at least the ankle. At its deepest, the dust </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has formed sediment and even ossified into rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These leavings, being the ruined diegesis of a pure form, are a sort of incomplete, nearly universal language, the near total expression of all forms. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DUST OF TONGUES</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">per snort, 30% chance its useful, 70% chance its obscure words or conjugations of irregular verbs or morphemes and phonemes fallen out of use or illogical combinations of idea-flesh-sound, and DC 20 Wis Save or spend an hour vomiting words from your own language (you're disadvantaged while communicating for the remainder of the session)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SLUDGE OF TONGUES</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">may be smeared onto a text to make it legible in your language (this literally changes the language and can deform the original meaning and may ruin magical texts (10% chance per level of magic as well as relative complexity). Can be used on the tongue or dropped on the eye to have the same effect as the Dust of Tongues (DC 25 Wis save required, however). Used by certain torturers, spies and demons to concoct Gabber (see below).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ROCK OF TONGUES</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May be used as an ebenezer/arcane focus for casters. Can be crushed to have the same effect as the Dust of Tongues. Swallowing a fist-sized rock causes one to be proficient in any language relatively common language and have advantage when trying to read or communicate in an obscure or dead or magical one and when making any History or Arcana check. After eight hours, a massive headache (exhaustion level 1) and disadvantaged when communicating for the remainder of the session (at least).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gabber (DC 15/20 Con Save poison)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weak Gabber forces the user to speak without stop for d4 days. There is an attending risk of starvation and dehydration, and, as the victim cannot sleep, exhaustion is guaranteed. The victim has control over what they say, however.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stronger, lethal Gabber makes speaking sublimates all bodily functions to speaking. Everything will try to communicate meaning, hands signing, toes pointing. Death is usually cause by asphyxiation - speaking without trying to breather, the victim gasps like a fish suffocating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">OTHER ITEMS AND MONSTERS</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Voice of Nimrod</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recurve bow 5' tall, unstrung and snapped in half, requiring <i>attunement,</i> STR 12 to use. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any arrow shot from this bow strikes to the truth in addition to whatever other damage or effect it causes. The first blow, dispelling any one illusion (DC 30 <i>dispel</i>), the second any one lie (DC 25 </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">command</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to not not lie) and the third any planar distortion (displacement/phasing/brings ethereal and astral beings into this plane, gives flesh to the incorporeal).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>to repair: </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the gut of librarian-wyrm </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unkilled </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(ancient dragon) to re-string and a set of tools from a divine bowyer and a dwarven smith to repair its delicate mechanisms and rune-filigrees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Foot of Nimrod</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tarnished, now used as a bed, once a grand sky-steel chariot. Once hitched, moves at great speed for twice as long without tiring mounts, can be used to <i>fly</i> at the same speed (which will freak out terrestrial mounts) but is built for a being greater than you (at disadvantage until <i>attuned</i> and without STR 18). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Night Crown</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An Assyrian-style crown looking like a pale gold cylindrical tower. The first crown worn by a mortal, composed of the night sky, a moon and several stars. Inherently magical, an ancient symbol of status and respect in all outer planar courts. Extremely cold. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorm & Glot</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a guard dog in the Encyclopedia (the Gorm) and a parasite eating its diegetic lichs like a bookworm (the Glot). The Gorm is never around because it's chasing the Glot. Both will try to recruit help if anyone looks able.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More on them later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>attribution: Pieter Bruegel the Elder</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074290899610638304.post-3644252731825986912014-08-13T04:43:00.000-04:002014-08-13T04:43:04.803-04:00Speaking Common Wherever in D&D 5e<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a short one on communicating in Common wherever. To follow: the Universal Encyclopedia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used to have more complex rules for this, but 5e solves this nicely.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">UNCOMMON</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assume that everyone on the material plane speaks Common, a totally democratic language that's mostly just a mash of other languages in the region. I speak my language, you speak your language, we live nearby, we can make it work. Sort of like everyone making do in cultural hubs of the Roman empire, but with enough travel and trade to keep at least some sort of morphological/internal consistency in all of Common. Under fascists and in some churches, the use of Common is verboten or, at the very least, signs of a weak character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In game terms, it's a pan-language that doesn't properly exist, a set of dialects that are really just their own languages coupled with the human drive to communicate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's likely that were a person to teleport from one end of a continent to another, the Common they encountered would be vastly different and require greater effort to pick up. Even a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s you move further and further away from home, Common becomes increasingly less coherent, eventually putting you at a </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">disadvantage</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when trying to interact using your Common v someone else's Common (which can be rectified if you spend enough time on it (about a month of game time with regular interaction, half that if you're putting a bunch of time in with native speakers).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poems and novels in Common are, by definition political and often experimental, tend to revel in action, pornography, profanity, scandal and scatalogical humor and are usually about regular people or trickster deities. The best cookbooks and the best sex manuals were all written in Common.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Famous and notoriously difficult dialects include Salt (spoken in Armada), pig latin (spoken in school yards), Cant (actually a conlang with a tiny body of real phrases - mostly variations on "where can we meet and talk like normal people?"), and Jabber (the language of math, machines and modrons, possibly the most true Common).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>attribution: Iou Kuroda/Appleseed Alpha</i></span><br />
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