A while ago, I picked up a copy of the AD&D 2e book “Player’s Option: Skills and Powers” and it set off some kind of explosion in my brain in terms of designing a modular, kit-based game. I had already been sketching a heartbreaker-style document of old-school, OSR-ish procedures I wanted to use, so this …
Last week, I posted some gods I had written years ago — I think for a 4e game that was never going to happen. I was really inspired by dungeon doll’s Dungeon Gods and Dungeon Shrines posts, so I wanted to write out some shrines + rituals as a way to flesh out these gods …
Inspired by this post by Mazirian’s Garden, I wanted to write up some spellbooks. I found that post through this one from the excellent I Cast Light! on making 1st level magic users interesting, it’s definitely worth the read. While I was making this, I remembered I had a little “Council of Wizards” brewing for …
“The Circle of the Lustful” Francesca da Rimini Here’s a roster of gods I wrote years ago, I think for a short-lived Torchbearer campaign? The main conceit with this pantheon is that they all represent broad concepts, and often both sides of dualities. I’ve since given them all alignments for use in OSR-ish games, plus …
I’m really enjoying the language-themed blog posts going around right now, check them out if you haven’t. “The Ugg-Tecture of Language” by Playful Void “Quantum Languages for Basic D&D” by Pointless Monument “Thirteen Tongues (Making Languages Interesting)” by Dungeonfruit Inspired by the Dungeonfruit post, I wrote some languages and their special uses. Descriptions or mechanics …