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What if stronghold construction *is* the adventure? (opens the original)
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Wait, what’s wrong with stronghold-building rules?It is a D&D tradition to have rules for strongholds and bastions, spanning from the very first editions to 5.5 (with some exceptions), and expanding to retroclones and OSR. Simply put, you reach a certain level and you can build your own fortress or fortified base.The rules to build strongholds and bastions go like: Here is the Ikea catalog of the stuff you can buy. Spend the money, wait the time, boom!, you now have your castle thingy. For examp
Of gallows, pigs feeding on human flesh, and tearing your enemy’s throat with a single bite: Anatomy of a Mörk Borg actual play (opens the original)
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I am GMing two close friends at Mörk Borg [I wrote stuff for this campaign, and some more stuff!]. They have small kids and we manage to play whenever they can, nothing properly pre-planned, more like: Hey Kind of Old, kids are asleep, if you’re not working right now, we could play some Mörk Borg. And I am like: Hell yeah! So I improvise a lot.The PCs, Karg and Beelum, managed to save a kid from a guy who was using said kid as a living bai
In praise of Balin, Lord of Moria (opens the original)
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Roughly speaking, Balin is the dwarf who guides an expedition to Moria, conquers a little part of it for a few years, then gets killed, and the expedition ends in tragedy.As a kid, all I could see in Balin was just tragedy. Nothing else. I mean, yeah, surely a good guy, but not cut for a great Destiny like the other heroes. Because, after all, he lost. He failed. (Yeah, this is how my 12-year-old brain saw him.) Because, you know, as a hero he was not supposed to fail. In our playstyle back then
Are they ok? d44 physical conditions for low-fantasy NPCs (opens the original)
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Let’s start by saying I love low-fantasy settings. Settings where the healing (super)powers of high-level clerics are unheard of. Settings where people starve to death after the enemy army torched the barns; where “safety first” is not a thing and accidents on the job are common; where people suffer from all sorts of unaddressed diseases; and where Hollywood-white teeth are not a thing, because teeth rot and fall.I have to say, these aspects are not typically covered by the random tables of NPC
I admit I made an RPG, but I can explain (opens the original)
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I made a one-page RPG, or better to say, the game kind of made itself.Life caught up with me, and over the last couple of months I had no energy to post here. I had enough fuel to keep playing, though. Let me explain: I have been playing a lot of OSR and NSR games since I began this blog about a year ago (OSE, Knave 2ed, Shadowdark, Into the Odd, Mörk Borg, Pirate Borg). While playing, I felt like tweaking the rules to make them something that just felt right.Subscribe nowNow,
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