Nothing's RPG Zone

 just something I have been stewing on for a bit I do not value a consistent and replicable experience the most. I do not. Every few years or so the british internet will suddenly remember ISO 3103 and get miffed “Oh this isn’t the best way to make tea” and yeah they are right, but the point isn’t that it’s good it’s that it is replicable. You can follow the instructions and get the same cup of tea. It’s fine for what it is. It’s fine for science, it is not fine for art. RPGs are two forms of art that exist on two separate levels. There is the art of the book, and the art of the game. The book is the text used to negotiate the framework to understand the events of the game. The game is what happens at the table. The game (unless in very specific “AP” style game a la Critical Role) is a form of folk art. The book is sometimes folkart, hastily assembled in google docs, stapled together so on and so forth, things in the DIY sphere I typically run in. However, overwhelmingly it is no...

 I made this because I like damage matrices and I made sure to keep the average damage the same with each weapon. Damage modifiers are applied after the damage is rolled, and not to the d6 roll itself. PDF for Home Printing

  I’ve been thinking about the Caverns of Thracia recently, and I played in a session of wolves upon the coast. HD 4 AC as Chain Damage as Weapon The hounds of war rarely go hungry. A fragment of the meals begin to slowly bubble in their psyche, soon walking on four legs no longer fits. They become war.

  Seeing no real leads on learning more about the cult of YGSÐÐ, the group decide to simply leave the city. With a muledrawn cart they ambled Knorth, the city’s local fields abuzz with summer work all in preparation for winter. Passing through the village of Yad Uzov, they find themselves surrounded by the exiles of Ux Qorath, mutants all bearing some felinoid traits. Amyl inquired if there are any problems that a group of heavily armed people could solve, a villager with one human and one cat eye mentioned brigands to the Knorth. “How much would you be willing to pay for that problem to be solved?” “We don’t have anything to pay” responded the villager “but you bring their leader’s head to Ux Qorath? That appeals you to the nobility” “I see.” Following the road through the woods and out into more Üvian grassland. The unsetting summer sun provided no shade as their bodies all began to tire. Camp was set up and they began preparing to set up camp. 400 yard away Jezebel the ow...

  I realized something recently and thought I should share. For d&d type monsters I always roll for HP the moment they first get hit. This has worked fine and sped things up however it didn’t save much time for high HD monsters, I now realized I can just roll one HD at a time and then simply roll the next HD when the current one gets depleted by a hit. Not groundbreaking but something I haven’t seen discussed before. I hope this helps you.

  This one was more simple because I felt bad from taking iron supplements on too empty of a stomach. Having the crew returned to their inn and lodging and settled in to sleep through the unsetting summer sun. Roddy,nibbling on a bit of the cheese stolen from the food stores of the raided ship, heard something that caught his ear. A woman, Au of Ux Quorath, was talking about the disappearance of her cousin’s sister in law. One day she was there, and the following morning she was gone. Her husband and children were home the night she disappeared. Butting in, the rodentine rogue began asking questions and making promises of the help he would provide. After a brief round of questioning he learned the house she disappeared from was two blocks away from the old bathhouse and a right. The crew closes the blackout curtains and rests. The following day Caulder is able to get in contact with his fence, Glabrus of Yad Uzoth, and the prospective wizard Niobium the Black. After some magi...

  The crew hopes to pawn off some of the more unique items pilfered from the craft. Specifically the moss suits, and black ceramic organ vase filled with three mysterious liquids. Caulder’s connection to the underworld of Ux Qorath would be able to get him in contact with a wizard interested in potentially purchasing the living moss suit, but it would be a day before he would be able to get fully in contact. Knowing the city is one of the few places with a strong enough alchemical presence where potions are sold freely upon the market they head there. The market is abuzz, Yptifragean merchants and their pack lizards were swarming the streets hawking their wares. Eventually they make their way to a small alchemical stall called the Bubbling Potion, and meet with a diminutive middle aged woman named Yara. After some brief introduction Mekinmini asks how much for a healing potion. Much to her dismay it is 300 sols. Communications break down quickly after that.  Amyl offers t...

  Steeling everyone with knowledge of what fae saw in the room they constructed a plan. Drash opened the door, an orange glowing blob detached from the ceiling, a leechlike mouth greeted him. It charged through the air, a missile of wet flesh. He was ready, his shield met the teeth of the thing as he felt an intense heat radiate off of it. In one single swing of his pick he skewers the thing, bursting it like a balloon full of fire. Mekinimini and Amyl blitz the room. Mekinimini swings her staff in an unflinching arc directly at a red flying leech, bursting it into another puff of fire. Amyl’s sword is quick and ruthless, aiming for the one glowing in the newest colors, its blood is all that remains on faer blade. Three down, six to go. But soon the three find themselves swarmed, two blue beasts hone in on drash latching on and draining him of his precious heat. A pair of green ones surge at Mekinimini, the first dodged with ease but the second found the mark. Her skin begins t...

  For use with Violence. Best used in the context of mythos spellcasting. Based on this post. Evoking the Inhuman Forces Those with the Spellcasting Trait may evoke the inhuman to change reality. Speaking the cosmotic tongues of the eld.  The character states what they wish to accomplish as simply as they can, and counts the number of syllables needed to express this idea. This is added to a value called Warp. If the effect affects a living being double the Warp. If the effect affects a group, triple it. These stipulations stack. After evoking the inhuman forces the character rolls 1d20+Warp, consulting the table below. 10 Unsettling but temporary cosmic effect (e.g. skin roils, eyes turn pitch black). 11–15 Area wide but minor effect (e.g. all loose objects knocked over, the area is encased in a dome of swirling galaxies) 16–20 Major and action requiring effect (e.g. a portal to the placed beyond opens, gravity is reserved until undone by another evocation)  2...

Dramatis Personae Amyl Taksvig, Warrior Drash Diggman the Dwarf Mekinimini the Green Observer Roddy the Muranian Draft Dodger Watcher Justin Zacharias The city of Ux Qorath is abuzz, the recent kidnappings by martial warlords had shut down the churches, cults festered in the margins. However the real talk of the town is gold. Falling from the sky are great globules of clear jelly flesh, some even containing gold. To the Knorth of the city a great figure appeared in the sky, a truly massive cnidiform like creature with massive butterfly like wings. From its very top to the bottom of the tentacles dragging across the ground was a total of 200 feet tall. A hole in the beast’s side glittered with gold. Mekinmini was the first to approach, nearing a pile of goo bearing a single gold coin. Braving it she sticks her hand in, pulling the coin out. It is obviously foreign mint, not a zurthine sol. Soon the others steeled themselves; Justin, the tattooed adherent of the Icosidyad, broached...

 I got interested in Antibor after seeing the mask relay entry for Yngta Pé . As such I am soon to be starting a Zurth  game very soon. I made this occupation table for making a bunch of level zeros in Zurth and surrounding areas. Hopefully I will not have people permanently back out like what happened with the ave nox game I was gonna start not too long ago.        PDF for home printing here.