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Cosmic Horror Spellcasting for Violence.

  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...

Goo and Gold

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...

Zurthine Occupation Tables

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 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.

Announcing the Bay Area RPG Webring

 Hey I decided to make a Webring for specifically bay area ttrpg people! I made it via onion ring so shout out to those wonderful people. If you wanna join the webring shoot me an email via stellacondrey@gmail.com. Once I confirm you are on the list all you gotta do is add this code to your website. <div id='BATTRPGWR'> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://500poundsofnothing.neocities.org/onionring-variables.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://500poundsofnothing.neocities.org/onionring-widget.js"></script> </div>  I know this is posted april first but it's not a joke! 

Skateboarding Rules for B/X

I've been getting into skateboarding again recently, I used to do it a lot as a kid but then I moved to where the closest sidewalk was a mile away in town. Anyways here are some rules for movement on skateboards. Characters All classes gain a new save, save vs wipeout. This is used to avoid the consequences of board based acrobatics and other tricky maneuvers. Dexterity provides a bonus to wipeout saves as Wisdom provides saves vs magical effects. Level Cleric Fighter Magic User Thief Dwarf* Elf Hobbit 1 13 13 14 12 12 13 12 2 13 13 14 12 12 13 12 3 13 13 14 12 12 13 12 4 13 11 14 12 10 11 10 5 11 11 14 9 10 11 10 6 11 11 12 9 10 11 10 7 11 9 12 9 8 9 8 8 11 9 12 9 8 9 8 9 9 9 12 6 8 9 10 9 7 12 6 6 7 11 9 7 10 6 6 12 9 7 10 6 13 7 5 10 3 14 7 5 10 3 *dwarves gain a +2 bonus to avoid wiping out on downhills due to their moun...

Ave Nox, Ghost-fields Occupations

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  I am gonna be running a campaign soon based around the Feral Indie Studio megadungeon Ave Nox . I like starting campaigns at level 0 so I made a level 0 occupation table for the campaign. Here's a few details about the peculiarity of the setting that I made up for the broader campaign world that are not like directly part of the module that I wanna talk about. Guns exist, but they are not mundane, every bullet has a demon trapped inside and the gun breaks the seal unleashing the demon inside. This is stolen from a really bad book I read as a teen called the incorruptible, I don't recommend it. The way gun's work is they ignore mundane armor but other wise do like normal amounts of damage. Guns are primarily made by elves. Elves are prone to warlockism due to their longer lives making arcane forces see it as more worth their while. Elven society is often broken up along the lines of patronage; blood elves come from a society that have sworn allegiance to the prime vampir...

Spelljammer Advanced Sphere Generator

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  I was thinking about spelljammer again and realized I should share my house rules for sphere generators. Here's a PDF for home printing.

A Hammers Houserule

  Disregard the attack Matrix. An attacks rolls 2d6+HD to hit an enemy, trying to score greater than or equal to the target's AC. If the attack succeeds by 2 or less it is a glancing blow, inflicting minimum damage.

Troika Tuesday: Streetfood

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  A while back I saw some south east asian roleplaying game that had a random ration generator. I have not been able to find it since ( found it ). This appealed to me greatly as I am a strong proponent of what I like to call rational gaming, where rations matter a lot (find my dungeon meshi blogpost about hirelings being more likely to not abandon you if you pay for good rations). Here is a random street food generator for troika, assume a meal costs 3 pence on a good day, 5 pence when on a bad day.   A PDF for home printing can be found here.    

Psionic Oops Table

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  What if a little street urchin was a psion? Something to think on this Troika! Tuesday.   Here's a PDF for home printing

Von Hynd Manor for Troika!

  It's Troika! Tuesday. I decided this time I am gonna stat up the family from my gothic horror module Von Hynd Manor. Dora Skill 7 Stamina 20 Initiative 4 (see special) Armor 1 Damage as Large Beast Special: put a specially colored token in the bag for Dora, when this token is pulled Dora receives a prophetic vision of things to come, and receives a +3 bonus to attack a creature of the judge’s choosing. Mein Reading Receiving visions Lounging Studying Preparing for gardening Enchanting servant Hiedi Skill 5 Stamina 17 Initiative 3 Armor 1 Damage as Large Beast Mein Sneaking Scheming Crying Biding her time Questioning, incessantly  Grooming Lukas Skill 6 Stamina 17 Initiative 3 Armor 1 Damage as Large Beast Mein Sneaking Food Training Fuming Practising Speech Smoking Writing (subpar) love poems Oma Skill 9 Stamina 26 Initiative 2 Armor 2 Damage as Gargantuan Beast Mein Complaining Nursing knee Plotting Idly mourning Napping Droning at servants Werner Skill 7...