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Thoughts & Things

Collection of tools, ideas, rules, research and other fun stuff we thought we share.

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DCC RPG – Mercurial Magic

After playing Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, I starting to fall in love with the magic system. Casting magic in DCC can be unpredictable, dangerous and very powerful. And with great power there are also negative aspects like spell burn, corruption, misfires, ...
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Menzoberranzan

With the Home Group going into the Underdark and about to face lots of Drow. I thought it appropriate to start researching some more on Drow. And surprisingly, I came across a used copy of the Menzoberranzan: Boxed Set 1992 ...
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Oriental Adventures – Vanara

This week I bring the Vanara race to my Wuxia Campaign.  The inspiration was watching Wuxia movies a few months ago about Sun Wukong the monkey king.  With a little reading, you can find Vanara were in Oriental Adventures and ...
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Star Wars Day: Chewbacca

Glory Glory! Have you seen all the great Star Wars fan work!  It is amazing to see all the art, costumes, and creativity of SW Fans. So today, I have to put “forth” my handiwork for Star Wars Day. Previously, ...
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Oriental Adventures – Wu Jen

Wu Jen are the arcane spellcasters in my Wuxia campaign.  They are like wizards, but there are subtle differences. Normally, a Wu Jen’s power is drawn from the five elements (earth, fire, metal, water, and wood), and they can choose ...
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FATE Core System

I’ve been meaning to read the FATE rules. I have all of the FATE in electronic format and purchased them through DriveThruRPG.com. I didn’t print them off, and they sit in my online library. I think I purchased them over ...
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Plot Points

Are you using Plot Points for your game? We have been doing it for a while now, and it makes the game very interesting.  But sometimes it is hard for some of the players to come up with relevant or ...
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Oriental Adventures – Exotic Weapons

I have a Wuxia campaign where I used the Dungeon Master’s Guide to make straight conversions of D&D fantasy weapons into Wuxia themed weapons. That makes sense if the players start out in Wuxia.  But what if the players started ...
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Comic Book Characters like RPG Players?

Could you take some ideas from this video for your role-playing game?  I think Mike Rugnetta has a lot of great ideas on how to treat the characters in your games.  And also how players should be looking at their ...
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Spells for D&D 5th Edition [Part 2]

This week I took a look at Bigby’s spells. Last week I put together two spell conversions: Melf’s Unicorn Arrow and Melf’s Slumber of Arrows, and there were some critiques on the power and level of those spells. So I will be ...