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30 Steampunk Books
30 books to be found within a steampunk setting. Manuals, tomes, and blueprints galore!
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Ruby Heart
100 word magic item
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Goliath Crown of Garim Darnore
The King always has the coolest form of transportation.
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Chakram of the New Moon
Combating any monster is often as simple as having the right tool for the job. The nightmarish lycanthrop is no exception.
NPCs
Bodach the Straw Man
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart... Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
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Bucky Batteries
Bucky Batteries: when you need batteries to last a long long long time
A 100 piece of sci-fi minutia
Lifeforms
The Hemangini Flying Squirrel
100 word pest
Lifeforms
Hemangini Tree
A coveted tree, 100 words
Lifeforms
Sivvers
"Sivver is the common name given to crystalline parasites, which interact with the nervous systems of carbon based Chordate life forms."
Definition of the word Sivver provided by the Galactic Scouting Guild's Almanac
“The Sivvers are an alien weapon that turns people into murderous glass sweating zombies.”
Uwell Ofmobile, retired Galactic Scout
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Unit/Mission Network
A 100-word piece of sci-fi minutia
Plots
The Dawn Of Avarice
Taronia - Land of mystics and sages. Taronia - Land of the Gods. Taronia - Land of Conquerers.
Lifeforms
Balisk Lichen
“Man, that is an incredible likeness.”
“What’s that stuff growing on that statue?”
“The better question, what is that statue doing out here?”
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Norbert the Creepy
This might not be suitable for the squeamish or easily offended.
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Gauntlets of the Fallen Frost
Twin Shards of the Storm reforged to work in concert, the Gauntlets of the Fallen Frost grant the user power over winter’s weather, but at a certain price…
Locations
Trollisquarry
A mysterious quarry. Feel free to suggest explanations - it’s just an eerie thought that struck me that I intend to play with.
Society/ Organization
The Chalice Bearers
In the great city of Ozea, the funeral processions of the dead are followed by the Chalice Bearers, mourners who gather their tears to annoint the deceased.
Lifeforms
The Ink Drinkers
“The last thing we ever saw was its inky tail as it swept under the door. I fear the scions of Durnthar have taken yet another piece of us.” - Gould Maran, Keeper of the Throne Seal
Plots
Unthar, the Sun of the Dead
From beyond through veils sublime
Pass ghostly, o umbral shine
Illuminate in shadow, fade colors, so fallow
Dark dreaming does bidding thine
System
Mathom, the God of Delays
Mathom, the God of Delays, is an overlooked but powerful entity. Few worship him, but many remember him with word and deed.
Locations
The Temple of the First Man
A place more holy than any other
Lifeforms
Ylithain, the Drowned Queen
Sing to me and I shall write, on lilies, poetry of the night.
Items
Ruby Heart
100 word magic item
1 Hour, 15 Minutes ago
Could you use a similiar supernatural technology or technique to make slippers?
I think you could/should cut some words out of the first four sentences and then describe what happens when the magic is employed in a little more detail.
Does the silver heart burning out mean you only use it once? Does the enchanted distant door look like the ruby door, how many people can pass through it, how long can it stay open and what can you see through the open door? If the magic isn't too obvious: clever players would trick people into passing through it or drop ex-wvies or monsters into the rooms of the unpopular or evil.
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Chakram of the New Moon
Combating any monster is often as simple as having the right tool for the job. The nightmarish lycanthrop is no exception.
1 Hour, 43 Minutes ago
The item doesn’t need all this justification. If you have story with Lycanthropy in it, then a magical cure (permanent or temporary) is already justified simply by the nature of beasts. You say as much in your teaser. Nor is your story of its creation a novel one. A small isolated community beset by monsters and mother who loves her child so that much she is willing to risk the greater good to protect it are very old chestnuts. You use a lot of words to go through some very simple and familiar concepts.
These facts regarding the item are also sparse, vague and the will not help players to understand or use the items more efficiently. In your Mercurial Chain Sword (http://strolen.com/viewing/Mercurial_Chain_Sword) write up, which I thought was very good, the facts you give could help player to manipulate the item and understand its “physics”. In another excellent write up of an item, http://strolen.com/viewing/Gideons_Mercy, the backstory helps the characters and the GM to understand the items moral compass. It also justifies the existence of an item which unlike this Chakram, is not of necessarily intuitive. I found nothing wrong with this post, but nothing special about it either. Maybe I am missing something, I do that, Checka thought it was perfect.
I think you meant possessed by an “angel” not an “angle”. Don’t take that as condescension, I am mystified and impressed by anyone that get all the errors out of a piece of prose.
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30 Steampunk Books
30 books to be found within a steampunk setting. Manuals, tomes, and blueprints galore!
5 Hours, 17 Minutes ago
Many more were hatched but those that were added fit very well.
Lifeforms
The Hemangini Flying Squirrel
100 word pest
10 Hours, 24 Minutes ago
A great, humorous post, and a wonderful nuisance animal. The image of a squirrel, its eyes shimmering with hunger and teeth gleaming with the brightness of steel, gnawing away at someone's chainmail.
Lifeforms
Hemangini Tree
A coveted tree, 100 words
10 Hours, 30 Minutes ago
I like the idea of challenging yourself to do a post in 100 words, and you did so beautifully here. You've given us the perfect amount of information to want, and therefore create more.
I'm especially enamored of the idea that Dwarves hate the Hemangini. A religious taboo I'd think, a direct opposition to the convenience of the thing. Metal, after all, takes an intense amount of labor and man-hours to mine, and the process is notoriously lethal. If one can simply pluck a metal nut from a tree, what does that say about all the ancestors who languished and died in the mines? Are their souls no longer worth anything? Better to just destroy the plant.
It's also a wonderful explanaition of why especially hippy-dippy elves might be in possession of metal tools and weapons despite mines having a bad habit of killing or displacing life in the area.
NPCs
The Broken-Winged Ambassadors
They came from nowhere suddenly.
NPCs
30 Assassins necromancer
You have been assigned to hire an assassin by another middleman to kill some rich mans enemy. You go to the assassins guild to find you have quite a choice.
Items
The Book That Thinks Foul Thoughts
You never know what magic will do in the hands of the untrained.
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Following The Drum
the sounds of war
Lifeforms
Lifeforms
The Bygnok
The symbiosis of plants and animal has always been present, but long ago a special bond was formed to make the survival of plants coincide with the survival of their caretakers.
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