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Items

30 Steampunk Books

Submitted: 2012-02-04 01:45 PM | Hits: 31 | Comments: 1

30 books to be found within a steampunk setting. Manuals, tomes, and blueprints galore!

Items  (Books and Scrolls)   (Non-Magical)         By: Chaosmark



Items

Ruby Heart

Submitted: 2012-02-03 03:00 PM | Hits: 26 | Comments: 1

100 word magic item

Items  (Tools)   (Magical)         By: OmegaDraco



Items

Goliath Crown of Garim Darnore

Submitted: 2012-02-03 12:21 PM | Hits: 37 | Comments: 1

The King always has the coolest form of transportation.

Items  (Jewelry)   (Magical)         By: OmegaDraco



Items

Chakram of the New Moon

Submitted: 2012-02-03 10:56 AM | Hits: 35 | Comments: 2

Combating any monster is often as simple as having the right tool for the job. The nightmarish lycanthrop is no exception.

Items  (Ranged Weapons)   (Magical)         By: OmegaDraco



NPCs

Bodach the Straw Man

Submitted: 2012-02-02 02:05 AM | Hits: 64 | Comments: 2

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.

NPCs  (Mythic/ Historical)   (Mystical)         By: Scrasamax



Items

Bucky Batteries

Submitted: 2012-02-01 06:50 PM | Hits: 46 | Comments: 1

Bucky Batteries: when you need batteries to last a long long long time

A 100 piece of sci-fi minutia

Items  (Other)   (Non-Magical)         By: axlerowes



Lifeforms

The Hemangini Flying Squirrel

Submitted: 2012-01-27 07:36 AM | Hits: 119 | Comments: 7

100 word pest

Lifeforms  (Fauna)   (Mountains)         By: axlerowes



Lifeforms

Hemangini Tree

Submitted: 2012-01-25 12:18 PM | Hits: 136 | Comments: 10

A coveted tree, 100 words

Lifeforms  (Flora)   (Any)         By: Scrasamax



Lifeforms

Sivvers

Submitted: 2012-01-21 06:59 PM | Hits: 154 | Comments: 10

"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  

 

Lifeforms  (Intelligent Species)   (Space)         By: axlerowes



Items

Unit/Mission Network

Submitted: 2012-01-21 06:16 PM | Hits: 95 | Comments: 2

A 100-word piece of sci-fi minutia  

Items  (Computers)   (Combat)         By: axlerowes



Plots

The Dawn Of Avarice

Submitted: 2007-03-08 12:01 AM | Hits: 9177 | Comments: 10

Taronia - Land of mystics and sages. Taronia - Land of the Gods. Taronia - Land of Conquerers.

Plots  (Crisis)   (Campaign)         By: Siren no Orakio



Lifeforms

Balisk Lichen

Submitted: 2005-10-30 12:34 AM | Hits: 4952 | Comments: 11

“Man, that is an incredible likeness.”
“What’s that stuff growing on that statue?”
“The better question, what is that statue doing out here?”

Lifeforms  (Flora)   (Any)         By: MoonHunter



NPCs

Norbert the Creepy

Submitted: 2005-11-28 04:45 PM | Hits: 6652 | Comments: 13

This might not be suitable for the squeamish or easily offended.

NPCs  (Minor)   (Mystical)         By: Scrasamax



Items

Gauntlets of the Fallen Frost

Submitted: 2006-05-29 12:18 AM | Hits: 2983 | Comments: 4

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…

Items  (Armor)   (Magical)         By: Siren no Orakio



Locations

Trollisquarry

Submitted: 2007-01-16 06:13 PM | Hits: 4010 | Comments: 7

A mysterious quarry. Feel free to suggest explanations - it’s just an eerie thought that struck me that I intend to play with.

Locations  (Other)   (Any)         By: ephemeralstability



Society/ Organization

The Chalice Bearers

Submitted: 2006-03-31 10:40 PM | Hits: 6896 | Comments: 7

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.

Society/ Organization  (Religious)   (Area)         By: Scrasamax


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Lifeforms

The Ink Drinkers

Submitted: 2006-03-05 07:08 PM | Hits: 13627 | Comments: 25

“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

Lifeforms  (Ethereal)   (City/ Ruin)         By: Spark



Plots

Unthar, the Sun of the Dead

Submitted: 2010-09-04 12:36 PM | Hits: 1064 | Comments: 26

From beyond through veils sublime

Pass ghostly, o umbral shine

Illuminate in shadow, fade colors, so fallow

Dark dreaming does bidding thine

Plots  (Crisis)   (Campaign)         By: EchoMirage



System

Mathom, the God of Delays

Submitted: 2006-01-30 10:38 AM | Hits: 30968 | Comments: 69

Mathom, the God of Delays, is an overlooked but powerful entity. Few worship him, but many remember him with word and deed.

System  (Divine/ Spirit)   (Defining)         By: manfred



Locations

The Temple of the First Man

Submitted: 2005-05-09 09:32 AM | Hits: 11849 | Comments: 30

A place more holy than any other

Locations  (Establishment)   (Forest/ Jungle)         By: EchoMirage



Lifeforms

Ylithain, the Drowned Queen

Submitted: 2006-09-24 07:23 AM | Hits: 19193 | Comments: 22

Sing to me and I shall write, on lilies, poetry of the night.

Lifeforms  (Unique)   (Swamp)         By: EchoMirage



Items

Ruby Heart

Submitted: 2012-02-03 03:00 PM | Hits: 26 | Comments: 1

100 word magic item

Items  (Tools)   (Magical)        
axlerowes commented on Ruby Heart
   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. 





Items

Chakram of the New Moon

Submitted: 2012-02-03 10:56 AM | Hits: 35 | Comments: 2

Combating any monster is often as simple as having the right tool for the job. The nightmarish lycanthrop is no exception.

Items  (Ranged Weapons)   (Magical)        
axlerowes commented and voted on Chakram of the New Moon
   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.   





Items

30 Steampunk Books

Submitted: 2012-02-04 01:45 PM | Hits: 31 | Comments: 1

30 books to be found within a steampunk setting. Manuals, tomes, and blueprints galore!

Items  (Books and Scrolls)   (Non-Magical)        
Mourngrymn commented on 30 Steampunk Books
   5 Hours, 17 Minutes ago

Many more were hatched but those that were added fit very well.





Lifeforms

The Hemangini Flying Squirrel

Submitted: 2012-01-27 07:36 AM | Hits: 119 | Comments: 7

100 word pest

Lifeforms  (Fauna)   (Mountains)        
Roack commented and voted on The Hemangini Flying Squirrel
   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

Submitted: 2012-01-25 12:18 PM | Hits: 136 | Comments: 10

A coveted tree, 100 words

Lifeforms  (Flora)   (Any)        
Roack commented and voted on Hemangini Tree
   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.




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NPCs

The Broken-Winged Ambassadors

Submitted: 2007-09-16 02:16 AM | Hits: 1863 | Comments: 10

They came from nowhere suddenly.

NPCs  (Major)   (Political)         By: Murometz



NPCs

30 Assassins necromancer

Submitted: 2006-09-03 03:29 PM | Hits: 5443 | Comments: 8

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.

NPCs  (Extras)   (Criminal/Espionage)         By: necromancer



Items

The Book That Thinks Foul Thoughts

Submitted: 2008-07-04 06:36 PM | Hits: 2844 | Comments: 8

You never know what magic will do in the hands of the untrained.

Items  (Books and Scrolls)   (Campaign Defining)         By: Pieh



Items

Following The Drum

Submitted: 2007-02-23 02:09 AM | Hits: 3995 | Comments: 5

the sounds of war

Items  (Art and Music)   (Combat)         By: Jarons20



Lifeforms

GraveBorn

Submitted: 2010-12-22 06:44 AM | Hits: 795 | Comments: 9

Hidden in the snowy mountains lies a small settlement. Not unlike others however this village is entirely populated by undead. These undead are atypical.

Lifeforms  (Constructed)   (Mountains)         By: Rathor



Lifeforms

The Bygnok

Submitted: 2006-10-13 12:14 AM | Hits: 6071 | Comments: 9

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.

Lifeforms  (Intelligent Species)   (Any)         By: Andimia



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