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The punishment for a wrongful death is prison or paying for the funeral in full.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization May 10, 2023 |
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The creatures in this dungeon will not become hostile so long as you do not cause any trouble inside. If you provoke them though, you aggro the whole dungeon. If the players are smart, they can complete the dungeon crawl without having to fight anything.
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Encounter - Any April 20, 2023 |
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All estates, manors, castles, fortresses, and palaces are required by the King's Law to be converted into civilian shelters in the event of national emergency such as a disaster or attack. This includes the Royal Palaces. It is an act of treason to fail to comply such an emergency order.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization April 15, 2023 |
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History is Drama, not Lore by
While it is within your purview to write long-spanning histories of your world, it is largely unnecessary. If you are running an RPG, do this instead: make a bullet point list of important events that affect the world today, and mysteries that people still don't know. Let these fuel your adventures.
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Ideas - Articles February 4, 2023 |
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Non-orientalist Arab cultures by
When creating nations or cultures that reside in your desert regions, consider pulling inspiration from the Berbers or Bedouins, rather than the easily-mishandled Iranian/Persian/Arab convention
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Ideas - Society/ Organization February 4, 2023 |
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Daedalus Station by
Daedalus Station is a 550-meter long space hulk drifting in trans-Uranian space, reduced to a derelict by the catastrophic failure of its dimensional reactor. The failure of the short-lived Paradigm VI reactor created a stable dimensional bore, a three-meter wide disc in the engineering section.What is on the other side of the rift? Why is the rift anchored to the ship instead of a point in space? |
Encounter - Any January 13, 2022 |
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What lies below? by
Nearby is a region of many curiously shaped hillocks. Last week a tremendous storm washed one of these half away, revealing a strange shed made of concrete panels. Its long side is aligned east-west, about 4m by 3m and 2.5m high, with a flat roof slightly sloped down to the north . The double doors in the south side have murky glass panels in them, but nothing much can be seen from outside, although it looks a bit like the top of a staircase. Will you dare go inside? What will you find there, and what lies below?
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Encounter - Cave/ Underground April 21, 2021 |
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Encounter - Other April 12, 2021 |
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In a warrior based society, when you make a threat of violence or death towards another, you had better be prepared to back it up with your weapons. Because this is considered an implied challenge to combat and should the person who you threatened call you out on it, it constitutes as accepting this challenge. Trying to back out at this point is considered cowardice and results in being disgraced.
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Encounter - Any April 5, 2021 |
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In a warrior based society, when you make a threat of violence or death towards another, you had better be prepared to back it up with your weapons. Because this is considered an implied challenge to combat and should the person who you threatened call you out on it, it constitutes as accepting this challenge. Trying to back out at this point is considered cowardice and results in being disgraced.
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Encounter - Any April 5, 2021 |
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In this dungeon, the monsters will not be hostile unless you take something without permission. If you do take something, the monsters inside will consider it stealing and attack you.
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Ideas - System February 23, 2021 |
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A nation state has a hardline tradition of transparency in government. So much so that any and all information held by their military and intelligence services is immediately declassified and published when the said information is no longer relevent to current and ongoing activities. Even if such information might be diplomatically toxic.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization January 16, 2021 |
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A traditionalist nation that scorns ranged combat is famed for its innovations in body armor and shields capable of blocking all kinds of projectiles and withstanding explosions. The purpose of this armor is to allow one to get close enough to an enemy for melee combat. Conversely it is also famed for its innovations in melee weapons capable of destroying all kinds of body armor and shields to effectively defeat its enemies.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization January 1, 2021 |
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In a miltaristic nation, the ownership of proper (improvised don't count) weapons and armor is mandatory for all citizens under penalty of inprisonment or death.
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Ideas - Society/ Organization December 2, 2020 |
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Double Bulwark Shield by
This is an idea for a basic weapon which I have adapted partially into a fighter subclass. Let me know what you think, because if it's any good, I may post the subclass.Double Bulwark Shield Melee weapon (martial, shield) Category: Items Damage: 1d6 per hand, 1d4 together Damage Type: Bludgeoning Item Rarity: Standard Weight: 6 When wielding the Double Bulwark Shield in two separate parts, you gain +2 to your AC, +1 per hand. When wielding two separate parts of the Double Bulwark Shield, you can take an action to bring the two halves of your shield together. Your movement is halved as long as the shield is brought together. If you move or attack after bringing your shield together this turn, you receive a +3 bonus to your AC. If you don’t move or attack after switching this turn, you and an ally directly behind you receive a +5 bonus to your AC. This action is known as Steadfast. Once the shield is brought together, you may take a bonus action to become Steadfast even if you attack this turn. However, you may not move or attack after becoming Steadfast. Taking apart your shield is considered a free action. |
Ideas - Items December 1, 2020 |
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The Life Cycle of the Gnoll by
Eat your sisterbreed kill a goblin breed plunder a human farm, kill the farmers, eat the dog breed Get killed by first level fighter breed with ghosts |
Encounter - Any October 22, 2020 |
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Some thoughts on Mundane weapons in D&D by
I've never been happy that almost every player picks long sword and greatsword, so I made a special chart to make them more unique. I use this in OSR and Pathfinder. I use 20 only as crit threat(Pathfinder speak),double damage.dagger +2 to hit, D4 damage short sword +1 to hit, d6 damage long sword, threatens critical(see below) on 19-20, D8 damage battle axe, ignores one Damage resistance( some monsters have resistance to damage in the form of knocks damage off before you do actual damage)(scale at higher L?) D8 damage Mace, 0ne damage on a miss(Scalable?) D8 damage (Ok , should prob only be vrs Metal armor but not looking for that kind of complexity) spear D6 damage, d12 damage vrs large creatures great sword 2d6 damage military pick d6 damage, x3 damage( triple dice damage) on crit(20) great axe D10 damage, +3 to confirm crit ( in pathfinder if you roll a 20 you then reroll your attack and if you hit the targets AC, you get a critical multiplier) quarterstaff(2 handed) D6 damage +1 bonus to AC (to the better) Etc. |
Encounter - Any October 22, 2020 |
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Some thoughts on Healing in D&D by
What do you do for overnight healing?I usually do Level plus CON bonus as overland healing, x3 if you rest the whole day How about you? Do you do binding? I did d6 binding of woulds after a fight that you must take at least one, but I have had a lot of variations on this Only so many times a day Must be done by clerics must have the medic skill d4 instead of d6 don't need to take a min. of one Some ideas d4 from taking one strong drink once a day(crypts and things) heal d8 from taking a second wind(D&D4th) acupuncture (varies on technique) mine |
Encounter - Any October 22, 2020 |
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The Single creature game> Where there is only one type of Creature to fight other than humansWerewolf> This is one I've worked on a little>there would be one common one and then regional variation Gnoll> racial differences like humans only a little more severe. Dragon> you could make them more common and w a lot of younger ones |
Encounter - Any October 22, 2020 |
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For D&D> An Item by
11) Animated Broom> 9 out of 0 of these just sweep, but the 10th is combat capable.The Broom is considered a Human fighter in all ways with the following stats AC7 8 HP not fixable D4 damage Follows simple verbal commands and can be instructed on who (including pets) not to attack. Will respond to "fight" but will attack the closest thing that it has not banded with. (post 18 for the day,I'm shooting for 20!) |
Encounter - Any October 22, 2020 |