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Dying Stylishly: Hacking LotFP classes for high fantasy
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Tuesday, 22 November 2016. Hacking LotFP classes for high fantasy. So, here's a thought. You want to run Lamentations of the Flame Princess, but you want to do so in a more high fantasy setting. Rather than coming up with a bunch of new classes - with all the potential for balance issues and mechanical problems - it's not hard to adapt the existing classes. Other big dumb brutes can also be done this way. Various Types Of Elves. Dark Elves: Sleight of Hand.
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Dying Stylishly: November 2016
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Tuesday, 22 November 2016. Hacking LotFP classes for high fantasy. So, here's a thought. You want to run Lamentations of the Flame Princess, but you want to do so in a more high fantasy setting. Rather than coming up with a bunch of new classes - with all the potential for balance issues and mechanical problems - it's not hard to adapt the existing classes. Other big dumb brutes can also be done this way. Various Types Of Elves. Dark Elves: Sleight of Hand.
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Dying Stylishly: October 2016
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Tuesday, 25 October 2016. Neanderthal Apothacaries (A work-in-progress class for WP&WS). Here's a thing I'm working on. It's about Neanderthals and what they do instead of Magic. However, the side-effect of this is that the Neanderthal mind struggles with abstract or symbolic thinking. There are few Neanderthal artists, and fewer still could ever show any skill in modern fields like programming and mathematics. As such, no Neanderthal is capable of...Inste...
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Dying Stylishly: August 2016
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Sunday, 7 August 2016. A homebrew bloodline for Vampire: The Masquerade. The Strigoi are a minor, yet largely successful, bloodline confined to the far north. The origins of the bloodline are murky, but they are believed to be an ancient offshoot of Clan Lasombra that became isolated in the far north and developed their own crude culture. Strigoi concepts tend towards physical attributes, and the more cerebral members tend to favour perception over other m...
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Dying Stylishly: D&D alignment is cosmic
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Monday, 10 October 2016. D&D alignment is cosmic. So, I saw that the publishers of Pathfinder offered a rules clarification recently. If you're Good aligned, and cast an Evil-aligned spell (such as Animate Dead) twice in a row, you become Neutral. If you're Neutral and cast an Evil-aligned spell three times in a row, you become Evil. This is, suffice to say, rather stupid. But this raises the question 'what does Good and Evil mean. In that kind of game?
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Dying Stylishly: Drider Teeth
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Thursday, 3 November 2016. A magic item from my weekly WP&WS game. Drider Teeth are found in sets of six. Each is a glossy black chitin false-tooth, essentially shaped like human teeth but longer and sharper. Each tooth has a different effect on the wearer. If they haven't been identified, then which tooth is selected will be random: roll a d6 to see which tooth is selected first (and then a d5 for the second tooth, a d4 for the third and so on). Roll a 5:...
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Dying Stylishly: The Six Rites of Eloi Creation
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Saturday, 8 October 2016. The Six Rites of Eloi Creation. An idea occurred to me: what if these ancient Morlocks, rather than being inherently smarter and more civilized than their descendants, instead had ways to 'elevate' their own kind to a higher state? The process of becoming an Eloi causes a Morlock to neglect their physical prowess in order to focus on magical growth. As well as the listed effects below, the Eloi increases the attribute modifiers.
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Dying Stylishly: April 2016
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Thursday, 28 April 2016. Wolf-packs and Winter Snow is available to download on drivethruRPG. I'm working on getting the layout done for a print version. I'm working on a couple of Wolfpacks modules, fillable character sheets and pre-genned characters, and a DM-screen and player-cheat-sheets package. The modules in question are:. Spires Dreaming Beneath The Ice, a dungeon crawl into antediluvian ruins in the far north. How I run Clerics and so forth. All c...
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Dying Stylishly: December 2016
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Thoughts on gaming, and other general weirdness. Monday, 5 December 2016. Four Steps to Divinity. Four new spells for Wolf-Packs and Winter Snow. They make the caster into a god. Maybe not a particularly mighty one, but a god none the less. Probably don't introduce these into your game unless you're absolutely sure. You want to run a game where your PCs are deities. It can be fun - BECMI had the Immortals rules, after all - but it's the sort of jump in power that can make things get weird. This spell req...
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