Step 1: Finding a suitable hostAs demons solely reside in the Dreamworld, they cannot manifest in the Wakingworld without a host. Fortunately, as almost everything dreams almost anything can host a demon. Unfortunately, the demon is limited in what it can do based on the host it resides in. So finding a suitable host is all about what you want the demon you summon to be capable of.The most ..read more

Resurrection is a part of classic D&D that don't really love. For one, I don't like the gameplay implications. If resurrection is relatively easy, it devalues death. If it is somewhat hard, you get this weird situation where a player has to play a temporary character, or sit out one or more sessions, while the rest of the party tries to get their old character back. Both of these things ..read more

I like goblins, so naturally I want to do a rework of them to fit into the same setting as these dwarfs, elves, orcs and halflings I made. The TL;DR is: Combine these lines from a post by Arnold K. on hobgoblins: 'Goblins are right horrible little bastards, and everything that joins them at their table will also become a right horrible little bastard, too. It doesn't take long.  A ..read more

Though I failed to maintain #dungeon23, I am back again to attempt a daily rpg creation challenge. #lore24 is a challenge where you write up some worldbuilding for a setting, new or old. This seems much better suited to me for a daily challange, as bits of lore don't have to connect directly to previous bits, can vary in kind so they aren't all rooms (like #dungeon23) but can vary from places and ..read more

Didn't think I would respond to this challenge, but woke up this morning with an idea that would fit this, so here I am. Grasping at straws:Whenever a PC does something dangerous they pull a straw, cord, twig or something similar from a bunch with one which is noticibly shorter/different while they cannot see the odd one out. Each long/common straw they draw is discarted. If they draw the short ..read more

Written for the same as of yet unnamed world that my stoneborn dwarfs, slime mould elves, and elf-made orcs inhabit. IntroductionMany have speculated about the origin of the term 'Halfling'. Each of these speculations is of interest to us, because they reveal various aspects of the beings referred to by this term as well as the various way communities have related to them. What is ..read more

We write this down so those who follow can take it as a warning. What you have been told about orcs is mostly false; fabrications to save the dignity of our people, and to stir up the vile required to hopefully right our wrong. Here is the truth: Orcs are corruptions of elves, made at the hight of our hubris. They are our biggest mistake.Immortality haunts the dreams of all mortal creautures, but ..read more

For the first/zeroth edition of FKRCon I wrote a small adventure for 2nd Age, a setting communicated through twelve classes.It featured the remnants of a religious research facility, with decrepit immortal monks, a mutant who believes she is an angel, strange magic gone awry and squealing mutant fetuses. I wrote up the dungeon in this file. The Hook:The Empire has send you to one of the fallen ..read more

I am running the Estate boxset for Mausritter for some of my friends from swordfighting. They are currently making their way through the Fruit of the Orchard. Due to the situation they ended up in at the end of last session I am in need of a random table of Magpie behaviour. It is made with the specific adventure in mind, but might be useable for other situations as well?Minor spoilers for Fruit ..read more

Character generation in the original FLoK was deliberately sparse because I had no real idea of what the project was going to be yet. It was also one of the areas my playtesters had the most feedback on. Especially the generation of the standard attributes (strength, dex, etc.) was contentious. Some disliked that that these tags didn't really come into play, others liked how it informed their ..read more