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Month: April 2020

AD&D Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea World of Weirth

d30 Thursday – Mundane Animals of the Tropical Savannah

30 April 020201 min read

Sometimes an encounter is not a monster! Sometimes your PCs are foraging, exploring or setting up camp and they encounter a normal-sized, non-magical, completely mundane

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Dungeons, Jaquays and the Mythic Underworld

29 April 0202029 April 020204 min read

I’m working on making keys for three dungeons right now. Because I have ADD and can’t just do one thing at a time, LOL. Anyway,

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Appendix N: Three Hearts and Three Lions

27 April 0202024 April 020203 min read

From 1961, a novel by Poul Anderson. Weighing in at 220 pages, this old novel is a fraction of the size of the contemporary fantasy

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Sunday TTRPG Roundup

26 April 020203 min read

Good afternoon, I wanted to share with you some of the blog posts that I really enjoyed this past week. First up, Fen Orc has

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Appendix N, OD&D, and Me

24 April 020204 min read

When I was a little boy, I was a voracious reader (still am!). One of my favorite places in the whole world was a little

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d30 Thursday: NPC Factions

23 April 0202024 April 020203 min read

Who are these people? What did he mean with his dying words, “I will be avenged”? Who is in charge of this town? Why are

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d30 Thursday – Master-Crafted Weapons

16 April 0202016 April 020202 min read

The World of Weirth is going to be a low-magic, low-fantasy style game. This means I’ll need to keep the number of magical weapons to

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d30 Thursday – NPC Contacts – Allies, Friends, Acquaintances

9 April 020203 min read

For this set of tables, your PCs may need to know someone already in place in a settlement. Or they may need to be “sent”

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d30 Thursday – Quirks and Tics

2 April 020201 April 020203 min read

Sometimes people do things without realizing they do them, like crack their knuckles or pinch their eyebrow. These little quirks and tics can make an

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Monsters and NPCs of Weirth – Goblins

1 April 020204 min read

The World of Weirth has no “traditional” goblinoid creatures. No Goblins, Hobgoblins or Bugbears. Rather, what the people of Weirth think of as Goblins are

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Hobby Progress 2021

Models Painted:
Final for 2020: 58

YTD for 2021: 11
WIP on the workbench (Jan '21): 9

Writing projects:

World of Weirth - WIP
* Magic in the World of Weirth - In playtest "beta"
* Tower of Zenopus - Complete
* B1 - In Search of the Unknown re-boot - Complete (Maps ✓, NPC re-skin ✓, Backstory update ✓)
* B2 - Keep on the Borderlands re-boot - WIP (Maps WIP, NPC re-skin WIP, Backstory Updated ✓)
Order vs Entropy - An Alternate Alignment System
Gygax75 - Building the Faerie Realm Gary's way! - WIP

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