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Fire Down Below teaser
“Your community sits at the mouth of a cave that stretches impossibly far into the unknown depths of the earth. Since time immemorial, your heroes have been guardians of the surface world against the horrors beneath. “But now an age … Continue reading
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Tagged fire down below, house rules, mythic underworld, RPG
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Magic Monday – God-eaters – The Sun-Rider
The Sun-Rider (The Hero; White Bull Rider) Description: Legend has it that the sun, an iridescent bull elephant of monstrous size, once roamed across the heavens at whim. This wreaked havoc on the land and seas below. The other gods … Continue reading
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Tagged elephant, 自業自得, god-eaters, Magic Monday, rider, the sun
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Seedling
(Shortly after leaving college, I think, I had an idea for a cyberpunk retelling of the Lord of the Rings, crossed with a hefty dose of Lovecraftian Dreamlands mythos and a bit of The Matrix. This fragment is all that … Continue reading
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Tagged cyberpunk, dream, science fantasy, story fragment
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Magic Monday – God-eaters – Shiranuhi
Shiranuhi (Seafire) Description: Sometimes, on clear nights, pale lights can be seen hovering low over the waters of the bay as if mirroring the stars in the sky. First a pair, known as the “parents,” appear, off over the sea. … Continue reading
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Tagged god-eaters, Magic Monday, shiranui, St. Elmo's fire, will-o-the-wisp
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Campaign idea: Medusa’s Vault
I was talking with some gaming friends the other day and we got onto the topic of people being turned to stone (e.g. by a Medusa-type monster) and then back again (e.g. by a Stone to Flesh type spell). We agreed … Continue reading
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Tagged brainstorming, campaign, Medusa, mystery, petrification, Sleeping Beauty campaign
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Magic Monday – Campaign Concept – The Fire From Down Below
This post was brought to you by the very fun “You’re Welcome” song from Moana. I’ve talked before about an “unlocking” campaign, in which the main draw is to explore and plan, negotiate and fight, and acquire new tools that … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Musing, Setting, World-Building
Tagged megadungeon, Moana, mythic underworld, prehistory, steal fire
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Magic Monday – Physical magic – I’m’a cut you!
Hamonnoah Hahd (Embladen; Spirit Sword; Psiblade) Physical adepts of the Fells often fight bare-handed, and when resorting to weapons they often fight with sticks instead of metal weapons. That doesn’t mean they can’t cut things when they need … Continue reading
Magic Monday – God-eaters – The Stars
The Stars (The Dancers of the Astral Plain; the Lights) Description: It turns out that the world really is ringed in a shell, nest, or shield of rotating crystalline spheres. The innermost face of these – which we call the … Continue reading
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Tagged Astral Plain, god-eaters, lights, Magic Monday, stars
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Magic Monday – God-eaters – Id
Id (Old Man Fear; The Orb of Serenity, The Black Mirror) Description: The Black Mirror is an utterly immobile sphere of a hard, translucent-black material, shot through in its depths with faint suggestions of color. It floats at about chest-height … Continue reading
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Tagged black mirror, emotions, god-eaters, id, immovability
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Magic Monday – God-eaters – The Fourth King
The Fourth King (Grandfather, Great-Grandfather, the Ancient) Description: Many human households across the land engage in ancestor-worship. Whole communities may venerate a likeness of a particularly influential figure from their area’s history even when there is no family connection. Most such … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestor worship, Ancient, Fourth King, god-eaters, Grandfather, Magic Monday
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