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Welcome to The Break-Knuckle Pit
It's easy to place a whole, and bizarrely shaped, city into your high fantasy or science fiction roleplaying game. The look of it, and the general attitude of the people that live and work there are...
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Purple Dragons - Schemers in the Dark
It's hard for me to get dragons off my mind. Grand mythical reptiles of ancient power and wisdom that breath fire or lightning will always, always be cool to me. With the last article about them fresh...
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Bone Faeries and Bladewings - Deadly Faeries
Faeries. Do not at me, hear me out. Faeries have been present in the majority of the world's folklore, and their place in Dungeons and Dragons has elements of its lore which reference back to...
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Brown Dragons - Scourge of the Sands
A brown dragon moving effortlessly through the sand - Faeron by kelpie-monster We continue on our draconology mystery tour with an oddity of the draconic world. In terms of the dragons I've designed...
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Welcome To the Glimmer Weaver
Whole worlds for RPGs are hard to imagine. We can try to build the geography and politics of the whole place, but there'll always be one question from one player which will make a Game Master go glass...
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Cobalt Dragons - The Wandering Curiosity
We return to the realm of the dragons in today's article. The malicious forces of brown and purple linger beneath the sand, and in the deep places of the world. Some rarer breeds of dragons are so...
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Sinister Potions - Much A-brew About Nothing
Locations make the adventure sometimes. It's all well and good to know what your players are doing, but where they have to go and who they interact with is arguably more important. The NPCs that they...
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Cute but Dangerous - Beware the Sneaky Zeebles
The term monster in Dungeons and Dragons has always meant anything a group of players could fight and destroy in a combat encounter. This leads us to imagine grim things. Stuff of nightmares. Horrors...
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Steel Dragons - Bastions of their Ideals
There are more Dragons under the sun than ever possibly dreamt of. Past articles in this series have seen grand heroes and dastardly villainous breeds of dragons for dungeon masters to insert into...
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Adventurer Haircuts? Welcome to the Snip of the Gods
An adventurer's life is usually thrilling. The game master has them wandering across their setting, fighting the most fearsome creatures, earning treasures, and the prestige of their world. When all is...
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Campaign Holidays - Rest of the Hammerhand
When you look at a society, a huge number of people living in towns and countries, there's one thing that ties them together far better than the flags they live under. It's the traditions they keep....
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Merry Solstice! ALL The Red Opera Writing is Done!
Tonight is Solstice -- the longest and darkest night of the year -- and as Rick Heinz so eloquently put it, "While Jupiter and Saturn are making out in the sky, we have just finished ALL of the writing...
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"Asundering" a New Year!
With Solstice over, light is returning back to our word! Hark and rejoice! What a better way to usher in a new year than exploring Asunder, a brand new Dark Fantasy RPG system by our good friend Adam...
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Mercury Dragons - Eye of the Deal
In a game like Dungeons and Dragons, it's only right that the skies be filled with dragons. We've looked at many breeds of dragons in this run of articles, and it's been a wild ride. Bringing them to...
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Grey Dragons - Devoted to the Dark
In the world of dragons, there are many ancestral reasons why the beasts hoard their gold or other treasures. I've lifted the veil on Steel and Titanium dragons, who become masters of magic or bastions...
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Facets of Despair - The Side Effects of Fracture Mind
In this trying time, the name of one disease is on almost everyone's mind. It has been everywhere and changed so much for all people. So me writing today about a magical disease feels a little,...
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Magical Birdsong - The Rare Fuya Birds
The worlds of fantasy RPGs are vast, and limited only to the imagination of the Game Master. It's always exciting to fill your world with great unknowable monsters from between worlds or immense...
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Scourge of the Marshlands - There Be Dracotaurs
The figure of the centaur, in our world's myth, goes all the way back to Ancient Greece. Chiron was a wise instructor who helped Hercules complete the twelve labours. In Dungeons and Dragons, the...
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The Avatar of Slaughter Comes to Conquer
There are some forces in Humanoid civilisations that are universal, or universal enough that it brings people together. The power of abstract concepts like revenge and learning, violence and...
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The Peak Where Heroes are Made - The Grand Precipice
Fantasy RPGs often lend to extravagant places. Impossible locations that would be once in a lifetime destinations can be commonplace for heroes on an adventure. I personally grew up with a saga of...
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