So here it is!  Thanks for all who contributed!

Some have double entries (due to people posting at the same time).  If that’s the case, just choose the one you like.

1. Roving living nightmare of terrified dying child

2. Ogre rampaging and screaming as giant wasp larva hatch and eat its back

3. Wagon of mushroom-addled jugglers who will attempt to force the party to watch their performance which begins to cross a lot of boundaries.

3. A campsite haunted by the spirits of hunters who were devoured by wolves during a terrible winter.  They recreate the scene each night, complete with the killing cold.

5.  Swarm of iridescent, vampiric hummingbirds

6.  Beggar who rejects coin and asks for teeth instead

4. human shaped piles of ash on the ground, if its windy or your lawful they might animate

7. A pair of glowing eyes peer out from the darkened windows of an old tower, the last remnant of a keep that once guarded these lands.

8. large swarm of slow moving parasitic giant butterflies, are the ready to lay eggs inside of you or just provide a pretty interlude

9. Jellyfish-like creatures floating in air.  They hunger for brains!!

10. Flatbears drifting in on the northerlies.

11. Impenetrable tangles of brambles and thorny plants that funnel travelers to a small clearing filled with tall, sweet-smelling blossoms…

12. Extremely obese man who’s belly button is a swirling vortex to another dimension.

13. A pair of glowing green circles of light move slowly across the area from no apparent source. If they come to rest on the face of an intelligent creature, that creature may be hypnotized to do their bidding.

12.Orc Flagellants heading to a Pilgrimage site.  The can be heard from a ways away with the whips and the singing of dirges, don’t really care what you have to say and keep marching on. If attacked, BESERKERS

15. Barbarian warband in full paint and singing their death songs.  They go to confront nearly certain death, but seem pretty up-beat about it.

14. A xorn balancing on a small pyramid, reciting past events of characters in bored sing-song voice

16. A messenger hummingbird laying on the ground nearly dead within inches of some blooming nectar filled flowers. Attached to its leg is a tiny tiny scroll case with an even smaller piece of parchment, you can’t make out what it says, but there is a lot of writing

15. A questing beast, drinking calmly at a stream.  The body of a leopard, the head of a crocodile and the tail an asp.  Oh it also has giant rubies for eyes.  The beast will flee any pursuer and always moves 10′ per round faster than the fastest thing chasing it.  While hunting the beast random encounter chance is tripled.

16. A humble circle of huts.  Four farm families including 12 combat 0-level combatants and 22 children and non-combatants (old, timid, children).  They will gladly get the party roaring drunk on plum spirits, and will try to convince the adventurers (especially elves!) to have carnal knowledge of their cross-eyed grubby young folk and be mortally offended if refused.  They have 1D8x5 GP worth of poor quality farm equipment and 1D4x50 GP worth in stored(hidden) grain.

17. A mysterious storm overhead darkens the sky and releases a hail or arrows and sling stones before moving along.  Save for half damage if not in cover from 1d10 potential arrows/stones per party member. 1d100 recoverable silver arrows and sling stones worth 2sp each

18.  A gleefully treacherous dwarf fighter (LVL 6) currently calling himself “Jolly Mattos”.  He will offer to join the party and then share his poisoned food with them, hacking any who survive to death with his axe – for kicks, money and because of a deprived childhood.

19. A pride 1d12 of blind banshee-cats hunt through the area using echolocation for small rodents and birds.  They pose no danger to the party but save VS temporary deafness

20. The stink of sulfur is heavy in the area as a migration of small fire elemental s boils from underground to have a surface side mating ritual and pro-bachinalian

21. Brigand of the Bread Brothers. All their weapons are different types of bread. They’re pretty insane. Says they worship the bread god “Gruri Mishi”.
Only thing is the god exists and will hunt down anyone harming these fellows.

22. A really deep and disgusting puddle of mud blocks the road, it’ll trap any wagon that tries to go through it, and make anyone who walks through it smell horrible (there goes your surprise chance).

23. Cannibalistic demon-worshipping frogmen looking for their next meal

24. Overturned wagon, goods spilled everywhere, 3d6 travelers in circle around it, facing away.  Unmoving.

25. An escaped princess on the run from a small/large jabberwocky.  Do you rescue her or help the beast.

24. A band of gnomish highway men in blue tunics and red pointy hats gleefully setting up an ambush for trolls.  If you are not a troll, no need to worry as they are only after trolls to turn into statues for their garden to scare off birds. if you are a troll or have one in the party, roll for initiative

27.  A dwarf with a handcart full of broken bottles offering to sell a map to an abandoned, underground brewery.

28.  A pair of knights dueling over an alleged offense neither can seem to clearly remember.

29.  An unattended campfire over which hangs a lidded cauldron filled with coins and boiling water.

30. An old hag wearing a dress of beautiful women’s faces that have been stitched together.  She offers a map to vast riches for another beautiful woman’s face.

31.  A chimney puffing violet smoke sticking out of flat ground.

32. An incredibly dim-witted hill giant looking for, in order:  something to cuddle (to death), a friend to talk to (until he gets mad), something to eat (see previous entries), a dry place to sleep (the parties tents would work).

33. Four maidens debate the merits of the seasons, choosing one of the adventurers to settle the matter

34.  A fish flopping on dry land with a cursed ring in its mouth.

35.  A bent old man selling a key and a signet ring he claims to have found among bones in a cave.

36. A fruit tree with 1d6 oversized fruit, each bearing a human face shape.  Does anyone have speak with fruit memorized?

37.  Sudden, incessant screaming from out of a deep well.

38.  A beautiful, but tired, dirty and bruised young woman approaches.  She weaves a horrific tale of imprisonment and abuse, but if the party assists her, things don’t add up exactly the way she described them.

39.  The strong smell of rotting meat followed by greenish drizzle and the cawing of crows only glimpsed in peripheral vision

40. Ethereal ancient library guarded by strange otherworldly consciousness

41.  A sullen, grouchy fellow selling items of clothing and shoes by the road, all apparently made for children

42. The ground opens up in front of you and 1d6 dirty dwarfs scramble up out of a hole climbing a rope and piton ladder and quickly and quietly run away in different directions a look of terror on their beards.   The drop some spelunking gear and mining equipment in their haste, before you is a dwarf sized hole in the ground that drops down hundreds of feet, it smells of pepper

43. Migratory beekeepers move through if its night, wagons loaded down with hundreds of bee hives.  If its day, hundreds of beehives line either side of the road while some empty wagons sit off to the side. Migratory beekeepers sleeping underneath.  Dex check or stung, 1 in 20 your allergic, save or die

44. A patch of small mud puddles, all inexplicably boiling.

45. A feral band of naked children who attempt to steal clothes.  They will shank you if you try to grab them.

46. Seven lifelike statues with weapons raised, looking with horror into the woods.  Song birds sing, there are lilacs scenting the breeze, the sun is warm

47.  An exhausted goblin dragging a heavy chest by a chain attached to a collar around its neck.

48. Full blown war going on between two tribes of regular-sized ants. They speak common, but you need to be close to the ground.

49.  A lone woman under a tree in terrible pain as she gives birth to an eight-pound tadpole with seemingly vestigial human legs.

50. Mutated wizard who sees through eyeballs in his hands, looking for ruins said to hold amazing treasure and knowledge

51. Choking miasma of crushing despair and unendurable pain.

52.  2d12 ravens form out letters spelling out words in a dead tree.  The fluttering black feathers, wings, and sharp beaks spell out “turn back”, “abandon hope” and “riches await” before they all fall dead on the ground.  The corpses radiate slight magic and decay at an alarming rate

53. A small band of goblins (about 2D4) all with 2 levels in ranger.

54. Nyarlathotep.

55 1D6 dire wolves.

56. A series of random weather effects, like snow in the desert

57. A walking wizard’s tower. It is mating season.

58 Peaceful Agrarian elves constructing a large wicker figure for some reason or another, they are anxious for you to on your way, but are very polite about it

59 A large construction facility, it’s about 100m away and the sign on the door says “Golem and Co”

60. The body of an imp-demon stands on top of his disembodied head, juggling shinning orbs.  He mutters, “Mustn’t drop a one.  Not a one.”  Which he promptly does, causing the whole area to shake violently.

61 you come across a wall of stone and corpses, there are 2D6 spear men hiding behind it

62 a witch (treat as a 3/4 magic user/cleric)… holy shit she’s multi-classed

63 a zombie wyvern flaps its wings overhead

64. A drunk wizard, who memorized all spells wrong and thus will cast more or less randomized versions of what we’re used to.

65. The trail you’re on ends at a brick wall. But the wall is only as wide as the road. You can still walk around the wall.

66. A dirty gnome driving a cart pulled by a thin donkey. Chests of amazingly carved wood figures, mostly small animals, some fairy creatures too.

67. At the end of an encounter, the party finds hidden in with the other loot, a bracelet with the name of one of the PCs engraved on it. That PC should have had no idea of its existence.

68. Owlbear nest, 1d4 freshly hatched little fuzzballs. Where’s mama?

69. Small keep with 2d12 sirens/harpies. They really want you to stay for dinner.

70. Juggernaut rolling down the road. Can only go in one direction, until it reaches the end of the road, then it turns around. Can’t leave the road.

71. A very big bear in a funny hat and a colorful tutu.  It seems lost, confused and very, very hungry.  It dances if you sing or play music, but turns murderous in the presence of gnomes.

72. A small wooden cabin. Within a potted plant and the god of moths are playing cards. They’re both cheating, the plant is winning.

73. Stuck inside a boulder (or in a dungeon wall, as appropriate) is a gleaming longsword that no one seems to have thus far been able to pull out.

74. The boulder with the sword sticking out of it is actually an angry earth elemental.

75. An angry, charging minotaur, who is actually a friendly minotaur under a spell and compelled to be aggressive against his will.

76. A girl is screaming for help, turns out it’s a trap and she is really a siren.

77. Hamsters. Lots and lots of hamsters.

78. Demon Bed. A bed that eats people.

79. A band of traveling bards. Plays on gorgeous instruments that are actually sleeping mimics.

80 a group of about 2D10 giant rats are running towards you (what are they running from?)

81. A brownie with a voice amplifier, and an ego to match (so long as no one sees him).

82. Cultists just finished summoning a Spider demon (body of spider with the head of a leper baby).  It went wrong and now the thing is killing EVERYBODY!!

83 A canoe with no bottom is being held up and ran at the players like some kind of battering ram, goblins are doing it

84. A tiny but sinister dark cloud is following the party. It wants them to treat it like a god. If ignored, will punish them with rain- and hailstorms.

85. The next room that the party enters will have all furnishings and decorations turned upside down. Chairs and tables nailed to the ceiling, and even the floor and ceiling tiles reversed to make it look upside down.

86. a swarm of rabbits go past the party, and then a pack of foxes,  all ignoring the party,   a few minutes late a gaggle of geese fly by erratically and the a  dozen large shadows of something flying in circles apper on the ground, but nothing seen in the sky. the shadows go away after a few mins

87. A cabin infested with sentient orange mould. Roll 1d6: on 1-3, the human living there is alive but insane; on 4-6, the inhabitant is dead and the mould is using the corpse to reproduce.

88. Corpses that looks identical in height and stature of the players.  All the clothing also identical, but on a different corpse.  All the faces have been eaten off.

89. A room with half a dozen levers and switches against one wall. Flipping any of them will make a sound as if a secret door is opening, like stone grinding on stone, but nothing actually happens. Each lever makes the sound as if it’s coming from a different direction, some closer, some farther away.

90 2d12 large siege engines sit on a hill, half of them firing in random directions at anything in site. Hard to make out what is crewing them from a distance , looks like green fuzz all over them.   In reality its 3d100 snotling runty gobos, (1/4 hd, treat as swarm) now the engines do 6d6 damage in a 20 foot area, but they are way randomly shot

91. A perfect glen of wild flowers, a happily gurgling brook and the industrious hum of bees. Spending a turn in the glen imparts good feeling a chance to reroll any one roll for the rest of the session.

92. A tree hung with dead warriors, their upside down shields around their necks. A few baubles may be looted from the corpses, but doing so (or shouting a challenge) is likely to summon a fel fey knight who will demand single combat.

93. A rotted village filled with farmers trapped, asleep in an endless nightmare. To the West a scheming sorcerer rides a war machine forged of these nightmares and uses it to terrorize and enslave travelers.

94. A fleshy middle aged man in dirty silks weeps here. He is Gerhart Ghecko, formerly a wealthy merchant broken by fate. If given a weapon and promise of a chance at wealth or death he will serve as a loyal, fearless and mildly suicidal 0-level henchman.

95. A large chunk of rock or meteor steams in a crater here.  Insert favorite random table for standing too close.  1in 12 chance another one streaks across the sky while your standing there.

96. A large obelisk that forms a sundial, there are strange ritual markings and words that if a smart wizard reads it seem to indicate that at a certain time on a certain day it could be used to bend or twist or stop time itself by standing in the shadow.  Others might know this also, others from orbit.

97. A field full of vibrantly blue butterflies.  Sparkles of turquoise dust floats from their wings that have hallucinogenic properties.

97. A place where shadows drop away into pits of infinite blackness and seem to bend slowly towards anyone that approaches too closely.  Staying here past dark is a very, very bad idea.

98. A traveling circus, complete with tents, elephants, clowns, camels, monkeys, tigers, everything and to everyone surprise there is nothing sinister or evil about it.  Fun happy music surrounds everything for days and everyone heals and has euphoria.  After separating yourself from the circus, save VS poison or melancholia strikes, -1 on everything for a month.

99. A maze full of traps that are nothing more than painted on the walls and floor…except for the last one, of course.

00. Thick barbarians with a giant sword riding a cyborg-techno-dragon.

I took the DCCified Warforged I created a while back and altered it for Hubris.

Pertinent info:

Floating Island of Terror- (Possibly a living patron that the Queen serves) This metallic monstrosity hovers high above Land of Perpetual Stone and Mire, belching out soot, pollution, and smoke as it produces wheellock firearms, gunpowder, and other strange devices.  The Black Queen, a powerful sorcereress, sits high on her throne of bones and steam in her floating metal city, satiating her hunger on the nightmares of her subjects.  The Black Queen governs and commands all who enter here; with the help of The Black Guard of Abhorrent Action, a group of devote followers of the Black Queen, it isn’t difficult. 

The Floating Island of Terror is responsible for the invention and distribution for most of the firearms throughout the Hubris region.  The Black Queen’s Skeletal Gun Runners are devoted enough and crazy enough to run caravans all over Hubris.

Murder Machine

Whether you were a criminal, beggar, or an invalid just trying to get by you managed to anger the Black Queen and were “volunteered” into her service.

You were strapped into a suit of specially crafted armor and dumped into a vat full of boiling, swirling alchemical substances and sealed in a chamber for three days.  The intense heat and pressure of the chamber caused your flesh to melt and meld with the suit of armor.  While the Black Guard of Abhorrent Action watched in stoic silence, your screams of pain still ring in your ears.

You emerged from the vat as one of the Black Queen’s terrifying Murder Machines.  Through her bizarre technology and sorcery she has created a living construct which she uses to mercilessly destroy her enemies.  You killed, labored, destroyed, and terrified all in her name.

While most murder machines are utterly loyal and obedient to the Black Queen, you are different.  The alchemical substances did not manage to destroy your consciousness and personality.  Eventually you were able to break free of her control completely.  You bided your time, and when able you made your escape.

Now you are on the run from agents of the Black Queen while attempting to etch out a life for yourself in the strange and grim world of Hubris.

Hit Points: A murder machine gains 1d10 HP per level.

Weapon Training: A murder machine is trained in all manner of weaponry.  They cannot wear any armor (see below).

Alignment: A murder machine is free to decide their code of ethics.  However one thing always rings true, the call to battle and desire to kill fleshy things is always constant.

Attack Modifier: Murder machine do not receive a fixed attack modifier at each level.  Instead they receive a deed die, like the Warrior.  The deed die is rolled each round to generate the attack modifier.  See the chart below to see the deed die advancement.  The bonus of the deed die is also a modifier for damage.

Mighty Deeds: You were constructed for battle.  A murder machine can perform Mighty Deeds as a Warrior.

Construct: As a bizarre living construct a murder machine does not require sleep, food, or air.  They are also immune to diseases and poisons.  Due to being a construct normal magical means of healing are not as effective on you, only giving you half the amount (minimum of 1HP back).

Natural Armor: The body of a murder machine is made of tough metal and wood and gives natural armor protection.  Treat the armor class of a Murder machine as being equipped with scale mail (+4).  Due to this natural construction a murder machine suffers no check penalties on skill checks. The construction of their body makes it so they cannot wear any other armor.  Your body is so heavy that you cannot swim, but sink to the bottom and must walk along the sea floor.

Punch Them in the Face: A murder machine’s fist is hard metal and wood and does 1d4 damage.

Swiss-Army Hand- A murder machine is built to kill, and as such is outfitted with a hand that can rotate and become one of three weapons.  At level one a player chooses three weapns from the following list: hand crossbow*, dagger, flail, hand axe, mace, short sword, wheellock pistol*†

* Weapon must be reloaded per standard DCC rules.

† Weapon is from the Hubris setting.

Tinkering: Choose one at level 1

• Dual Swiss-Army Hands- Same as above, but both hands.
• Thick Plating- The natural armor of the murder machine is increased by +2, as though they are wearing banded mail.
• Shoulder Cannon- Small cannon that sits atop your shoulder.  Loud explosions and lots of painful damage.  Roll 2d12 and take the higher of the two.  The attack roll is made at one step lower on the die ladder.  The shoulder cannon takes 3 rounds to reload.
• Shrapnel Explosion- You were designed to do as much damage as possible should you be deactivated.  When you fall unconscious bits of metal and pellet burst from you in a 10ft radius.  All in that zone take 2d8 damage (Ref Save DC 12 for half damage).

Outsider:  People tend to be uncomfortable in your presence.  Any personality check you make is reduced one step on the die ladder.

Hunted: The Black Queen is furious that you have somehow resisted her control.  Agents of The Black Guard of Abhorrent Action are hunting you, eager to please their queen.

Nuts and Bolts: You are able to create a salve that you can apply to your damaged body, healing you for 1d6+1HP.  The parts cost 250gp and take 2 hours to create.

Languages: A murder machine knows common.

]]> http://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/the-murder-machine-dcc-class-for-hubris/feed/ 4 wrathofzombie Murder Machine 1 Murder machine 3 Murder Machine 2 Murder machine 5 Murder Machine 4 http://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/nothing-at-the-minimum-a-review-zak-smiths-maximum-everything-always-art-opening/ http://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/nothing-at-the-minimum-a-review-zak-smiths-maximum-everything-always-art-opening/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 14:07:04 +0000 wrathofzombie http://wrathofzombie.wordpress.com/?p=3576 ]]> First off Zak did not ask, plead, beg, threaten, coerce, bribe, beat, or blackmail me in anyway to do this review.  Now that is out of the way, let us move on.  Second I have never done an art review, so if I fuck this up, make some weird faux pas, or whatever..  then fuck all and forgive me….  Anyways…

ON TO THE REVIEW- The Epic Scale of Awesome.

Many in the RPG community (and outside it, for obvious reasons), know that Zak S. is a kick ass artist.  I have enjoyed his art since I discovered his blog and his awesome RPG book, Vornheim.  So it was with no small amount of excitement that I went to his art opening yesterday at Fredericks & Freiser in NYC.

My girlfriend and I arrived at the gallery at 6 and was greeted by Zak and Mandy.  Both were immediately friendly and welcoming (and also very busy greeting and mingling with everyone who was milling around).  That was a bonus to them, as there was no pretentiousness or “too cool for school” attitude that can sometimes permeate these type of events.

Oh yeah… You can see this there… You just have to get off your ass and go.

After meeting them briefly I dove right in and started looking around the room taking in Zak’s art.  And let me tell you, there is SO MUCH to take in.  A common phrase with art is “pictures don’t do it justice.  It loses something when you can’t see it right in front of you.”  That is no less true with Zak’s work.  The amount of detail in his art is staggering.  Zak goes from minute detail in one frame of a piece, to an effortless simplicity in the next- but that isn’t to say that it is diminished.  On the contrary Zak’s use of colors or framing in those places only set to enhance the rest of the work, and in some ways give a side of whimsy (which I’m sure Zak will hate me for using such a word and associating it with his work).

Zak’s choice of colors and how he manipulates them in contrast to the the black and white portions of his art is impressive.  The way he saturates his colors and makes them vibrate is very enjoyable and really makes his pieces pop and come to life.  The picture below is a perfect example of his use of colors (I love the ashtray in the lower right corner).

A piece that I have enjoyed since he first posted it on his tumblr (because the sheer detail in it is mind-fucking-boggling) was at the gallery (see the piece below).  Seeing this piece in person was really amazing.  You can appreciate the detail of his art from a computer, but you can’t take in all the little nuances of it.  Angie and I must have stared at this piece for a good 10-15 minutes, come back to it, stare again, and find something new.

On to Nerdalacious Things

As I was yaking with Zak, he took me over to a piece in a corner and proudly pointed out that it was the art that would be in his upcoming Alice in Wonderland module: Eat Me.  I really enjoyed seeing Zak’s interpretations of one of my favorite stories of all time which at that point I had to prove my street cred and show Zak my Jabberwocky and Alice at the Trail of Cards tattoos.

So on that front I am really curious and excited to see what Zak does with the adventure (especially because Zak tends to view modules like I do, unusable blocks of text and exposition).

Will you, won’t you… join the dance.

At the End of the Journey

While looking at the art two gorgeous women in appreciatively tight dresses were walking amongst the views offering them tasty glazed donuts!  What is NOT to like about that!

I had a great time view some truly awesome art and getting to finally meet Zak in person.

Zak’s art show will be going on for a month.  Do yourself a favor and get your ass to Mars (or Fredericks and Freiser) and see his awesome art!

We all be Pimpin!

I did a post asking for people to submit links to posts they are proud of or that have been buried due to the passage of time or other posts!  People have stepped up and delivered!

If you want your shit to be pimped just post the links in the comments below and I’ll add them.

These are arranged in no particular order.

Logan Knight (G+ page)

Do Not Take Me For a Turner of Cheap Tricks

I Gotta Have Faith

Full of Clerical Errors

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Trey Causey (G+ Page)

Release of Weird Adventures (G+ Page)

Weird Adventures is Here!

Star Trek Science Fiction Adventure

The Devastated City Crawl

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Christopher Wood (G+ page)

Carapace Crafting

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Ian Johnson (G+ page)

Muscle Wizard

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Ben Djarum (G+ page)

Hobgoblin Queen’s Birthday (3 parts)

Xygalia and Rauina (two demonesses)

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Zzarchov Kowolski (G+ page)

Gnomes of Levnec Adventure

Adventure Convert-o-tronica 9000 (for converting adventures when lazy)

Generating Random Encounters

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R.J. Thompson (G+ page)

Musings on an Old School Sorcerer Class

Musings on an Old School Sorcerer Class 2: The Castles and Crusades Factor

Musings on an Old School Sorcerer Class 3: The Castles and Crusades Prototype

OSR/Castles and Crusades Sorcerer Spell List

The Old School Sorcerer, Swords and Wizardry Style

Back to the Appendices, or Revisiting my Fantasy Appendix N

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Paolo Greco (G+ page)

Campaign/Sandbox Creation

Conceptual Isometic Map

One Page Monster Generator

Game Mechanics for Rogues

5more System: Lightweight resolution system for Adventure Fantasy Game

Burgs and Bailiffs

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Heron Prior (G+ page)

Trolls Will Be Trolls One Page Dungeon

Cry of the Gravegod One Page Dungeon

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Dak Ultimak (G+ page)

Magical Calendar Date Generator

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Reynaldo Mandrinan (G+ page)

Classes

Barovania Locales: Sasha’s Tower

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Joey Lindsey (G+ page)

Halls of Wrath

Blood Tree Tunnels of the Swamp Witch

The Bastard Class for OSR D&D games

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Alex Schroeder (G+ page)

Swiss Referee Style Manual

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Christian Kolbe (G+ page)

Task Resolutions

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Jack Shear (G+ page)

Flesh Golems

Igors

Mummy Lords

Lycanthropes

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Mike Evans (wrathofzombie) (G+ page)

Savage Worlds of Shadowrun

Complete Firefly and Scifi Toolkit- Hack of Vornheim

Firefly: Hurtlin’ Through the ‘Verse RPG

Wrathofzombie Strange and Gritty Sword and Sorcery Frankenhack RPG 

Wrath of Zombie Survival Horror RPG

Google + RPG Directory

Forestcrawling Kit

So You Decided to Make Camp, eh?

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Joseph Teller (G+ page)

Fantasy Library- Links to older downloadable RPGs

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Anthony Brotherton (G+ page)

Free Mapping Resources

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Venger Satanis (G+ page)

GM Bootcamp!

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Jeff and Jen (Tabletop Talk Shop)

Short Adventure Challenges

What Makes an Impromptu RPG

Fairy-tale Themed FATE Adventure

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Darcy Perry (Hits to Kill)

A Dozen Tharks- Awesomely painted minis!

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Wilhelm (Wilper’s Blog)

Playing with (Adult) Beginners

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Stuart Robertson (G+ page)

Fighting Groups in Dungeons and Dragons

Combat Fatigue, Weakness and Wounds in OSR D&D

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Richard G (G+ page)

Tartary Primer

Formless Spawn of Azoth

Coelomia: Island of Secrets.  For the Sea of O’sr

On CHA, WIS, and POW-based Magics

Architects of Mars

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Joshua Macy (G+ page)

Fear in RPGs

Scary Scary Monsters

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Humza Kazmi (G+ page)

Nature Isn’t Red, it’s Kinda Tan

Dungeons and Dominion

D&D and the Roadside Picnic

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Kirin Robinson (G+ page)

So You Wanna Hire a Henchmen?

Hireling Names

Mid-Level Starting Character Random Quirk Table

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Roger GS (Roles, Rules, and Rolls)

Awesome Chase System

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Courtney Campbell (G+ page)

Psionics

Adventure Design

RPG Theory

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Ian McDougall (The Benign Brown Beast)

Snake Oil

The Plane of Shadow

The Crooked Baths

The Grinning Devil and Why He Grinned That Night

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Rob Lang (G+ page)

How to Write a Free RPG

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Brett Slocum (G+ page)

When You Get Lost in a Dungeon

Testing Eyes to Determine Their Nature

Stop Wringing Your Hands and Start Playing

Delving into the Underworld

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Edward Wilson (G+ page)

Righteous Cloud Temple- Campaign Idea

Keepers of the Divine Flame

Granatus VI- Warhammer 40k scenario

Rise of the Lich Lord- Campaign Idea

Urban Crawl Rules for Slacker DM

How about WWI Dungeon Crawling

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Terje Nordin (G+ page)

Psychedelic Sorcery

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Paul Thornton (G+ page)

A Big Milestone has Passed, so You Can All Have a Free NPC Each

A Historical Look at Crossbows in RPGs

To be an Archer

The Murder Strike, and Other Historical Ways to Get More Use of a Long Sword

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Simon Forster (G+ page)

Goblin Kiss

Simple Rules for Knocking People Out

Variant Classes

Halfling Callings

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Time to Pimp That Shit

I love reading blogs and seeing all the cool ideas that people come up with.  Charts, tables, encounters, settings, adventures, etc.

There’s only one problem…  A) that shit gets buried under other awesome ideas and random posts, never to be seen or heard from again.

That’s why it’s  Pimp Yo Shit Week!

Dig through your blog, find the posts that you have done that you are proud of or want to see the light of day again and either comment on this post or on my Google+ page (if you’re in my circles) WITH THE LINK TO THE POST (this is the important part).  On 5/29/13 I will compile a page of all these wonderful ideas as a full post and then put a link to it on my blog toolbar.

You were originally a mindless machine, built to be nothing more than an expendable soldier of war.  You fought in the front lines of battle, never feeling exhilaration, remorse, or horror for the hundreds you’ve left dead at your feet.

Two years ago, whether by some grand design or by alchemical flaw, all the Warforged throughout the world suddenly became sentient.  As a newly awakened race you have to deal with prejudice, bitterness, and misunderstanding pouring in around you from all sides.

You have trouble grasping simple concepts and the customs of those around you, as they are so foreign and make little sense.  Slowly though you are beginning to understand and are growing accustomed to these weird emotional fleshy creatures around you.

While you attempt to grow and learn in this new world, one thing is for certain; you were built for war.  Nothing excites you like the pounding of the drums, the screams of the dying, and blood dripping down your face.

Hit Points: A Warforged gains 1d10 HP per level.

Weapon Training: Warforged are trained in all manner of weaponry.  They cannot wear any armor (see below).

Alignment: Neutral

Attack Modifier: Warforged do not receive a fixed attack modifier at each level.  Instead they receive a deed die, like the Warrior.  The deed die is rolled each round to generate the attack modifier.  See the chart below to see the deed die advancement.  The bonus of the deed die is also a modifier for damage.

Mighty Deeds: You were constructed for battle.  A Warforged can perform Mighty Deeds as a Warrior.

Construct: As a living construct a Warforged does not require sleep, food, or air.  They are also immune to diseases and poisons.  Due to being a construct normal magical means of healing are not as effective on you, only giving you half the amount (minimum of 1HP back).

Natural Armor: The body of a Warforged is made of tough metal and wood and gives natural armor protection.  Treat the armor class of a Warforged as being equipped with scale mail (+4).  Due to this natural construction a Warforged suffers no check penalties skill checks. The construction of a Warforged body makes it so they cannot wear any other armor.  Your body is so heavy that you cannot swim, but sink to the bottom and must walk along the sea floor.

Punch Them in the Face: A Warforged fist is hard metal and wood and does 1d4 damage.

Tinkering: Choose one at level 1

• Retractable Arm Blade- Pops out of hand.  Treat as short sword damage (1d6).
• Electric Blast- The gem in the center of the Warforged chest can deliver an electric blast that deals 1d6 damage with a successful ranged attack.
• Thick Plating- The natural armor of the Warforged is increased to +2, as though they are wearing banded mail.
• Shrapnel Explosion- You were designed to do as much damage as possible should you be deactivated.  When you fall unconscious bits of metal and pellet burst from you in a 10ft radius.  All in that zone take 2d6 damage (Ref Save DC 12 for half damage).

Outsider:  Social interactions are difficult for you to grasp.  Any personality check you make is reduced one step on the die ladder.

Nuts and Bolts: You are able to create a salve that you can apply to your damaged body, healing you for 1d6+1HP.  The parts cost 250gp and take 2 hours to create.

Languages: A Warforged knows common.

I have yet to fully test these rules and see if they work or, in fact, suck a big donkey dong…  Feel free to give feedback.

Mass Combat Rules

Macro Level

Players can communally control the units (or rolls), or just take turns.

Units are in measures of 5, 10, 20.   This is abstract, and just to illustrate how big the army is.

Units represent HP.  (IE- if you have two units, you have 2 HP).

Each unit equals +1 to attack roll.  As units are lost, so is the modifier to attack.

Each unit is represented by die: d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12 (see below).

Units

D4

Goblins, skeletons, peasants, zombies, small animals, etc.

D6

Trained solders, orcs, medium animals, etc.

D8

Elite knights, ogres, sorcerers, lycanthropes, etc

D10

Trolls, large animals, vampires, etc.

D12

Tide Turners (see below)

Being cool and creating awesome ideas gives +1 or +2 to roll.  This can be rallying the troops with Saint Crispin’s Day speeches and promises of amazing beer or something else that is clever.

Being lame and boring gives -2 (steeper penalty for being a putz).

Shit like ballistas, ground soaked in tar to light on fire, traps, etc.  That gives +1 each.

Roll each and add/subtract modifiers.  Higher roll wins.  Subtract 1 unit/HP.  Ties mean nothing happens.

Each round is measured in time equal to amount representing each unit- IE 5 min for 5 per unit, 10 min for 10 per unit, etc.

Tide Turners are shit like dragons, bad ass knights riding wyverns, or Goblins riding on Trolls are a d12.  They count as 1 for 1 unit, have 5 HP and +5 to attack (initially).  These are rolled separately.

There is no initiative order.  When fighting each unit rolls against the other.  See example below.

Complications

Every round shit can go crazy and awry with magic, beasts, arrows, etc flying all over the place.

Roll a d6

1-4- Battle progresses normally.

5-6- Incident!

Incident!  (Roll 1d8)

1) Spell explosion rips through the battlefield!  Roll 1d6 1-2) -1 from your army!; 3-4) -1 from enemy troops!; 5-6) -1 from both groups!

2) The horror of battle begins to take a toll on moral! Roll 1d4) Even: -2 to your next roll; Odd) -2 to the enemies next roll.

3) Someone makes a great speech or engages in a truly heroic act and bolsters the units!  Roll 1d4) Even: +2 to your next roll; Odd) +2 to the enemies next roll.

4) Misfire!  A trap goes off damaging some of the troops!  Roll 1d4) Even: -1 from your army!; Odd) -1 from enemy troops!

5) The battle presents too good a target for these opportunists!  Some nasty creature joins the fray as a Tide Turner fighting both sides!

6) A cleric is able to give much needed aid to units!  Roll 1d4) Even: +1 to your army!; Odd: +1 to enemy troops!

7) Reinforcements arrive just in the knick of time!  Roll 1d4) Even: +1d3 units to your army!; Odd: +1d3 units to enemy troops!

8) Clusterfuck!  Roll twice on this table!

Microlevel- players can opt to go “into” combat and control things minutely as their individual characters.  This is resolved per normal combat rules.  Fighting and killing leaders should be handled on the micro level.

Combat Example

A human garrison of 25 troops have fallen under attack by 20 goblin raiders and a goblin riding a troll.  The humans have five units (5HP and an attack of +5).  The goblins have 4 units (4HP and +4 attack).  The Tide Turner has 5 HP and +5 attack.

The human fort has a ballista and several fire traps spread out in the field (this gives +1 each to the humans).

First round: Humans roll 1d6 and get a 5 for a total of 12 (+5 for attack, +1 for the ballista, and +1 for the fire traps).  The goblins rolled a 2 for a total of 4 (+4 for attack).  The humans had the higher roll, effectively killing one unit of the goblin troops.  Now the goblins will have +3 to attack.

Now the Tide Breaker wades in and gets a 6 for a total of 11 (+5 to attack).  The humans roll a 5 for a total of 12 (as before).  The humans win again, and take 1 HP off of the Goblin riding a Troll.

Before Second round: Rolls a 3 on a d6 for complication, no incident.

Second Round: Player suggests throwing rocks over the side of the walls- decent idea, gets +1 for the round.

Humans roll a 6 for a total of 13 (+5 for attack, +1 for the ballista, +1 for the fire traps, and +1 for the throwing rock idea).  The goblins roll a 4 for a total of 7.  The humans kill another unit of the invading goblins.

The troll riding goblin rolls a 12 for a total of 16 and the humans roll a 4 for a total of 12.  The tide turner kills a unit of humans in a bloody, messy rage.

The players decide to go into combat as normal and take control of their characters and deal with the troll riding goblin.

And so on and so on…

Even Quicker Mass Combat Rules

This will require up to nine dice of a particular type that represents the chosen unit (IE- d4 for goblins, d8 for trained knights, etc.).

Each die represents 5, 10, 15, 20 units.

The army with the least amount is the max amount of dice rolled (IE- Goblins have 10 troops, for 2 dice.  The humans have 15, for 3 dice).  For every unit amount above the lesser army, gain +1 to roll.  Roll each and calculate modifiers.  Each high cuts a lesser.  Ties mean no one is lost.

Example: Goblins roll 2d4 and get a 4 and a 2.  Humans roll 2d6 and get a 4 and a 1 equaling a 5 and a 2 (+1 to each roll for having one unit over).  The Goblins lose one die.

Next round the goblin rolls 1d4 and the human rolls 1d6 (+2 for having two additional units).  Keep resolving.

Extreme Fapping for Extreme Linkage!

First off here are three pages with a HUGE amount of links that are awesome (but I’m not using all of these).

Telecanter’s Receding Rules

Hack & Slash

Playing D&D With Porn Stars

I’ve broken the charts and tables I use into sections for easy reference.  If you have any suggestions, by all means share a link in the comments!

Hexcrawling

Forestcrawling Kit

Wavecrawling Kit

Random Island Generator

Secret Santicore 2012- d24 Wilderness Encounters

Cannibalization Chart

Strange and Nasty Disease Table

So You Decided to Make Camp, eh?

Strange and Interesting Herbs

Instaregion

Dungeons, Castles, Keeps, and Ruins

Fortress and Castle Generator

 Spicing up Stairways

Dungeon Walls, Ceilings, Floors, and Other Features

Secret Santicore 2012- Traps

Instadungeon

Towns, Inns, Etc

One Hundred Rare Wonders for a Fantasy City

City District Generator

Village Die Drop Generator

Secret Santicore 2012- Remote Gothic Noble Houses

Tavern and Inn Generator

Instatown

You’ll Always Have a Home Here

Adventures

Adventure Location- Loneliest Man 

Adventure Location- Swamp Town of Blatherblab

Secret Santicore 2012- Adventure Location- Tsvari III Penal ship

Items

What’s in the Urn

Weird Treasure Containers

Oddy Bodden’s Stupendously Amazing Magical Dice of Treasures Unimagined and Horrors Rather Left Undiscovered

Oh God What’s in the Bag

Instatreasure

d100 Potions

Social Interactions

Carousing Table

Awesome Table for Philanthropy, Carousing, Research, and Gourmandising

NPCS

Things About Villains

Things About Villains… again

Soup to Nuts Random Villain Generator

Memorable Hirelings

Animals

Killer Dog Selection

Animals Animals Animals

Various

Various things from Santicore

Awesome D30 Tables of Awesomeness

Occupation List for Dungeon Crawl Classics

Faction Rules Using Cards

Ray Harryhausen Tribute d100 list

Thanks for the List TSR

Shit Just Got Religious

Instareligion

Books

Dungeon Alphabet

Vornheim

Here’s the category page of all the Hubris stuff on the blog thus far.

Fairweather

The Kingdom of Fairweather

Fairweather was once considered the jewel of Hubis, but has slipped into the grips of madness, plague, decadence, and debauchery in the two hundred years since The Twisted One first appeared before King Maldran, promising the way to power and knowledge through the purity of blood.  The Reign of the Mad Kings dawned when Maldran and the nobles of Fairweather quickly agreed, and began practicing the Ways of the Flesh.  As the royal family continues to follow the teaching of the Twisted One and engage in inbreeding for the sake of purity of blood, each generation becomes more grotesquely deformed and unstable.  While the nobility is allowed to partake in the pleasures of the flesh of kin, only the royal family is allowed to produce heirs.  Any who are not of noble birth are denied to practice the Ways of the Flesh, and if caught doing so are executed in the most brutal fashion  As the Twisted Ones teachings have become law, the rift between the nobility and the common citizens has grown wider.  The nobility wear extravagant avant-garde fashion, while the poor wear rags in varying shades of brown.

All hail Ithis the Bulge!!

The current king, Ithis the Bulge, is extremely deformed and prone to terrible, violent mood swings.  Ithis is hailed as the God-King, as many believe he is the Twisted One made flesh.  The Fairweather palace rests atop the back of a gigantic dog that is driven by a blind giant who sees through the creatures glistening ruby eyes.

The royal palace of Fairweather

Metalphage attacking Fairweather guards

Three years ago the terrible plague, The Corrupting, began ripping through Fairweather, causing people to mutate into terrible creature called Metalphages.  Jagged metallic shards, wires, and tubing burst from the flesh of the infected, either driving them mad or killing them.  The touch of Metalphages, infects others and also corrupts metal, rusting it.  Entire districts of the cityhave been quarantined and sealed in an attempt to halt contamination.  The Plague Doctors of the Scarlet Veil conducts terrible experiments on the infected from their heavily guarded Red Monastery, in an attempt to harness this curse.

The Fashion of the Fairweather Nobility

All of these pieces are from Alexander McQueen’s design, except for the weird, but awesome, painting.

And I won the April submission!  Huzzah!  I finally won something!

Aside: Dave already was awesome a few months ago and did a kick ass piece for me for my hack of Shadowrun using the Savage Worlds ruleset.  Scope it here!

I’ve had my eye on Dave doing art for my Hubris setting (for what I’ve put up on the blog about Hubris, click here) that I plan on publishing in the (hopefully near) future!  So it was a double kick of awesome that I won.

A Guard being corrupted by a Metalphage

I’ll do a post with more details on Fairweather tomorrow, but today I just wanted to share this slice of awesome!