This looks like something you'd find deep in a dungeon...

Image Source: Monastery by By Iñaki Matilla

Image Source: Monastery by By Iñaki Matilla

Even back in the very earliest days of my RPGing career, it never made all that much sense to me that the only sorts of magic items that could be intelligent were swords. Perhaps the most famous intelligent magic item in fantasy literature, The One Ring, bucked that particular restriction:
That said, the intelligent magic item is not otherwise unknown to fantasy literature, whether it is the Singing Harp from the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, the crown of the former king whose will allows him to dominate …
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| Art By Matt Bulahao |

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| Made in China |




We are currently waiting on only 4 more shipments (Containers) from China, the last of which should be leaving China about one week from today!
It normally takes 3-6 weeks from ship date to arrive at our dock, with 5 weeks being the Average.
As things …
High Dex (13+): Move 12There's always a roll if Move is 13+ or if the character tries something else while moving.
Average Dex (9-12): Move 6
All Others: Move 3
Cursed, Ill, Lame, etc.: -1To make use of high ability scores, players can explain their plan; if it seems reasonable, they get the bonus.
Counteract Slipperiness (Destroy Water, etc.): +1
PC Takes Measures That Favor Strength, Int, etc.: +1 for ability 13+
This blessed wanderer set sail from the land of Alia, "whose cities now lie in ruins," searching for the terrestrial Paradise, convinced it lay across the oceans - he is assumed to have sailed west, although the direction of travel is not always clear from the manuscripts. He gathered a crew (could YOUR PARTY be that crew?) and set forth into uncharted waters, guided only by faith.
GADGET skill is used to determine the nature and power of rare inventions, religious relics, magical items or alien artifacts. Although a DC 10 appraise check will recognize a gadget as special, it takes a gadget skill throw to determine the nature and usage of a gadget ; .i.e., 'this is a staff of lightning, or ‘looks like a lucky rabbit’s foot to me.’ Time required is one xat for portable equipment such as weapons and jewelry, while it could take days to understand a complex item such as a spaceship or a robotic spaceship. If the character fails the initial relic skill throw, he can either consult a sage, or he can travel to a grand (10,000+ gc) library and after one week of study, then he may try again with +4 bonus.
A few days, weeks ago, I can't remember, I purposed a boilerplate to bolt onto an adventure to give a quick summary of the adventure without wasting precious space in the introduction. How many times do we need to read, this is this level for this many player and it is suggested...and please change anything you wish. I'm not putting it down, its vital information, but I wanted to make a simple referral box that would provide all that information at a glance. All I do is bolt that onto the front of the adventure and I can get on with getting on.
Recent piece of michael d's art - more: michaldutkiewicz.com 



| 1d8 | Name of Poison | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tears of Anasthia | Loss of 50% of STR for 1d6 days |
| 2 | Shadowbane Petals | -2 to all saving throws for 1d8 days |
| 3 | Wrackjaw Pollen | Blindness for 2d10 hours |
| 4 | Shimmerweed Stalks | Loss of 1d6 of DEX for 1d4 days |
| 5 | … |
These last two or three weeks of work have really killed me. Must have really burnt me out completely:

I have been meaning to do this every year and I forget. So here I am this year finally remembering!

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| By Mike Kevan |
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| By Becca Rocks |



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| Somebody asked so here's some of our homemade Warhammer 40k terrain. The picture will get pretty big if you click it. |
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| It's made of random plastic stuff, hamster toys, military model kits, whatever was lying around. |
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| I took a bunch of cameraphone pictures of it, to draw sci fi stuff from |
| I posted this yesterday but I'm posting it here for scale and so you can see how it's kinda fallen apart |
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| This I didn't make: God did. It's called Helicoprion. |
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| It either went extinct 250 million years or ago or never existed and isn't an exceptionally well-constructed internet hoax. |
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| As you can see, nobody's quite sure what it looked like. |
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| ...though they are all sure it was fucked. |
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| Speaking of fucked sharks, God also made this: it's a goblin shark |
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| What exactly were you thinking, God? |
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| It is indeed a lonely creature, being the only remaining representative of the Mitsukurinidae family. That's right: these things are still around. |
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| This tank was made by Syrians. |
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| They control it like this. The world is weird. |

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| DKZ |

Meaganbrand's Axe of Giant Slaying
I doodled this guy while listening to this week's edition of The Bugle (the greatest podcast in the universe).
have you guys discovered this little nugget of an rpg? no? well, it's available here for only 8 bucks! i don't really know much about the creators - but they have created a nice little OSR game here. it's a le guin/alexander inspired version of D&D and it is currently tickling my fancy. i fully intend on pillaging some of it for my upcoming SWORDS & WIZARDRY WHITEBOX campaign. the stuff in here can also be used with minimum effort for basically any OSR game.| i plan on ignoring the stat bonuses. |
The One Ring: Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild is a tabletop roleplaying game set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. It takes place in the Laketown and Mirkwood area, some five years after the events of The Hobbit. After the defeat of Smaug and The Battle of Five Armies, civilization is being rebuilt and new frontiers are being explored. The players take on the roles of wandering adventurers and mercenaries, doing such things as scouting out new areas, retrieving ancient artifacts, and fighting the monsters of the wilderness.
Related to this post, I have been thinking about what to create for my birthday "mathoms". 

Raganu Pekadevi Rekatur, the Lord-Emperor of Torkobalem
History: Raganu Pekadevi Rekatur ascended the throne of the City of Crystals after his father's fatal hunting accident, although some whisper that the old Raganu's death was no accident. Shortly after Raganu Pekadevi Rekatur began his reign, Torkobalem launched both land and aerial assaults on several cities, who have been weakened considerably by Torkobalem's stranglehold on power crystals. The Raganu has made no effort to conceal his desire to conquer the cities of the Granbalem and forge a new empire under his iron rule.
Personality: Raganu …
Dealing with coin has always been one of the most utilitarian exercises in any Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It is a necessary evil that all referees and players engage in to translate conquest into capital. It is also one of the facets of the game that most stretches the imagination and suspension of disbelief, raising thorny questions like "why should all coins have a constant universal value across the entire expanse of the Known World?", "why are coins always evenly divisible into lesser or greater coinages?" or "why should these ancient coins from the dungeon still have currency back in the town?" The implication is that the fantasy setting has achieved what took Europe to the last years of the 20th century to figure out—a stable, universal currency system.
(This review is also posted at RPG.net. A 20-page preview is available here: link.)


Lot's of ideas to plunder for games...


Hey folks ... things have been busy the past few weeks and I don't update the blog as much as I would like to. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm busy and, though I haven't really painted in the past couple of months, my paints and worktable are out again. I plan on finishing a few touch ups on my Dark Angel Space marines and then shift gears on a new project which I can't really go into detail yet since that, much like a project I did just before Christmas, is intended as a surprise. I hope to have a quick turnaround on it and have something to show for it before the end of June.

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| An adult Meduzhan (medua) |
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| Larval meduzhans forming a cloud |

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| Willow & Tara by Foxfire141 |
