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e future post for an extra level of interesting consider using these glyphs with a mirror as left right swaps could be a useful distraction for those not in the know 1d10 randomized goblins at blog of forlorn encystment because interesting npcs are always better than faceless mooks when real interactions are part of the game assuming you can put in the time and effort of course put your efforts where they matter most venetian bridge brawls in 17th and 18th century art at the public domain review neighborhood rivalries settled with fists and clubs on the bridges of venice between the castellani and the nicolotti as much entertainment as a means of exacting retribution of grievances suddenly this previously unknown to me spectacle seems like the perfect centerpiece of a city festival to engage the players deus ex verbum interesting religions dogmas sects and philosophies via wiktionary at beneath foreign planets turn an ordinary or not so ordinary verb into a functional faith group this is so cleverly geared to how the players are actually going to interact with religious groups in the game that i m starting to wonder why one would bother with another approach just distilled down to pure usefulness shinala or amazons at advantage on arcana i enjoy reading up on other folks campaigns and settings fair enough given how much i post about mine even when there s not much to crib when theirs is personal and mine is personal and we re presumably different persons but i have to point out the bit i love love love where the trouble aspect of a character is all work no play because if you re not on board with that assessment we re gonna struggle to hang out osr wisdom distilled at submystical aquifer respect for laying out the good advice you ve received both for your own records and for others to know where you re at 1d10 halflings and their 1d4 dogs at blog of forlorn encystment despite the deep tolkien love among my regular players i don t really care much about halflings but dogs and 1d4 per halfling even being a dog person that s an alarming number of dogs my current dog incidentally is pretty darn close to willow ogre ogre folk at advantage on arcana not only the carnival post from the june organizer but a glorious exploration of an extreme drug in an rpg setting one dose is hardcore the second dose kills without extreme intervention and even then you re an ogre looks like i need to consider some hardcore drug options at my table see also june 2026 rpg blog carnival round up cyclopes ettins hill giants and ogres the roundup of posts and plenty more to read on four sorts of giants who used to be kind of dull bad ideas d10 curse akhs d10 disease akhs at whose measure god could not take curses and diseases which in the way things play out the table are awfully fuzzy about the boundaries as is akhs are toxic ideas in the same vein with weird and sometimes just plain funny effects i have a particular fondness for furnezhard s insistence that one save to avoid picking up obviously cursed objects just for the noisome complications downstream wildfires in a hexcrawl at idraluna archives modeling wildfires in a fantasy setting and why probably you don t have to but you could and some tables that do a far better job than i can manage being that my experience is to check the fire danger sign on my way to a hike but not do more than make a mental note not like i m making a campfire for an afternoon hike what i like about orc babies at blog of forlorn encystment clearly a blog i enjoy reading judging by this month s links not going to do justice to such a long piece in a sentence or two but a worthwhile and thoughtful exploration of people shaped monsters and noncombatants and children as people not monsters rootring months later at rootring updates grandma has left us alone but little yellow flowers sometimes grace the corner of our rooms ancestor worship at lonely star you had me at the unmistakable reference to a silver mt zion and man i haven t thought about that band in probably 20 years still fondly recall the tour where godspeed you black emperor opened for mogwai easily the loudest show i ever attended could feel the echoes in my viscera the day after but nevermind that though it s not the approach i would take i don t like to limit player agency to this degree especially when it s a dice roll the idea of mechanics to guide ancestor worship and the supernatural effects it might have is worth exploring diagrams for travel from the qanoon e islam 1832 and archie g norcross maine forest fire maps 1918 22 at the public domain review two intriguing takes on maps the latter a set specialized for fire lookouts showing not only the bird s eye view of the land but the 360 degrees of mountains that ring the horizon the former less of a map than a set of guidelines for traveling when the signs are auspicious remember traveling south on a saturday or tuesday is unprofitable best lay low until friday learning to draw and not feeling like crap about it at the weeping stag lots of advice on picking up a new art form key points practice more and yeah even more and stay grounded be honest with yourself and let the slog be its own reward the living world sandbox campaign at bat in the attic solid advice from rob on making a sandbox breathe and take on its own life a lot of real experience distilled into this one post o is for orcs july 17 2026 july 15 2026 briangarthwaite leave a comment o is for orcs those lovable cuddly monsters who descend upon the civilization of humankind in relentless hordes to pillage and burn everything that is beautiful or maybe not orcs can be many things from anthropomorphized evil burbling up from the darkest and filthiest dungeon puddles to just some other species option for players my impression is that almost every campaign uses a handful of standards orcs goblins miscellaneous undead dragons and it s these which offer the best opportunities to give one s own fantastic location a unique character i ve written a bit on orcs before and now it s an excuse to flesh them out further if they re the sort that you could readily imagine in a space campaign space orcs space goblins miscellaneous space undead space dragons you can make them your own anywhere first a brief bit on elves in my experience the gravity of tolkien pulls greatly on the notion of elves and the idea of them being a playable species that s mostly humans with a long ass life grates their umwelt should instead be alien to that of humans their perspective wildly different their patience enormous why they d stoop to the get rich quick risks of dungeon looting is beyond me maybe the adventuring years are the elven rumspringa no elves in my campaign they re extinct unmade by their own magical creations with their legacy remaining in crumbling texts magical objects lost ruins and the species they broke and remade elves were what resulted when an ascendant civilization combined a centuries long lifespan magical aptitude and intense study and a worldview where almost all over living things were no more worthy of respect than worms or insects everything was fair game for experimentation for exploitation much of the weirdness that exists in the campaign world could be explained by a wizard did it and while that s sometimes reasonable sometimes not there s a zone of inexplicable things that are seemingly made by magic but without sensible purpose we can strain to make sense in some cases owlbears and otherwise shrug at wizards being wizards the elves undertook their efforts with focus and purpose if they made owlbears it was to populate the deep forests with hungry nocturnal predators to deter and devour nosy interlopers that they might breed and evolve over time was of little concern or even a bonus a low maintenance option for long term operation ecological collateral damage who cares for reasons left in the dust of history elves had very few children and the loss of a life felt as a world sundering event in their culture few of them dared put life at risk especially in battle where even the greatest warriors could perish from an errant arrow instead they sought others to make war in their stead mercenaries paid with silver and gold and precious jewels mined from the depths of the earth at first though these would prove expensive and at times unreliable when a force proved victorious on the field of battle there was ever a risk that they might turn back and demand more of their employers those who kept far from the bloodshed elven magic was powerful and patient and their scholars studied the ways of many sciences realizing the worth of domesticated beasts they took in wild humans the hunter gatherers who spread across the many lands bred them raised them infused their development with subtle enchantments to make them into living tools many generations over a single elven lifetime teasing out desired traits suppressing others and on occasion grafting fragments of things not human as a dedicated human might develop cabbages for varied purposes the elves made humans into what they needed among these species were the orcs the fearless infantry of the elven armies larger and stronger than their forebears they were raised to obey to fight to feel no more qualms about killing than their masters spear and shield were their kit marching across the lands to wage war at their height the armies were great conglomerations of warriors and terrific beasts aided by great elven magic but always with companies of orcs at the head of the column with the collapse of the elves their slave species went free the dwarves and yohtar found their place in the ascendant empires of humanity many of the great beasts vanished into the dark wilderness some to thrive far from civilization others to be hunted to extinction the orcs so well bred into hardy warriors capable of living across many climes readily transitioned into nomadic hunter gatherers for untold generations they lived off the land traveling with herds of varied livestock for meat and milk when pressed on the warpath they raided farms and granaries along the way but had always relied on foraging to supplement their animals and hunting for variety and practice their company structure had order and hierarchy such that they could be autonomous without direct orders from above and noncombatants trailed the warriors and kept camp of course so they were always prepared to move when their masters never returned they kept as before tending to their own in the thousand years since the orcs have evolved as societies do most remain nomadic moving as the seasons and the landscape dictate guiding great herds as they remain fiercely independent of human settlements reputations of battle prowess precede them such that combat and casualties are rare life in the wilderness is harsh and every able bodied orc lost in combat is one who cannot hunt and provide a company is never so large that the elders do not know each member by name and face long centuries of manipulation by the elves leaves traces of the miraculous for many generations an innate knack for magic woven into the bloodline their independence from the restrictions of human civilization beneath the sorcerer kings lends no cultural taboos against magic together this creates societies with a greater proportion of members who can perform miracles and a respect for their gifts as nomads bound to the landscape and its seasons orcish spiritualism tends to animistic beliefs in which spirits both large and small dwell in special places in rivers in trees in many but not all cases such spirits are demons this becomes a guiding principle for shamans with miraculous power magic flows through time and place and proper practice demands respect for the spirits inhabiting and overseeing offerings make the impossible more reliable while the gift can touch anyone and its contours may take any shape the miracles of the orcs tend to several key types ranging from healing injuries to bolstering courage to manipulating the natural world to that most ancient of magics divination healing and recovery soothe injury restore missing hp remove an injury occupying a group slot or speed natural recovery courage and resolve wolfpack bravery boost morale remove and or guard against fear effects or grant attack bonuses for allies fighting side by side in combat plant growth vigor of spring boost the growth of a plot of plants encourage a bloom of flowers out of season or grant an ally a second wind animal communication tongue of beasts speak with wild animals command a loyal dog with complex directions or enable a group to communicate in a secret code weather control call the wind create a gust of wind alter the direction of the breeze or alter the course of a storm divination read the future in clouds trace along the clouds to reveal information about what has yet to come to pass cost pegged to difficulty of inquiry and specificity of answer desired orcish bears enough similarities to be considered of the common family of languages a spoken tongue with no written tradition as warriors in service of the elves their masters denied them writing lest it make them more difficult to control in this era some use a phonetic transcription using the common alphabet particularly for trade though usage is inconsistent and often particular to the writer the language itself is rich and melodic multitonal with a great capacity for poetry discussing even the most mundane of topics many tribes practice throat singing as well and their tongue is often playful expressing complexity through clever combinations of words humans unaccustomed to the subtleties require long practice to both understand and produce the proper sounds even as they have the proper anatomy to do so a truncated version of orcish is known as drumsong a drum based code first developed for long range communication across the battlefield and now used to great effect when coordinating groups across the vast plains of dzeh prioritizing speed over depth drumsong makes do with a small vocabulary but clever drumsingers use their poetic gifts to lace missives with greater meaning while not overly protective of it few tribes willingly teach drumsong to outsiders and even then only those so close as trusted as to be effective members already those competent or fluent in orcish find drumsong easier to learn its low complexity implies that one achieves full understanding at language competency next p is not for privateer but who wouldn t welcome a bit of government sanctioned piracy in their campaign pirates with a more complex political apparatus behind them magic items the senses july 10 2026 may 12 2026 briangarthwaite leave a comment magic items players want them i want entertaining and strange ones to populate my treasure caches win win today s theme the senses a reminder that description of a dungeon s various sensory aspects does a great deal of heavy 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