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ised wolves from which underworld they come we do not know scholars and magi who ve tracked them have gone mad or worse torn apart by invisible monsters hunted back from their trips by black shadows with rictus grins at the corners of their peripheral vision their powerful minds soured whip thin with bestial eyes and mouths too big for their bodies and teeth that are all fangs some say they look like dogs or baboons long and loping as they bay after those they chase others say they look like wild children with mange wispy shadow black hairs dangling lifelessly from moon pale flesh their fingers and limbs gangrel their ears pointed and their glee sadist and malevolent the barghests drink up joy and sorrow feed themselves and sup on the pleasures of life leaving none for their victims a victim hounded by a barghest will find that neither drink nor food nor flesh nor any manner of pleasure provides but temporary relief all in the world has devolved into a black pit from which there is no escape their days will eventually be spent bedridden and their emotions devolve into a sense of being a hollow shell the great sorrow is ambrosia to the depression drinker but the barghest knows too well that a clean kill is that of the natural world and they are far from it why kill the cow when you can bleed it drop by drop a barghest will hardly fully kill a meal in one swoop but will instead hunt in a wide pattern performing all manner of cruelties and injustices to the preferred victim a cousin passed a lover has an accident good news doesn t arrive the messenger s flesh rent and left to rot in the woods life s cruelties are magnified by the unnatural beast and it relishes every second of it lonely travelers are a favorite victim a stroke of the claw like the reaper s scythe and then they follow the trail of sorrows like a hound after a scent tongues lapping the earth for traces of tears licking up the laughter and leaving none for the new victim sitting by the windowsill or the mailbox invariably it is here in the lonesome woods and darkling places of the world that adventurers meet the barghest or perhaps in some abominable crypt where insane priests have summoned or trapped one to pluck from it the blackest secrets of the netherworld whom do they serve why do they torture so who knows and who cares when one has its fangs at your throat some more darker powers in the gloaming world employ barghests in pairs as hunting dogs black ops troops in the magical world of things that should not be but never more than two lest the pack turn on its handler and then fight amongst themselves for supremacy barghest hp 50 ac as leather and shield saves on a 14 vulnerable to silver and iron attacks claw claw bite d6 d6 d8 2 2 3 to hit dmg hitting with all 3 attacks knocks the target down and allows them to be dragged moved by the barghest as it fights thief of joy mortals within 100 feet of a barghest do not receive experience points from treasure found and must save vs magic to end a rest as depression takes hold of them carousing in the same building as a barghest provides no benefit and consumes double resources spells at will invisibility dancing lights ventriloquism spider climb pass without trace or system equivalent posted by crypt thing at 11 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 4 2023 everything is a dungeon if you try hard enough i was thinking the other day of a failed shadowrun mini campaign i ran eleven years ago this in turn got me to thinking of shadowrun and how the game and any cyberpunk game works it s all basically a heist and that is effectively what a dungeon crawl is especially a megadungeon where it s repeated heists in the same place i could easily see a shadowrun megadungeon where instead of the traditional fantasy further down is scarier it s a cyberpunk further up is scarier megabuilding i m sure someone smarter has had this idea before but i think that like you can turn anything into a dungeon and yes i know some of you may think shadowrun isn t the best example of cyberpunk but invariably i end up putting sci fi stuff into my fantasy worlds i think it s fair to do the same in your science fiction that s basically how you get 40k or et or star wars pick your poison and each of those worlds has a megadungeon 40k has space hulks et has a crawling medical tent and star wars has the death star i think my problem and part of the reason why my shadowrun game failed was because i wanted my office buildings to make sense which is the dumbest idea i had about any rpg at that point in time have you ever been in an office they suck i ve worked in one uncomfortable chairs nothing of real monetary value most aren t decorated not much different than a factory occasionally it s even just humans reduced to soulless automata and maybe some interesting team building and gossip at the best administrative bureaucratic boring not making sense is ok being gonzo and weird is ok why are there fire breathing ghost dogs on level 12 of this skyscraper because they re fucking fun and a good challenge that s why the same reason there are goblin steampunk robots in level 6 of a dungeon someplace because doctor goblenstein and his creation amaze o the metal man are a good idea that s something my players haven t seen before and will have an interesting time with any office could drastically be improved with the addition of kobolds designed to keep intruders from the snack room without the right password or vengeful assassins looking to strangle you with a clip on tie the best part is that to the workers of this office that s just eric and jeff from security and accounting the kobold and assassin are normal or close enough for them i think that being more gonzo is good for rpgs as a game while yes we want to make believable worlds we still have to ask is this room scene important to the world game nobody is upset that mario doesn t take a break from stomping goombas to take a dump and no one wants to watch simon belmont pay his water bill and make a grocery list that isn t what those games are about and similarly i don t think we should get wrapped up in the details as to like why dungeons don t all have toilets that isn t what d d is about posted by crypt thing at 3 16 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 25 2023 the cult of the no eyed god the no eyed god is the god of insomnia undeath cannibalism torture and willful ignorance he was a sorcerer king and has ruled for eons so much so that the chiefliest of his servants are buried in their own tombs and his own corporeal body given way to lichdom he is the wellspring from which the undead flow and was creator of each in their own perverse design from willing corporeal followers he found new ways to give them strength and let them cheat the reaper s scythe by convincing them blood was wine and the flesh of their brothers food to sustain themselves he had to tell no lies to do so they were able to trick themselves into the consumptive cycle the thirst and the hunger is all they know now and from victims he found new ways to torture them beyond the grave snatching bits of their soul stuff and letting them be consumed by their own extremes he replayed their pains to them over and over before they could cross to the other side they chose to stay back themselves untethered from the physical world the pain and hate is all they know now the dead won t rest if he has his way for undeath is insomnia and insomnia is undeath they are the same you sample the living dead when you do not sleep well and the reason is the dead envy your ability to dream they kill you not because you need to die but because they re so jealous they must kill his cults subversively spread his teachings by masquerading sinisterly as other faiths the church of the feast the blind faith the child looking away the order of eternal vitality all lies and at their deepest circle of trust they carve the meat from the still screaming victims and lap the blood from the table thankful for the splinters in their tongues and the pain and rot it will produce they prey on the needful the hurting and the ignorant their pilgrimage leads to open graves and horrifying falsehoods they embrace like lovers his lesser priests willingly undergo ritual torture so much so they become akin to medical waste cenobites idiot sadists with scabs and clots of someone they once cared about between their teeth some remove their eyelids to prevent sleep greater priests have no need of senses craving to be closer to their god needles are driven into their eyes their mouths sewn shut and hot lead poured into their ears still they preach his unholy truths there is another darker world just on the other side you only have to look the right way they wear his holy symbol openly a skull without eye sockets fangs instead of teeth often made of razors or broken glass to cut the user some volunteer for living sainthood undergoing repeated sleep fasts until they are placed in a coma or repeatedly lobotomized sometimes by their own hand often afterwards they are slowly slowly eaten by their friends and fellows many times these deeper worship practices create ghouls the lowliest of undead troops carrying their disease as a blessing to the world sometimes though a much more foul undead mentor will spread its taint in a growing subversive cult a vampire a wight or some fouler thing not yet seen like locusts they consume and like infection they spread behind all this is a deeper obsession to carry out not just his will of a stygian world of undying monsters but to speed the coming of the will of the dark to the world to see this world and all others subsumed into the cold infinite and bring it insidiously closer to the no thing posted by crypt thing at 7 38 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 11 2023 the demons of infernal geometry chief amongst the servants of the unknowable outer dark are the demons of infernal geometry sometimes summoned in their lesser form by those who seek to plumb the knowledge the forbidden coldness of beyond the known always they take the form of shapes beautiful perfect shapes shapes so perfect they are at odds with reality the imperfection of their very temporary flesh limbs marks it all the worse their flat surfaces are gaping holes to other realities slabs of cosmos and gateway portals to hells best left unimagined by men and sweetly dreamed of by the dying gods of cruelties left unspoken their curved surfaces the sine wave perfection of vector graphics made for maddening torture by death cult poets their greatest incarnations are topographical maps of infernal bosch paintings spun into psychedelic mandalas of abandoned sunless worlds biblical angels inversed they see without eyes and speak your name like a parent it does not feel good if their eyes do open they open in fractal time loops seeing across realities the same way that the eye tyrants do maybe they learned it from them maybe they taught each other maybe they stole it they are stealing from you now now that their gaze is upon you their eye is the one that sings the polyrhythmic hymn of the universe s horrific birth and the blissful pride of its unifying heat death the song is an attack a disintegration ray on a temporal level your parts are being erased from time on a molecular level there is no physical pain but the spiritual pain is agony unreal by the world s standards until you felt it your body is a tape deck having its ribbon pulled out between two high powered magnets and it knows this if data is beautiful then these creatures are the alphanumerical song of your death your ancestor s death and joy of your world s unmaking they sing together in a choir you came from nothing and the numbers are cleanest if unto nothing you return it is a soldier of the blackest truth the calculator of darkest equation because in the beginning there was the no thing and that s how it liked it lesser demon of infernal geometry hp 30 ac as chain saves on a 13 temporal disintegration 3 to hit does 3x the number of party members damage choir if 3 or more lesser demons of infernal geometry sing the temporal disintegration together triple that damage and apply 10x that number as damage to their xp middling demon of infernal geometry hp 60 ac as plate saves on a 11 temporal disintegration 6 to hit does 6x the number of party members in damage choir if 6 or more middling demons of infernal geometry sing the temporal disintegration together deal d6 damage to a random ability score of each party member and apply 10x that total number as damage to their xp greater demon of infernal geometry hp 80 ac as enchanted plate and shield saves on a 8 choir master greater demons of infernal geometry make middling and lesser demons count as choirs and can summon one extra demon of infernal geometry as their action for a turn temporal rearrangement every time a player goes in combat roll a d8 on an 8 a greater demon of infernal geometry may use one of that player s abilities against another player or monster temporal disintegration 8 to hit does 8x the party s total level in damage to their xp in addition roll a d8 on a 1 4 erase notes from your campaign world on a 5 8 eliminate a magic item in the party at random posted by crypt thing at 12 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 11 2022 weapon variance in ose and other retroclones one of my big pickles with ose and d d as a whole is the consistent optimization of weapon choices in 5e it s obvious that a great sword is better than a great axe because of the higher average damage and minimum damage of two dice instead of one let alone what happens when you begin taking feats and class abilities that let you re roll those dice in ose a two handed sword is a d10 where a battle axe is just a d8 despite both being two handed weapons and the axe having the slow category if you use weapon speeds as a fighter i can choose a sword d8 and a shield 1 ac and truck along faster in combat with better defense than a battle axe user but battle axes and great axes are fucking cool kull uses an axe and lots of sword and sorcery imagery has our mighty thewed warrior using a hulking labrys or a weighty headsman s axe warhammers and maces share with the same problem in my humble opinion they re both blunt d6 but nothing separates the two players will universally choose the longbow s longer range over the short bow despite it being the weapon of choice for mobile archers on horseback not that historial accuracy or such should be attempted by the game my big problem here is that i want both tactical variance and also diegetic difference between those options for weapons in my own homebrew the problem here is that i also don t want to say x weapon ...