Rather than go the typical route of class/race editions, where you hang your hat on being a Halfling Sewer Assassin or Dwarf Poisonmage or Elf Tree Idiot, the way one distinguishes oneself in [a race-as-class game] is to play the Best Damn Halfing Ever, The Most Memorable Dwarf We Ever Encountered, That One Elf Who Didn’t Suck, etc.

Rather than go the typical route of class/race editions, where you hang your hat on being a Halfling Sewer Assassin or Dwarf Poisonmage or Elf Tree Idiot, the way one distinguishes oneself in [a race-as-class game] is to play the Best Damn Halfing Ever, The Most Memorable Dwarf We Ever Encountered, That One Elf Who Didn’t Suck, etc.
That’s why I love to read Jeff Rients.

Running a 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there game for my son. It took him exactly 2 minutes to figure out his character was a gelatinous cube.

Running a 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there game for my son. It took him exactly 2 minutes to figure out his character was a gelatinous cube.
Monkeys have broken into the Owners’ base. Also while he was asleep, plants grew everywhere. Now there’s a monkey monkeying around in the control room. He’s mostly worried about it releasing the Hunters (shoggoths).

Has killed 2 monkeys accidentally and one on purpose so far. Although I’m approximating all numbers to powers of 2 and trying to run alien measurements, I confess the Owners’ base has elevators that go ding just before the doors open. I figure you can have a totally alien environment or alien ways of interacting with it. The no hands thing is giving him trouble, even though most doors work on pressure switches.

You have found a mysterious device. It might be some sort of magic wand. Or a means of transport. Or… an astral projector?

You have found a mysterious device. It might be some sort of magic wand. Or a means of transport. Or… an astral projector?
Anyway it’s clearly of ancient or alien origin.

#rollforinitiative

#rollforinitiative

With his aim of uniting the druidic and bardic traditions in a rural hippy setting, Ed Williams seems like he was trolling Zak Smith from the 19th century.

With his aim of uniting the druidic and bardic traditions in a rural hippy setting, Ed Williams seems like he was trolling Zak Smith from the 19th century.

Does anyone know where Gygax got his druids? It seems like he pretty much always embraced mainstream Christianity and dodgy 19th century speculative history, so my guess is his druids were probably based on some hybrid of St. Francis and William Blake as translated through Morganwg (and probably subsequently retranslated through pulp fantasy).

One day I’d like to write them up as Bob Marley’s African Herbman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolo_Morganwg

Cruel Copinger, a murderhobo

a classic Cornish tale, somewhere on the boundary of folklore and history, for once not by Daphne du Maurier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_Coppinger