tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52959509547166121172024-02-18T20:37:27.381-08:00The Tea-Set of CivilityCivil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-6888606950834005222021-10-10T03:16:00.006-07:002021-10-11T08:48:30.930-07:00Evil Cult Generator<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv-4rvDMUy26RDlz6uQjC5JboJ5J3qIjUiv3YqzEIgBn9Eb1XXY_MJalF3KYy9pmqxFyJpM8VMaFb4ulWSAnhfvtCH6RD3ps4QVtDa5L1WkpCE3P9r9tBSQZ66yp4w2aJMlVwlUCR_cm-12WfqvKO5Z7PTw0VDr6Sb1mIftczsrF7ptph_kJByd3bYTQ=s612" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="612" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv-4rvDMUy26RDlz6uQjC5JboJ5J3qIjUiv3YqzEIgBn9Eb1XXY_MJalF3KYy9pmqxFyJpM8VMaFb4ulWSAnhfvtCH6RD3ps4QVtDa5L1WkpCE3P9r9tBSQZ66yp4w2aJMlVwlUCR_cm-12WfqvKO5Z7PTw0VDr6Sb1mIftczsrF7ptph_kJByd3bYTQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p><i style="font-size: large;">Since Halloween is coming up here is a moderately creepy generator to create an evil cult in your game. This generator assumes they are evil beyond reproach and they will probably show you no mercy. So show them none in return.</i></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Build A Cult</b></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(This is specifically
about evil cults)</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">What do they Wear?</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">roll</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Clothing</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Accessory</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Very standard cultist robes, you know the sort.</span></p>
</td>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Creepy masks. Cultists love creepy
masks.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Leather strapping and other extremely figure-hugging leather clothing. It is all very
Hellraiser.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A small broach. One could even miss it if you weren't paying attention.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">No specific dress code but every piece of clothing the cultists have are <u><b>exactly</b></u> the same colour.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tattoos. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nothing, they are weirdo nudists.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Deliberate disfigurement. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rags and scraps, they look like they have collected their clothing for a refuse pile.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mutation, probably involving
tentacles.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="6" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nothing. They wear perfectly normal everyday clothing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Adorned in bones. Skulls for shoulder pads, and chest plates made out of femurs that sort of thing.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="7" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Skins and hides (possibly human).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Heavy body modification. This goes beyond having your eyebrow pieced.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="8" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A very idiosyncratic uniform.
Think communist China.</span></p>
</td>
<td width="46%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Holy artefact. They carry with them at all times a holy artefact. This could be a symbol or even a sacred weapon.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="9" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Extreme decadence. The clothes they were are designed to titillate and strategically expose the flesh to get the pulse racing.</span></p>
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<td width="46%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Weird flamboyant hats.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="10" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
</td>
<td width="44%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Puritanical dress-code, no fun
here. You need to be wearing the exact shade of charcoal grey.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Covered in pustules and sores. It looks and smells disgusting but they seem to love it.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Who do they
sacrifice and how?</b></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">roll</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Who</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="46%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">how</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="1" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Anyone they can get their hands on. There is no discrimination here. They are progressive like that.</span></p>
</td>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Cutting out their hearts with a
ritual dagger.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="2" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Virgins. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Exsanguination!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
</td>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Babies/children.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Burning probably on a pyre or in a
volcano.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="4" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Specific race.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Feeding to a great beast at the bottom of a great pit.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Followers of a particular religion</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Something stupidly elaborate.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Magic-users</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ritual torture.</span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>What do they want?</b></span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="11%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Roll</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">What are these weirdos up to?</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="1" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
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<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They just want to do weird creepy shit in peace. If it wasn't for the prodigious amounts of human sacrifices going on no one would care really.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="2" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They want to summon something awful into this world. It might kill them, eat them, or even drive them mad, but they seem fine with that outcome.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="3" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
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<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They want to establish a domain where they rule and spread the world of their belief. It probably wouldn't be a nice place to live.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="4" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
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<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They want to overthrow the established order. It is not clear if they have a plan for what to do next.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="5" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Wipeout<b> X</b> peoples. Maybe they are racists or just hate magic users. Non the less they are set on the total destruction of a particular group of people in this world.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="6" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
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<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Fulfil a prophecy. Somewhere in pages of the books, they rant about is a strange prophecy that has them all worked up! Let us hope you're not involved in it.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="7" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bathe in the blood of their enemies. This might be literal.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="8" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Domination and enslavement of all”</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="9" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Omnicide. They want to kill just everyone apart from themselves. Then maybe themselves.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="10" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The utter and total destruction of existence itself.</span></p>
</td>
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<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Does weird sex
stuff go down in the cult?</b></span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="11%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">roll</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" colspan="2" width="89%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">outcome</span></p>
</td>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1 to 8</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yes.</span></p>
</td>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9 to 10</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">No. </span>
</p>
</td>
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<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Just what is it
they worship?</b></span></p>
</td>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="11%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">roll</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" colspan="2" width="89%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The object of their
obsession</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="1" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A person (They may be alive, dead or even undead).</span></p>
</td>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="2" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A power eldritch being.</span></p>
</td>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="3" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An object (for example a weapon,
obelisk, artefact, statue or even a body part).</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="4" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A philosophy or ideology.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="5" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A place (it could be an area, a
ruin or even a country).</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="6" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Writings or scripture.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>What makes them so
unique?</b></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="11%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">roll</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" colspan="2" width="89%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Quirk</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="1" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They all same the same thing at the same time like some kind of hive-mind.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="2" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They are just overly nice. To the point, it is cloying and uncomfortable. Even when they are killing you they are strangely happy about it.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="3" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They are all to an individual utterly and hopelessly insane.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="4" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They are devious and have been spending years infiltrating governments and other powerful organisations.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="5" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They are tolerated by the state for some reason. Probably because they keep the true depths of their evil hidden. People find them creepy nonetheless.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="6" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They are powerful enough to rule over a region.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="7" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They bring with them dread beasts, not of this world.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="8" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They also serve in undeath. When they die they will be raised as an undead creatures befitting of the station they achieved in the cult in life.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="9" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They wiled dreadful cursed weapons.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="10" width="11%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="89%">
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Their leader is a powerful
non-human entity.</span></p>
</td>
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</tbody></table><br />Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-38867097725625476072021-10-02T04:54:00.004-07:002021-10-02T04:54:46.839-07:00D10 Strange Worlds and The Portals That Transport You<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Have you ever wanted to throw your players into a horrible world of woe and despair for a few sessions? A fun distraction on the side to the main adventure. Well, fret no more. Here are a few seed ideas of worlds your party could be transported to and the method in which they could be taken!</i></span></p><p><br /></p><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
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End of Eerie Portals</b></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Portal</b></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The World</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The surface of a mirror</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Grey Maze:</b> </span>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Walls of a grand maze surround you. They reach high into the sky and their uniformly flat surfaces make scaling them impossible. Even the grandest of giants would find scaling such a climb impossible.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The repetition of the landscape and the complexity of the maze makes it hard to navigate. If one does not take the time to carefully map their progress it will be easy to get lost forever.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Civilisation can be found here, where the facades of the walls are cracked. People build towns within the cracks in the walls. They are well guarded.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Spider things hunt in the
maze. They scale the walls with ease and carry bony harpoons to capture their prey.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A glowing potion that when drunk
causes the drinker to fall into a deep slumber and phase-out of
reality</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The cylinder: </b> </span>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The surface of the world in here is found upon the inside of a seemingly endless cylinder. A
person can look up into the sky and see the sprawl of a city above them at the opposite side to where they stand.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The sun is a filament of light that runs down the centre of this strange world. Day and night are marked by the luminosity of this ribbon of light.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A strange sticky fog rolls over the land here. As soon as one enters this area the sounds of animals cease. If they keep pressing forward they will eventually reach the other world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Pit:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The world is shaped like a vast bowl with all points sloping inwards.
At the centre of the world is a vast, and perfectly round chasm.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">New land is spawned at the edges of this world. Then over the course of decades, it creeps and slides, and tumbles into the pit.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The soil is loose here and thus settled civilisations are rare.
Nearly everything is nomadic, metallurgy and other heavy industry that requires fixed infrastructure are non-existent.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is the world of the horse lord.</span></span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A small knife with a uniquely sharp edge is able to cut a hole between worlds. Wounds inflicted with this knife bleed the stuff strange realities.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Abandoned City:</b> </span>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There is a vast city. With
infinite floors and infinite sprawl. The echoes of your voice is swallowed by the absurd vastness of this space.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You are not sure where the city ends and the sky beings.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is entirely devoid of its
previous inhabitants. However strange mockeries of humanity can be found squatting in the rooms of this metropolis. They do not
enjoy company.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Small redoubts of post-human
survivors live. They are a hardy sort who are expert scavengers and cultivators.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A great titan of a beast stalks the land. It is said that its throat is a portal to another world. All you have to do is risk being swallowed whole.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Volcanism in The Nightland:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
Sun is dying and has all but dimmed to shine out a sickly green glow. The world is either pitch black or illuminated by a weak emerald light.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
is a hot and humid place and it is beset by violent and endless
volcanism. Volcanoes erupt regularly, vomiting out all but unseen ash clouds, earthquakes are common here.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This place is home to a rich and ferocious ecosystem. The hydrothermal vents provide the basis of life here. Great worms feed on the minerals and nutrients exuded. Predators many times the size of a person skitter in the dark, and greater things predate on them still.</span></span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
such a hostile place civilisation thrives. Though it is penned in and terrified of what lies beyond its borders.</span></span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A single silver key. Absurdly
plain in design. Anyone who holds it may unlock any door which will now open into another world. Be careful. Not every world will have a door to return you.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Ropes and Knots:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There is no apparent ground to this world, just an endless sky that falls into a black void.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This world is comprised of huge strands of rope that can be anything from a few meters to a few kilometres thick. They go in all directions and meet together in great knots. The knots themselves can vary in size hugely.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is in the larger knots that civilisation is found. Towns and kingdoms claim knots as their home. And within the strands and between the gaps of the ropes are the strange caves and dungeons of this world.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
cut one of the great ropes is the greatest taboo of all, for
connection is life.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Beware the fleet centipede things that hunt in the wild of the strands.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A spell or ritual. It is written in a hidden tome or scroll. It is clearly hidden knowledge, maybe to keep the treasure to themselves or to keep our world from danger.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Grass Ocean:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This is a world is islands and archipelagoes. These islands are rich oases and plenty and peace, however, they are separated by the grass ocean.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Where there would be an ocean there is a great plain of long grass, and like the ocean, the level of the grass is uniform at the surface.
The deep one goes into the grass ocean the longer the grass becomes.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Travelling
from one island is dangerous. Navigating the depths of the ocean is incredibly difficult and dangerous. The deeper you go the darker it becomes due to the fronds of grass blocking out more and more light.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Numerous shark-like predators that crawl and creep hunt down here. Though it is also rich in life to be harvested.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A portal. A standard glowing
portal. You can choose the colour it glows.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Million Million Rooms:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
place could possibly be hell. The world is a series of interconnecting rooms. Some as small as a closet others the size of a cathedral's interior.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The walls of this place are the same charcoal colour. The sameness
is endless. It's maddening. It hurts one's mind to dwell here for more than a few hours. One cannot tell where a corner or dark spaces begin.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There is no food or sustenance here so it is almost devoid of life.
Almost. For solid human-like shadows walk these halls. They have the same charcoal colour and they hunt and hate life.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A great eternal fire burns at this
place. For some, it is a place of pilgrimage. Some sacrifice themselves to the flame. For those that do they are transported to another world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Tireless Strider:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
world is a vast clockwork golem. It is the size of a continent
that it marches ceaselessly through an endless mist that obscures
anything below its waste. </span></span>
</p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Upon its back shoulders and head, cities have grown. They are prosperous and thick with culture.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Adventures
will often delve into the golem itself. Within are items of great use and power. But within are guardians of the golem's body, as well as other things that stalk in the dark.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
question begs. Where is the golem heading to, and will it ever
reach its destination?</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A lake with a perfectly flat surface that never ripples. Once submerged and drowning you will awake in another world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Puppets and Palaces:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
world is normal. It has kingdoms, economies, peoples and
passions.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Except
everyone one is a puppet. They will deny it of course, even if you show them the strings that hold them up.</span></p>
</li><li><p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Are
they actually individuals? Or is some strange eldritch creature
playing dollhouse with a world?</span></p>
</li></ul>
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</tbody></table>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-86962846468778482492021-09-16T12:37:00.005-07:002021-09-16T12:40:15.506-07:00D20 Rarebooks found in Lost Places<p>Please enjoy a few of the random books I have at hand to throw at my party.</p><p><br /></p><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Rare books found in
lost places</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>A technical guide to
intoxication through kingdom fungi (by Plagueface esq.):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A thick tome written in a
conspiratorial manner about identifying various types of mushrooms
to make hallucinogenic potions and poisons. If you use this tome as a reference book:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+1 when
identifying fungus.</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+1 when making
potions and poisons out of mushrooms.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Fractal Mosaics (by Prof. R.K.
Dunshlem):</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">What could be a dry exploration of mosaic design, is elevated to greater heights through the author's beautiful prose and
exploration of the relationship between art and culture. </span>If you use this tome as a reference book:</p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+1 when studying architecture.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Backdoor Wenches (volume 9):</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span>
</p>
<p> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
smutty picture picture book depicting humans in various forms of
copulation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Epic of Yorm (Unknown
Author):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This is
an ancient poem (by the editor's standards). It was passed down
through oral tradition and has now been codified into text.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
poem is about a great hero who slays a number of increasingly
dangerous monsters only to be undone by his own hubris.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>A nincompoops guide to summoning
(by Georg the Marvellous):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
arcane text that describes in a very condescending manner about
how to effectively summon creatures from other planes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The author talks about how easy the process actually is and describes in
depth about how other “lesser” mages screwed up the summoning
and died horribly.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gains
a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Summon</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
spell</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Jombaha! (by Arclight Press):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A pop
arcane book. Designed to get the masses more enraged with arcane
studies and rituals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is a
collection of presumably real life stories when rituals went
horribly wrong, resulting in death, destruction and occasionally
hilarity.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Victory through Atrocity (by
Ral):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Contains
a foreword that describes how this is a controversial work by a
controversial historical figure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
describes the use of war crimes as a way of controlling
populations, it details which forms of oppression tend to have the desired effect.
Gruesome reading.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>A field guide to dinosaurs (by
J. Hammond):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A lavishly detailed book with field
sketches of many different dinosaur species. Great coffee table
book to impress your friends.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Getting spiritual about spirits
(by Gruru Kosh):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
book is a thinly disguised guide on how to not only build but distill
almost anything into alcohol. The author rambles on about
spirituality and all kinds of dross. Great for making Molotov! </span>
</p>
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<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gain
the blueprint for making a still.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Skirmisher's Delight (T.E.
Blaskovitiz):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
treaties of advanced tactics for the initial engagements at the
eve of a battle.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once
per day you may roll initiative with advantage.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>11</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Esoteric Curatives (H.
Tharsson):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
exciting tome where the author describes his travels through
numerous, tribes and other “outsider” groups and the healing
methods they use. In places, this becomes a polemic where the author decries the decadence of the modern world. If used as a reference book:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gain +1 to brewing healing potions.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Discerning Farmer's Guide
(F. Giles):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
highly accessible book written for the layman to understand and
implement various farming techniques.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>13</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Kraken Stirs (Anon):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
philosophical dialogue. Discusses the importance of maintaining
social roles and the sanctity of the social contract between lord
and subject. If one were to read between the lines you might
think the author is telling you how to tear down society.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>14</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Applied Accountancy:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
an accountancy text book. Useful but boring.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>15</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Monsters and Metallurgy (I.
Sternfist):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
book provides an in-depth technical discussion on the various
processes of alloy production. It also describes which metals
will have deadly effects on certain types of creatures.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Contains
blueprints for:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Alloy
production</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Metal
Tubing</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Wiring</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ingots</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>16</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Rationalised Evil (A history of
the cult of Ordination) (by Shocking Histories):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
engaging narrative of the history of the Cult of Ordination. A group that both worships the mythological being called The
Ordinator and embrace the philosophy of the end justifies the
means at all costs.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>17</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Extra-Dimensional Topology
(Yuler):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A dense
work about an incredibly niche subject area that has limited real
world application. You think it discusses how Mathematical
geometries might shift in other dimensions?</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Grants
a +1 to summoning bonus.</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>18</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Making Acids for Fun (Anon):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
subversive book for budding alchemists. Has numerous warnings that
some reactions can be extremely exothermic!</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gains
blueprints for ACIDS!</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Exotic Weaponry (H. Mauly):</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A nerdy
book that enthusiastically describes the production of and use of
many strange and fairly alien weapon types:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gains
blueprints for:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chain
Sword</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">War
fan</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tiger Claws</span></p></li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>20</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>A Beginners Guide to Sewing:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Actually
this book is nothing of the sort. It is a hidden treaties on the
use and development of your own skill in Necromancy!</span></p>
<ul>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Contains
1 random necromancy spell.</span></p>
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Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-25819762000838728332021-09-12T13:17:00.009-07:002021-09-12T13:17:59.849-07:00Veins of The Earthjammer<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>So here is an idea, what would happen if we mashed together the amazing <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/209509/Veins-of-the-Earth">Veins of The Earth</a> with D&D in space via <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Spelljammer">Spelljammer</a>? This post is a general musing more than anything else but I think the concept may have legs. This post is more an exploration of the idea, you never know I may expand on it in the future.</i></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWWdZmxJ3Evugtw3POYrv05qpxzeHDev8f3lOGZYGRgmoPCeDv6TUFwTnP2NEUarKX5R5_mPuECVeSru2BAvLbniYkhdT_Uhr2EPryWtAdxy5Yt2HAv7gDmC8GJi7S9Xh7RXJkouGPqqO/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1242" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCWWdZmxJ3Evugtw3POYrv05qpxzeHDev8f3lOGZYGRgmoPCeDv6TUFwTnP2NEUarKX5R5_mPuECVeSru2BAvLbniYkhdT_Uhr2EPryWtAdxy5Yt2HAv7gDmC8GJi7S9Xh7RXJkouGPqqO/w400-h208/ring_world_by_n_a_i_m_a_dcxdbrf-pre.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Dvargir</span></u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Dvargir are uber dwarfs. Dwarfs who have through countless generations pursued the obsession of work to the point they are now completely consumed by the notion. They build and work because they must, it's in their DNA. Their singular devotion to work has turned the race into a system of logic gates inside of a machine of meat and bone. In Spelljammer they will have ascended to the surface of their planet and have achieved interplanetary travel. This is what they would do:</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Create a full survey of their planet. Take an accounting of estimates of metal deposits and other useful resources.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Build a fleet of craft designed to assist with logistical and industrial utilities. A fleet of factories and workshops.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">They begin to dismantle the planet. Crack it open to the core and access the metal inside.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Using these resources they expand their fleet capacity and begin to survey, audit, and dismantle every celestial body in the solar system excluding the star.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">They begin work on the grand project. A great runic ringworld that encompasses the sun on the solar plane.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">This project will take 1000s maybe millions of generations. The completed parts of the ringworld are abandoned by the Dvargir as they move onto the next stage of construction.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Inhabitants from other worlds and beyond settle here. Kingdoms, even empires rise and fall. It has become the de facto center for universal trade and diplomacy.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Dvargir work on still.</span></li></ul></div><div><div><b><u><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Substratals</span></u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">When the Dvargir cracked open the many worlds of the solar system they broke "The Real World". This was nothing short of apocalyptic for the Substratals and their civilization almost perished. A handful of groups kept the candle of their culture alight, but the loss of their home against an uncaring foe has changed them. They waged a war of attrition against the Dvargir to little effect, this has left the survivors cynical and battle-hardened. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Due to their incredible intellect and nigh on invulnerability to most mundane weapons substratals quickly rise to the top echelons of whichever society they find themselves within. Many worlds are ruled effectively by them (sometimes even benevolently). Substratals are prized advisors, generals, and admirals.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhst9JdHW-uzAPWe1ri5BQ20tcDLDlmZBntCTTnxBOMb36nZW0UBtW96cG45C-afuhXBpJIOv22rqj8FrkqOs0QkztI8nKCNhG5EvfBepzb_0jihWcGdTW1g8nzNiZoga2m-29pyaicsnGv/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="530" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhst9JdHW-uzAPWe1ri5BQ20tcDLDlmZBntCTTnxBOMb36nZW0UBtW96cG45C-afuhXBpJIOv22rqj8FrkqOs0QkztI8nKCNhG5EvfBepzb_0jihWcGdTW1g8nzNiZoga2m-29pyaicsnGv/w400-h204/rsint-title.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>Deep Janeen</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">No deep Janeen freeport palace is alike. Each is more decadent, more bizarre, and wonderous than all the others in its own way.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Each Deep Janeen has built their own freeport in the middle of wildspace. Each freeport is spectacular to behold and is built to the very exacting tastes of that Deep Janeen. In some places the Deep Janeen will gleefully mix with the visitors to their port, in others, they will hide away in the gloom of their maze living vicariously off the whispers of the activity outside. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The freeport itself is a large floating structure in wildspace. The Deep Janeen set aside large areas of their maze palace to act as a commercial sector. This is a place where most budding entrepreneurs face little to no bureaucratic barriers to establishing a business.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">They do however impose a tax, rarely ever in the form of gold. Each tax is unique at the Deep Janeen that sets it. Failure to pay this tax will see quick eviction for existing commercial operations. A wise trader will learn the quirks of each Deep Janeen ensuring the businesses of these freeports are well stocked with the oddities that their landlord demands.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oh, one last thing. Before everyone who stays at a freeport MUST fill out the visitor's survey upon leaving. Refusing to do so will lead to instant imprisonment, or worse.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWTDk1P0vRquqTfK0aWipj6LWVbvsmyVCYteHfft6BjwfBkE300EpIsKgE6nQbV8J4qZuIumxjV1cOaVTb60cCnTQUqAPTOMtud2N92T4cc-lq6ISimbiRJFL-SCcQdkE_8RdVFVlz9MuS/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="751" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWTDk1P0vRquqTfK0aWipj6LWVbvsmyVCYteHfft6BjwfBkE300EpIsKgE6nQbV8J4qZuIumxjV1cOaVTb60cCnTQUqAPTOMtud2N92T4cc-lq6ISimbiRJFL-SCcQdkE_8RdVFVlz9MuS/w283-h400/1477368908491.jpg" width="283" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u><b>The Aelf-Adal</b></u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Aelf-Adal never had the need to bleed into the real world to wage war on the dreamers here. They raid and pillage as they please knowing that no one can follow them to their dread realm. For the Aelf-Adal live beyond the event horizon of black holes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">These are terrible places where time shifts and nightmares reign.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Only the most foolhardy would consider travel past these portals to their home plane.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">No known spelljammer captain has passed beyond the event horizon and returned. Many suspect that some enchantment or technology in the Aelf-Adal's own craft grants them immunity to whatever destruction that would otherwise befall any crew that crosses the threshold.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those who take their awful yet elegant craft as a prize find them wholly uncoperative. Not unworkable, but uncooperative, the craft resists the helmsman's demands. Furthermore, those who try to interface with the Aelf-Adal's crafts find their dreams haunted by fleet-footed beings. Over time their sanity will ebb and reality and dreamspace will phase into one another.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyYnQMpO-dzIIH6yh6MFKtMCcUhfRER0gp2rmvXWUkC0ilknYfE29pyRF-SI4HC1cAObkfQqFKbXofSqIjjz3o8chb1sCdqWUEAYq6yudzG1v5-Z2365wl0738G1gA5bD7CH9Y5MtG9Va0/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="440" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyYnQMpO-dzIIH6yh6MFKtMCcUhfRER0gp2rmvXWUkC0ilknYfE29pyRF-SI4HC1cAObkfQqFKbXofSqIjjz3o8chb1sCdqWUEAYq6yudzG1v5-Z2365wl0738G1gA5bD7CH9Y5MtG9Va0/w400-h245/440px-Planemo.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><u><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Knotsmen</span></b></u></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">These loathsome people thrive in wildspace. Gordonia their capital, is a cold and barren rogue planet that is hidden in the depths of a vast nebular, no outsiders know the location. No outsider has ever seen their homeworld, well not those who are not condemned to permanent slavery at any rate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The knotsmen are feared slavers. They are also excellent mercenaries who show absolutely zero mercy in battle. They prefer as always to attack at range, they come onto the field of battle heavily armored carrying shot and pike.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">They still relentlessly hunt down their escaped young men. No one has seen their women, for their civilization is still the height of cruelest misogyny.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Their craft are known as needle-ships, which are long and regal in design. They travel at speeds that almost no other race can match, which gives their armada a considerable advantage in the theater of war.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">They are still excellent surgeons and most of the major ports will have a medical clinic run by a knotsman. They often offer free services, though they nearly always demand a favor in return. Most kingdoms and empires have a knotsman physician at hand, though no one trusts them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The knotsmen are a superpower in the waiting.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><br /></div></div>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-35537484115084282662021-09-06T12:33:00.007-07:002021-09-06T12:43:19.235-07:00The Godfall (Part 2 Of Pilgrims and Peoples)<p style="text-align: left;"> Continuing on from part 1 found <a href="https://teasetofcivility.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-godfall-part-1-setting-overview.html">HERE</a>. This now discusses the characters that the players are playing in the Godfall setting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1zpZStNkNI47kTVwczqPAVMUDSLFvFPjFHcX753-YF32CYR8lq6s1UWRqjc5IKD7AEK1cC3JCvj4Z5CJCdzqEuXdm7NuVxbPRszM07B-5GItSTFzUuUPpnyGUMF2OEkNDo065mD_YfYX/s900/landscape_by_grosnez_d49zlcs-fullview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="900" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_1zpZStNkNI47kTVwczqPAVMUDSLFvFPjFHcX753-YF32CYR8lq6s1UWRqjc5IKD7AEK1cC3JCvj4Z5CJCdzqEuXdm7NuVxbPRszM07B-5GItSTFzUuUPpnyGUMF2OEkNDo065mD_YfYX/w640-h304/landscape_by_grosnez_d49zlcs-fullview.jpg" width="90%" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Pilgrims and The Long Road</u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">At the center of the
Faultlands is the city of Tul-Gorak. It is the single largest city
in the known world that has grown rich off the strangeness of the
resources found in the Godfall. It sits astride the river Gor and is one of the few places verdant with native life so close to the rotting remains of
God.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">It has become a place of
pilgrimage for so many. Not everyone does it for purely religious reasons
but none the less it is a deeply personal journey for each and every
pilgrim. The pull of the Godfall is strong to many of the restless souls in this world, they know this is a dangerous journey, and yet regardless they press on so that they may stare upon the corpse of God. For many pilgrims, this is a moment of apotheosis, one that will change them forever. For others, it is a sad reminder that even the immortal must still one day die.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For each player, the prime motivation of their character is to complete the pilgrimage to Tul-Gorak so they can climb its walls and towers and look upon the body of God. This is the glue that will bind the group together, the shared sense of purpose to reach the end of the long road. They will initially meet together at one of the gateway towns at the edge of the faultlands, so they may seek the safety of numbers and companionship of other pilgrims.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Long Road is the <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; text-align: left;">colloquial</span><span style="text-align: left;"> term for the pilgrimage to Tul-Gorak. It is not a single road or pathway but rather refers to the length of the journey ahead. It implies that grit determination will be needed to reach the end.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Peoples of The World</u></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;">There are 3 civilized races that inhabit the surface of the world. They make up its tribes, its villages, and cities. Your first step should be to choose one of the three races that exist. Roll twice on their tables to determine their starting abilities.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
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<p align="CENTER" style="background: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Humans are a hugely diverse group. They innovate readily, and can push their bodies to extremes. </span></p><p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Humans
gain an additional gain + 1 to their constitution </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>modifier
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">or
+1 to their intelligence </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>modifier</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">.</span></p><p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Roll twice on the table below</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Roll D10</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Description</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adaptable:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Gain 2 skill points (or the equivalent of two 1 in 6 advancements in thief skills)</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Adrenal Surge:</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Once per day, for the entire combat, you gain +1 to hit bonus. You must rest for at least 1 turn afterward or gain a point of exhaustion.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Survivors:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
bleeding out when at Death's Door your constitution is considered
to be 1 point higher for the purpose of the saving throw.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Brave
or foolish: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Advantage
with any saving throw Vs. a fear effect. Once per day</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Unpredictable
Foes: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gains
+2 AC in the first round of any combat.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Endurance: </b>Humans can push themselves to the limit and then some. Upon gaining a point of exhaustion they may make a Save Vs. paralysis (or your equivalent). If successful they do not incur the -1 penalty. However, they are still exhausted and require rest. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Once per day.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Culturally
diverse society:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Every-time you meet a new group of sapient peoples (be they a
tribe, cult or settlement etc.) You may ask the GM one question
about the. The GM will answer truthfully.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
cannot reveal secret knowledge.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Brimming
with potential:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Gains a psionic wild talent.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Corrupted: </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Rot of the decay of God has touched you. Your body has mutated. Find a good mutation table to roll on or negotiate a mutation with your DM. This should give an overall benefit to the character.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" style="background: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Florian</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Florian
are humanoid life descended from plants. They are often tall and
green of skin adorned with petals and leaves. Like humans they
are a diverse group of people, although they are rarely found in
the far north where the sun's rays are weaker. They need sunlight
or sugar water to live.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Florian's
gain an additional gain + 1 to their dexterity </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>modifier
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">or
+1 to their intelligence </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>modifier</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">.</span></p><p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Roll twice on the table below</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Roll D10</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Description</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kin of
nature:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
+2 to bushcraft</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Commune
with photosensitizers:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
You can tap into the diffuse consciousness of the plant life
around you. You may freely converse with them. However their
experiences are limited so many concepts will be alien to them.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">During
this time you will be in a trance-like state and will be unable to
defend yourself. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Once
per day.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thorns:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Any time an enemy rolls a critical failure while within melee
range of you (it does not have to be Vs. you) they are caught on
your thorns and take 1D4 damage). This is applied before other
consequences.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Perfume:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You
can choose to emit a scent that is either pleasing or disgusting.
Once per day you may mimic the scent of any one smell you are
familiar with (up to 1 turn per level).</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Toxin
Resistance: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Once per day you may roll with advantage for any save Vs. poison.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Deadly
extracts: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You
produce 1 dose of neurotoxin per day. If a target is wounded with a weapon coated with it or ingests it they will take 1D8 damage. A
saving throw Vs. poison will half the damage is taken.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Take
Root:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
The florian may automatically pass a check or save that would
cause them to be moved or knocked prone. However, they may not
move for the next round. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Once per
day</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Innate
magic: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
ground is filled with magical potency and many florians draw this
into their own bodies. You gain a single 1 first level spell as a
daily innate.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Plant
craft:</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You
can manipulate the growth and decay of plant life around you. With
a little concentration you can:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Cause
flowers to bloom around you.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Leaves
to fall.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Seeds
to sprout.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">plants
to wilt and decay.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vines
to slowly coil.</span></li></ul>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You
can do many other things. These processes are usually subtle and
gradual and do not have a massive impact. However with
concentration you could perform feats like growing fruit in a
matter of hours.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Corrupted:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
ancestry of some florians tred a darker path than others they can devour the
bodies of other living things, like the venus fly trap they can
dissolve the flesh of others in their bellies.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
florian may choose to ingest an unrotten corpse. In doing so they
will recover 1d4 hit points. It take 1 hour per hit point
recovered.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
increases to 1D6 at level 3, 1D8 at level 5 and 1D10 at level 10.</span></p>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
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<p align="CENTER" style="background: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mycellian</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Be a
Mycellian</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mycellian's
are humanoid life descended from fungus. They are stout and
thoughtful people but also frighteningly strong. They take the
form of humanoid mushrooms and are incredibly diverse. They are
also natural psionic users.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mycellian
gain an additional gain + 1 to their strength </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>modifier
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">or
+1 to their wisdom </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>modifier</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">.</span></p><p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Roll twice on the table below</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Description</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Natural
Psionic:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Gains a psionic wild talent</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Stout:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once
per day gains an advantage to any save Vs. paralysis.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Choking
Spores: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once
per day you may release a cloud of choking spores at an enemy
within 10 foot range. They must save Vs. poison (minus your WIZ
modifier) or be stunned for 1d3 rounds.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tough
Body:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
+1 AC</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Toxic:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Any creature that bites you must save vs poison or take 1D6
damage.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Psionic
Defense: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once
per day upon taking damage you may mentally lash out at the
attacker dealing 1D6 psychic damage. Additionally, they must save
Vs. paralysis or be repelled 10 foot.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Decay:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Once per day you may rot any non-metal item up to the size of a
chair instantly, it collapses apart into mush. If used in combat
a successful non-damaging strike must be made against an opponent.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Telepathic
Message: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Can
send a telepathic message to a single person within 120 feet whom
you know or can physically see. This may be no more than a single
sentence long. If the target has any form of psionic ability they
must respond in kind.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gestalt
memory: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+3
to any one skill check once per day.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Corrupted:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Gains the
ability</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Create
fungal servant</i></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You may
imbue a corpse with insidious controlling spores. This turns the
corpse into your faithful unintelligent servant.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It takes
one hour for the spores to take effect and raise the servant.</span></p>
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</tbody></table><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>The Pilgrim's Kin</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The most common wayof life
for most people in the world is either home in a small settlement no
lager than a hundred of so people, or in nomadic tribes. The pilgrim's kin or lack of will inform how they interact with others and how they see themselves in the world. Choose from below or roll.</span></p><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Community</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Description</b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A small
farming community</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Probably
less than a hundred people live here. Life is hard but it is
secure. However each Village is well guarded.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><br />
</p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nomadic
herders</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You herd
your flock of milk crabs or pylon sheep across the wilderness.
Life is unpredictable but it is usually peaceful as your people
tend to know the hidden paths that allow expeditious retreat from
more unpleasant foes. Non the less your flock does tend to
attract predators.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nomadic
traders</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your
people know all the great places of the world. They have
travelled to the smallest of hamlets to the handful of great city
states. You have a sense of culture that few others grasp. You
know a few more mysteries than most.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However
rich traders attract bandits and you have seen a lot of bloodshed
in your life.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resource
Miners</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your
community mines/gathers a valuable resource. It attracts many
people, traders and the curious. You have become a skilled
negotiator and excellent administrator.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately
your the value of the products of your home is attracts unwanted
attention and you are raided frequently. Usually by desperate
bandits who are just as frequently slaughtered.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sorcerer's
Enclave</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
magic at their disposal many sorcerers have built unassailable
positions. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
often generates a following of those seeking their protection.
This mini fifes are as varied as the lord's temperament. It is
likely if you had any talent in the arcane arts you would end up
here.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
fools try to rob this place, few survive.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fewer
still dare to storm it.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ex-Slave</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The world
lacks any unified governments and thus many people are easy
pickings for the roaming slavers.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your life
for so long has been a brutal grind of work and misery. You have
developed a deep grit and drive that few others could hope to
meet. When you got your freedom the catharsis drove you to weep.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wanderer</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have
been alone for so long. Drifting from place to place, town to
town. There a sweetness to the freedom but this world feels empty
and so vast. Along with the pangs of loneliness is an existential
horror of how insignificant we all are.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have
leant to slink away from trouble. Or when you have had to face it
you face it head on.</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jungle
Tribe</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Life in
the tribe is one of developed cunning acquired alertness. For you
and your kin every step here could be fatal. You are curious but
cautious. You stalk your prey rather than charge it.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your
shaman's eye glint with deeper knowledge, maybe you served them?</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Glacial
Hunters</span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
frozen north is almost entirely free of civilisation. Yet a few
stubborn tribes of hunters remain. These communities hunt vast
and powerful prey. Only through the cooperation of the entire
tribe do they bring these beasts down.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You value
allies and find the notion of warring tribes an anathema.</span></span></p>
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<td width="33">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10</span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="119">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nomadic
Scavengers</span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="468">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Few dare
to tread onto the tombs of the old world. These are dangerous
places but the treasures here are undeniable.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your
community dared to take that risk, driven by desperation maybe?
You have seen death, scavengers who are slow witted rarely last
long. You have also seen horrors, things that should not be.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have
glimpsed at what my be behind the veil.</span></span></p>
</td>
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<td width="33">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11</span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="119">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bandit
Tribe</span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="468">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bandit
communities are rarely happy ones. They are nearly always driven
by desperation or madness rather than greed. You were either
forced into this life or were driven into it by misfortune.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has
left your soul scarred. You have seen so much death.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you
found a way out you seized it like a whale gasping for air. </span></span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="33">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12</span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="119">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">City
state</span></span></p>
</td>
<td width="468">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Civilisation
at its truest and most cosmopolitan. A handful of booming cities
across the world. This is where most of the innovations and
cultural growth happens.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However
where-ever there is wealth and growth there is also crime and
deprivation. Not every city state is ruled justly and not every
justly ruled city state is ruled competently.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But life
here is rich and varied. There opportunities that wont be found
else where. </span></span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>The Pilgrim's Motivation</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Each player will play a pilgrim on who has taken the road to Tul-Gorak. Not everyone takes this journey goes purely for enlightenement (though some do). The player should choose from one of the motivations (or roll) for the journey below.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<colgroup><col width="38"></col>
<col width="96"></col>
<col width="486"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#0084d1" width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#0084d1" width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Motive</b></span></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#0084d1" width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Description</b></span></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Revenge</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Someone
or many people you transgressed against you or your kin. You know
where they are. You will find them at the end of the long road in
the city of Tul-Gorak, where the pilgrims gather. You will have
your revenge.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Atonement</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You have
a stain on your soul. A crime you committed has gnawed away at
you and for the sake of your conscience you will make the
pilgrimage to Tul-Gorak and speak you deed to the corpse of God.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The final
wish of a dear one</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Someone
you loved/respected or were duty bound too died and in their final
breath they wished their ashes to be scatted at the end of the
long road by the corpse of God. You carry their Urn with you.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Enlightenment</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
said that journey on the long road changes you. For the longest
time you have felt a hollowness inside of you, where this is true
or not you have left your home seeking answers. You are daring to
find out something about yourself through this perilous journey.</span></p>
</td>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rite of
Passage</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For some
communities the pilgrimage is a necessary part of life. No one
can truly say they have become until they stood upon the walls of
Tul-Gorak and stared upon the body of God.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Banishment</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You
commit a taboo in your people's law and of such you were banished
from their lands, never to return. Alone and aimless you have
sought the long road to Tul-Gorak in hope of finding new kin and
drive.</span></p>
</td>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Power</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There are
things at the end of the long road or even the journey along it
that you desire. You wish control and influence, for ill or for
good (that is for you to decide). </span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shame</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
memory of your actions make you feel sick and filthy. The shame
drives you forward, not only do you want to forget what you did
but you want to find other memories to take its place instead.
Surely the sight of God will do this for you.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Refugee</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You flee
from the violence of the past and seek a new home elsewhere. You
know this journey is dangerous and long but the promise of
stability and security call strong.</span></p>
</td>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Adventure</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You are
restless and life has posed little challenge for you. The open
world called and you ran to it willingly. Surely there is not
greater adventure than to travel to the Godfall?</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">11</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Knowledge</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There is
a great library at the end of the long road, there are sorcerer's
of great power and disciple. There are also master's of crafts
and warriors without peer. All to learn from.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">There are
also other forms of knowledge to be found. More esoteric and
potentially forbidden knowledge.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">12</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Solve a
Mystery</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You need
the answer and the only place you will find it is at the end of
the long road. </span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>The Pilgrim's Former Occupation</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who were they before they set thier ambitions on the Long Road? This will add a little flavor to thier start. Roll or choose from below.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<colgroup><col width="38"></col>
<col width="96"></col>
<col width="486"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#0084d1" width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#0084d1" width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Occupation</b></span></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#0084d1" width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Description</b></span></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Farmer</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10
additional rations. </span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A hand
drawn cart (adds +10 slots).</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Farmsteads are often raided. How you did you defend yours?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Town
Guard</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A weapon
of your choice (not firearms)</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A suit of
re-enforced leather (AC14)</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A sheild</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
It is often the case that guards of any town are to stop
contraband. Did you hold fast and stop the flow. Or did you get
rich off bribes and backhanders?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hunter</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">X 2 bear
traps. </span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Each trap
inflicts 1D6 damage and 1 point of damage per round for 1D4
rounds. Requires 1D4 +1 (minus your STR modifier, to a minimum of
1) rounds to free yourself from it.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
You have hunted all kinds. What is the one that got away? </i></span></span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Herder</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1D6 + 1
herding creatures of a similar size and temperament to a goat.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
animals will generally flee violence but will defend themselves.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">However
they will respond to your call.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Your animals are often prey for all kinds of slavering beasts
(even civilised ones occasionally). What happened the time you
couldn't save all your herd?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Merchant</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">100GP</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
You have travelled the remains of the world. Spoken to many
people. What was the most intriguing secret you were ever told
over a drink by firelight?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Miner</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A lantern
and 10 hours worth of fuel. </span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A pickaxe
that can be used as a medium weapon (1D8) or to hack away at rocks.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Once you dug too deep. What did you unearth</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">?</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Scavenger</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A minor
trinket of wonder.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
You have dared walking into the ruins of the world before. What
did you see that made you weep for what was lost?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Engineer's
Apprentice</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A flintlock pistol</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A pouch
of ammo (1D12)</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Health and safety is really important when messing with stuff,
especially when it has moving parts. Who was it you saw getting
blown up/mangled/dissolved by their own experiments?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Blacksmith's
Apprentice</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
blacksmith's hammer, heavy and dangerous. 1D8 </span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
blacksmith's apron (AC13)</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Blacksmithing is hard. A long road of learning. What was your
first failure that allowed you to develop and grow?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Herbalist</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A bag of
assorted herbs. (1D6)</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Can be
used medicinally to heal 1D2. Or can be distilled into healing
potions.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Question:
You have been searching for one certain rare plant/fungus for a
long, long time. What are it's properties? What are you going to
use it for?</i></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">11</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Soothsayer</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A small
bag of animal knuckle bones and a ritual dagger. You can use this
to perform a ritual to attempt to divine the future.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
When did you predict the future correctly? And why was that a
terrible thing?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">12</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Artisan's
Apprentice</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Specialised
tools for your chosen trade.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3 x
worked trinkets of your choice. Each is worth 3 x 3D6 in SP due
to their craftsmanship.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Question:
There was one creation that you made that proved your skill in
your trade. Unfortunately it was lost. Stolen maybe? How was it
lost? What was the outcome?</i></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">13</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shaman</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A staff
with a skull on top. It's eyes can glow red and it contains the
spirit of an ancestor. That might be useful?</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><u>Question:
Shaman are usually tied to the fate of their tribe. Yet you are
not longer with them. The question begs, why did you leave? Did
you go on a quest? Commit a taboo?</u></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">14</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Outcast</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A ragged
set of hides (AC13)]</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
makeshift Spear 1D6</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A make
shift sling 1D4</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">or a
mutation.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
It is rare that someone is cast out from their home and kin. It
must have been a terrible crime or prejudice that forced you out.
What was it?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">15</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Packmaster</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1 x beast
of burden</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
creature is in a similar manner to a horse. It has side saddles
to hold extra load.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">15 slots.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Question:
It is was your job to care for the pack-beasts. One day you saw
another harm your creatures. What was your response? What was
the outcome? </span>
</p>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">16</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thief</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A stolen
trinket of wonder.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
The first rule is don't get caught. When did you break that
rule?</i></span></span></p>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">17</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Philosopher</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A rare
and valuable book, it might contain secret knowledge. </span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Of all of the questions that life has demanded that you answer.
One beyond all else escapes your grasp. What is it? Why did god
fall? What is everything? Why are you conscious?</i></span></span></p>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">18</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sorcerer's</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Apprentice</span></p>
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<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You have
a broom. It animates and cleans up the area for you. If it is
destroyed as long as you save at least a splinter of it you can
regenerate it.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
Your master was wise, possibly awful at times. But what power
did they possess did you covert more than any other?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">19</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Witch's</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Apprentice</span></p>
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<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A small
cast iron cauldron that can be used a weapon in a pinch (1d6). </span>
</p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Excellent
for cooking stew and possibly contains traces of potions brewed in
it.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Question:
All witches have secrets. What was it that you discovered that
would be considered a great trespass on morality? Did you
disprove? Is it now your secret too?</i></span></span></p>
</td>
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<td width="38">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">20</span></p>
</td>
<td width="96">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Seer</span></p>
</td>
<td width="486">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Focusing
Crystal, with enough focus and time you think you can see things
in far off places.</span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Question:
There was a vision, so cruel and awful you swore yourself off
your path. What did you see?</span></p>
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</tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-40840071876538428122021-09-05T11:25:00.004-07:002021-09-05T11:25:23.757-07:00The Godfall (Part 1 Setting Overview)<p style="text-align: center;"><i> This is the world and setting for the current campaign I am running. So feel free to read, borrow or steal. Convert it to whatever system you want or just cherry-pick ideas. Overall I just hope it's good brain food and helps inspire your own stuff.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>The Godfall: The Elevator Pitch</u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ItAWBwLHSgaTY9VZWUbdeqKcZdJxix6eBeT3rTZeo338J2XCZCr91M1j5nw7UQIgqBNauy70deq7wZmMQ5-nbhpDFmgg4eruCwT_LCT4157gzChyOencPyx4VeamlHG9OaOyIrPk1PDU/s1024/6380468209_ae0e4fc7d4_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ItAWBwLHSgaTY9VZWUbdeqKcZdJxix6eBeT3rTZeo338J2XCZCr91M1j5nw7UQIgqBNauy70deq7wZmMQ5-nbhpDFmgg4eruCwT_LCT4157gzChyOencPyx4VeamlHG9OaOyIrPk1PDU/w400-h225/6380468209_ae0e4fc7d4_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Countless
generations in the past, the peoples of the world had built great
empires that matched their endless ambition. Their cities gave home to millions and their agriculture fed times of times that. It seems there was no feat that the learned and arcane could not perform at this time. Evidence of their once-great mastery over the mysterious arts can be found everywhere in the ancient ruins of their world, and their strange machines can be found here and there humming away with unusual purpose.</span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Those who lived in the old world did truly live in a golden age. Therefore the question begs, how were they not able to stop it?</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One day God or a god (or something else grand and vast as a god) crashed into the world. The body of this being is so vast that the crater formed from the impact stretches from pole to pole. <span style="text-align: left;">The impact of this being striking the planet caused nothing
short of armageddon. A shock wave burst outwards from the impact site that broke the world. The tectonic plates of the land were thrown up and new mountain chains were built. It also broke civilization, it broke the cities and the people within. </span><span style="text-align: left;">The dust from the sky smothered the world in an era of darkness from
which only the very strongest survived.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An untold number of years has passed. The world has forgotten its
ancient past, the remains of the ancient cities and great works are either consumed by the jungles or stand defiant seemingly as permanent as the mountains. The body of God
lies in its crater, rotting, the juices from its decay mutating the
earth and breeding new horrendous life.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It
is a time of disparate tribes, dangerous wanderers, and
malevolent sorcerers who wield terrible power. There are a few fitful starts of civilization, some even a few places like the city-state of Tul-Gorak can actually claim to wield real power. However this is a place and time where things plot against the rebirth of civilization, things from other worlds stir and stare greedily at its inhabitants. The world below begins a long march and ancient, powerful forces are about to be unleashed.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Overview</u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2LmFPSfE-bQRzDv4lYR0tbDxZacZNVDENH-JDNpN_q9UyhUvaFXJ-X8e4h5i0wPDAVKRX-L6BU6As-ZsVAud_0YceiDXCMTjCFLvXuLQbE8HsCaNq4qO5BrcvQhcqfOEMGgGkZKAN_r8/s1125/5f25b325777657.5634a96fde7bf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="1125" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2LmFPSfE-bQRzDv4lYR0tbDxZacZNVDENH-JDNpN_q9UyhUvaFXJ-X8e4h5i0wPDAVKRX-L6BU6As-ZsVAud_0YceiDXCMTjCFLvXuLQbE8HsCaNq4qO5BrcvQhcqfOEMGgGkZKAN_r8/w400-h235/5f25b325777657.5634a96fde7bf.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><u><br /></u></b></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Godfall is both the name of the event and the place. This happened approximately 10,000 years ago, although for even the most astute historian of this world that timestamp has been almost impossible to lockdown due to the chaos after the Godfall.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Godfall (the event) was a cataclysm where some being as tall as the world slammed into the side of the planet. It is assumed this is God or a god, simply because what other than a god could be of that stature? It destroyed the old world much like the meteorite wiped out the dinosuars. At its height, the old world saw advanced magi-tech and had a level of societal progression similar to enlightenment era europe. It was a world of new innovation and ideas slowly pushing aside old prejudices and concepts.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The world now sits in the shadow of the old. The architecture of the old world was built to last, the spires and ruins of this lost time can be seen everywhere, they are as much a part of the scenery as the mountains and jungles. Your average person sees the ruins as a unique type of environment in the same way you and I would distinguish between swamps and grasslands.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Civilizational spread is sparse indeed. People cluster around arable land or valuable resources and their numbers rarely exceed a few hundred. This means that there are often great distances between larger settlements and nomadic lifestyles are common.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are however a handful of city-states. Places with the resources and organizational know-how to effectively manage people in the 10s of thousands are indeed more. The largest of all of these is the great city of Tul-Gorak.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6x6NkNVMziUUbHYtwWCcxpHQFeVk29KX6ueGXz68YI1veY30hpTZBzxftSOFGbhCspeVZ6n3-2E4koTqJ0TUi0bg6-VPYSxwM7H6MiJf95m5Omp2iwCqooODNPaDlqRUQ2nvqHxIWBsQl/s1440/152c6ec9f75352fef2da18a4d405e013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1440" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6x6NkNVMziUUbHYtwWCcxpHQFeVk29KX6ueGXz68YI1veY30hpTZBzxftSOFGbhCspeVZ6n3-2E4koTqJ0TUi0bg6-VPYSxwM7H6MiJf95m5Omp2iwCqooODNPaDlqRUQ2nvqHxIWBsQl/w400-h250/152c6ec9f75352fef2da18a4d405e013.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Godfall (the place) is the crater where the corpse of god lays. It is a great tear in the ground and its faultlines stretch all the way up to the north pole to the south. Without mystical transportation, it is almost impossible to traverse. Due to the depth, darkness, and the fact, there is a rotting corpse of God to traverse.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fluids from the decay of the corpse have unique properties. They change and mutate whatever they touch. This means that a vast alien ecosystem is flourishing in and around the Godfall, a place that contains rich resources but great danger.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the Eastern Edge of the Godfall is Tul-Gorak. It has grown rich and powerful off the strange resources it gathers from the Godfall. It has gained a reputation as a site of pilgrimage. Folk from across the known world come here to climb the Walls and towers of the great city so they may view the corpse of God with their own eyes and mourn its loss.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u>Regions of The World</u></b></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Frozen wastes of the North:</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eventually, where the Godfall
tapers thin, the snow falls thick. Rumour has it that before the
Godfall these lands sat at the equator, that once it was a rich steaming jungle,
thick with life. Now it is a cold death. Here ancient the jungles have
been petrified with ice, and the air cuts so cold that in some places it snatches the breath from your lungs. </span>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Here is found the Singing
Mountains, which are a great chain of lost cities whose spires touch the skies
and dare to reach the heavens. Was it the hubris of the denizens
of these places that caused god to fall? </span>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Life grows thin here but the
life that is found here is ferocious and cruel. There are treasures
here if you can somehow brace against the cold and against the winds.
</span>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Things to find:</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The great frozen and almost untouched ruins of the Singing Mountains.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Creatures of epic size and epic ferocity.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Small groups of hunters that work together to take down said, epic creatures.</span></li></ul><p></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Endless Jungles of Hunger:</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Life thrives in this thick
ribbon of greenery. It is a vast home of astonishing biodiversity
and awful horror. The spirit of competition amongst the
creatures here has created the perfect crucible for an evolutionary arms race.</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Only the most fearless,
driven or those promised the most fantastic treasure dare venture into
the jungles. Beware its howling cannibals and skulking horrors.</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Things to find:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Overgrown almost untouched ruins.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nest of creatures.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Cannibal encampments.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tribal villages.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shaman Hideaways.</span></li></ul><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Godfall:</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A great poisoned fault in
the earth. That stretches all the way from pole to pole. It
is a place where the corpse of It (god?) lays. Here it rots and the
fluids and miasma from its decay change the land around it. You see
the rot has the power to change in the most profound of
ways. The things that come from here are unlike anything in all of
the world's history. There are intelligent beings within the
Godfall, nearly all are averse to all other civilized life.</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The land inside is sheltered
from the glare of the sun and always feels like being in perpetual
dusk. Even when it is night, the bioluminescence from the strange plantlife ensures a constant low-level illumination.</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is a strange and alien
landscape. Harvesting the plant life
and hunting the creatures here brings back trade goods of great value. But it is
dangerous. Things lurk here, like the hateful Maw and the relentless
Cacospider.</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Things to find:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ancient almost demolished ruins filled with magic twisted by the rot of It.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The wretched villages of the Maw.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Forgotten grottos of forgotten beasts of eldritch power and mind.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The deep trench from which no one returns.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The remains of flesh, bone, and mucus of the fallen god.</span></li></ul><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Faultlands:</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The land around the Godfall
is a corona of change. The impact shattered these lands, created
apocalyptic earthquakes, and broke the metropolises of the old world.
Nowadays it is a dangerous and varied place. Life is verdant here,
thick with forests, swamps, and other stranger biomes. The land
itself is a series of faults, uplifts, and canyons. It is an uneven place full of hidden places between the crags and mountain ridges. It is through these lands that pilgrims to Tul-Gorak make their journey.</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Things to find:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ragged towns and villages making the best where they can.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bandit encampments.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Trader caravans.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Twisting ruins from another age, overgrown with plant and fungal life.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Fungal Groves.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mutant hovels.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Traveling obelisks and
their occupiers.</span></li></ul><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
Repugnant Deadlands:</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The tombs of the old world cites of ancient men and women laid low for eternity. These are petrified remains of the old world. These lost and broken cities are
full of the riches of the long past. They would also be looted clean if
it was not for the things that haunt these lands. The shambling corpses named "Mostly Dead" are but only one of the horrors found here. For in these places things from other worlds and times make their nests</span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Things found here:</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hordes of almost dead,
mockeries of humanoid forms.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Treasures of the old world.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dread sorcerers in there
high towers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The dark and eldritch monstrosities, which are better left forgotten.</span></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-21391473373898346482021-09-02T12:13:00.002-07:002021-09-02T12:13:10.156-07:00Cowbells and Tent Pegs<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMP1T8vRZCAn3tnr7jDBus_uwmhIzVTROIVvNeD5fT57eK2ZH37B8kEEtzSprZlyoOMINbELcMh5IfEofrDOrLtvN5InXv3dqB9CPGcV8yFYwgF62rb5RLs02CsRtOWDI83oL5TRke_34A/s1300/interior-of-traditional-bedouin-tent-camp-wadi-rum-desert-jordan-MBDDEP.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="1300" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMP1T8vRZCAn3tnr7jDBus_uwmhIzVTROIVvNeD5fT57eK2ZH37B8kEEtzSprZlyoOMINbELcMh5IfEofrDOrLtvN5InXv3dqB9CPGcV8yFYwgF62rb5RLs02CsRtOWDI83oL5TRke_34A/w400-h295/interior-of-traditional-bedouin-tent-camp-wadi-rum-desert-jordan-MBDDEP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">The Tent Peg of Luxurious Glamping:</span></u></b><br /><br />This is a single large steel tent peg that is richly decorated with runic symbols. Pretty Fancy for a tent peg right?<br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It can be used as a weapon in a pinch. Deals 1D4 damage and is otherwise considered to be a dagger. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If it hammered into the ground (any form of the ground), a great tent bursts into being with the tent peg at the <b>front right corner</b>. The Tent that appears is large enough to sleep a part of 6 quite comfortably and hold many more guests. and has a luxurious interior that is very welcoming to any tired traveler. The Tent will also adapt itself to the climate it is in to ensure the right kind of insulation or ventilation as required. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The interior of the tent is as follows: </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Has a small cooking area. This has a fire pit with a pile of firewood next to it to keep the fire burning for up to 8 hours. This will need to be refilled manually. When this tent peg is removed the woodpile will remain within the tend.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">There are 6 beds that are partitioned off into separate sleeping areas.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a seating area with beautifully crafted cushions upon which to rest. Next to these are low-laying tables.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is also room for 20 inventory slots worth of storage. When the tent peg is removed these remain inside the tent. Anything not intended to be stored or is over this limit will be left on the ground.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is also room for 5 more pieces of "furniture". This could include a recliner or even an alchemist's table.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">When removed from the ground the tent is instantly un-summon disappearing into the ether. Anyone inside the tent simply finds themselves in the space it once occupied.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>The Root of All Evil:</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhmGAfHNM3Q2TdAIkrqJjyyPxSEMTd1065E4gR2AP43u7QwZ1OBszOwmXXjyft0e7M9lNHF80FuvdtC7A7VASVFjqnUtgEnWIAhwVETX1Jh8CdoasrO73ZdwoMo0gk-HROaDeF54Vz5XF/s620/world_11_temp-1329379798-4f3cb9d6-620x348.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="620" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhmGAfHNM3Q2TdAIkrqJjyyPxSEMTd1065E4gR2AP43u7QwZ1OBszOwmXXjyft0e7M9lNHF80FuvdtC7A7VASVFjqnUtgEnWIAhwVETX1Jh8CdoasrO73ZdwoMo0gk-HROaDeF54Vz5XF/w400-h225/world_11_temp-1329379798-4f3cb9d6-620x348.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The root of all evil is it is known by so many that have fallen foul to its trickery. It is an oversized gold coin, it maintains an incredible luster and it is clear even to the most ignorant that this coin is worth LOADSAMONEY.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If the Root of All Evil is ever used as collateral in any wager or bet the losing party is ALWAYS convinced that they have been cheated or swindled somehow. There is no level of reasoning or logic that will convince them otherwise. This also applies to anyone who knows the properties of The Root of All Evil. Even though they know the malign properties of the coin they will rationalise that how this time it would not have affected them and they actually have been cheated out of their prize.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">People will react how you would expect if they were cheated out of money.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>The Cowbell of The Milkmaid:</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIhoCovTamJvkHeHNX7jiaDAI7kaO_dXlRY4a-6s3dBN847VSskHX4QCDXOYDZJl3i9IcnQ2JL-ki3arAYuy5AcIKF1O9rhhHqdHL_cil0SuDuZTyIOv8mbeTMrZlkKp_J0P7zzNlabws/s700/cowbell_b2447f90-5561-42b4-9ae9-a7165e0d7677.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="700" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIhoCovTamJvkHeHNX7jiaDAI7kaO_dXlRY4a-6s3dBN847VSskHX4QCDXOYDZJl3i9IcnQ2JL-ki3arAYuy5AcIKF1O9rhhHqdHL_cil0SuDuZTyIOv8mbeTMrZlkKp_J0P7zzNlabws/w400-h286/cowbell_b2447f90-5561-42b4-9ae9-a7165e0d7677.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Cowbell of The Milkmaid appears as an ornate cowbell upon which a beautiful red ribbon is tied in a bow.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Once per day the cowbell can be rung, this will summon the great Herd of Heffers. The herd will appear somewhere in the vicinity making it through all obstacles seemingly unhindered in 1D6 turns. As the Herd of Heffers approaches the ringer will hear the mooing of cows and the ringing of bells.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Herd of Heffers comprises of 4 x 1D10 cows. The herd is guarded by a single Minotaur who is unusually large and buff. The minotaur will look on impassively and will not otherwise interact with anyone.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The party may milk the cows to produce magical milk. This milk has healing properties. They may not produce more than one pint of milk per cow. The minotaur is cool with this.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If anyone harms the cows in any way the minotaur will fly into a berzerker rage and attack without mercy. Remember this is a particularly large and buff minotaur so it could probably take the party.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After the cows have been milked the minotaur will huff gruffly and the herd will carry on its journey eventually dissapearing. They cannot be tracked under any circumstances.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Alternative Rule:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Ringing the cowbell opens a portal to the Cow Level</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-91256489673158010342021-08-25T09:56:00.008-07:002021-08-29T12:58:53.969-07:00M.E.G (Massive Event Generator)<p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">THE M.E.G.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">HERE WE GO! As promised the M.E.G. So just a brief description of what this all is and how to use it. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The M.E.G is a system designed to fill your game world with far-reaching events that should add some interesting narratives and potential hooks for plot and adventure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The events described here are considered to be Black Swans, which are events that occur by surprise and who have deep consequences for all. These could be historical events or ones that are unfolding as your campaign progresses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I would argue historically that Black Swans and other massive events have a habit of cascading from one to another. The massive uncertainty from one event brings about others. If you are using this to generate some history for a setting consider that and how these events could relate to each other.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have also given it a bit of flavor to assume it is a fantasy setting that the M.E.G. will be aimed at, but with a few tweaks, you could apply it to others too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A Worked Example</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Type: 1D2 (result 1)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alien: The event that happened had never happened before in history. This is a new challenge that is un-yet explored by human experience. In the real world, this could be something like the Aztec's meeting gun powder units or it could be the invention of the internet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Source: 1D3 and 1D4 (result 2 and 1)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Source (Exogenesis - Geological): The event that happened was caused by something not magical or by humans. It is a result of the natural world. In this case, geological sources, which have in the past caused all kinds of calamity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Scope and Magnitude: 2D4 (result 2 and 4)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">National and Total Collapse: This is telling us that the damage caused by our geological event occurred at a national level (so a country or kingdom) and the fallout from it was so bad that the nation collapsed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Exogenesis Event Detail -Geological: 1D12 (result 12)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A living Mountain: The event that caused this is the sudden awakening of a living mountain that would clearly crush anything in its path. No city walls or armies can stop that bad boy. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Filling in the Gaps:</b></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is an alien event. Therefore no one was aware of this mountain being a living thing. It has likely lain there for most of human history if not longer.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maybe it was always strangely placed and had some cultural or religious significance.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">The entire nation collapsed. Therefore it is likely that the capital and other major cities have been crushed by its movement. All infrastructure has been destroyed.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">If this one has awoken are there others? Is this the start of more? Did the sudden awakening of this mountain trigger a worldwide event? Is it even possible to have settled cities now with the risk of wandering mountains?</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">So I hope that all makes sense. Have a go yourself!</span></div><p></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Type</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
describes why the event is a surprise.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll
1D2</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Type</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Alien</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The event is entirely novel or
completely unknown. Or if it is known only the most cursory
knowledge of it is possessed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Excession</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The event is a known phenomenon to
those witnessing it. However, it occurs at such a magnitude or severity that it breaks all current understanding of such
phenomenon.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Source</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Describes
the origin of the event</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll
1D3 and Roll 1D4</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>(</b>Then
refer to specific Event Detail Table<b>)</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Source</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Endogensis</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Any event that originates from
human activities. This can be further broken down into the
following:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Political</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Economic</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Societal</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Technological</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Exogensis</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Any event that originates from non
human activities. This can be further broken down into the
following:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Geology</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Climate</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Marine</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Natural Organisms</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">3</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Arcanogensis</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Any event that originates from
“magical” sources. This can be further broken down into the
following:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Arcane</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eldritch</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Divine</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Psionic</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Scope
and Magnitude</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Describes
how wide the effects of the event is felt and how deeply the
consequences run.</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll
2D4</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">1</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Local (city or county)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Temporary Change</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Permanent Change</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Continental</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Partial Collapse</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Total Collapse</span></p>
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Event Details</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Political</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll
2D8</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The assassination of a Popular
Figure: </b></span>
</p>
<p> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A public figure is assassinated
leading to outrage and political complications.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Assassination of a Tyrant:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
oppressive ruler is assassinated. The people rejoice but the
future remains uncertain.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Democide of an Ethnic/Racial
Group:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
attempted genocide of a targeted group is committed by a political
eternity or state. Leaving a long and ugly legacy.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Democide of ideological
Opponents:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A systematic purge of undesirables
has taken place. The state/political entity committing this crime
either denies it or rationalises it. Regardless the political
landscape has been changed forever.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Democide through incompetence:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
poor leadership, bad policy making or pervasive corruption the
people of the land have suffered. This has lead to a humanitarian
crisis (plagues, famine, floods etc.).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>War [Invasion]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
outside force has invaded with the intent to either conquer,
exterminate or enslave. The invaders are:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Undead</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Extra-planar/dimensional</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Extra-terrestial</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rival
empire/Raiders/Hordes</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>War [Innovation]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The rules of war are turned on its
head through the development of new weapons/strategies/tactics.
Soldiers and civilians alike face the new horrors wrought bit this
change.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The battlefield will never be the
same again.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>War [Atrocities]: </b></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
conflict has been punctuated by particularly horrific war crimes
enacted upon the civilian and soldiering populations alike. This
has left a traumatised population with deeply rooted cultural
scars and hatreds. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Unrest [Revolution]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
great masses of the population rose up and deposed the ruling
class. In the aftermath a new political system is created.
Deeply rooted animosities still exists within, and powers from
without eye them with greed and caution alike.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">11</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Unrest [Anarchy]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
state has failed and the rule of law is all but lost. It is
unclear when or even if a new political power is able to
re-emerge. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">12</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Unrest [Non-violent]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
non-violent movement demanding change has emerged. Any attempts
by the state to crack down on them has only strengthened their
resolve.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">13</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Succession Crisis [No Apparent
successor]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
previous ruler ends their term there is no clear successor. Be
this from a confused line of succession in a republic or a dead
king with no living heirs. The state enters into a a period is
extreme uncertainty.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">14</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Secession
Crisis [Refusal to Relinquish Power]:</b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
the current ruling power's term comes to an end they attempt to
retain power. This becomes a race between the vying powers to
shore up political support.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">15</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Succession Crisis [Multiple
Successors]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
the previous ruling power comes to an end multiple successors
emerge. Each determined to come out on top.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
likely to end in extreme violence.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">16</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Succession Crisis [Coup]:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
naked force an illegitimate power takes control of the apparatus
of the state.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Economic</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Trade Route Collapse:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A trade
route vital for so many collapses. This prevents the transfer of
vital goods and wealth between any number of nations. This has
been caused by:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Raiders/Piracy/War</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Climate
change</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Re-routing
of trade elsewhere</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Arcane
disturbances</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Trade Route Creation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
creation of a new trade route transforms the lives of many. It
requires the guarantee of safety by at least one major power. The
goods permanently change the wealth of nations. The new trade
goods moved maybe a fundamental good or an ill.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Economic Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
the implementation of a new economic policy or developments in the
world of finance (such as insurance or fractional banking) the way
wealth is generated is permanently changed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Remember.
A bank is more powerful than a standing army.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Workers Rights Movement:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Demands
for changes in the rights of workers have spread like wildfire.
The state feels pressure to change but other stakeholders seek to
desperately maintain existing powers and privileges.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Hyperinflation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
cost of goods increases by eye-watering rates. The wages of the
average person can barely afford a meal let alone to be able to
support a family. There is an explosion of poverty and
desperation everywhere.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Bankruptcy of an Institution:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
could be a financial institution or even an entire empire. The
coffers run dry and the institution becomes bankrupt. This was a
result of imprudent policy, economic illiteracy or even
recklessness. The entire edifice is on a knife edge.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of Slavery:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">With
the establishment of such a degrading practice society is changed.
A life has a value, the cost of physical labour is redefined as
well as the value of free will.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Abolition of Slavery:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
emancipation of slaves fundamentality changed the relationship
between various stakeholders in society. New economic paradigms
are created. The ex-slaves must now find a new place in society.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Crushing Inequality:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The gap between the haves and have nots within society yawns like an endless gulf. The current state of things as they stand are unsustainable and if the direction of things cannot be changed unrest is sure to follow.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>10</b></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Out of Control Shadow Economy:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The shadow economy that deals with illicit goods have grown to such proportions that criminal stakeholders wield the same kind of economic might as small nations. It is likely that such a proliferation of criminal enterprises will lead to endemic violence.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>11</b></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">General Strike:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In response to working conditions and workers rights, workers from every avenue of life go on strike in general solidarity. This puts significant strain on states and powerful stakeholders alike.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>12</b></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Union Formation:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In response to working conductions and workers rights, workers begin to unionise. This is redrawing the balance of power between various stakeholders in society.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Societal
1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Demographic Shift:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
nature of the demographics of the population fundamentally shift.
This will have a significant impact on how society will change in
the coming years. For example a massive decline in the male
population due to incessant wars will lead to a society where
females increasingly take on non traditional roles.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Fertility Rates Plummet:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
amount of children being born has reduced dramatically, maybe
leading to stagnant population growth. In time there will be less
young to maintain the engines of the economy and care for the
ageing population.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Population Explosion:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Factors
lead to a baby boom. This will in time create a demographic
dividend where there will be a vast working age population in
years to come. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Large Scale Immigration or
Emigration:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Immigration
on a massive scale increases the population size. It brings new
culture and ideas, and innovations but conversely beings societal
tensions between native and immigrant populations.</span></p>
<p><br />
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Conversely
a large swath of the population emigrates for better opportunities
elsewhere. Typically the most vulnerable remain. Society suffers
for it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
may also lead to shifts in cultural and political values.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Cultural Value Shift:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
flux of society and popular opinion shifts over time. When new
cultural values emerge this can fundamentally shift the nature of
society. For example the desire for universal suffrage or to
abolish capital punishment.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Lawlessness:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
apparatus of the state do not function anymore. Life here is
without codified laws makes it ripe for predatory behaviours but
also for a few to excel in a place without limits.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Moral Panic:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A moral
panic grips the population. This rarely reflects the reality of
the situation or the risks that the perceived threat presents.
Non the less moral panics can motivate the population to acts of
violence and persecution.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Cultural Division:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
fault-line in society has become increasingly entrenched.
Creating two opposing groups that are fundamentally at odds, in
some cases this can break out into endemic violence. These
cultural fault-lines may go across religious, ethnic or even
political lines. It is also not unheard of for cultural divisions
to emerge from competitive sports.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Cultural Renaissance:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
emergence of new philosophical thought (or re-emergence of old
ideas) grips society. This pushes them on a path of enlightenment
in science, philosophy and artistic expression. </span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">However
where great strides in society are made evils also emerge.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>New Religion:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A new
confident region is growing fast. The fervour of its believers is
palpable. Its preachers argue powerfully to the populace in an
effort to find new converts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This new religion is changing society at its very core. New values are
being adopted wholesale by the population.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>11</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Defilement of a Religious site
of significant Value:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A holy
site for a given religion is desecrated or otherwise destroyed.
This act has outraged the believers and the prospect of religious
violence, or even a holy war looms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Religious Schism:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Disagreements
in the interpretation of holy texts or the leadership of the
religion has lead to a schism. The religion divides upon
theological or idealogical lines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">You are
to be reminded no conflicts are more bitterly contested than those
fought by brothers.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Technological
1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Transportation and Logistics
Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
development of new technology transforms the way that people are
goods are transported over long distances.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Or the
expansion of transportation infrastructure makes travelling more
affordable, faster and more comfortable.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Food Production Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">New
developments in farming techniques, food processing or
preservation means that excess food supply in the population
expands considerably. Generally excess food allows for workers in
agriculture and food production to move into different industries.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Military Innovations:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A new
military technology is developed. This is having major impacts on
battlefields as commanders struggle to develop new tactics to
counter the new technology efficiently.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
technology will most likely find its way into civilian hands at
some point having an impact in day to day life to some degree.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Medical Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
the treatment of body or mind new technologies or protocols have
been developed. This has transformed the treatment of some (or
all) patients. This is usually for the better. However medicine
sometimes travels down dark paths to achieve its results.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Scientific Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
the efforts and curiosity of various nerds radical ideas about the
nature of reality have transformed our understanding of the world.</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Biology</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chemistry
</span>
</p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Physics</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Psychology</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Geology</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sociology</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Obsolescence:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A long
standing technology or industry for which many rely on for wealth
is facing obsolescence due to new technological innovations.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Industrial Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
development of new machines or processes dramatically increases
the efficiency of a given industry.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Resource Extraction Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
development of new technology or processes has increased the yield
of a significantly important resource. </span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
new technology may be environmentally harmful or even dangerous
but the rewards for employing it are undeniable.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Exogensis
Event Detail</b></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Geology
1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Earthquake:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
ground shakes, buildings fall and lives are lost. </span>
</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Volcano:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Volcanic
activity and the hazards associated with them are vast. Direct
hazards such as pyroclastic flows, Lahars and lava destroy lives
and property with ease. More insidious hazards like fluorine
poisoning and ashfall can kill crops and cause buildings to
collapse under the weight of the powdered rock.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Extreme
levels of volcanicity can pump so many particulates into the
atmosphere the suns rays are reduced to the point that summers
fail to appear.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Lava Fissure:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Just a
great big hole in the ground out of which lava pours out of.
These lack the explosive fury of a volcano but historically some
lava fields have persisted for millions of years and expand across
continents.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Mass Movement:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Refers
to the movement of rocks and other sediment down slopes. Usually
in the form of rock slides and avalanches.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Meteorite Impact:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
meteorite makes it into the atmosphere and crashes into the earth.
The shock waves will be devastating as well as the earthquakes
that follow..</span></p>
<p><br />
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Meteorites
that strike at particularly low angles do not make the typical
crater shape. Instead, they create a cone of devastation in front
of them like a giant intergalactic shotgun blast. Such events
throw up a lot of particulates into the atmosphere.</span></p>
<p><br />
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Meteorites
that land intact were traditionally a source of iron, this was
otherwise known as star metal.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Exotic Mineralisation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Strange
and arcane forces act upon the geology of the world forming veins
of minerals and metals that display unique and highly prized
properties.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Discovering
such veins could transform the wealth of a nation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Formation of Extensive Cave
Systems:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A large
underground cave system has been built from erosion and natural
fault lines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In some
cases strange lifeforms and other dangerous civilisations may
flourish here.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Moon Capture:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A rogue
celestial body has been caught up in the gravity well of planet.
The gravity of this new orbiting body will affect the tides and
potentially tectonic instability in places.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of Planetary
Rings:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
destruction of a moon or capture of numerous asteroids creates a
series of rings that encompasses the planet. This makes the view
nothing short of spectacular.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Culture
and art changes is heavily influenced by this change.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of a Geothermal
System:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Volcanicity
in the area has caused extensive geothermal activity. Hot-springs
and geysers are abundant here. </span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
means the area is full of deadly hazards but also plenty of rare
resources.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Strange Fossils:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Fossils
in exposed rock beds have been discovered. They are of strange
creatures not found in the current era and they are found in
abundances in sediment 10s of meters thick. They:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Infect
people around them with an unknown disease</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Unleash
a terrible curse</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Animate
as a legion of undead monstrosities</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Try
to escape their prison of stone by attempting to possess people
in the population</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Living Mountain:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
mountain moves and lives! It shuffles across the world, slowly
but surely and wherever it goes earthquakes follow in its wake. </span>
</p>
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1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Hurricane:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
amount of energy in storm systems are ridiculous, therefore the
damage hurricanes inflicts are often catastrophic. They are often
accompanied with flooding.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Heavy Rain:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rain,
lots and lots of rain. It causes catastrophic flooding, which
will in the worst cases will start to strip top soil from the
land.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
also worth noting that more than once in geological history it is
rained non stop for millions of years at a time.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Temperature Shift:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Extreme
shifts in temperatures can put extreme stress on the body. These
are often caused by non typical weather systems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Heat
waves and unexpected frosts have been big killers historically.
The great frost of 1709 is thought to have killed 1000s of people
in England alone.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Drought:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sustained
dry weather leads to a lack of available water. The outcome of
this is crop failure and famine, war or even worse.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Climate Change:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Long
term and sustained change in climate conditions will change
regional environments. These environmental shifts will nearly
always be difficult for the local population to adapt to since
populations tend to specialise their housing and economy for a
given environment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Extreme
climate change can have catastrophic effects.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Smog:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Particulate
rich air is held in place due to local weather conditions. This
reduces visibility and often leads of severe lung disease.
Mortality rates spike during acute smog outbreaks.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of Tornado Alley:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
environmental conditions change here so that tornadoes have
reached an endemic level. </span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This is
a dangerous place to live and adaptations to builds and
infrastructure are necessary for safety.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Sandstorm:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sandstorms
advance like a wall across the landscape. In the worst cases they
can abrade the skin from your bones.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sometimes
things lurk within the rushing winds and blasting sands.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of Mislands:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mists
persist here. At all times it rolls above the landscape. The
land below is thick with moisture and the limited sunlight ensures
that it is boggy and only filled with the hardiest plant life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
also likely that things that are shunned by civilisation find
hidden places in which to lurk and hunt from.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Exotic Weather:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Strange
weather has afflicted the area. Driven by arcane or other strange
forces. While it may be spectacular it may also be terribly
dangerous. It could include:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rain
of shards of Diamonds tearing at your skin7</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Storms
of screaming skulls</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Its
raining men, literally</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Snow
storms of snow flakes made of blood</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Malevolent Auroa Borealis:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
spectacular and beautiful to behold but the lights themselves are
serving a dark purpose those who spend time viewing it are
mentally reprogrammed for some dreadful reason.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Intelligent Storm:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
thinks it lives and if angered can bring untold destruction.</span></p>
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1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Sea Level Change:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Melting
ice caps, thermal expansion of water or excessive underwater
volcanicity can cause sea level s to change over time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Coastal
cities or other low lying lands can become permanently flooded.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Tsunami: </b></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tsunamis
are usually caused by earthquakes or submarine mass movement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">They
devastate coastal areas and will sweep the population out to sea
where they will drown.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Toxic Tide:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
could be toxic algae, sludge or some other kind of floating
horror.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
poisoning fish and other marine life, hampering fishing or even
killing local populations who are exposed to it as it washes up on
shore.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Treacherous Waters:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Undersea
topology can make certain water ways or bodies of water
extraordinarily dangerous. These may become permanent barriers
for travel due to the risk imposed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Kraken Stirs:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A beast
from the depths of the ocean stirs. It seeks to rid the surface
of the trespassers of its domain. Sailors beware!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Ship Wreck:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
seas claim a victim and a ship of significant importance (or
ships) are taken to the depths of the ocean along with all hands.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Due to
the nature of the boat, its passengers and cargo this has major
implications.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of a Mysterious
Triangle:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ships
here are disappearing with alarming frequency. There is never any
sign of the ship, cargo or crew.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
mystery of the triangle both intrigues and terrifies. It is
possible that the answer to this mysterious phenomenon is better
left unknown.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Inundation:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Part of
the landscape is eroded away by the erosive action of the sea.
The area behind lies below sea level was below sea level and is
now permanently flooded under an unstoppable inundation of
floodwater.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It is
believed that some 40,000 years ago the Mediterranean flooded in
this manner.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Massive Erosion Event:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
occurs from a perfect storm of unusually strong wave action and
particularly weak rock. The land is being perceptibly eroded day
by day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Any
major infrastructure or inhabitation here is certainly all but
lost.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Strong
storms of flooding may increase the rate of erosion considerably.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of Pack Ice:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Icebergs
are being found here with alarming regularity. These are extreme
hazards for all passing through.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Fathomless Depths:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
technological processes or arcane means it has been discovered
that the waters here have no end to their depths. It has been
hypothesised that if one travels deep enough one will end up in
the deep ocean of a different world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Discovery of an Intelligent
Island:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
island travels the oceans of the world. Perhaps on the back of a
large beast. The land here is untouched and pristine and possibly
home to a rare resource.</span></p>
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Organisms 1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Epidemic:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An epidemic is a greater than
expected rate of infection of a disease. Epidemics can be
extremely disruptive to society, politics and the economies.
Global pandemics can spread this disruption across the globe and
will often re-draw the balance of power between nations. </span>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Abernant Animal Behaviour:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A group
of animals display strange behaviours. This could be changes in
migratory routes thus disrupting the lifestyles of hunter-gather
tribes. Or this could be a switch in predation against humans and
other sapient peoples.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Population Boom:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
specie or species of animals sees a boom of their population.
This has significant ecological consequences. Plagues of mice
historically have devastated grain supplies.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Ultra Predator:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
creature emerges that poses an imminent threat to the population.
It may exude toxins, breed dangerous spawn at prolific rates. Or
it could just be a damned Kiju!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">5</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Spores:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Plant
life unleashes masses of spore or pollen into the air. This has a
significantly malign affect on the population. Its a bit like
that M Night film but less shit.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">6</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Dark Forests:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
forest turns in on itself and the trees themselves become hostile.
All who enter into this green hell will be assaulted by the very
landscape itself.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">7</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Animal Uprising:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
creatures here attack humans and other sapient peoples without
mercy. They will go out of their way and cooperate across species
to ensure the death of such folk.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">8</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Plague of Locusts:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Vast
clouds of flying insects fill the skies darkening the sun beyond.
They fall upon vegetation stripping it bare of all greenery.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
destroys agriculture but the insects themselves are often prized
for their nutritional value.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The emergence of a Toxic Landscape:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shifts
in the ecology of the area means that plant or fungal life here
begins to exude toxic chemicals into the environment. </span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">These
areas are distinctly dangerous to travel into.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">10</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Rapid Uplift:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
species of animal intelligence over a short period of time finds
itself gifted with human level intelligence. The consequences of
such changes in the status quo cannot be understated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
uplift could have come about due to arcane or even divine
intervention. Equally this could just be the result of natural
processes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">11</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Fungal Expansion:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A new
aggressively expansionist form of fungal life has emerged. It
colonises the area with ease, forcing other competing forms of
life out of its ecological niche.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">12</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Eusocial Superstructure:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
eusocial specie such as ants or termites are building on scales
and to levels of complexity never seen before. </span>
</p>
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</tbody></table>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;">
<colgroup><col width="30*"></col>
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</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666" colspan="2" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Acanogensis</b></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666" colspan="2" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Arcane
1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#666666" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#666666" width="88%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="1" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Ritual Strike:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
weapon of mass destruction in the form of ritual magic.
Conducting such a ritual must require considerable resources that
perhaps only a well funded state could muster.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
is likely the use of such methods would be considered a war crime.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Ritual Blowback:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
large and complex ritual backfires in the manner of nuclear
meltdown. The effects of the ritual blow back will more than
likely be a perversion of the ritual's aim. Alternatively:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Causes
and epidemic of insanity</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pure
destruction </span>
</p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
great pulse of energy that dispels all spells and enchantments.
Harms magical creatures.</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
curse</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Necrophage:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
the dead die, they rise again. A plague of necromantic power
sweeps through the land. The graves are beginning to empty, the
plague pits roil with animated corpses. If the living are not
careful they will join these hordes soon enough.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Vivophage:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
plague of mutation grips the population. Many lose their minds
as their bodies twist. The land has become dangerous as wild
mutants roam with hate and violence on their mind.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Arcane Exogensis:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
the work or influence of magic, deliberate or otherwise the
natural world is changed.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Re-roll
the event detail under <b>Exogensis</b>, however the cause of this
is magical.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Arcane Innovation:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Advances
in magic push forward the capabilities of nations. </span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Re-roll
the event detail under <b>Endogensis [Technological]</b>, however
this time the cause of this is magical</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Agent Proliferation:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
summoning, production or incantation the population of magical
beings proliferate. These could be golems, imps, owlbears or any
other creature created via magical means.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
could have major impacts on how society functions. Equally it
could have far-reaching consequences for the natural world.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Zone of Spell
Permanency:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
spell cast either through deliberate action or by terrible
accident that far exceeds its normal scope. The area is now
permanently affected by a spell or ritual cast. This could
include:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Everyone
being affected by flesh to stone</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Darkness</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
blink field where people blink at random times in random
directions</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
giant wall of fire</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Cloud
Kill</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Entanglement
to all those touching the ground</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Magical Pollution:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
use of certain magical spells/schools harms the environment and
the expansion of mages and their influence is creating increased
harm.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Emergence of a
Dark Master:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sometimes
powerful magic-users become evil, raise an unstoppable army of
diabolical minions and seek to subjugate all.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>11</b></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Creation of a
Legendary Artefact:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
item is made of such power that it has the capabilities to sway
the history of the world. Such an item like the One Ring or Sword
of 1000 Truths would require enormous resources to create. It is
likely only an exceptionally powerful individual or state could
create such an item.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Arcane Kiju:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
deliberate means or by accident, one or more Kiju sized monsters
have been brought into the world. Shit is gonna get real yo.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Eldritch
1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#666666" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#666666" width="88%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Establishment of
Planar Bridge:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
link between worlds is made by either natural alignment of planes
or through construction of planar gateways (or similar
structures).</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Populations
from either world may pass from one plane to another through
these bridging points between worlds.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Destruction of Planar
Bridge:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
link or links between worlds are broken. Maybe only a few remain
or all contact has been severed. Intra-planar trade is
immediately severed. Economies and peoples are thrown into chaos.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Weak Inter-planar
Membrane:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
walls between worlds has weakened precipitously. This means that
things, inanimate or otherwise often pass from other worlds into
this one.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
may be a boon to people seeking power. Or a terrible, terrible
hazard to all.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Proliferation of
Eldritch Cults:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">People
have begun to worship things, unknowable awful things from other
worlds and hidden places.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Sacrifices
are made, crimes against all decency are commited in the name of
these terrible beings.</span></p>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="5" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Dissemination of
Forbidden Knowledge:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Some
knowledge in some eldritch tomes are so corrupting that it erodes
the sanity of all who behold it.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">States
may try to suppress such knowledge but somehow this harmful
knowledge is spreading through the population changing them as
they learn its contents.</span></p>
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<tr valign="TOP">
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Planar Crossover:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The area is merged with that of another plane or world. This has
created an alien landscape with strange flora and fauna. This may
well, create an area extremely hazardous to native lifeforms.</span></p>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="7" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Outsider
Establishment:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
race or group from another world or plane settles in the area.
This upsets the current balance of power as other political
entities.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The outsiders bring with them a new culture, technology and magic.
However, they may also be too utterly alien to comprehend.</span></p>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="8" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Reality Dysfunction:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
powers of unknowable forces shift reality and change its rules. A
familiar aspect of reality is changed forever. It could include
the following:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
nature of gravity changes</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
rate of decay of all things increases</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Non-eculidian
geometries become possible</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Various
inanimate objects gain sentience</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Eldritch Being
Establishes Domain:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
being of unknowable power and motive becomes a grand patron to
many. It establishes a realm where it rules in the mortal world.</span></p>
</td>
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<tr valign="TOP">
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Environmental
Mutation:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
area begins the change under strange forces. The landscapes
shifts into something out of a fever dream nightmare.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="11" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>11</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Eldritch Countermeasures:</span></b></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An organisation has been formed to counteract the incursion and threats posed by outsiders and strange powers. They act with a pragmatic ruthlessness and spare no quarter for any threat to the population as a whole. They will purge when able. They will secure, contain and protect when no other option is available.</span></p>
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<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="12" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Stars are Right:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Great
portents change and creatures of immense power stir. Their
motives are unknown but the population trembles in terror none the
less.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666" colspan="2" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Divine/Demonic</b></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#666666" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#666666" width="88%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="1" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Birth of A God:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
celestial movements or through the actions of those in the mortal
realms a new God is birthed.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
may be a blessed event or a calamitous birth leading to the deaths
of many. Regardless of the birth of this new being the power, The balance of the great beings is forever changed.</span></p>
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</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="2" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The Death of a God:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Surely
a god cannot be killed? It has happened regardless. </span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
ramifications will be far reaching to the god's faithful and
others.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
is also possible that the death of a god will have a physical or
metaphysical impact on the world.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>War in Heaven/Hell:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
conflict within the heavens or hells erupts. Perhaps between the
heavens and hells.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
is likely for this conflict to spill out between believers and it
is likely that artefacts of considerable power will fall to the
mortal realms.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Great
and powerful beings will beseech or even demand assistance from
mortals to aid in their conflict.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Invocation of an
Avatar:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
God or other great being walks the world of mortals in the shell
of a great avatar.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
is likely they are more vulnerable in this state but also this
naked display of divine power will be a boost to their faith.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Empowerment of a
Champion:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
god or other great being empowers one of their chosen with awesome
power. This champion will be tasked with a great deed, which if
completed will have deep and lasting impact.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Great Being
Establishes Domain:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
god or one of the other great beings establishes a domain in the
mortal world. This fundamentally upsets the balance of power
between nations and empires.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>A Humbling Truth:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
gods are not what they claim. With this truth uncovered many
being to question their right to claim moral judgement and divine
domain.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Blessed or Cursed
Land:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
the actions of a god or other great being the area becomes
permanently affected by a bless or curse. It is likely that this effect will in some way reflect the nature of the god.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Wrath of The Gods:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">One
or more of the gods have been angered by the actions on the mortal
world. They have chosen to smite the land with their anger
leaving dreadful devastation and woe in its wake.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Political Crisis in
The Heavens/Hells:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
immortal realms of the great beings are not without issues
themselves. Roll under Endogensis [political], this describes the
nature of the event in the heaven or hell.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>11</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Deus Ex Machina:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
machine have been created that will transform a mortal into a god.
If used this will permanently shift the celestial order. Maybe
for the better, maybe for the worse. </span>
</p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Celestial Demotion:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
god or other great being has lost their divine power and find them
selves stranded in the mortal world in a limited mundane body. It
goes without saying that if their identity was ever revealed they
would become a target for assassination and adoration.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666" colspan="2" valign="TOP" width="100%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Psionic
1D12</b></span></span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#666666" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Roll</b></span></span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#666666" width="88%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Description</b></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>1</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Memetic Plague:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
idea, one so pernicious that it buries deep into your mind and
influences your actions is spreading through the population. It
spread with unnatural ease and those exposed to it are acting
according to new strange motives.</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td sdnum="2057;" sdval="2" width="12%">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>2</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Cognito Hazard:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
could be a piece of music, a book, a structure or even painting.
Anyone who views this or copies of this suffer mental impairment
or alterations to their personality or motivations.</span></p>
</td>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>3</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>ID Monsters:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through
psionic engines used to provide an iduvidual's every wish ID monsters have
manifested. These creatures of the expression of the violent
thought of the subconscious. They are expressions of thought and
nigh on invincible and as long as active minds exist to perpetuate
their existence they will hunt.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>4</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Omniscient
Surveillance:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
state or other powerful actors have used tremendous psionic powers
to create a system of surveillance that can see all things at all
times.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In
the hands of a state this could be an excellent too for
supersession or spying.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>5</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Enslavement By Will:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Powerful
psionic users are enslaving others to their will. Their thralls
are little more than meat puppets who's every action is dictated
by their master.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>6</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Subtle Psionic
Manipulation:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
action of psionic actors controls and manipulates the political
and social fabric of the area.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Re-roll
Endogensis[Political or Societal] by these psychic manipulators
are behind the changes.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>7</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Hive Mind Emergence:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
single hive mind consciousness has emerged. It is made of
numerous individuals who act as a singular whole. It is a
formidable force and existing political factions are unsure how to
deal with it.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>8</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Hive Mind
Dissolution:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
once powerful hive mind made of numerous individuals suffered a
catastrophic break down. The links of shared consciousness are no
longer there and the individuals making up the whole now find
themselves singular and vulnerable. </span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The future of these people is highly uncertain.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>9</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Psychic Scream:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
equivalent of a psionic weapon of mass destruction and most
assuredly considered a war crime.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">All
of those suffering under the area of the psychic scream suffer
terribly or if not are killed outright. Consequences of it could
include:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Head
explosions due to the psychic pressure</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Instant
and irrevocable insanity</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Tearing
the fabric of reality to let in something from elsewhere</span></p>
</li><li><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hysterical
blindness</span></p>
</li></ol>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>10</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The emergence of a Super
Psion:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
individual of near godlike psionic power emerges. If they have
full control of their power they will be formidable and able to
bend the course of history in their favour. If they are unable to
deal with their power they may become mentally and metaphysically
unstable.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>11</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Plague of Psychic
Predators:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">These
predators from other worlds or hidden places are drawn in by the
psychic emission by powerful psions. They fall upon the
population devouring their intelligence. Leaving only husks in
their wake.</span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>12</b></span></p>
</td>
<td width="88%">
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Telepathic
Inheritance:</b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Telepathy
is expanding through the population. This intimate form of
communication is changing the nature of the population.</span></p>
</td>
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</tbody></table>
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</p>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-3681924793871894342021-08-16T09:02:00.006-07:002021-08-29T09:57:51.602-07:00Bringing Black Swans to The Table<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The reason I have always preferred being a GM over a player is the sheer scope of creative tools at my disposal. I get to craft a world and everything within it. When I got back into TTRPGs a few years back I started as a player and I had a blast, however, 5e just didn't enthrall me the way that old AD&D book I bought off a classified ad when I was a teenager. I was desperate to try something with more bite. And holy shit I discovered <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/148614/Fire-On-The-Velvet-Horizon" target="_blank">Fire on The Velvet Horizon</a> by the OSR power couple <a href="http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Patrick Stewart</a> and <a href="http://monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com/">Scrap Princess</a> and then a few months later I am rapidly running out of book space.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The OSR community seems to excel at creativity and that is why I love it. Weird and wonderful settings are my jam, so I want to help add to that. This topic may well stretch over a series of posts because it is a fantastically deep concept that I think can be applied to any RPG under the sun. What we will be looking at is a consideration of Black Swan Events and how we can consider it in your games.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Black Swan Events out of Context</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Black Swan Event is a term coined by Nassim Taleb in his book of the same name (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan">The Black Swan</a>). To describe simply it is an event that occurs that has a huge impact (physically, politically, economically, etc.), it comes as a surprise to those who observe it, and it is something that is rationalised in hindsight. It is perhaps better to consider the following examples:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Aztecs coming into contact with Europeans</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Black Death</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/11</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In each of these historical cases, the people of the time did not predict the horror that was about to occur, and when it happened the effect of the event was so huge it changed the course of the world. I think is the most important aspect of the Black Swan event is the out-of-context nature of what is happening. The people suffering under its effect have no way of understanding either the scale or nature of the change about to occur because of the out-of-wack nature of the event.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The late and very great author Iain (M) Banks had a similar take on these kinds of events, he referred to them as Outside Context Problems, in essence, a challenge faced by a group to which they have no contextual understanding. This is how he described it in his book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12013.Excession?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=q9b2A5dk9t&rank=2">Excession</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbours were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."</span></span></i></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">-Iain M. Banks, Excessions (1996)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A land beset by Black Swans</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hopefully, the concept makes more sense now. Basically, they are the big surprise occurrences in history</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"> upon which the axis of human civilsation shifts. They carry with them a myriad of complications, changes, and maybe even plot hooks.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">In my <a href="https://teasetofcivility.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-fist-full-of-post-apocolypse.html">previous post</a>, I described a series of post-apocalyptic settings, in each case the world been affected by a black swan event. The corpse of a god colliding with a planet like a meteorite, a terrible plague taking humanity to breathe away from extinction, and a world where unobserved regions of landmass simply disappear leaving nothing but the void of space.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">Black Swan events are a magnificent way to throw conflict, weirdness, and real peril into your campaign, and because it is RPGs are only limited to your imagination they can be as weird and as outlandish as you like. They don't have to be violent (though often the consequences of them lead to violence), they just have to usher in irresistible change. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">Here are a few examples of black swan events for "Generic Fantasy World"</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Sorcerer King just got murdered by a slave! Everyone thought that he was immortal, and well if he ain't immortal then his barons and guards are certainly not!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">A deligation of daemons has appeared at the outskirts of the city. They want a formal end to hostilities. It turns out there was a massive revolution in hell and they overthrew the Overfiend and have instituted some kind of democracy!</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">The sun has gained sentience and is now demanding daily sacrifices. Wherever its light goes it sees, and like some mad dictator, it NEEDS to be loved at all times. Only on the nights when no moon is in the sky do people party.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">Unbeknownst to the world above for the last 50 years, the Morlocks had been hollowing out the earth underneath the greatest cities of the world. Then on one fateful day in unison, they kicked out all of the supports, and all of these cities, their governments, and royalty fell into sinkholes of awesome size. The survivors were immediately set upon by the morlock troops who are now intent on enslaving the surface.</span></span></li></ul><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ways to use Black Swan Events</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The way I see it there are a few ways to implement black swan events:</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">They are great historical events that add a bit of flavor to your setting's history. You would only need a few to give a sense of a living breathing world with a sense of dynamic history and change.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Throw one into an existing campaign. It will radically shake up the world and everything within it.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">They can provide the backdrop for a setting. The main high concept feature upon which you build your game world around.</span></li></ol><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Next post I will be attempting the first stage of the implementation of a black swan generator. I think I am gonna call it the M.E.G. The Massive Event Generator. I like the ring of that!</span></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><p></p><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-61020819732657609562021-08-08T15:24:00.006-07:002021-08-29T09:38:07.014-07:00A Fist full of Post Apocolypse<p> I freaking love post-apocalyptic settings. A good high concept setting for a campaign is like good science fiction, it will ask questions about how humans will change when faced with a fundamentally different experience of life.</p><p>Also if you have a post-apocalyptic setting you no longer need to come up with any justifications for why there are so many dungeons populating the world. They exist because they are as much a part of the environment as mountains and forests.</p><p>Below I present to you a number of post-apocalyptic settings that have been bouncing around my brain for a while. Some are readily inspired by other works others just came to me while swiping right while on the loo!</p><p><b><u>The Godfall</u></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5w2RrJvIvYt810wDO_-OdwEWV2bmnX-N8LliN0aenc61KQilg76lvrpOmWnVAsq9cAyccHMHRXQBchIyTZsDYKkyfFDnuqGq3SbH9NbWigWfR6Yf3hCyeElEfDPjRHBI38SeKHQtk_RhJ/s1024/6380468209_ae0e4fc7d4_b.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5w2RrJvIvYt810wDO_-OdwEWV2bmnX-N8LliN0aenc61KQilg76lvrpOmWnVAsq9cAyccHMHRXQBchIyTZsDYKkyfFDnuqGq3SbH9NbWigWfR6Yf3hCyeElEfDPjRHBI38SeKHQtk_RhJ/w400-h225/6380468209_ae0e4fc7d4_b.jpg" width="400" /></a><b></b></div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Countless generations ago God fell to earth. At least it was assumed to be God (or at least a god). It hurtled through space and smashed into the planet creating an unbridled extinction event.</li><li>The impact created earthquakes and tsunamis on an unprecedented scale. The dust from the impact shot into the stratosphere darkening the skies. Civilization was snuffed out.</li><li>The corpse of God now rests in a vast crater/fault in the planet that runs almost completely from pole to pole.</li><li>The body of God is rotting, the juices of its decay are seeping through the rocks and soil alike. All things touched by the rot mutate into new forms. Occasionally these are benign or even beneficial but all too often they are dangerous and horrific.</li><li>Around the crater (the so-called Godfall) are the Faultlands. An area that saw the worst of the tectonic upheaval. It is full of faultlines, mountains chains, deep jungles, and volcanoes.</li><li>The Faultlands are heavily under the influence of God's rot, the creatures here are changed and dangerous.</li><li>A stoic few decide to make a pilgrimage to the Godfall so that they may mourn the death of God and view its corpse.</li></ul><p></p><p><b><u>The Overgrown City</u></b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBK-o-pzoFtPfx7XD60iC9Z_fMFVeRUcANar4rDECC1PJ8k26J-WD0dMUnDFqfHtfsrW1eL6bJEvfca-KgWjq1VOOkgLeKoAJxWmHtZe7NirljvkmQapybyNlGqzLvyxz1WpUsvE2y650T/s1920/MRthZOzai9C-28PtDJGJIHOEIG7sYhrg8VhAwyGrrsc.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBK-o-pzoFtPfx7XD60iC9Z_fMFVeRUcANar4rDECC1PJ8k26J-WD0dMUnDFqfHtfsrW1eL6bJEvfca-KgWjq1VOOkgLeKoAJxWmHtZe7NirljvkmQapybyNlGqzLvyxz1WpUsvE2y650T/w400-h226/MRthZOzai9C-28PtDJGJIHOEIG7sYhrg8VhAwyGrrsc.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The lost generations of the past had such ambition. They built THE CITY, the only city, a city that covered every last square meter of the world. The generations past lived in peace and richness until the Great Dying happened. This is a mysterious event that is only remembered through oral histories. The stories speak of a terrible plague from the sky, people dying in the billions and some speak of creatures crawling out of the corpses of the dead and dying.</li><li>The city has lain abandoned for uncountable generations, and like all abandoned cities nature reclaims it. Atop the ruins of the old world is The Green an endless rainforest that carpets the world. The world is verdant with life, even the dark streets below the trees. The life that has evolved in The Green is caught in a hyper-aggressive evolutionally arms race (almost by design it seems). These creatures are dangerous and often immiscible with human existence.</li><li>Humanity was a micron away from extinction and yet against the odds through the years the survivors clung on. They have reclaimed a corner of the city, and their numbers grow but The Green around them threatens to always swallow them whole.</li><li>Archonaughts, hunters, and explorers step into The Green to plunder it for past riches or the bounties of the things that dwell in canopy, root, and branch.</li></ul><p><b><u>The Unobserved World</u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4bt2LQbBklxXqiCQ19MJjlZAKoYWaoqBt4r79ruDYbroX93Wxo9GpCT82OL5fhcKigFhqcULWgnE1Q5NxzhpHAxH79gAYQ24wiIcvDcPZgICtJmzO9o49qMxcTMYtselWagi5arBzLAaD/s728/float-island-man-human-wallpaper-preview.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="728" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4bt2LQbBklxXqiCQ19MJjlZAKoYWaoqBt4r79ruDYbroX93Wxo9GpCT82OL5fhcKigFhqcULWgnE1Q5NxzhpHAxH79gAYQ24wiIcvDcPZgICtJmzO9o49qMxcTMYtselWagi5arBzLAaD/w400-h225/float-island-man-human-wallpaper-preview.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>This one makes sense if we assumed the world is flat.</li><li>The apocalypse has been a slow burn, but it has also been utterly devastating to the civilizations of the world. It all began when a mountain in the wilderness just disappeared. In its place was a vast hole in the world that cut all the way down to the endless void of space.</li><li>This pattern repeated with increasing frequency. Entire chunks of land would vanish leaving only a hole in reality. However, there was always one curious common factor. No one saw what happened. The land that disappeared was always unseen and uninhabited.</li><li>The results were devastating entire oceans drained away, forests and farmland lost their topsoil and slowly much of the world was eroded down to the bedrock. As a result, civilization collapsed.</li><li>A few bastions of once-mighty empires hold on. In this strange pockmarked landscape. Each guards their agriculture fiercely and bizarre ritual magic seeks to give mages omniscient sight so that no more of the world can vanish unseen.</li></ul><div><br /></div><p></p></div>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-28824361891110532782021-08-05T15:43:00.007-07:002021-08-05T15:43:57.240-07:00Build a Golem<p style="text-align: left;"> Magic-users are mad bastards right? But they are bloody good to have on your side, they dominate your enemies, chuck fireballs at giants, and unleash the occasional cloud kill. Magnificent stuff. Unfortunately, they ain't much good in a scrap, a few swift kicks to the gonads and that's it, they're done. Many magic-users have found the best solution to this problem is to get some mug to fight for them. The most basic form of this is finding some dull-witted fighter-type called Grod, or whatever to act as their smiting machine. Others summon their own help or bewitch the minds of others to murder their former friends, magic-users are a canny sort. </p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are a few however that feel that even this is not enough and so they lower themselves to pseudo-engineering and make their very own an unstoppable killing machine. A golem. These things at heart are a lump of something material int to some a humanoid-like shape that is animated through arcane know-how and follows the master's instructions to the letter.</p><p style="text-align: left;">To build one of these death machines a magic-user will need:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">A place to make their golem</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The Right Tools</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Sufficient amounts of the material required</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Loadsamoney!</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: left;">Let's do this like a build-a-bear, where we make our golem in a modular fashion. We are also going to do it so that the magic-user can build a golem at any level, they just need access to the materials and know-how.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>
<u>Step 1 Determining Hit Dice:</u>
</b>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">Ultimately choose a method that works for your campaign but here are some suggestions based on how murderous you will allow it to be:</div>
<div>
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Reasonably Murderous: </b> The maximum hit die of the golem is calculated as half the level of the magic-user. The hit die maximum is also increased by 1 for each INT modifier. However, this total may never exceed the level of the magic-user.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Pretty Damn Murderous: </b> The maximum hit die of the golem is calculated as the same level as the magic-user. The hit die maximum is also increased by 1 for each INT modifier. However, this total may never exceed twice the level of the magic-user.</li>
<li><span><b>Unreasonably Murderous</b></span><b>: </b><span> </span><span>The maximum hit die of the golem is calculated as twice the level of the magic-user. The hit die maximum is also increased by 1 for each INT modifier. </span></li>
</ol>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><u>Step 2 Determining Hit Points and Base Cost:</u></b>
</div>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<colgroup><col width="311"></col>
<col width="311"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="2" valign="TOP" width="631">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Hit Dice</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="311">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Hit Dice Value</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="311">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Cost per hit dice (gp)</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">1D4</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">500</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">1D6</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">750</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">1D8</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">1000</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">1D10</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">2000</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><br />
</b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Step 3 Golem Material:</u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The material you choose to make your golem out of will affect the cost per hit die, for example:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>2 hit die (at 1D4 hit points each)</li><li>made of flesh</li><li>(500 - 100) x 2 = 800gp</li></ul></div>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<colgroup><col width="311"></col>
<col width="152"></col>
<col width="151"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="631">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Material</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="311">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Material</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="152">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Armour Class (AC)</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="151">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Cost per hit dice (gp)</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Flesh</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">12</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">-100</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Wood</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">13</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">-75</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Bone/Clay</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">14</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">-50</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Stone</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">15</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">0</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Soft Metals</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">16</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">+100</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Hard Metals</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">17</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">+250</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Crytal/Mystical Alloys</p>
</td>
<td width="152">
<p align="CENTER">18</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">+500</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Step 4 Form and Function:</u></b>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Where it says cost in hit dice it simply means to take that form you need to lose one of your hit dice. The cost however still stays the same.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<colgroup><col width="237"></col>
<col width="226"></col>
<col width="151"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="631">
<p align="CENTER"><b><span style="color: white;">Form</span></b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="237">
<p align="CENTER"><b><span style="color: white;">Body plan</span></b></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="226">
<p align="CENTER"><b><span style="color: white;">Ability</span></b></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="151">
<p align="CENTER"><b><span style="color: white;">Cost in hit dice</span></b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="237">
<p align="CENTER">Humanoid</p>
</td>
<td width="226">
<p align="CENTER">Can carry weapons/shield.</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">0HD</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="237">
<p align="CENTER">Beast-like</p>
</td>
<td width="226">
<p align="CENTER">+20% land speed.</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">0HD</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="237">
<p align="CENTER">Serpent-like</p>
</td>
<td width="226">
<p align="CENTER">+1 to grapple</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">0HD</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="237">
<p align="CENTER">Eldritch</p>
</td>
<td width="226">
<p align="CENTER">Flight (speed 20ft)</p>
</td>
<td width="151">
<p align="CENTER">-1HD</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><br />
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<colgroup><col width="311"></col>
<col width="311"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="2" valign="TOP" width="631">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Function</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="311">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Role</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="311">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Modifications</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Melee</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">+1 Attack Bonus (melee) per hit dice</p>
<p align="CENTER">+1 Attack Bonus (ranged)</p>
<p align="CENTER">5 Inventory Slots</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Ranged</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">+1 Attack Bonus (melee)</p>
<p align="CENTER">+1 Attack Bonus (ranged) per hit dice</p>
<p align="CENTER">5 Inventory Slots.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">Labour</p>
</td>
<td width="311">
<p align="CENTER">+1 Attack Bonus (melee)</p>
<p align="CENTER">+1 Attack Bonus (ranged)</p>
<p align="CENTER">15 Inventory Slots</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Step 5 Special Abilities:</u></b>
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now it's time to give your golem a bit of flavor! Feel free to add any kind of ideas to augment it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Where it says +1 hit dice as a cost that means you gain an additional hit dice for your golem! Exciting stuff! Despite getting extra hit dice from this table you still pay the original cost!</div>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<colgroup><col width="169"></col>
<col width="286"></col>
<col width="160"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="3" valign="TOP" width="631">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Abilities and Weaknesses</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="169">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Modification</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="286">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Description</span></p>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000000" width="160">
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: white;">Cost in Hit Dice</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Brittle</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">-1AC</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">+ 1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Weakness to X</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">Takes double damage from one of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><p align="CENTER">elemental damage (one type)</p>
</li><li><p align="CENTER">Sharp</p>
</li><li><p align="CENTER">Blunt</p>
</li></ul>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">+ 1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Arcane Metabolism</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">Requires a number of spell levels equal to the
golem's hit dice expended by the magic-user to power the golem for
24 hours.</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">+ 1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Structural Flaws</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">Any critical hit against the golem automatically
stuns it for 1D3 +1 rounds.</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">+ 1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Shoddy Arcane Insulation</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">If affected by a dispelling affect the golem must
save Vs magic or become inert for 1 turn.</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">+ 1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Prismatic Lens</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">The golem gains a ranged attack which fires a beam
of energy out of the prismatic lens.</p>
<p align="CENTER">Range:30ft</p>
<p align="CENTER">Damage: 1d6 (choose the type)</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">-1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Disruptive Attacks</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">When struck by the golem's melee or ranged attacks
the target must save Vs. paralysis or be stunned for 1 round.</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">-1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Obscene Strength</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">Can use a two-handed weapon in one hand.</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">-1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Toxic Gas</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">Once per day per 3 hit dice.</p>
<p align="CENTER">The golem releases toxic gas from its body.
Everyone within 10ft must save Vs. poison or suffer 1D6 poison
damage. In addition they will suffer a -1 to ALL rolls. Lasts
1D6 +1 rounds.</p>
<p align="CENTER">Does stack with itself.</p>
</td>
<td width="160">
<p align="CENTER">-1 Hit Dice</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="169">
<p align="CENTER">Resistance to X</p>
</td>
<td width="286">
<p align="CENTER">Takes half damage from one of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><p align="CENTER">elemental damage (one type)</p>
</li><li><p align="CENTER">Sharp</p>
</li><li><p align="CENTER">Blunt</p>
</li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>A Worked Example:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Zog the magnificent is a bit broke so he's gonna try and get as stompy a golem as possible for as cheap as possible.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>4 hit dice (of D6) at 750gp a hit dice.</li><li>Made out of bone reducing the price per hit dice by 50 per hit dice.</li><li>4 x 700 = 2,800Gp in total.</li><li>He is going to have it in humanoid form and make it a melee golem.</li><li>To give his golem a bit more hit points he chooses to give his golem a weakness to water and cut some corners, which leads to shoddy arcane insulation.</li></ul><div>The result is as below:</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Zog's Bone Golem</b></div><div>AC: 14</div><div>HD: 6</div><div>HP: 18</div><div>Damage: By weapon type</div><div>Notes:</div><div>Has a weakness to the water (x2 damage from water-based attacks. Suffers x2 the of any non-beneficial water-based spell/ability).</div><div>If subject to any kind of dispelling effect it is stunned for 1D3 + 1 rounds.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><p></p>
Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295950954716612117.post-20921277721883542082021-08-04T14:20:00.002-07:002021-08-05T01:09:22.525-07:00The Tea Set of Civility<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6KF2UJyHddgUMmbSy1AjHUfe8b8zn2QSS2Q-wzgpE4jru3EdWo2KXzl15tMB3MN7yhZHD2q78L5atfr6qXfz_8J_kbIuaWx4CEIfRBAw8ocNTEowdonIDX6Dl92TWCqe9M5JalDhzZK8/s700/556ce3f4-850b-46a7-a36e-66ab3745add4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="700" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6KF2UJyHddgUMmbSy1AjHUfe8b8zn2QSS2Q-wzgpE4jru3EdWo2KXzl15tMB3MN7yhZHD2q78L5atfr6qXfz_8J_kbIuaWx4CEIfRBAw8ocNTEowdonIDX6Dl92TWCqe9M5JalDhzZK8/w400-h228/556ce3f4-850b-46a7-a36e-66ab3745add4.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Good day most lovely reader.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Why not start off with my namesake. The Tea-Set of Civility is an artefact of considerable power. It was commissioned by some Littlefinger type who was fed up of having his devious plots ruined by stab happy nobles killing each other at his dinner parties. A good conspiracy requires time and conversation, so if the people at your tea party are too busy murdering each other how can you effectively manipulate them?</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The rules of The Tea-Set of Civility are quite simple. When you are holding a formal tea party with guests the arcane aura of the tea set makes it impossible for you to be violent towards other guests. You may hate the dude at the other end of the table with an all-consuming passion, they may have murdered your parents and left you with a tragic back story, or they may have even killed your dog. No matter what you do you cannot raise a fist, sword, poison or even a cheese twist against them. However, you can plot and scheme to your heart's content.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No one is quite sure how the tea-set does this but its power always works and no one has found a workaround yet. However, there is a caveat. Gatecrashers and other non-guests do not enjoy the same protection. So going near one of these tea parties is a <b>VERY DANGEROUS</b> endeavour.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This makes the tea-set highly abusable.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Tea-Set of Civility is a highly sought after artefact by monarchs, diplomats and inquisitors alike. Therefore it fetches a highly inflated price compared to other artefacts of similar power.</span></p>Civil Tea Sethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352986780542307503noreply@blogger.com0