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Quick Draws, vol. 1: Town & City, a New TTRPG Product

Quick Draws, vol. 1: Town & City, a New TTRPG Product Add some extra depth to characters and fun to your session with these mini-encounters. Great for role-play warm up and for adding interest to downtime, Quick Draws help your world feel more alive.

I’m really happy to announce that I’ve posted a new product to DriveThruRPG, Quick Draws vol. 1: Town & City. It’s a supplement designed to provide random, brief role playing vignettes as asides, warm-ups, or even session ideas. You can draw from a standard deck of cards & look up the result, or print cards to draw directly, with the PDF. Built to work natively with 5e, the situations are easily…

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Kretch, the Dogfort, the Iron Fortress

Kretch, the Dogfort, the Iron Fortress. Maps for your TTRPG. #DnD #RPG

I put these maps together for a campaign I’m playing (having a blast) in. They’re entirely built in Pixelmator, with the exception of a couple free parchment/old paper images I layered together for the background, and a repeating hatching design I borrowed from @neoproxy in a blog post he wrote back in 2016. (Thanks, Stan.)

The concept behind Kretch is that the bones of the place—walls, towers,…

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Up Next: Tales of the Mythic Age

Up Next: Tales of the Mythic Age What's been going on lately; what's coming up next.

After a small hiatus, I’ve been thinking about the next portion of the cosmology/mythology of Loraedor. I had some of these planned out already, but after recently reading Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, well, I was hungry to pick things back up.

That being said, it’s a fairly ambitious undertaking.

The myth cycle I’m planning now focuses around the first things that happened after the world was…

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Religious Uncertainty and Minor Powers

Religious Uncertainty and Minor Powers: How religion works in Loraedor

Religion in Loraedor is a bit off-book.

Although the Major Powershave been presented as absolutes, the truth is that no one alive knows for certain that they even exist. Yes, churches and cults venerating their names exist, and devotees are granted holy powers by praying to them, but the gods themselves do not walk incarnate. Indeed, the Major Powers’ voices are better characterized as urges and…

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Deities of Loraedor

Some of the crunch behind the fluff, now that all 14 Deities are posted.

Deity Types

Each deity falls into one of three categories. The eldest are the four Elemental deities, born it is said by the world tree Verylg as time itself began. The Celestial deities are next, those that watched as the world was cast but took on form to experience it firsthand and hang the constellations in its sky. Terrestrial deities are the final group, and are a catchall of sorts for…

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Xantea

"In stillness lies the safety of wisdom."

Although Peace is Xantea’s primary sphere, she is, perhaps, best known by her oracular gifts to her chosen. These special few often do not offer prophesy, but instead untangle the immediate, offering guidance for this day. Although slow to act, Xantean clergy are very swift to react in defense of one of their charges, and her paladins are reckoned among the fiercest of all religious orders in…

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Toreg

"By cut, rend, or wrack, the end is always dark."

There are some who curse the name of Toreg when they are hurt, decrying the pain she sends, but most prefer to never speak of her at all, knowing all too well that pain can always increase. She is also said to know the darkest secrets written upon each heart, and many fear the pain those could cause should she loose them.

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Sylac

The Burning Weave, The Flame of Thought's Eternal Light

Sylac’s adherents burn, whether with magic, knowledge, or literal fire. They tend to voraciousness in their appetites for learning rather than pyromania, but there have been a notable few who “grew too fond of the flame.” One of Sylac’s key tenets is not only the consumption, but also the dissemination of knowledge to all willing to receive.

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Roleplaying With (Little) Kids

Roleplaying With (Little) Kids - A simple mechanic I'm using for playing a silly little (super awesome fun) RPG with my kids.

Recently I started up a little role-playing game with my kids and wife. My daughter (who will often wander in after bedtime to illicitly greet my gaming friends on the computer screen) not long ago wanted to know if I’d play one of my games with her.

So I figured that meant that it was Time.

The two of us have played some storytelling card games together, and I’ve encouraged both the kids to…

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Rema

"From others abundance flows."

The font of love, the muse of artists, and the steady guide of tradesmen, Rema may be the most regularly called upon of the deities. Her blessing lies upon all marriages entered with love, all goods skillfully crafted, and all art created in earnest. She frowns upon the flighty and inconstant, but smiles upon the steadfast and devoted.

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Mephas

"A friend's dagger lies closest to its mark."

Mephas is shunned by all but the most evil. Unacceptable in all civilized lands, any cult activity based on the worship of Mephas must be utterly secretive or immediately stamped out either by local authorities or mobs of angry commoners.

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Losidor

"Compulsion, Construction, or Charm."

The great lord who rules not for glory but for the simple sake of order itself, Losidor is the father of law. According to his doctrine, all things that exist have destined ends, and he works to ensure that fickle fortune cannot foul his regimen. Adherents are without exception rigid and inflexible, reacting poorly to surprises and the unpredictable. The do not concern themselves with notions of…

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Levyse

"A watched hare bolts when you blink."

The least predictable (and some would say least dependable) of the major deities is Levyse. She hates chains of all kinds, both physical and figurative, and her followers share this contempt. Most folk call upon Levyse only when all other channels have been closed—she is the final resort of the desperate. However, there is no denying that her clergy seem to enjoy preternatural luck.

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Githder

The Sky Above, Storm Father

Githder rules the skies, and its faithful love most the the storm. The few established temples and holy places dedicated to the worship of Githder are always in high places, and are often in regions known for their violent weather. Most of Githder’s followers rejoice as the chaos of spring storms returns and languish in the dry, still summer. However, there are those who use their worship of…

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Feicred

"Truth is ever the sharpest edge."

Only in her aspect of truth is Feicred openly invoked, and even then it is exceedingly rare, as the truth Feicred brings is nearly without exception accompanied by destruction. That destruction is core to some secret cults’ worship of this terrible deity, as they sow hate for the world and all who dwell within it. The physical destruction caused by natural disaster is rarely attributed to…

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Erucei

The Great Epoch of Stone, The Dim Turning

The great keeper of time and the master of stone, Erucei is perhaps the most esoteric of all the major powers. In his aspect of death he is mostly viewed as inscrutably inevitable, rather than inherently malevolent or frightening. Masons and stonecutters are closely associated with this deity, as are well-maintained graveyards and tombs. (more…)

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Deskir

"Mastery ascendant!"

Generally the only publicly tolerated clergy of any new-moon deity, priests of Deskir are often sought in desperation during the dark of the moon when the full-moon deities are at their weakest. Whether asking for strength for the hunt or strength for a coming battle, the undercurrent in all things for supplicants to Deskir is strength. (more…)

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