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COLLECTOR: OLD SCRIMSHAW

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  COLLECTOR: OLD SCRIMSHAW The heavy, ornate doors close behind you, and the ruckus of the tavern below at once grows distant. Her Serene Tidings was once the pride of a royal armada. Today, like the crown she served, she’s broken. Since your grandfather’s youth, she’s lain, scuttled, in the harbor, her listing decks and berths now hosting city’s most infamous and beloved alehouse.  Yet here, for the first time, you can see the ghosts of her past glory--in the faded frescos above, the peeling gilt along the mantle. It makes the ghoulish collection around you all the more macabre. Shrunken heads leer down, hanging from the rafters like strings of garlic. The floor is a collage of exotic pelts of every size, and every flat surface of the grand cabin is occupied with some manner of trophy—eyes and organs floating in jars, wizened hands pinned to boards, and—overwhelmingly—everywhere, bones. Jawbones, ivory, teeth, skulls; all shapes and sizes. Carved into them, you see intricate...
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20 Magic Swords

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     Last month in the GLOG discord, we had a community drive to write up 100 magic swords. I got pretty into it! Some are items lifted from old campaigns, some were written for adventures yet to be run, and many are brand-new. I've prettied them up and added two that didn't make the cut to make a round 20, in case you needed to roll a D20 for a magic sword.        1.  Bellringer, a massive +3 silvered adamant greatsword . Appears unimpressive, with a uniform patina of dull tarnished silver--until it is lifted in battle, where the tarnish clears like clouds to reveal a blazing silver light. As holy avenger , but includes tyrants and slavers in its portfolio of favored foes, alongside fiends and undead. Sheds bright light as torch. Severs chains and other implements of bondage without resistance, strikes with the sound of a great pealing bell.      Forged on commission for a famous republican paladin, whose severed oath-finger w...
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GLOG Class: Brave Mouse

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  Class: Brave Mouse You are a brave little mouse. You are very small but your heart is very large. A GLOG class.    Credit: Nicholas Kole Reroll your Dexterity and take the highest. +1 to-hit and save per template. COURAGE . Equipment: Enchanted sewing-kit (rosewood spool, golden thread, silver needles [6]); a red-ribbon sash, an acorn-flask filled with one moon drop (heals 1), thimble bucket-helm (slots for ears), strike-anywhere matches [3], razor-sword with twine-wrapped hilt [1d1].   Proficient in acrobatics, climbing and swimming, sneaking, earnest poetry.  A: Brave Mouse; Twinkle, Twinkle B: Star Light, Star Bright; Bravado; +1 attack & COURAGE C: Straight On Till Morning; That Daring Young Mouse (On The Flying Trapeze) D: Knight of Falling Stars; +1 attack & COURAGE A. Brave Mouse: You are a talking mouse, with mostly everything that entails. You are 2-to-4 inches tall, or about half the size of an average rat. You walk on two legs, bu...
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Good Morning!

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Good morning! I'm not a fan of cold opens, and so I wanted to make a small introduction to this blog before diving in. My name is Nick, I'm 32, and I've been playing TTRPGs since the late 2000s. This is primarily a place for me to post my game design concepts, but I reserve the right to divert into personal philosophy or recipes at my own discretion. Thanks for stopping by! 
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