This Week at a Character For Every Game

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Another week already past - mixed in with my regular posting are the following items of interest to Labyrinth Lord & Mutant Future games:

• Mitral Spheres - Stolen in style from the orb above the head of the techno pope (leader of the Church of Industrial Saints in the Jodoverse), these orbs are somewhat akin to ioun stones on steroids.
• Random Harlots! - just the one encounter scanned from the old 1e DMG because of my current obsession with random tables.
• Oily Rocks - real world inspiration for a Mutant Future city on the edge.
• Atarin's Delve - a one-level dungeon suited for level four characters.

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Big week at A Character For Every Game!

• Dyson's Dodecahedron Issue 1 - My first 12-page old-school zine aimed at B/X D&D and Labyrinth Lord.
• Uniquely Undead - Abilities to replace (or to add to!) the level draining powers of wights, wraiths, spectres and vampires. With an open call for more ideas, please!
• The Goblin Empire Has Arrived - Write up for my character and empire in the Hill Cantons dominion-level Labyrinth Lord campaign.
• Random Banners & Standards - Why let the Roman Legions have a monopoly on military standards? My cleric carries one into battle, why don't you?
• Peridane's Tomb - A crypt/tomb map that can be used for any exploration of dead families - those of your enemies, friends or even your own.

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Another week already?

• Weapons are cosmetic - My house rules for weapon damage based on class.
• A bunch of Geomorph posts for Dave Millar's mapper.
• Random Racial Subtypes - Fair Halflings, Dark Gnomes, and Weird Mountain Elves, oh my!
• The Lost Crypts - a map of an old crypt deep underground.

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Another week, and a tragedy for me - my hard drive AND backup drive both got blown out somehow last night during a routine backup. So Dodecahedron 2 will be delayed a bit.

But this week we did get some cool old-school stuff out... and a LOT of mapping goodness (3 maps in one week? Madness!)

• Geomorph Madness! (seriously, you have to say it like Ren Hoek saying "Space Madness!") - a photo of over 250 geomorphs put together into one megadungeon to end them all!
• Dungeon Creation Game - A map and a link to the game elf23 started on these very forums!
• The Zombie Cabs of Parrain - A bit of flavour material from my D&D campaign setting - giant undead ogres as taxis.
• One Hour Dungeon Map - One of my best maps. In only an hour!
• Random Thursday - Brigands, Bandits & Highwaymen - a d12 table to add a bit of spice to the Bandits wandering monster entry.
• Friday Map - The Great Underground - A map of a huge underground complex - or a series of complexes linked in various ways.

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Work is killing me this week, but another week of updates occurred anyways - not all are old-school relevant of course, but here's the ones that were:

• This is Dice Country - another blog making awesome geomorphs.
• CyberCrabZilla! - a Mutant Future monster
• I'm a Man-Eating Carp! - a cartoon scanned in the early 80's from Heavy Metal magazine about Dungeons & Dragons.
• Random Thursday: Potion Containers - give potions some pizazz with random potion containing things.
• Friday Map: The Lizard Cairn - a small dungeon that I used as a sidequest.

I also made some new geomorphs for Dave's Awesome Geomorphic Mapping Machine.

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Another week already?

• Dyson's Dodecahedron Issue 2 - the second issue of my B/X D&D Zine.
• The City of Flowers - a city from my campaign originally drawn from the pages of Heavy Metal magazine.
• The Expanding Frontier - Join the Galactic Legions! Play Star Frontiers!
• The Undead Guardians of Veroth - Uber-wights created using the Uniquely Undead article posted last month.
• Random Thursday - The City of Beggars - Random beggars!
• Friday Map - The Grand Ruins - The Keep - The first section of "the Grand Ruins" mapped from a recent LL/AEC campaign.

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And another Friday is upon us. This week in old-school posting over on my blog we have:

• Friday Map - The Grand Ruins - Fortress East - Three level maps from my Grand Ruins mini-campaign.
• Random Thursday - Party Time! - Showing up on the eve of a major festival is a common fantasy story trope. Find out what the party is about with this random table.

The majority of this week was spent exploring the possibility of using the Crafts from Gazetteer 3 - The Principalities of Glantri as a sweet and simple old-school way of handling "Prestige Classes"

• Old School Glantri-Style Prestige Classes - Where I discuss the basic mechanics and simplify them from the ones presented in the Gazetteer.
• StoneLords - Dwarves who become as one with the earth.
• Hierophant - Clerics of entire pantheons of gods.
• Dark Assassin - Thieves who master murder and a bit of magic.
• Justicar - Fighters who seek justice in all things.

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Another all-old-school week this week!

• PocketMod Labyrinth Lord Character Sheet - I love pocketmods and I love B/X D&D and Labyrinth Lord. Two great tastes that taste great together!
• Reskinning Your Magic User - quick look at how to make every Magic User unique without introducing new subclasses or spell lists.
• Encased IPS Armour - very light police power armour for Mutant Future
• Random Randomness - a random table of random tables from around the blogosphere.
• Map - Ruins of the Gorgon - A timed map creation experiment ending with a gorgeous old-school map.
• Map - The Sunken Caverns of Greth - a one hour map, to compare with the two hour ruins of the gorgon.
• Map - The Sorcerer's Tower - our second-last stop in the explorations of the Grand Ruins mini-campaign I ran.

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This week was spent more in reflection than in my usual house rules, maps and monsters.

• Random Curses - Four d12 tables of curse effects from the most trivial to the true brutality of failing all future saves.
• MAP - The Grand Ruins - Interior Structures - our last adventure into the Grand Ruins

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It's my birthday!

Well, it's my blog's birthday at least.

In addition to this week's post of two characters from the new edition of D&D Gamma World, and talking about how it's my blog birthday here (along with a random table of things to do to celebrate the blogiversary), and then having a two year retrospective here, I made a few old-school relevant posts:

• The Granite Mount - a location that shows up pretty much at least once per campaign in my D&D games, it's my game world's equivalent of good old Weathertop.
• Simple Carnage Upgrades - a pair of optional rules to make combat more dangerous in Star Frontiers. We used one in our last campaign and will be trying the second in our next one (starting soon).
• Labyrinth Lord Monster Cards - a project to compile LL monsters on to business cards that I started and then lost two months ago, now restarted. This is just the first page - basically a proof-of-concept. More pages will come soon.
• Stag Centaurs - a new monster for Labyrinth Lord, linked to the Wood Elementals that I posted back October-ish.
• MAP - The Ancient Temple of Torrel - a three-level map of a ruined dungeon with a split second level.