Having a patron can give a character benefits and abilities otherwise not available. Having a patron also has drawbacks. First, all patrons have goals and objectives. A vassal is expected to work toward these goals and objectives; working against them can reduce a patron’s favor and lead to other problems. …
Chalekan is the slow heartbeat of the earth itself, lost in her own mind as it wanders the world. When summoned, the ground under her sigil collapses in a sinkhole and her voice echoes from below. This summoning can be done anywhere, but is done with advantage if on natural, …
Barakhareesh is the ocean storm, capricious and unpredictable. When summoned, his sigil shimmers and tosses like waves in a tempest, and his lean, serpentine form appears above his sigil, twisting and tossing as a ribbon in extreme winds. His voice is the howl of the gale. This summoning can be …
Engineer, musician, warrior… Aelliena became all of these not through inherent talent, but sheer stubborn will to succeed. She is the patroness of all who refuse to give in to failure. She is driven by the need to improve herself, to find elegance (the combination of beauty and utility together), …
I’ve come to quite enjoy the AGE (Adventure Game Engine) System from Green Ronin. For a longer time, I’ve been interested in random encounter tables. This point combines them, after a fashion. When rolling checks in AGE System, you roll 3d6. Two six-sided dice share a color, the third die …
A couple days late, for which I apologize. I hadn’t realized just how much losing three of my senior staff — my two peers to retirement, our (former) director to a reassignment — would take out of me. Regardless, time for the round up. I led the charge with a …
Traps are a classic element of adventure design, but in play are often abstracted away with a couple of skill checks (one to detect the trap, one to disarm it) or outmaneuvered by clever play. Either way, the trap construction system presented in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is more “mechanically sophisticated’ (i.e. …
The PCs in the AGE of Rediscovery campaign are, at this point, all from Bandisal. Considering that they will likely be discovering lost temples to strange gods, I should probably have some idea of what ‘normal gods’ look like to them. The Bandisal culture came out of the Age of Upheaval, …
The setting of the AGE of Rediscovery campaign is entirely rooted in divine worldbuilding. Literally so, in fact. The gods all got together to build the prime plane as a place to hide from amorphia, the realm of seething chaos that their own haphazardly-built realm was constructed in. An amorphic …
After six and a half years, the RPG Blog Carnival returns. The topic of the January 2019 carnival is ‘Divine Worldbuilding’. Does this mean “how the gods build the world”? Does this mean “how to build the worlds of the gods”? Does this mean “how to gods and world building …
