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Twisting Racial Profiles...

Note: This post was revised on the 29 June 09. One thing I've always had a love/hate relationship with regarding fantasy rpg's is the whole Racial profile thing. Especially the half-whatevers. The idea...

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Dixie Adventures

An idea I've been toying with for some time came when I first saw EGYPTIAN ADVENTURES: HAMUNAPTRA from Green Ronin for the 3.whatever D20 system. A little while after that I'd seen AFRICAN ADVENTURES:...

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Sauria

Okay, a while back I finished up running Midnight Circus for the old world of Darkness system. A fun but complicated sub-setting in that it uses EVERY old world of Darkness setting (bar late commers...

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Apparently, I'm a Barbarian... "Nic what is greatest in life?"

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System Neutral

Basically the idea is to write something that’s applicable for ANY RPG system without writing something that’s a universal system. Now, this system won't be used to make characters or detail combat....

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How the Dragon got his Dragonborn

Was thinking today about Sauria today... Or more specifically; 'how do the Dragons get their Dragonborn?'... Well, here's how!The Birth of a DragonThe number of eggs produced by any one Dragon varies,...

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2 new tidbits of Saurian background

What can I say? I'm gearing up for a D&D Campaign in this world! That means most of my RPG creative juice is geared to it!Death of a DragonThe death of a Dragon is often a problematic, if not...

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Nic's Law

One of the things I find when building a setting or world is there hits a point when it becomes an organic process. Case in point with the last two posts being about Dragonborn society in Sauria. Thing...

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Twisted background

With Sauria on the march and my Savage Worlds book out on lone, I was holding back on posting most of the Twist (you may remember that I posted the Racial Heritage rules from this setting a long while...

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1 Million Panda-Hugs...

***begin***One million Panda-Hugs for whoever brings me the head of either Ed Greenwood and R. A. Salvador. These two seem determined to ruin Dark Elves for me....That is all...I'Xeper***end***

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Races of Sauria: Gensai

Was thinking the other day about how to bring some more 'exotic' races intoSauria. Things like Gensai, Warforged, Deva and so on... For most races I couldn't think up anything too funky (well, the idea...

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Toying the Apocalypse; After the End

had this crazy idea for a Post-Apocalyptic setting. One where Angels and Demons stand shoulder to shoulder with mere mortals. The War between Heaven & Hell's over. Earth is devistated. Lucifer's...

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Races of Sauria: Warcarved

Remember when I mentioned Warforged for Sauria? Well, they rattled around in my head for a bit and here they are (and more of my cruddy art).WarcarvedSoon after the Sorcerer-Dragons established...

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Hostel

Whew... been a while. Been stupidly busy and been between stuff... STUFF! Anywho... started running Werewolf the Forsaken and started digging out all my old World of Darkness stuff and giving it an...

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Gelanod; a dark & chivalric realm

Okay; so FINALLY running some homebrew Savage Worlds after my D&D hit a brick wall and didn't recover and a brief stint of Werewolf: The Forsaken. Because its a very casual game for first-time...

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Holy Savage Supers!

Okay so me and a buddy wanted to run a supers game. We wanted it an Aussie-centric universe (as opposed to USA) and to be a bit different... So we came up with "Australia's First Universe" a post-nuke...

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AFU Heroes & villians

So, naturally, being a Superhero verse, we went on and created a bunch of heroes and villians for it! The problem is creating memorable characters which are a bit disposable, but very memorable. Allies...

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The Streets of Orphicten

One of the big things I find about running your own homebrewed setting is, once you've got your idea down-pat on paper, writing the first adventure. One helpful thing I find is using a pre-written...

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