Tag: D&D

Critical Success

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Sometimes the dice roll in your favor, and whatever you’re trying to do you do spectacularly well.  In combat, this means you get to open a can of whoop-ass on your enemy.  Unfortunately, sometimes the enemy opens that can on you.

I added the Critical Success table to the Critical Rolls page.  (<– Click the link to check it out.)  It ranges from Maximum Damage, to Triple Damage, with some extra stuff in between.  We haven’t had the chance to test these tables in-game yet, but I’m looking forward to it.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions about the tables, or about anything else on the Worldwalker’s Guide, please post them.  I’d love to hear from you.

May your dice favor you in all things!

~Jean

Critical Fails

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It happens.  It’s okay.  It’s not the end of the world (usually).  Sometimes the dice hate us, and we end up with a critical fail.  I’ve wanted a little consistency in my games, and also a quick reference chart, so I put together a couple of tables for what happens when that dreaded “1” shows its face.  The tables were created with Dungeons and Dragons 5e in mind, but I’ve removed anything that is specific to that game system.  I’ll be adding critical success tables too, at a later date.

Click the link to access the tables: Critical Rolls

These tables are released under a free culture Creative Commons license.  Take them, use them, modify them, share them, do whatever you want with them.  The idea can’t be copyrighted – you’re always free to make your own.  All this covers is the specific wording and the layout. If you use the tables “as-is”, please link back to their page.

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Rootless

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I wanted to do something different this week, so I wrote about one of my favorite homebrew classes: The Rootless.  This isn’t a class like fighter, mage, or rogue.  This is a class of people like farmers, merchants, noblemen, or craftsmen.  They are considered holy people, and a little out of their minds.  Like kleptomaniacs can’t help but steal, the Rootless can’t help but explore and learn.  Though the Rootless were created for a fantasy world, they can be adapted to any setting.  In a science fiction world they would be scientists, scholars, and explorers.

You can read all about them by clicking this link: The Rootless

I got the name, and the idea, from a song by S. J. Tucker titled, you guessed it, Rootless.  There is a beautiful sign-language performance of this song on YouTube, here: https://youtu.be/fUvm4FJ92P4

Have a great weekend, and may you discover something new every day!

 

 

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Mormon

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This week I give you a little about the most sophisticated society in North America – and possibly the world.  When disaster hit, they clung to their faith but, more importantly, they held on to their social structure.  This means that they recovered more quickly than other areas and never devolved into the mindless barbarism that consumed other places.  Their religious fervor, however, serves to keep them from advancing.  They are basically stuck in the mid-twentieth century.  For now this gives them great advantages, but eventually the surrounding nations will catch up – and then surpass them.

Mormon -“God’s Country”

Hope you enjoy this little slice of relative civilization.

Have a great weekend!

~Jean

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Rajani

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This week’s blog is an overview of the last area on the map of Devanand – Rajani.

You can read the full blog here: Rajani

On the other side of the globe is a whole other land, but for now this is the extent of the known world.

I thought I’d take a break from Devanand, and introduce you to Sonora next week.  It’s a post-post-apocalyptic setting that I used for a chat-based role-paying game many years ago.  It’s still one of my favorite settings.

Have a great weekend!

~Jean

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Devmani

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This week, the island of Devmani.  It has a temperate climate with it’s northern tip being at a latitude of about Paris, and it’s southern tip located at about Casablanca. Please note the “about”.  I suspect it’s a damn pretty place, with an interior forest like Germany’s Black Forest, and a southern coast like the Mediterranean.  Their ruler, Divyagana, doesn’t really care much what the people do as long as they don’t screw up the place.

Here you go: Devmani

 

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The Islands of Maraalika

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This week – an introduction to the rowdiest place in the hemisphere.  If you have a pirate/privateer campaign planned, this would be the place.  Tropical breezes.  Tropical storms.  Tropical drinks.  Little pink umbrellas (no, not really).  “Riotous” is the best word: colors, sights, sounds, animals and plants, weather, overlord dragons.

Maraalika Ho!

Have a great weekend!

 

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The beautiful photo this week is by Kevin Phillips.  http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=147290&picture=tropical-beach

Chirayu

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This week’s blog takes a look at the island of Chirayu.  It’s a little smaller than Australia.  Where Australia is like a baked potato, Chirayu is like a rumpled wizard’s hat, so although shore to shore it’s about the same length, it’s about a third smaller in square mileage. I haven’t parsed the math, so don’t hold me to that.

This is an equatorial/tropical island, and you can read all about it here: Chirayu

 

I’m still trying to get the site to do what I want: namely a banner, and a featured image.  If you have any suggestions on how to do that with this theme, or with another theme that has seriously nested menus, I’m listening.  🙂

Have a great weekend, and for those of you celebrating Easter, Happy Easter!

~Jean

 

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The Eastern Islands

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The islands east of Bhaskara are called the Tuta Hua Zamin – the Fractured Lands.  You could just as easily call them the fractious lands – the dragons and their people are lively, excitable, and often fighting each other.  If Bhaskara is a calm middle-class neighborhood, the Islands are a riotous bazaar.

Read more here: Tuta Hua Zamin

 

 

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Bhaskara

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The Continent of Bhaskara

This week, an overview of the continent of Bhaskara.  The place is big.  I mean, really big.  You don’t realize how big until you start comparing it to Terra.  It’s about the same size as the old U.S.S.R. – go look at a globe.  I need a math geek to help me parse the square mileage, and I’ll update the page with that information when I get it.  🙂

Read the full blog here: Bhaskara

Enjoy the post, and have a great weekend!

~Jean

 

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