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Cigognes ( Stork Fusiliers ) Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel: Woodcuts as game material. The Cigognes, a loose group of mercenaries also known as the Stork Fusiliers, are chiefly known for their garish helmets, their deadly accuracy with fusils-longues and thin curved swords, and the persistent rumor that they secretly eat human flesh. Cigognes are recruited exclusively from the Low…
or Metarandomness: OSR Blottery We live in an era of plentiful and thoughtful RPG blog content. Entire high-quality systems and settings are posted free for the reading: I can run a GLOG in Dyson's Delve while also using a third, other thing 1 . Perhaps the content is even ... too plentiful ... ... to get into easily, that is! I started reading OSR blogs as they came into existence, and then…
Knights of St. Rasso ( Rassians, the Gallimaufry, Gallimaufers ) Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel: Woodcuts as game material. Officially, the name of the order is the Knights of St. Rasso, and members are referred to as Rassians. In everyday usage, though, the order is referred to as the Gallimaufry, and members are known as Gallimaufers. Rasso himself lived during the era of the Earth Wars,…
Towermates ( towermen, rooks, rathers ) Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel: Woodcuts as game material. Towermates travel the roads with (and generally inside) their portable fortresses, small defensive structures on sledges or wheels, movable and defensible by a single fighter. Very few of even the most hardened brigands and bandits will attack a towermate without a solid plan and superior…
Prismatic Wasteland has started a map bandwagon: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/bandwagon-the-map-is-not-the-territory-but-it-is-the-topic The map by Amanda Lee Franck is fantastic and evocative, and gave me so many ideas that I'm just barely in under the wire with an unfinished entry. edit 28 Apr 26: I forgot to state outright that this adventure is for Electric Bastionland:…
My main plan for this blog, inasmuch as there was any plan, was to post some weird little guys I'm writing. I started with Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (usually translated as The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel). It's a book of woodcut images, supposedly made by Rabelais before he died, but actually made by someone else. All of them are pretty weird. I decided to interpret them as characters…
A few months ago, a poster in the Something Awful OSR thread asked about the origins of water termites. I didn't remember the monster at all, but it's written up in the Mentzer BECMI Expert set, across from an illustration I remember quite well: (Not a standard Tyrannosaurus, but still scary.) But it turns out the large little aquatic roaches originated in the Moldvay B/X Expert set: I didn't have…
I enjoy reading RPG blogs. Let's see whether I also enjoy writing an RPG blog.