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Category: Settings

exandriatimeline

Exandria Condensed Timeline

June 23, 2022 mstanton

A condensed timeline of Matt Mercer’s Exandria campaign setting

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Sci-Fi Environmental Standards

May 23, 2022 mstanton

Taking a guess at what the “air” inside most spaceports and starships must be like in the Traveller Universe.

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Otherwhere: Cast Of Characters

September 9, 2021 mstanton

A brief summary of player character bios.

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Otherwhere

Otherwhere: Peoples And Places

September 9, 2021 mstanton

A “mythological theme park” of ancient cultures and classic fantasy tropes: the fall of Atlantis, pantheons of mischievous gods, nations of human and non-human peoples, the struggle between order and chaos, and lands conjured out of dreams.

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Campaign Timeline: The World Of Greyhawk

March 1, 2021 mstanton

A revised historical timeline with significant player character events noted.

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Sci-Fi 5e Medicines And Equipment

January 11, 2021 mstanton

Some homebrew items for a science-fiction flavor to D&D5e.

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Rime Of The Frostmaiden: Blackmoor On Oerth

January 4, 2021 mstanton

Details about the archbarony in the Greyhawk setting.

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White Plume Mountain Log

September 18, 2020 mstanton

Notes on an adventure to recover three missing magical weapons guarded within a taunting wizard’s dungeon built into an active volcano.

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Renewing My Old City Of Greyhawk Campaign

July 23, 2020 mstanton

Background notes on revising my college-days D&D campaign.

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Gamma World for D&D 5e

July 12, 2020 mstanton

Notes for playing Gamma World using the D&D 5e ruleset.

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Valerie Valusek’s City Of Greyhawk Map Annotated

June 29, 2020 mstanton

Links to view a version of the City Of Greyhawk map with key locations labeled.

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My Campaigns’ Metaplot

May 20, 2020 mstanton

What I’ve noticed as a consistent theme in campaigns I’ve run, and how they can be made to fit together into an ongoing cosmic mystery.

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Sample Fantasy Character Equipment Lists

July 29, 2019 mstanton

DUNGEONEER’S GEAR (AD&D) Adapted from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. A melee weapon (longsword or battleaxe common). Leather armor (or better, unless forbidden). A waterskin (2

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The Outlands (Revised)

August 12, 2018 mstanton

What if Planescape was run without Sigil?

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theentity

The Entity MacGuffin

June 8, 2018 mstanton

Idea for a shared horror meta-plot across multiple games in which Nyarlathotep, Tharizdun, the Elder Elemental Eye and The Wyrm are all the same malevolent cosmic being.

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Fantasy Timelines

January 19, 2018 mstanton

Example timelines of some Dungeons & Dragons campaign backstories.

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About This Site

November 23, 2016 mstanton

A brief introduction to this hodgepodge online dump of RPG ideas and notes.

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Cycles And Aeons

March 3, 2012 mstanton

Notes for a weird little “timeline framework” I made for time travel campaign.

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Planescape Campaign Notes

October 10, 2008 mstanton

Conversions of the AD&D2e setting for use with D&D4e.

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Planescape Factions

October 10, 2008 mstanton

Notes for revising the planar factions of 1994’s Planescape.

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nyc

NYC Dark Timeline

October 3, 2008 mstanton

A chronology of about 240 real and often horrible events that happened in New York City, used as a backdrop to a supernatural campaign.

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vampirerequiem

The Kindred Of NYC

December 1, 2007 mstanton

A big list of NPC notes made for a vampire campaign set in New York City, circa 2007.

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trampier08

Travel: What Can Go Wrong?

June 7, 2007 mstanton

Customs, disease, toxins, animals, language misunderstandings, climate and gravity differences, civil taxes… Originally posted on Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #71.

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Foreshadowing Mage Magick

October 8, 2006 mstanton

The big limitation on magical powers in Mage comes from paradox driven by the counter-belief of non-mage observers. A little creative description can get around that issue…

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Free Trader Plans

October 6, 2006 mstanton

Traveller notes for the 200-ton free trader starship, specifically a variant on the Beowulf class.

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Mercenary Cruiser Plans

October 6, 2006 mstanton

Traveller notes for the 800-ton mercenary cruiser starship, specifically the Broadsword class.

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The Traveller Universe

October 1, 2006 mstanton

An outline of the “standard” campaign setting found in the original version of Traveller by Marc Miller in 1978.

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We’re Not Who We Seem

August 27, 2006 mstanton

What if the players’ character sheets and concept of their roles in the game was a lie?

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Traveller Character Variables

April 5, 2006 mstanton

Variables creating non-player characters, patrons, and bystanders in original Traveller setting of the Spinward Marches sector.

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