Some notes cribbed from various sources on sunlight and faster-than-light starship speeds in popular science-fiction worlds.
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Exandria Condensed Timeline
A condensed timeline of Matt Mercer’s Exandria campaign setting
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Sci-Fi Environmental Standards
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
A brief summary of player character bios.
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Otherwhere: Peoples And Places
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
A revised historical timeline with significant player character events noted.
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Sci-Fi 5e Medicines And Equipment
Some homebrew items for a science-fiction flavor to D&D5e.
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Rime Of The Frostmaiden: Blackmoor On Oerth
Details about the archbarony in the Greyhawk setting.
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White Plume Mountain Log
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
Background notes on revising my college-days D&D campaign.
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Gamma World for D&D 5e
Notes for playing Gamma World using the D&D 5e ruleset.
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Valerie Valusek’s City Of Greyhawk Map Annotated
Links to view a version of the City Of Greyhawk map with key locations labeled.
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My Campaigns’ Metaplot
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
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)
What if Planescape was run without Sigil?
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The Entity MacGuffin
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
Example timelines of some Dungeons & Dragons campaign backstories.
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About This Site
A brief introduction to this hodgepodge online dump of RPG ideas and notes.
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Cycles And Aeons
Notes for a weird little “timeline framework” I made for time travel campaign.
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Planescape Campaign Notes
Conversions of the AD&D2e setting for use with D&D4e.
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Planescape Factions
Notes for revising the planar factions of 1994’s Planescape.
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NYC Dark Timeline
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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The Kindred Of NYC
A big list of NPC notes made for a vampire campaign set in New York City, circa 2007.
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Travel: What Can Go Wrong?
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
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
Traveller notes for the 200-ton free trader starship, specifically a variant on the Beowulf class.
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Mercenary Cruiser Plans
Traveller notes for the 800-ton mercenary cruiser starship, specifically the Broadsword class.
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The Traveller Universe
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
What if the players’ character sheets and concept of their roles in the game was a lie?
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Traveller Character Variables
Variables creating non-player characters, patrons, and bystanders in original Traveller setting of the Spinward Marches sector.
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