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Court Etiquette: Do's and Don'ts
When dealing with nobility and court settings, players can sometimes skip the roleplay aspect and jump straight to behav…
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MoonHunter's Top Tips for 2003
I am always giving advice to various gamers on various game forums. I am constantly giving the same advice over and over…
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30 Beers
Food of the gods.
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30 Halfling Gifts (For Services Rendered)
Save/Help the Halflings! They offer rewards. Material and otherwise.
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30 Plumes in the Distance
Survivor
A plume is seen far off in the distance, but what will it turn out to be when it gets closer? Only time will tell.
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That Which is Forgotten
1 HoH
A short story which uses Memory Moths in a sci-fi setting. Props to Echomirage for the forum post that inspired the symbiotic Proxy Bug.
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Bring out your Names!
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'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.' -- Arthur C. Clark
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Everyone's got a story, and I'm tired of hearing them!
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30 Nobles
Codex
Many roleplays are set in a world where much of the land is held by barons and other nobles serving under the King or Queen. Sometimes the PCs may need to meet these nobles to ask for help in their Quest, at other times they may be caught f…
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Dwarven proverbs, sayings, quotes, anecdotes and euphemisms
Quest entry
Dwarven Guild
Looking for Dwarven proverbs, sayings, euphemisms, quotes, and anecdotes? We are too! Please help the fledgling Dwarven Guild in its infancy stages! Looking to make a list of 101+ with the help of our beardless brethren!
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'So's ya want ta know about the maze and the labyrinth? There's a difference, ya know. The maze is more like a, a, puzzle, a puzzle where ya wander and gets lost. An' a labyrinth is more... straight, ai guess, straight with curves, if'n ya …
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The great Wall Mounts have been scaled, or your ship's technology has reached a level in which it is possible to cross the oceans. And when the PCs or NPCs find other people, unknown people, what happens? Carnage.
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Personalised Armour
1 HoH
Armour should not just be for protection. It should tell a story, your story!
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Magic: How it destroys conventional (medieval) seige
Legacy quest
'Your wall is impenetrable, eh? Its so thick it can withstand 100s of direct hits from any siege engine? I have but one word for you: magic.'
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7 Things I've Learned
2 HoH
snagged from a tweet, what are seven things you've learned about writing in general, writing for gaming and gamers, or for the citadel?
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After seeing the [My First Character] thread a while ago and it newly popping up in my inbox for some reason, I thought I'd add a scroll where players could share their introduction to roleplaying.
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Common
2 HoH
One thing holds consistent across the numerous worlds of science fiction and fantasy: everyone speaks the same language. Whether it's Lojban, English, Common, or the High Tongue of the Autumn Empire; there's one language that everyone kn…
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A hopefully amusing Strolen.com version of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
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Give your magic item a quick history. Then use the history to tie a whole bunch of things together that will make you look like a genius.
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Why is psuedo-Medieval Tolkien-esque fantasy the heart of the fantasy RPG genre?
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Confiscated log entries concerning research, particle scanners, micromachines, and computer software on the subject of Teleportation.
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There is a being we know as Manfred. His generators of randomness have aided the Citadel in times of need, but what of his career as a time-traveller? This is the first in a series uncovering the secret origins of famed Strolenati member…
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A New Take on Hell
1 HoH
Codex
Hell. A place of suffering and torment, a often used and cliche ridden place that every GM has to relate to.
