Ranger Subclass: Urban Expert
Rare rangers eschew roaming through the loam and across mountains, and instead make the cityscape their territory. By trading certain...
Daniel Sullivan
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Feat: Blood Magic
Prerequisite: the ability to cast 1st-level or higher spells  You've learned to use your own life force to power your spells. When you...
Daniel Sullivan
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Random Mundane Treasures
An ornamental deck of playing or fortune-telling cards A small stack of fancy books - likely religious texts A serving tray, ewer,...
Daniel Sullivan
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Ambient Music
Places can be as real as those who remember them, even imagined places. A bard has developed a ritual that allows for the creation of an...
Daniel Sullivan
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Junky Westworld
A theme park, long abandoned, turned into a landfill or dump. It forms a kind of ecosystem of bits and pieces: a swamp of toxic runoff...
Daniel Sullivan
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Spell Scroll Trading Cards (for Game)
Wizards keep small books of trading cards that are tightly-scribed scrolls. So long as you know the same arcane languages you can trade...
Daniel Sullivan
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Fingering Notation of the Arcane
Magicians record their spells on paper, a strange medium for expressing sound and movement. In the search for a standardized,...
Daniel Sullivan
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Clan Locket
These magical lockets are popular among the wealthy. They appear mundane - if fine, of gold wrapped in silver scrollwork and such - but...
Daniel Sullivan
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Wizardry! A Card Game
A card game in which players draft cards and use abilities - from cards or their character - to combine them and score them. Base game: a...
Daniel Sullivan
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Beating Heart Six-Shooter
A big, chunky revolver, break-apart Old West style. The cylinder, however, is missing. In its place, held to the frame of the pistol with...
Daniel Sullivan
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The 'Correct Amount of Backstory' Rule
Have one thing per level, ideally how you ‘got’ that level. No more, no less. No first-level characters with goblins, dragons, a sleep...
Daniel Sullivan
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Falling from the Castle in the Sky
An enchanted castle - a dungeon - hanging from the path of the sun far, far above the earth. Inside the dungeon and the mind are...
Daniel Sullivan
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The Man at the Boiler
A building (ship, factory, spaceship, vehicle, whatever) that is run by old furnaces and boilers. In the basement is a guy, the...
Daniel Sullivan
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The Past is a Foreign Country
A kingdom brought low by a curse suffers a time loop, replaying its tragic downfall again and again. However, the curse is kind: others...
Daniel Sullivan
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Mission Dice
At the start of each mission the group gets a number of dice based on their tenure together, or their Sensitivity, or their level, or...
Daniel Sullivan
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Pay for Party
A D&D party that gets together for the ducats, before falling in as real companions. Have each player come up with one reason they would...
Daniel Sullivan
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First Contact, Betrayal
First contact with alien life was brief, unexpected, and devastating. Out of nowhere fragments of dense metals traveling at a decent...
Daniel Sullivan
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Spiral Town
A small town - really small, thirty or forty family houses - wrapped in a spiral around the town's well. The homes are all townhouses set...
Daniel Sullivan
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A Small and Dangerous Creature
There exists a small kind of arthropod or crustacean which has a natural bond with all its brood-mates, a psychic link that a generation...
Daniel Sullivan
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In an Icy Cavern
Deep below the Silver City that perches atop the Windwild Glacier, reaching for the sun's fire, are the frozen caves that riddle the...
Daniel Sullivan
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