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— First Fig, Edna St. Vincent Millay

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Amulet of the Crypt Keeper
Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a spellcaster) ___ This silver amulet is in the shape of a mausoleum. An eerie fog seeps from its interior. While wearing it, you have resistance to necrotic damage. The amulet can have up to 20 charges at a time. When found, it has 1d10 + 10 charges. You can use an action while wearing it to touch a creature’s corpse and speak the amulet’s command word. If the corpse isn’t that of a construct or undead, the corpse is magically reduced to ash, and the amulet gains a number of charges equal to the creature’s Challenge Rating or level (rounded up; maximum of 10). 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨. While wearing this amulet, you can use an action to expend 5 of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it as a 5th-level spell, using your spell save DC or spell attack bonus: “false life”, “fear”, “inflict wounds”, or “speak with dead”. 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙝 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙢. While wearing the amulet, you can expend 20 of its charges to magically summon a flesh golem. The golem appears in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you. This golem has resistance to necrotic damage, is undead, and has features reminiscent of the corpses used to generate the charges used for this property. The golem is friendly to you and your companions, and takes its turn immediately after you. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required). If you don’t issue it any commands, it defends itself from hostile creatures, but otherwise takes no actions. This golem can’t be calmed down once it goes berserk. The golem turns to ash and is destroyed when it drops to 0 hit points, when this property is used again, or once it’s gone berserk for 1 hour; the golem immediately goes berserk if you are no longer attuned to or wearing the amulet. Once this property has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon’s Saddlebag on Patreon for as little as $3 a month!

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there should be a secret 8th day of the week just for playing dnd

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Louise Glück, from "Persephone The Wanderer" in Poems 1962-2012

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At a job interview, the company director asks the candidate: "Why are you asking for such a high salary when you have no experience in this field?"

Candidate: " Well, the job is much harder when you don't know what you're doing."

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“When your time comes, it comes. And tears won't save you.”

— truman capote, in cold blood

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— Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

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"Crime and Punishment", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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The Clockwork Dungeon

Deep in the realm of order and clockwork perfection lies the home of geometric beings known as modrons. The spinning cogwheel of this dungeon continuously churns out new modrons at regular intervals. As long as the wheel continues to spin, the realm of order will remain just as it was.

Welcome to the Clockwork Dungeon! This map features 8 phases which depict the cogwheel slowly rotating in a circle, allowing the map to be infinitely looped. The variants of this map are not phased, but are standalone maps.

Download the first 4 phases of the map for free here.

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Bracers of Martial Prowess

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement)

“These adamantine bracers were made by a talented artificer and clockwork inventor. They give a hand-to-hand fighter superior defense, but can also be activated so that the bracers split into several bladed pieces and extend from the wrist, past the hands and knuckles and become a claw weapon.”

While wearing these magical bracers you have a +2 bonus to your Armor Class, and advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

You can use a Bonus Action to extend the bracers into a claw weapon, or retract them back. While the claws are extended you have a bonus to damage rolls made with Unarmed Strikes equal to your proficiency bonus. Your Unarmed Strikes increase by one dice size and deal Piercing or Slashing damage (your choice).

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

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Good news for solo gamers! Our sad, lonely, last human in the galaxy roleplaying game is now available for digital purchase on DriveThruRPG.

Grab cyanstarlight and get the game by Alan Bahr, all of the free online tools for generating your journey, the 512 unique endings, and the amazing digital soundtrack by Lance Clark. Also coming soon, four cyan zines in support of the original game. Each has a theme including detailed new planets, old enemies of humanity, and the space between stars!

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Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929