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Coming back here after years and all the old blogs are gone

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Came back to this post (to this blog/site really). because I've been feeling like running Dark Sun again. Trying to fix the rules and setting again. Drawn to it and repelled by it. I think it's funny, reading the original rules again. It's like the people at TSR had gold in their hands and no clue how to use it

saw this dagger on the wikipedia article for jade. I think it would make an excellent artifact

jade dagger, +1: 1d4 dmg, faintly glows green when Guthay is full and in the sky. small particles seem to fleck off when Guthay waning and/or when it is not visible. During this time, successful attacks additionally inflict 1d4/0 poison

I’m thinking it’s a relic from before the Cleansing Wars, when people had the time and resources to really explore the Crimson Sphere. It was made from jade found in the Guthayan mountains. Perhaps some enterprising psionicists could re-open those mines, if they could psychoport the workers there, and perhaps figure a way for them to survive the melange of miasma in Guthay’s atmosphere.

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saw this dagger on the wikipedia article for jade. I think it would make an excellent artifact

jade dagger, +1: 1d4 dmg, faintly glows green when Guthay is full and in the sky. small particles seem to fleck off when Guthay waning and/or when it is not visible. During this time, successful attacks additionally inflict 1d4/0 poison

I’m thinking it’s a relic from before the Cleansing Wars, when people had the time and resources to really explore the Crimson Sphere. It was made from jade found in the Guthayan mountains. Perhaps some enterprising psionicists could re-open those mines, if they could psychoport the workers there, and perhaps figure a way for them to survive the melange of miasma in Guthay’s atmosphere.

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saw this dagger on the wikipedia article for jade. I think it would make an excellent artifact

jade dagger, +1: 1d4 dmg, faintly glows green when Guthay is full and in the sky. small particles seem to fleck off when Guthay waning and/or when it is not visible. During this time, successful attacks additionally inflict 1d4/0 poison

I’m thinking it’s a relic from before the Cleansing Wars, when people had the time and resources to really explore the Crimson Sphere. It was made from jade found in the Guthayan mountains. Perhaps some enterprising psionicists could re-open those mines, if they could psychoport the workers there, and perhaps figure a way for them to survive the melange of miasma in Guthay’s atmosphere.

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Thirst traps of Athas -- A salt zombie is formed when someone dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain. Its has an overwhelming thirst for water, and can sense the blood of the living from up to 5 miles away, pursuing victims relentlessly. (Tom Baxa, from the Dark Sun World boxed set The Ivory Triangle for AD&D 2e, TSR, 1993)

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I was really cooking with this for a group that did not give a shit lmao

At the moment, the class list is

Gutter Knight essentially a barbarian, flavored as someone who loses it when they get drunk

Scavver think Nobby Nobbs

Shit-Eating Duelist the dps class, they move fast and hit hard

Dirty, Mangy Mutt allows you to play as a dog

Rake for the face, since people *love* their horny bard stories

Rat Master commands an army of rats

Back-Alley Surgeon is the class that can heal people

Witch based off of Skerples' Weather Witch from Pirate GLOG. I don't like how wizards are normally treated in games so they aren't really in this one

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Fantasy-themed silver and helenite jewelry from the 1980s by Monica Roi Saxon / MRS Sunshine Enterprises Inc (ad in Dragon magazine #62, June 1982).  Helenite is an artificial glass made by fusing ash from the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption.

D&D inspiration:  Unique gems might be found in volcanic areas, in locations that have been blasted by a dragon’s breath, or around portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire.

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got roped into no knight november they took my armor and my halberd and all m,y cool livery with the heraldic beasts and they sold my noble steed to arbys and now im just walkin around in the mud kicking rocks or whateveer

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https://karlkopinski.com/art-gallery/

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https://karlkopinski.com/art-gallery/

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The Blue Town of Water Starfish are Flying by Mio Asahi

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I installed Minimalist Orb to help with that. It's a spell that really helped me out with my orb addiction.

i keep getting notifications on my orb it's flashing like a strobe light i'm in fucking hell

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Permian animal style bronze plaques from the Ural mountain region of Russia. Dating from the 3rd to 12th centuries CE, they depict mythological stories and creatures from the shamanic tradition native to the region.  

They have been found throughout a large area of forests in the north-eastern Urals and western Siberia from the basins of the Kama and Vyatka to the Ob. In the Middle Ages, these territories were inhabited mostly by the Ugrian tribes, ancestors of the present day Hungarians and Ob-Ugrians – the Khanty and the Mansi people.

Researchers point to the influence of Scytho-Sarmatian animal style on the development of cult toreutics of the forests of the north: famous animal battle scenes, vertical model of the Universe in the form of three worlds – three levels of the plaques and the cult of the great mother-goddess are present in both styles. Perm animal style objects include metalwork of bronze with the usage of single- or double-sided forms for casting, bone and wooden carvings, engravings on metal and bone objects. Figures depicted on the images are elks, rain-deers, bears, fur-bearing and other types of animals, horses, different waterfowl and birds of prey, snakes, insects and a number of "complex creatures" of mixed nature (hybrids), mixed zoomorphic and anthropomorphic half-human creatures; there are also a number of images of horsemen. The stories, which the Perm animal style plaques tell, are numerous and diverse.The objects are found in the hoards, on the sites of the temples, among the skeletons, in burials, as part of sacrificial complexes or on the sites of metallurgical workshops. Most of the bronze artifacts were used as a cult figures for the sacred rites.

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Horse head sculpture, carved in ivory, dating from the late Ice Age – approximately 13,000 years ago

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Mycenaean daggers, made of silver and gold. Found in shaft graves 4-7 in Grave Circle A, 1550-1500 B.C.