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Your Whispering Homunculus: 50 Strange Entertainments

Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere. (So much more than just another bloke in a dress.) [previously] ___ “Come here, least-thing, I have need of you.” “You have but to ask, oh hairless lord.” “Tonight, […]

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Your Whispering Homunculus: 50 Passersby

“Lord!” “Again, wormthing, what is it now?” “Surely, you cannot detail everyone the heroes meet in your quest, master?” “Make your point, useless implet.” “Master, I have devised for you a list of inconsequential passersby, just in case the brave heroes wander from your chosen path or if you need to flesh out someone they

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Your Whispering Homunculus: At the Horse Fair, Part 2

Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed,  you  likely are not to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany around. (So much more than just another bloke in a dress.) [At the Horse Fair, Part 1] ___ This sample annual fair takes place on a large meadow and draws

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Your Whispering Homunculus: At the Horse Fair, Part 1

“Blessed Lord, I was at the window today looking into the streets.” “Foolish insect, keep your face from the window, I cannot risk losing another house to the flames.” “I beg forgiveness master, but my eyes were drawn to the steeds men use, and it gave me an idea…” A trusty mount of many an

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Your Whispering Homunculus: 30 Unsettling Moments

“Master!” “Wait a moment, vile thing, I am engaged in describing the bowels of the Gorge of Misery and Flame.” “But master, I have something for your players, something that plays upon their superstitions…” “What use would such a chart be, least-thing?” “Why, to confuse them, master!” 30 Unsettling Moments, Asides for the Worrisome… Sometimes,

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Your Whispering Homunculus: 50 Topics of Conversation

“Master!” The creature hops spastically onto your shoulder and grasps your ear, glancing around before whispering “I have an idea…” “What is it, slugling?” “Master, I know you have toiled to make an answer to all the biggest questions in tonight’s tale, but what about the more mundane? Surely not everyone in the village is

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Your Whispering Homunculus: 20 Daft Bets & Dares

Your desk groans under the weight of hefty tomes, journals, maps, papers, and librams. The floor is littered with the rolled husks of half-considered ideas and mistakes. At last, you sit back in your armchair, your work done. The adventure has been crafted to your satisfaction, all the major encounters detailed, every option considered. Every

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It’s a Trap: This is Knocker Style

Knockers try to be benevolent, but sometimes, things just don’t go their way, and they need to take action. Not blessed with great strength, the knockers have, like their kobold  cousins, turned to defense, and they have an astonishing array of traps and techniques handed down from generation to generation. Some clans and individual families

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation, a Miscellany (Part 5)

Don’t be afraid to think outside of the box for adventures with predominantly mad monsters, particularly in their relationships with the PCs. Spellcasting, for example, offers you an option to introduce variations on standard events, and the variation on scrying below is offered as one such example. Others possible spells that may rip the thin

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation, the Feats (Part 4)

If there is one thing you can say for certain about aberrations, they are all different. They are defined by their strange, twisting natures. Nowhere else can you find such diversity—even between related individuals. The perversity of their form and function knows no bounds. Aberrant, Perverted [General] This sickening monstrosity is an affront to the

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation (Part 3)

Occasionally aberrations mate with other races to observe the outcome or to carry out bizarre and inhuman experiments to learn or simply amuse themselves. This template is the result of this terrible act. New Monster: Stricken Aberrant [template] It had once been a dragon—that much was certain. Its bone white flanks towered above us like

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation (Part 2)

There’s something down there. The waters around the sunken and forgotten City of the Nadir pollute everything that comes too close and taint all that enter its twisted ruins. Occasionally, parts of the mad city rise to the surface for a night, a month, or even a lifetime of man. Spawned in the City of

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation (Part 1)

The face, if face was the correct word, was ashen. This was no earthly creature but a thing from somewhere wrong. And as the waterspout engulfed the ship, the creature before me bowed obsequiously to its tentacled master, now rising from the boiling ocean. ­­­­­­­­­­­ This, then, was merely the slave. I began to sob

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