Maugli Junglebook Timing vs. Tarzan - Origins?

 Maugli earlier eh 1894ish-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowgli

Tarzan soon after 1912 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan

And this old Burian art shows just how Tarzany the Maugli books were: https://www.daildeli.cz/buriankipling1.html

Part of Kipling's inspiration for the story of Mowgli is believed to have been William Henry Sleeman's account of six cases in India in which wild children had been raised by wolves.^[3] That account was first published in the first volume of Sleeman's Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1848-1850 (1858)^[4] and reprinted in 1852 as An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, by an Indian Official and in The Zoologist (1888 12 (135): 87-98).^[5] One most notable feral child was found in the wolf's den at the Bulandshahr district in 1867 and subsequently brought to the Sikandra orphanage at Agra, where he was given the name Dina Sanichar.^[6][7]

Blogs to see- D&D picts and campaign blogs, Paleo Art

WARNING some of these lead to not safe for work or home type drawings. But there are a lot of good D&D picts in the right blogs. 

 This guy, https://www.blogger.com/profile/06752759150344487501,  has many, like:

https://slumberingwarlock.blogspot.com/

https://sonofabitchdd.blogspot.com/ (this is that 2012 campaign, some cool picts, one cool map, some funnies)

https://to-the-north-and-beyond.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-03-10T18:39:00Z&max-results=7   is yet another campaign, lotsa good picts. 

=====other dudes/blogs below=====

https://neat-stuff-blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Zdenek%20Burian

I think above is from the Paleoartist guy from 1950s  and 1960s and 1970s  especially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Burian

https://kakhtus.tumblr.com/post/73552993949/old-school-paleoart-by-the-great-zdenek-burian

WHOLE BUNCH OF BURIAN: https://www.daildeli.cz/burian.html

• Maugli, Junglebook, Rudger Kipling: https://www.daildeli.cz/buriankipling1.html

Grogu Mandalorian movie Easter egg, Kenner toy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nshwo-WbwJE

Time 5:06, the INT-4 was a good looking toy.  

Here is toy https://www.carousell.sg/p/vintage-star-wars-kenner-int-4-interceptor-1179828208/

HP can represent stamina, luck, toughness, ….

 Great list time 1:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVXvY12mepA&pp=0gcJCUwLAYcqIYzv

• Stamina
• Luck
• Touhness
• Divine favor
• Grit
• Bruises
• Near misses
• Scrapes
• Glancing blows
• Shield hits
• Armor hits

BTW, the video is about doing permanent damage on crits or even less frequently crits with max dmg. Borrowing from old Runequest, where apparently you were constantly maimed bigtime. 

Ideas from the kid

 

I am Yaiminoth, the Gilded Death Knight. You will plead for my mercy.'");

 

    Atop a crumbling cathedral its deep crimson spire pierces a blackened skull. The decrepit bone raises itself and descends towards you as a misty form flows out from beneath it. The now apparent ghostly body produces a morgenstern and longsword in both hands. 'Your grave awaits thee.'

}

 

Olin'dro Unan

    The croaks and grumbles of nightmares fill your head, your lungs lose their air, your vision darkens, and your soul sores.

        "You have made a horrific mistake.

Ideas - ODOPI super hard monster manual iii from 3.5e

 Ideas - ODOPI super hard monster manual iii from 3.5e

It looks HARD. 

28 AC

218 HP or something.

+19 to hit ranged, what?!

BTW, Legend of Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom, got one of the hand monster ideas from this guy. 

REFERENCES, BLOG: https://sonofabitchdd.blogspot.com/2012/07/chapter-nineteen-dark-wizard-of.html

Next time - ideas our campaign

 Maybe have this Entrope creature. They eat away at reality between planes, and allow stuff to spill over. 

https://www.completecompendium.com/appendix/entrope/

NOTE: 

High HPs (for 2e). Maybe I give them max, so 11 HD + 6 would be 88 plus 6, 94 HP. 

Special Defenses: Info:

Struck only by +2 or better weapons, immune to elements The Doomguard - ever interested in entropy - decided to make sure that it is true and to help the process along. Hence, their magicians and alchemists began devising a means to dissolve the barriers between the Elemental Planes. Hundreds of years of research, trials, and errors took place, but eventually they succeeded. They constructed magical creatures the Sinkers named entropes. Entropes feed on whatever makes up the borders separating the various Inner Planes. As they feed, the elements of the two planes blend and “bubbles” of foreign elements are introduced into alien planes. Eventually, the Doomguard hopes, the barriers will weaken enough so that the planes constantly bleed into each other, eventually becoming indistinguishable. The first batch of these beasts escaped Doomguard control and now wander about the Inner Planes on their own, chewing away at the fabric of reality wherever they see fit. The second group is more closely controlled. Special Defenses: Combat: Because the entrope can literally break down the fabric of reality, it's nothing to fool around with. Anywhere within the Inner Planes, the beast can “eat” through elermental borders, creating a small, temporary hole in space leading to any other Inner Plane. The rent results in a mass of the foreign element bursting into the plane with great power. While the entrope itself isn't harmed by this action, anyone within 25 feet is subject to the elemental explosion. The results depend on which plane the hole leads to (a decision made by the entrope): Air, Earth, Mineral, Ooze, Salt, Water: Matter or air explodes through the hole with great force, inflicting 3d10 points of impact damage (save versus breath weapon for half). Victims must save versus breath weapon or be knocked down and/or back 10 feet; they're also stunned for 1 round afterward. Ash, Dust, Smoke, Steam: Particulate matter bursts through the tear, inflicting 2d6 points of impact damage (save versus breath weapons for half). What's more, all victims must save versus poison or cough and choke for 1d6 rounds, incapacitated. Fire, Lightning, Positive Energy, Radiance: Raw energy gushes through the rent, inflicting 8d6 points of damage (save versus breath weapon for half). Ice, Magma: Energy (along with varying amounts of matter) erupts through the tear, inflicting 6d6 points of heat or cold damage (save versus breath weapon for half). Victims must save versus breath weapon or be knocked down and/or back 10 feet. Negative Energy: This hole sucks the life energy from all victims, draining one experience level from each. Vacuum: Matter and energy is drawn into this rent. The implosion inflicts 3d6 points of damage (save versus breath weapon for half) on victims and requires them to make a save versus death magic to avoid being pulled into the plane of Vacuum before the hole closes. The entrope can open these holes once every three rounds. The rest of the time, it defends itself with two huge claws (1d8 points of damage each) and a gigantic tooth-filled maw (1d12 points of damage). The strange creature is also immune to the effects of all elements, even ignoring impact damage from thrown boulders or similar attacks. Graybeards know of only two ways to harm an entropy: strike it with a magical weapon of +2 or greater enchantment, or subject it to nonelemtntal-based spells such as cause light wounds, magic missile, and so on.

Ideas, traps, DCC People of the Pit

 Rpg reanimators did the classic DCC with Goodman’s write up “the people of the pit”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcUpyBhSpk&t=6320s

Idea… if blade in wall look for wide enough cracks. And maybe MUD COVERING the cracks to disquise it. 

Mountain or Swamp themes for dnd

 By Esper. Great ideas. 

Mtns https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vPsUBIoC7AY&t=583s

Swamps https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKn8fZdz4k&pp=0gcJCUwLAYcqIYzv

1e spells I didnt know of; Bigsby’s x 6

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFXnZqa3MKQ

From 1e or 2e, from book- Greyhawk Adventures Hardcover. 

All these ARE in the wizard’s spell compendium 

Interesting stuff like:

Bigby’s 

• X
• Y
• Z

Mordenkainen’s

• Encompassing Vision - lev 2; 360 degree , 1 hr/lvl
• Defense against lycanthropes
• Electric Arc - 

Shadowdark’s new book, Western Reaches

• It is mostly a combination of the Cursed Scrolls, but some new stuff  

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=boZM4k7FCcU&t=328s

He has good points about priest build will look same tonget access to one of those two super spells… time 4:44. Consecrate and Covenant. 

Names for characters at time 6:00. This is for Dwarves and it reminds me of Tordek (3e’s miniature Dwarf) and Gimli and such. 

First syllable like

• Den
• Mel
• Bol
• Rog
• Tor
• Bal
• Gan
• Teg
• Dan

More from time 4:45 this vid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=boZM4k7FCcU

• Gim

Last syllable like

• Dor
• Grim
• Ror
• Ek
• Dak
• Dren
• Wen
• In
• Den
• Drol

Go lin names

• First syllable 
• Sl
• Zad
• Gor
• Baz
• Ax
• Sar
• Mor
• Yal
• Etc etc

2nd half

• ib
• Laz
• Ul
• Ag
• Ek
• Eg
• Ivin
• Atok

Half elf ex.s

• Calrak
• Imgarrin
• Lirdress
• Caldorin
• 
  
• galrynn
• Galsandiel (or take out the S)
• Orlena

Half orc ones (are they oure orc bames or what?)

• 
  
• Half orc
• Balaal
• Uduk
• Zoranzuul
• Ulfok
• Zardaash
• Tralesh
• Brogek
• Yelago
• Ivuun

Halflings

• Halflings
• Trobin
• Wildo
• Samby
• Roberly
• Tilson
• Bibra
• Xhumans
• Arfen
• Marten
• Ilesa
• Rinrien
• Giran
• Eltor
• Nevilo
• Romek
• Jafora
• Branas

Kobolds

• Xkobolds
• Skix
• Talaz
• Irog
• Dr ax
• Gr ulg
• Bir ig
• Min oz
• Tim ev
• Gor ak
• Yal ov

Fighting Fantasy - Legend of the Shadow Warriors

 Review by Spellsinger

Btw, the B&W art is incredible.

Haggworts? Surely inspired the Hogwarts name, eh? See comment by UchronianKing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWViNGW-1vQ&t=1304s

Me: Haggworts… Hogwarts? And their master is Voivod (not quite Voldemort but a cousin of a name maybe). Anyway, I often see connections where they do not exist, but surely Rowling read this book and was making a friendly nod with the school’s name.

https://fightingfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Haggwort

Of course there is a plant called hogwart - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croton_capitatus

Staff of SpellFocusing - gives -4 (+4) bonus to Mages casting

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PClEwKAlkY&pp=0gcJCUwLAYcqIYzv

He says in 1e at mid levels and up, the MU needs some help bcuz spells fail so much.

Charges used, but can recharge later in 1e.