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/
Monday, July 6, 2026
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
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:
| 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):
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. |
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Sunday, July 5, 2026
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.
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
Saturday, July 4, 2026
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.
Frank Mentzer is putting out new atuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdgMeGRkKoU&t=308s
Frank Mentzer is putting out new atuff. Time 5:00. Also repackage of the R series. He means
- -To the Aid of Falx
- The investigation of Hydell
- The Egg of the Phoenix
- Doc’s Island
- … and 11 new ones or something
Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, book one I am reading
The Swords of Lankhmar
Pict from https://www.reddit.com/r/badscificovers/comments/upgoye/the_swords_of_lankhmar_by_fritz_leiber/
It is good. Starts of with an action sequence… two wizards and a mob of fighter types fight them. Kinda funny. The idea around a copper or something 30 foot wire on a sword to thwart a lightning spell is interesting. Wished he didn’t use the word “stuff” when describing the lightning but i guess from the two heroes perspective it was a whatever thing… maybe. Then again before that described as blue white ghostly fiery… semi translucent or something. And later states lightning plainly eh?
WORDS/PHRASES TO USE IN DND
- Sniggered
- Fie fie
- A Wand to mean a quaterstaff. Around page 35, the fiht on the deck of the Squid ship.
- They began to drub away at each other with wands (quaterstaffs ).
- ‘Tis poisoned too, I wot. (Pg. 60) —verbFirst-person singular simple present form of wit
- Measure seconds as heartbeats instead. Ex. “For a score of heartbeats….”
- Kreese instead of Kris knife. A Malay or Indonesian dagger. Pronounced kreese afterall, hmmph. Takes a 1968 book to teach the pronunciation through actual English spellimg, Gottverdammter Nirgendswelt!. .. So yeah, a dude from Germany time travels to them... it's a little jarring but these scifi fantasy crossovers were normal and not crossovers back then I guess. I guess. He was a fun character at least.
IDEAS
- A coin in pocket but one side honed to razor sharpness to cut bonds if trapped. Pg. 62.
SPOILERS BELOW SPOILERS
Are there some were-rats or what?! I think the albino lady is one. Let’s see… I am on page 31 or so. After the double headed (one lrg one small) sea dragon with the rider mage with the German ish name. And they see the ship was sank by rats including one white one.
Easter Egg/Origins
- 3.5e dnd miniatures had the white albino wererat… I have it. Related? Surely.
- Hisvet has a pipe flute thing to inspire the rats = dnd's pipe of the sewers.
Interesting- Does the author like mice, mammals, or … were-things?
- The Gray Mouser?
- Wererats?
- Fafhrd’s hairy chest (mentioned often, called ape by enemy). You get a werewolf feeling almost.
- Pg 60 or 61, author/character acknowledges- “that most misnamed Mouser”.
- Mouser’s dagger is named “Cat’s Claw”.
Critique/Review a little bit
- They are likable scoundrels. The over the top scoundrelness is probably taking it too far to be realistic. Fun though, if not analyzed too seriously.
- I find it comical the author says in the preface that he wants these guys to be more realistic, and not super powerful or something... then in the main first scene 2 guys take out like 20 guys, including reacting to lightning bolts and stuff. Still fun of course.
- He does go overboard describing clothes on new characters. You'd be tempted to almost guess the importance of a character by how huge a paragraph is devoted to their clothing. It's a bit much on random characters and even bigger characters... all characters. I would have liked to have seen that much description on the sea serpent dragon things, or to have made the spell casting in the first scene cooler instead of half comical. Also, did he ever describe the two main guys in such detail, I kind of think not.
D&D Origins/Influences
- The thief class, eh?
- Lightning bolt from hands spell probably.
- Magic Missile maybe. Remember how it used to be an actual physical missile, like an arrow? The 2nd wizard uses a wand that reappears in his hand to cast over and over... and it floats into the air, it turns into a bird (falcon like) into a dagger with wings. Cast like 3 of them.
- Wererats.
- Direrats.
=====references below
Here's an old 2002 website with picts, I like this guy: https://www.stormbringer.net/mouser.html
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