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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Dragons Part 4Location Dragons are spread throughout Cimmeria and the world beyond. The different varieties of dragons can be found in different habitats based on their elemental type. Fire and ice dragons prefer mountains. Acid dragons prefer swamps and forests. Lightning dragons prefer the desert. Non-elemental dragons prefer plains and hills. Wherever…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 65 – Al and the BackroomsAl from the Point of Insanity Game Studio and Podcast is here to talk about a couple of different things! We started off by discussing the Dark Sun campaign setting, which was a post-apocalyptic campaign setting released for D&D in 1991. Next was the changes in D&D over the editions/years.…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Dragons Part 3Subraces Dragons have far more subraces than other races of Cimmeria. There are so many subraces of dragons that they are split into categories for discussion rather than discussed individually. The two most powerful types of dragons are chromatic and metallic. These two varieties ruled Cimmeria during the Dragon Hegemony.…
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Continue reading →: Death is a Status ConditionDeath is a status condition in Dungeons and Dragons. What does death do in D&D? It prevents your character from taking actions. Similar to other conditions like paralyzed or stunned. If your character dies in D&D, revival is just a spell away. The 3rd level revivify spell brings a dead…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Dragons Part 2History The first dragons existed long before the Olympians came to Cimmeria. Before the Olympians themselves in fact. Dragons were borne from the union of Typhon and Echidna, the first monsters. The first dragons were winged, fire-breathing brutes, incapable of speech. These were the Lernaean Hydra, Ladon, the Dragon of…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 64 – Kevin and OrbisKevin tells us about his setting and TTRPG, Orbis. It’s a crunchy mech combat game! Central to Orbis is the Ion Tempest storm. It started long ago and afflicts the world with electrical storms, cold snaps, heat waves, and odd magnetic and gravitational fields. History of the world before the…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Dragons Part 1Physical Description Dragons are enormous, winged, elemental lizards. They are the largest and most threatening monsters in all of Cimmeria. The only greater power than dragons are gods and creatures touched by divinity. In addition to their great size, many dragons can breathe elemental energy to devastating effect. A calculating…
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Continue reading →: First Setting the Stage Merch DropThe first piece of Setting the Stage merch is out! Anyone subscribed to the Patreon through the end of September will receive a bumper sticker so your car’s butt can declare your love for Setting the Stage. You can subscribe to the Setting the Stage Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage Subscribers at…
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Continue reading →: CyberdyneThe future is here! And without a hint of irony from the Japanese company, Cyberdyne. Cyberdyne was originally the name of the fictional AI company in the Terminator series. The fictional Cyberdyne created Skynet, the evil AI that nukes the world and starts making evil robots to kill everyone. The…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Podcast PatreonI’ve launched a Patreon page to help support the Setting the Stage podcast. The funds will help pay for equipment and software used for the show. If there’s enough supporters, then I can start adding additional content. There’s currently four tiers for supporting the show plus a free tier that’s…






