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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Elves Part 3Subraces The elves were a single race when they were a part of the Conclave. When they left the different rulers of the elves took their contingent of the race to different forests, causing the split into the four subraces known in Cimmeria today, High Elf, Dark Elf, Wood Elf,…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 44 – Derry and GolarionOur guest for this episode is Derry, DM of the Dice Will Roll podcast and winner of a 2024 CRIT award! Woo! Derry talks with us about his journey with RPGs, actual play podcasting, and Pathfinder’s official setting of Golarion. Derry started doing actual play podcasting because many of the…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Elves Part 2
History Elves were created along with the other Conclave races when the Olympians moved from Greece to Cimmeria. The elves joined the rest of the Conclave races in war against the goblins. After fifty years of war, the elves left the Conclave to setup new societies in the different forests…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Elves Part 1
Physical Description Elves are often depicted as the idealistic form by humans. Elves stand between five and six feet tall and are slender with long limbs and graceful proportions. They have angular or refined facial features, with high cheekbones, pointed ears, and almond-shaped eyes. Their faces are commonly described as…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 43 – Dain and No Quest for the Wicked
I talked with Dain about his 2024 CRIT award nominated, actual play campaign, No Quest for the Wicked. Dain’s campaign uses the Starfinder rules and is loosely based off the Starfinder setting by using the same set of basic aliens for racial options. Each of the different races experienced some…
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Continue reading →: Wu Xing, Gaming the Five ElementsI’ve been mulling over what I want out of the different Chinese RPGs I’ve been reading. None of them have been exactly what I was envisioning for a system. I think part of the reason for that is that I’m looking for something that approaches the five elements with a…
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Continue reading →: Qin: The Warring States RPG ReviewQin, The Warring States is an RPG with the goal of representing stories and folktales at the end of the Warring States period in Chinese history. Players take on the role of wandering spies, warriors, wizards, or scholars. Your character could try to become the greatest swordsman ever known or…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 42 – Bob and Aelriss
Bob tells us about his various experiences with D&D and writing. Bob is the writer of the Jubal County Saga, a series of books about Howard Marsh, a meth addicted magician living in the American South. Bob has also designed and published a few dozen single page RPGs and a…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Goblins Part 4Common Deities Most goblins keep to the animalistic Goblin pantheon. The animals have syncretic equivalents with the Titans of Greek mythology. A full list of the animals and their matching gods is provided in a side bar. While many goblins wish for the return of their gods, most have given…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Goblins Part 3
Location Goblins live throughout Cimmeria either as slaves or in small tribal communities. Enslaved goblins often act as house servants. They are too small and weak to be useful for manual labor, but their predilection towards cleanliness makes them excellent at keeping a house. Goblin tribes exist in small enclaves…
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78 – D&D in Suburbia (Ryan and Serenity Springs) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs
Ryan tells us about his new adventure, Serenity Springs! It's a cozy little suburb. Or at least it seems like it at first. Until you realize its in a dimension like Ravenloft and evil entities lurk around every corner to threaten the citizens and visitors with awful, gruesome death. Just don't bleed on Mrs. Dotty's petunias!You can follow the Kickstarter for Serenity Springs at this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grinningportal/serenity-springs-campaign-setting-for-fantasy-ttrpgs?ref=7ob6pyIf you'd like to know more about Ryan's other projects you can check out his website: https://grinningportalgames.com/And you can follow Grinning Portal Games on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/grinningportal.bsky.socialOur website: https://gocorral.com/stsWant to be on the show? Fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/U11TbxtAReHFKbiVAJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/p97dfEauFjSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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