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Blog Prompt Potpourri 4

On May 13, 2026March 19, 2026 By adempzIn Design Work, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, ever onward into the blog mines. 27 - How difficult is it to be brought back from the Dead? Is such a thing even Possible? I stuck the Scarlet Citadel under Ptolus (because, again, it says there’s a megadungeon down there …

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System Matters (plural noun, not verb)

On April 29, 2026March 18, 2026 By adempzIn Design WorkLeave a comment

Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, I’m going to keep going through some of the rules-oriented ones as they pertain to my Iron Fist of the Hobgoblin King setting. In our Sunday morning Ptolus game, we play things pretty much straight as written. At the moment, I’m …

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Critical Exploders

On April 22, 2026 By adempzIn Design WorkLeave a comment

Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, today I’m going to start going through some of the rules-oriented ones as they pertain to my Iron Fist of the Hobgoblin King setting. In our Sunday morning Ptolus game, we play things pretty much straight as written. At the moment, …

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Wizard Carriage

On October 25, 2025 By adempzIn Design WorkLeave a comment

There’s a contest on DndBeyond promoting the new Stranger Things box set, “What’s in the Bag of Holding? A Welcome to the Hellfire Club Homebrew Item Contest.” The gist is, make a thematic magic item with a description of 50 words or less, and publish it to DnDBeyond with the tag ‘BagOfHolding2025.” I took a …

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Halls of the Blood King :: Ravenloft

On November 2, 2024November 2, 2024 By adempzIn Design WorkLeave a comment

Halls of the Blood King, an official Old School Essentials adventure, is a location-based adventure designed for emergent play. There are things to poke at and NPCs to turn against each other, all in the court of the Blood King himself, a vampire who demands fealty from all the others of his kind. It is …

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