tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14882941907231261432024-03-19T16:54:54.754-05:00HereticwerksWorlds of Adventure, Classic Tabletop RPG Resources, and More...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-29985470304620105322023-01-13T15:33:00.008-06:002023-01-13T15:51:39.006-06:00Insidious Troll-Werm (Happy Birthday C.A.S.)
“The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.”
Clark Ashton Smith
Insidious Troll-Werm
Source: This creature is inspired by a untitled doodle by Clark Ashton Smith that you can see over at Page 7 of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-6476472839046514962023-01-06T19:11:00.002-06:002023-01-06T19:11:54.542-06:00Shroedinger's OGL There's a lot of stuff circulating out there concerning the 'leaked details' of what might be the terms of the new OGL 1.1 from WotC. So far there is a Lot of speculation, emotion, and noise (read: opinion and rumor). There is very little real information that is available as yet. So until things do finally get sorted out, we're going to focus on non-OGL projects. Anything dependent upon Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-73543710067609551282023-01-06T16:25:00.002-06:002023-01-07T11:13:19.622-06:00Dungeon23 Weekly Progress Report 1 My January 1 Dungeon 23 entryToday I made my sixth entry to the journal for Dungeon 23. So far, so good. Above is a quick scan of the entry for January 1st. I've starting out drawing and detailing small sub-sections, mostly because that is how it flowed while I was doing things. Right off the bat I realized that space on the page was going to be at a premium, so I need to get more Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-56705035569464070542023-01-02T05:00:00.200-06:002023-01-02T14:01:23.952-06:00Some Random Resources for the Dungeon 23 Challenge Dungeon23 Logo designed by Lone Archivist and generously made available for free through the CC BY 4.0 licenses."Megadungeon for 2023. 12 levels. 365 rooms. One room a day. Keep it all in a journal"Sean McCoy posted this to Twitter, then to his Win Conditions substack newsletter early in December 2022. I might never have heard about it if Ben from Mazirian's Garden Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-13662435975892993702023-01-01T09:00:00.005-06:002023-01-01T09:00:00.203-06:001d6 Random Generator-sites for Dungeon23Dungeon23 Logo designed by Lone Archivist and generously made available for free through the CC BY 4.0 licenses. For Dungeon23 I thought that I would assemble a short list of Generator-sites to have handy if I decide to get a little more randomness into the design process, or I get stuck, whichever. Instead of going with the usual suspects, I thought it would be moreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-52931929331382164022022-12-31T09:00:00.015-06:002022-12-31T09:00:00.233-06:00Campaign Wiki and More Cool Things An incredible resource compiled from across the OSR Blogosphere from wayback-when to right now.
Campaign Wiki is a site that allows you to set up and maintain a wiki for your gaming needs for free. You don't need to make an account. You're not locked in. You can download and migrate your data elsewhere any time you like. Not sure if this is something that is right for you? No problem. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-49677841954834566462022-12-30T09:00:00.018-06:002022-12-30T09:00:00.200-06:00Some Housecleaning at the End of the YearSlowly but surely I've been going back over our blog and pulling out weeds, clearing out dead links, deleting defunct bits and scouring through the old Drafts folder and so on. The RPG Blog Alliance is undergoing some sort of evolution or going into hibernation or hiatus, so I pulled that logo and the links associated with that organization off of our right-hand side-bar. Sorry to see the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-16778464234218727602022-12-29T21:00:00.005-06:002022-12-30T12:35:35.669-06:00Getting Ready for the #Dungeon23 Challenge My drawing table needs some organizing...By now you've either heard about the #Dungeon23 Challenge, or you've turned aside and gone on to saner pursuits. Good for you.Slowly, over the last week or so, I've been gathering my supplies and collecting what look like pertinent resources. I ordered a very nice Worldbuilder's Notebook in royal blue from Swordfish Islands. You can see it there on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-37942463605357185232022-12-29T08:00:00.002-06:002022-12-30T12:36:35.920-06:00No Dice: RPG Blog Carnival (December, 2023) The Theme for this Month's RPG Blog Carnival is No Dice and it is being hosted by Rising Phoenix Games. Link: https://www.risingphoenixgames.com/blog/no-dice-rpg-blog-carnival-dec-2022/If you're interested in participating, it's super easy; just post something pertinent to the month's topic and leave a comment with a link to the post over at Rising Phoenix Game's blog. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-38126690683397865452022-12-28T20:49:00.001-06:002022-12-30T12:37:27.820-06:00The Doubly Silent Ones with Their Outside Shadows
What I saw about me none else saw; and I grew doubly silent and aloof lest I be thought mad. Dogs had a fear of me, for they felt the outside shadow which never left my side...
The Book,
by H. P. Lovecraft
Doubly-Silent One
No. Enc.: 1
Alignment: Neutral
Movement:
Armor Class: 7 (As Leather)
Hit Dice: 2 (Advance as Dual-Class Spell-caster/Thieves)
Attacks: 1 (Weapon or Spell)
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-86237694467475856032022-12-28T19:24:00.004-06:002022-12-30T12:37:44.241-06:00Belated Wrap-Up for April 2018 Blog Carnival So, funny thing happened on the way through 2018. I injured my back and did not get back to the blog until November. The other post for April was already in the queue and on a timer. The chronic pain was definitely getting the best of me around then. So was the brain-fog that goes with it. These are not excuses. This is what was going on. I also slipped-up and somehow did not post the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-3221111052310469142022-12-16T08:30:00.002-06:002022-12-30T12:37:59.596-06:00#Dungeon23 Challenge for 2023Dungeon23 Logo designed by Lone Archivist and generously made available for free through the CC BY 4.0 licenses."Megadungeon for 2023. 12 levels. 365 rooms. One room a day. Keep it all in a journal"Sean McCoy posted a few days ago about writing up a megadungeon - by hand, in a notebook, journal, or planner - one room a day for the entirety of 2023. His post at Win Conditions (his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-75892478293031155122022-07-08T17:44:00.000-05:002022-07-08T17:44:29.626-05:00Petty Gods is Back in Print! The Hardcover edition of Petty Gods is available at Lulu once again. You can find it Here.This was one of the last projects we were able to participate in before health issues derailed everything for us. We're very proud to have contributed to this massive tome of minor deities ranging from the modestly benign to the outrageously grotesque and all manner of things in-between. Richard did anUnknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-41012979692860931512019-09-13T17:33:00.000-05:002019-09-13T17:33:09.255-05:00Twelve Re-Imagined Treasures...
Better late than never, right?
Well...maybe.
In the course of refreshing the blog here and getting things set up for the near future, I noticed Glaucus' Reimagining the Dragon Jam over at Itch.io. It sounded like a fun challenge. Basically, you took the name of one of the items from an old issue of Dragon magazine and re-imagined it as a fresh new item without looking back at the original. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-35974584298317096152019-08-26T09:00:00.000-05:002019-08-26T09:00:10.599-05:00Treatise of the Three Spheres (Grimoires of Wermspittle)
Appearance
The cover is composed of three heavily-hinged cast-iron panels with a thick Bruthem-Leather interior-lining. A sculpted lock in the form of a grotesquely leering pseudo-satyr bars access to the Treatise by any impudent would-be perusers incapable of overcoming a simple Lock spell.
It is rumored that the lock attempts to bite anyone attempting to open the Treatise by any other Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-88129162578802198292019-08-23T13:57:00.001-05:002019-08-23T13:57:09.666-05:00Oculent (Wermspittle)
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oculent
No. Enc.: 1d3 (1d6)
Alignment: Neutral (Cruel Tendencies...)
Movement: 90' (Float/Guided Levitation)
Armor Class: 6 (Scalemail)
Hit DiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-90756775107464426232019-08-22T18:08:00.003-05:002019-08-22T18:08:39.042-05:00Spell: Confound Flesh
Confound Flesh
Level: 5
Duration: 1 day per level of caster
Range: 30'
In an instant, everything in contact with the victim's flesh is commingled into a single organism. Clothes, armor, weapons, backpack contents; all of it is integrated into a mad, screaming mess. All potions caught within this spell's area of effect are subject to miscability effects, all rations are considered either wastedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-75974703742776981342018-11-19T09:00:00.000-06:002019-08-23T12:50:47.101-05:00Crabclopse
This was originally intended to get posted for Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day, but got lost in the Drafts folder. Better late than never...
Crabclopse
Hit Dice: 5
Armor Class: 4 [15]
Attacks: 1 Weapon (Pincer-Club) 3d4 or 1 Slam 1d10
Saving Throw: 12
Special: Immune to Charm, Immune to Non-magical Poisons
Move: 9 (walking or swimming)
Alignment: N (30% are Chaotic Evil)
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-28626474309273576452018-11-15T00:21:00.002-06:002018-11-15T00:21:37.278-06:00A Door Opens...
We don't do much in the way of reviews here at the blog. So this isn't a review.
Go buy this Zine. Really. Just go buy a copy. Reading it is a far better use of your time than reading the reviews that talk all about it. Buy it, read it, use it or collect it; whatever you decide to do with it, this is great stuff.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-1846011969838126962018-11-14T17:05:00.000-06:002018-11-14T17:05:02.625-06:00Misplaced Mollusc...
...some time ago I sent out a version of this little creature to a fellow blogger who was putting together a zine or some such project, but I seem to have misplaced the file with the pertinent info. Has anyone seen this little guy anywhere?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-1297549917572665822018-04-04T09:35:00.001-05:002018-04-04T09:35:52.086-05:00Other Worlds (OD&D Inspirations)
A bit of inspiration from the Little Brown Books...
OTHER WORLDS
There should be no natural laws which are certain. Space could be passable because it is filled with breathable air. On the other hand the stars could be tiny lights only a few hundred miles away. Some area of land could be gates into other worlds, dimensions, times, or whatever. Mars is given in these rules, but some other Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-16708858752210817542018-04-01T10:44:00.001-05:002018-04-01T10:57:51.401-05:00RPG Blog Carnival: April 2018 Kick-Off
The Theme for this Month's RPG Blog Carnival is Journals, Grimoires and Spell-Books and we're hosting it right here at Hereticwerks. You can find out all the details about the RPG Blog Carnival and RPG Blog Carnival Archive by clicking over at the always excellent Of Dice and Dragons blog (well worth a visit!). The RPG Blog Carnival has been going on for years now (sinceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-74931862372181198852018-04-01T08:28:00.001-05:002018-04-01T08:28:23.084-05:00Valg-Sindril
"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."
Aeschylus
Valg-Sindil
No. Enc.: 1d6 (6d12)
Alignment: Neutral
Movement: 40' (120') [levitation]
Armor Class: 7
Hit Dice: 1d4 hit points, take half damage from fire.
Attacks: 1 (tail-sting) [limit 3 attacks per day]
Damage: 1d2+Poison (1d4 damage, Save or suffer 50% reduction to Movement and lose all DEX Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-23473439613136857232017-11-29T08:00:00.000-06:002017-11-29T08:00:51.219-06:00Actual Play Report from the Fringes of Wermspittle (Session Three; Happy Thanksgiving!)
Not everything wants to eat you...and it is always good to have friends, especially in weird places...
J's Notes from our Thanksgiving weekend game.
Camping in field outside Gadra's tomb. N hears horns and dogs barking on other side of river, calls on the Hobyah (using their Mark on her hand) and asks them to check it out. We break camp and head toward the yellow brick road away Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1488294190723126143.post-52553146890922821382017-11-28T12:37:00.002-06:002017-11-28T12:37:37.377-06:00Tomb of Gadra: Actual Play Summary
Recently we were able to run a second session for our friends who had their first adventure just outside the village of Kridlist. This time we started off safe within the bounds of the camp set-up by Gnosiomandus. After a good night's sleep the party did an inventory of their loot and considered where they might want to go from there. The old man and his two companions were headed off to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0