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  This world was built with an amazing group of kids at community centers. These thoughts and ideas were first committed to paper in 2024, and remain relevant.  The kids know what is going on. Oroborealis Our world is Dust, Ice, and Fire. There are two lights in the sky. Stories say there were more, once. Thousands and thousands. Like a sparkle of snow across a deep dark lake. It’d be a nice story, if it were true.  Oroborealis is a world of extremes. Extreme heat and cold, rich and poor, high and low tech, old and young, living and dead. This is clockwork-necropolis setting, designed to accommodate tactical urban combat, deep roleplay, and philosophical discussions. History Long ago, a lich by the name of Malachor fled angelic persecution with millions of stolen souls. Each planet he visited was doomed, not by him, but by the angels in tow that deemed their populations corrupted by undead influence. He attempted to save one such planet with a magic trick. He gathered u...

I watched my kid struggle running D&D for their friends and I thought "How can I make this easier?" I present the Heir of Smoke. Heir of Smoke is a D&D adventure or supplement written in Twine, with some cool features. It has HP tracking javascript sliders, right there in line. This way you don't have to keep a separate piece of scratch paper. Random Encounters built into the twine logic Attack macros, so you can just tap the button and get a random D20 value and damage, custom tailored to the monster of course. A little 'read aloud' css style that puts text in a nice tan box. Check out the project here: https://emmettbaber.itch.io/heir-of-smoke Heir of Smoke by EmmettBaber and if you want to make your own check out the repo here:  https://github.com/CaptainEmber/TwineTracker I have a template file uploaded there that showcases all the features, and it already has the five rooms outlined!

"Here they come." The sound was like a pot of stew the size of a lake boiling over. Ten gelatinous cubes crested the hill and began sliding down towards the castle wall. Volleys of arrows sink slowly through the oozes... past dark forms inside. Suddenly four black Wyrmlings dive out the side flying up the walls with ease and plucking archers from their posts.  The idea here is to put enemies who are immune to acid , inside gelatinous cubes. You could do this with merfolk inside of water elementals similarly as well. OOoooooooh I gotta go write that.

 “Hey.” Tagget yelled to his companion. Smoke stung his eyes into a squint. By anyone's standards he stood as a very fit, young man, but nothing around him spoke to his inexperience. His armor was worn, clipped, and folded where it had been hit. He wore scars, fresh and old where it had not. Something stirred in his furrowed brow, surveying the darkened desert around them. Carnage was illuminated in a diffuse overcast caused by the constant whirlwind of dust between the ground and the sun. Syrupy pools of puss and blood mingled with volatile organic compounds. The Firefungus they had been in open combat with for over a day still burned here and there producing thick inky smoke. At the edge of the clearing he stood in, Ironwood grew. Each tree an organic steel cable, wrapped around itself like layers of muscle. Ropes dangled from one of the gnarled metallic trees where he and his friend had strung up some bandits as a scare tactic. They probably had the better death,...

  Quarantine Alpha Evocation Get a piece of the biggest psychic mushroom’s brain to try and obfuscate thought energy. Caves that wrap around the surface of an immobile asteroid. Myconids Setting: A lavender asteroid coated in a deep orange fungal growth. The asteroid is stationary relative to the solar system. It is close enough to the sun that it should have fallen into the sun a long time ago. Deep craters intersect a network of tunnels beneath the surface and serve as massive skylights and windows out to the blackness of space. The spherical nature of the asteroid is represented by an unwrapped icosahedron with a hexagonal grid. Each face is a triangle, and has three tunnels off to adjacent rooms. The party teleports into the largest cave that perforates this asteroid. A five foot hollow brass sphere carved with swirling patterns lays motionless in a cradle made of carved stone and metal plates. Through the many swirling slashes in the surface a single rod can be found suspend...

  Grave Robbing  A Lich accused of soul-trafficking flees across planar lines. An apollopunk spelljammer adventure framework for levels 1-5(?)  The Night of the Grim Star "Your Majesty," his whisper rung out like the polishing of funeral bells, "I bring you grim news. Your new star is no blessing."  King Thalor stared back unblinking into the petitioner’s glowing green eyes. “Why should I believe you, stranger?”  “I was a King once.” Pulling back his hood, Malachor revealed his skeletal features. Among Gasps he pulled out a vial of sand from his robes he poured it on the floor. Each grain began swirling and twisting into the shape of a castle, until every parapet and arch was visible “Like you I saw the star. Our church prayed and communed, and learned of their judgment. Our most powerful witches, arcanists, and clerics worked together to plead for mercy. I had just enough time to cast a spell to save my people from this so-called retribution.” The sand formed a...