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deathdealingjawa
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What are your favorite TTRPG reports?

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What are your favorite TTRPG report/journals? My job has made it very impractical for me to join a group, so I was wanting to read some entertaining player or DM journals to tide me over.
I apologize if this should have been posted in "In the Trenches" instead.
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Blicero
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Post by Blicero »

There are a few decent journals based on the Red Hand of Doom.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthre ... gn-Journal
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthre ... nd-of-Doom!
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthre ... gn-Journal
The first is probably the best-written.

The really famous ones from giantitp are the silver claw shift campaigns.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthre ... n-Archives
They are fun to read, but you can definitely see the MC making things up as he goes along.

If you search through the ACKS AP forum (http://www.autarch.co/forums/actual-play), you can find the Chronicles of the Grim Fist, and Opelenean Nights. They do the old-school hexcrawl thing pretty well, I think.
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Post by hogarth »

There's a guy who has been running a Pathfinder version of the World's Largest Dungeon on and off for the past 5 years who has a campaign log on the Paizo messageboard.

Velcro Zipper presents AEG's - The World's Largest Dungeon!

I find it equal parts fascinating and frustrating; there have multiple TPKs and dozens of other PC deaths, but the game continues...
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Post by TheFlatline »

It's not really a journal but a couple weeks back a friend and I were musing that it's possible that all bottomless pits are the same bottomless pit. It arose from a joke in a game years ago where a character fell into a bottomless pit, and then like 12 sessions later the party opened the door to another bottomless pit, heard a scream, cast web, and caught the PC that had fallen in way before.

This led to the idea that if you were smart about it, you could probably survive for quite a while in a bottomless pit, especially if you were a cleric who could create food & water. Even if you weren't though, you could probably drop through the pit skydiving as it were and come up on adventurers with supplies on them, possibly already dead, or animals that fell in. or all kinds of stuff.

This then suggested the idea that a bottomless pit could have an ecology of it's own, with specialized monsters that could float or drift in the bottomless pit and then dive down when needed, thereby giving the monsters some sort of ability to maneuver in the pit.

All this cumulated in the idea that we needed to write a short story from the point of view of a mage who is studying the ecology and sociology of bottomless pit dwellers.

Edit: We also came up with people and possibly creatures who subsist off of living *near* a bottomless pit as opposed to in one. We called the humanoids who lived near them pit fishers because they'd cast nets out hoping to catch stuff that had been falling: equipment from long dead adventurers mostly, but all kinds of stuff with eventually pass through the bottomless pit.

A goofy idea but fun to play with.
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