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There are also lesser Saints (called Blessed) who have weaker powers that resemble greater Saints and tend to end up as "paladins" and priests

One of my worlds, Alastros, has a setup I'm quite proud of: No gods, instead worshipping Saints who are born with powers. Their powers look angelic, but they end up as Saints of strange things: St. Yoran the Beast is a monster in the sewers, St. Jonathan the Vigilant runs a prison.

I've seen games that come with pregens and very much assume that you're playing those pregens (Eat the Reich, Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast, Silent Titans), but the Condemned is the first adventure I've seen that does that AND provides rules to make your own pregen equivalents, which is super cool

Following up with this: Takete the Tall and Maluma the Mighty are gonna be super fun.

I've historically avoided putting actual names in my published work, but I think the Names table is a good added feature for my future zines. Just enough specificity to ask questions.

I'm no artist, but I'm definitely gonna use a version of this exercise with the next pair of enemies I use in one of my RPGs. I already use a framework I call "the Bastard and the Badass", which can always use more supplemental methods to make different pairings distinct.

TLDR: Combat As Wrestling Match / Musical Number over Sport or War

But I had also "planned" on a recurring rival character stealing their kill, but because they killed the monster before he arrived, I instead had him show up enraged at being dishonored and kept from his supposed destiny.

Or the fight I ran just last night where they absolutely wrecked this monster I had built up over a couple sessions. It left one of the heroes super paranoid and unable to mechanically benefit from help from others (this is somewhat a cheat).

A core example being a recent-ish combat I had where the Treeherder, an Ent player character, killed an enemy (the first dog, since my world is weird), and we accidentally discovered that he was slowly going insane from dealing with humanity on their timeframe.

TTRPG Hot Take Done well, Combat is the RPG equivalent of a match on a wrestling show or a song in a musical. It's a structured segment of heightened reality where the characters come out on the other side in a different state than they began.

Trying to work on blogging again. Currently using Patreon because it's intuitive

He'll defend your tribe from raiders, then eat all your food and leave you to starve. He'll defeat you in a duel, then offer a massive roasted boar in respect. He drinks poison for fun, and a strike from a club only cures his hangover. He is the Brewer, a terror to behold. Art by Stonedrunkwizard

What if Gaston was a caveman? What if Kraven was born before the First City was built? What if your Book Boyfriend wielded a club, a necklace of fangs, and a mastodon pelt because swords and armor weren't invented yet? Find out in my next zine, The Forest's Son

I can imagine this being used in conjunction with capsule games and pregenerated characters and that sounds super fun.

Just published this on Itch! Art by Sean Bova, Stonedrunkwizard, Micah Green, and Caustic Hoping to release monthly zines for a while. tornadofyr.itch.io/the-brewer

That Andrade admirer spot was the best one they've ever done. Just brilliant.

Love is Dead, Kyle Fletcher killed it.

Jungle Jack had to count to fuck! Dunkzilla did it!

What if Rush's theme had a "Wrestling Has More Than One Royal Family" intro in Spanish? Credits to @zacharysnow.bsky.social