Tag Archives: Faith

Faith: Signature Items (Jace)

Posted on 5 May, 2018 by MssngrDeath

If there’s a single running theme across all signature items, it’s that they’re objectively powerful. Consider today’s item, where the capstone ability is a more powerful, more useful version of time stop, a top-tier 9th-level spell. This is one of … Continue reading →

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Faith: Signature Items (Sildroag)

Posted on 1 May, 2018 by MssngrDeath

Back in March, when I posted the signature items I’d written for Faith, that was actually everything I had at the time. I wanted to give the players something when they reached L2 and I figured I wouldn’t get them … Continue reading →

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Faith: Filler Arc (Pokémon)

Posted on 27 March, 2018 by MssngrDeath

I’m generally not a fan of missing sessions. If we’re not having a campaign in a given week there has to be a pretty good reason, and the most common reason is lack of quorum. That is, if we are … Continue reading →

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Faith: Signature Items

Posted on 12 March, 2018 by MssngrDeath

Sometimes I worry what my readers think of me. I know logically that nobody goes over this blog with a fine-toothed comb, looking for contradictions so they can shout “Aha! This person says he/she doesn’t like racial stereotyping, but there’s … Continue reading →

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Faith: Meet the PCs

Posted on 5 March, 2018 by MssngrDeath

Campaigns are about characters. It doesn’t matter what plots you weave or how clever your battles are or what house rules you wrote if the players aren’t excited to apply characters to them. I wanted to avoid gushing about my … Continue reading →

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Faith: World Maps

Posted on 12 February, 2018 by MssngrDeath

As part of planning for Faith, our time travel campaign where the characters go through history adjusting events so their respective gods can become top-tier members of their pantheon, I realized I would need world maps. That’s maps, plural. Chrono … Continue reading →

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A Comedy of Eras

Posted on 7 February, 2018 by MssngrDeath

I’ve wanted to use that as a post name forever. There are a lot of “nevers” in conventional DMing advice, and I’ve been on something of an unofficial quest to violate all of them. Consider “never give the players wishes”, … Continue reading →

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