Roleplay

Originally, Slack 'n' Hash was intended as a site devoted to role-playing games, and though we like to think its brief has broadened since then we still post articles devoted to this hobby. Many of these are geared towards the d20 System, but many articles contain information that can be applied to other games as well.

• Roleplay: Our roleplaying articles.
  • d20 System House Rules: Fudges, tweaks, and other stuff
    • Are Those Gold Teeth?: A guide to looting corpses.
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    • Cavalry: A guide to cavalrymen.
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    • Censor: Suppressors of objectionable reality.
    • Defilers of the Faith: A quick guide to blackguards.
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    • Don't Drink The Water!: Waterborne diseases.
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    • Gimme Yer Beer Money!: A guide to intimidation.
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    • Grappling Friar: Expert wrestlers.
    • Grunts: A quick guide to soldiers.
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    • Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre: A quick guide to assassins.
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    • Occidental Monks: Monks without kung-fu.
    • Officers: A guide to army officers.
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    • Pants on Fire!: A guide to lying.
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    • Yoink!: A guide to theft.
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    • You've Got a Friend in Me: Internal parasites
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  • Ecology: The ecologies of fantastic monsters.
    • Gelatinous Cubes: The Ecology of the Gelatinous Cube.
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    • Gricks: The ecology of the grick.
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  • Heathen: Preview material from the forthcoming HEATHEN role-playing game
    • Heathen Preview: Capture: A quick preview of capture and ransom in the HEATHEN game.
    • Heathen Preview: Magic Weapons: Some of the magic weapons from the HEATHEN role-playing game
    • Rule One: The first rule any player should learn. Excerpt from Heathen.
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  • Humour: Various articles of a humorous bent.
    • Battle of the Villains: Just a bit of fun.
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    • Claustrophilia: The case for dungeons.
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    • Don't Feel Bad: Be Bad!: A self-help guide for supervillains.
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    • How to Roast a Hobbit: Gary Rhodes is an orc.
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    • Just Wing It.: Improvisation and time-wasting.
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    • The Peasants are Revolting!: A quick guide to peasants in fantasy RPGs
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    • You Don't Know You're Born.: Pointless rambling nostalgia.
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  • Monsters: New monsters for your role-playing games.
    • Addle-Fly Swarm: Pestilential insects
    • Addle-Wrath: Undead bringers of pestilence and corruption.
    • Angler Drake: A cunning, cave-dwelling dragon.
    • Atorjack: Kalamein craftsmen.
    • Barrow-Herd: A grim, implacable tomb-guardian.
    • Boatman Devil: A Bosch-derived Devil.
    • Bog Body: Mummified undead from the peat marshes.
    • Capropteran: Goat-headed, bat-winged thugs.
    • Chill-Tree: Horrible thieving trees.
    • Corpse-Feaster: A necrophagous predator.
    • Didumos: A malevolent, two-headed slug.
    • Dire Goat: A very big, very aggressive goat.
    • Friendleech: A vile parasite.
    • Iceworm: An icy elemental.
    • Isop: Kalamein warriors.
    • Kalamein: Shadowy outsiders.
    • Mandrake Root (Adolescent): A shrieking plant (III).
    • Mandrake Root (Adult): A shrieking plant (IV).
    • Mandrake Root (Immature): A shrieking plant (II).
    • Mandrake Root (Newborn): A shrieking plant (I).
    • Mimic Fungus: Intelligent, corpse-animating fungi.
    • Nug-Yeb: Kalamein scouts.
    • Shroud: Rank and file kalamein.
    • Silverman: Silver-plated sentinels.
    • Song Devil: A fiend that sings songs of torment.
    • Springheeled Jack: A murderous, urban fey.
    • Traitor Blade: A monster disguised as a weapon.
    • Tree Rhinoceros: The most absurd monster in all existence.
    • Umbraster: Kalamein overseers.
  • NPCs: Non-player characters for your role-playing games.
    • Asbrand: An azer weaponsmith.
    • Brother Chthonius: A priest of the dungeon.
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    • Thousand-Faced Thralgar: A master of disguise.
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    • Ucarota: A demon-blooded werehyena druid.
  • Treasure: Treasures magical and mundane.
    • Do Not Exceed Maximum Dosage.: Alchemical items.
    • Intelligent Items: Magic items with personalities.
    • Magic Boots: Enough magic footwear for a crippled centipede!
    • Magic Candles: Illuminating magic items!
    • Magic Cloaks: Magical cloaks, capes and mantles.
    • Magic Gloves: A couple of handfuls of enchanted gloves.
    • Magic Jewellery: If it's shiny, it's magical.
    • Magic Musical Instruments: Turn that bloody noise down!
    • Magic Weapons: New magic weapons.
    • Wondrous Item Index: A master index of the site's wondrous items
  • Dice for the Destitute: A quick guide to random number generation for the dice-poor.
  • Miniatures for Mendicants: A quick guide to making counters.