Bones

Version 0.6
A GLOG Hack By The Oblidisideryptch
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Roll 4d4 three times. Assign these numbers to the following stats to create a player character (PC): Meat (M), Head
(H), and Soul (S). These numbers are the number of slots within each stat. Higher is better. Roll 1d6 on the
Meatshell table for your character’s body and another 1d6 on the Calling table for your character’s class.

Meatshell
1. Fae​: Can activate ancient objects but must test versus Soul to control them, disadvantage on saves versus
mind-influencing magic and obeying lawful authority.
2. Ashanti​: Can ignore a Fatal Wound once per day, but always fly into a homicidal rage when you Crack.
3. Tiefling​: Start with one random beneficial ​mutation​. Save with disadvantage versus Effects or Mutations,
but roll twice and choose the result.
4. Goblin​: Can smell as well as you can see, release a foul stench 1/day when you fail a Save.
5. Berkins​: Automatically pass Meat Tests or Saves if you eat a ration. If no ration, 1d6 damage.
6. Coatl​: (1d4)
a. Onotlapetlan​ (lightning) - Can paralyze creatures by touching their bare skin but gain 1 Fatigue
every time you’re touching metal or get hit with a metal weapon.
b. Xococ​ (acid) - Can produce corrosive bile but slowly dissolves equipment (50% chance to break
random uninsulated item/day) unless it’s covered in grease or glass.
c. Tlachinolli​ (fire) - Can instantly heat parts of yourself up hot enough to boil water but take some
time to cool down.
d. Huaqui​ (drought) - Can drain and store watery substances inside self (1 gallon/Meat slot) but must
Save vs Meat when submerged in a watery substance or soak up 1 slot/round. You can only
release [level] slots per day.
Calling
1. Zouave (pg. 12)
2. Scholar (14)
3. Thief (15)
4. Sorcerer (MRoS pg. 33) (​Many Rats on Sticks​)
5. Berzerker (1d4)
a. A Mirror Darkly (17)
b. Drug Fiend (18)
c. Hunger (18)
d. Murderous Mantra (19)
6. Wizard (1d6)
a. Adipomancer (20)
b. Biomancer (MRoS 21)
c. Curse-Eater (MRoS 22)
d. Elementalist (MRoS 24)
e. Orthodox (MRoS 29)
f. Radiomancer (21)
Starting Equipment
All characters begin with 3 travel rations, 3 torches, a tinderbox, a bedroll, a canteen, a backpack, a dagger and 3gp.
Roll once on the Trinkets table. Additional equipment/skills from relevant classes.

D20 Trinkets

1. Flask of petroleum jelly 8. Shadow puppets 15. Devotional

2. Daguerrotype of a loved one
3. Liquid obsidian (dries in air)
4. Jar of red paint
5. Bar of sugared cacao
6. Block and tackle
7. Dirty comic
9. Wind-up music box 16. Bloodletting knife
10. Pouch of incense 17. 30’ of black rope
11. Glass syringe (holds 1 dose) 18. Mirror on a stick
12. Bag of plaster 19. Emetic root
13. Pipe and tobacco (8 smokes) 20. 3 doses of peyote
14. Enema device
The Backbone
The DM should only call for a roll if both success and failure would be interesting. Failure carries consequences.
Minimize risks (and therefore rolls) through planning and caution. Unless otherwise specified, all rolls take place on
a 20-sided dice (d20). Roll equal to or under a target number to succeed. Debate the DM and other players over
decisions. Be relentlessly dissatisfied when you need to, obstinate when you must, and always try to compromise.
Solutions and choices (and genders) are never binary. HAVE FUN!!!

Stats
Test​ a stat (roll under that stat) to perform a risky action using that stat. ​Save​ against half that stat, rounding down,
to avoid harmful effects.

Meat:​ Your physical durability and physical inventory. Test Meat to bend iron bars, dodge traps, scale a cliff, or
perform delicate tasks under pressure. Save vs Meat to resist cold, heat, some poisons, and drowning. ​Your starting
hit points are half your Meat +1​.

Head:​ Your mental resilience and mind inventory. Test Head to spot lies, identify treasure, and spot hidden danger.
Save vs Head to avoid Cracking, some poisons, and other mental effects. Your Head slots are where you store spells,
Skills, language fluency, Stress, Cracks, and Madness.

Soul:​ Your personal flame. Test Soul or Save vs Soul to resist magical effects, drug addiction, disease, and anything
else Meat and Head don’t cover. Your Soul slots store GLOG templates, curses, Mutations, Effects, friends, lovers,
and enemies.
Important Numbers
Attack:​ Starts at 10. Increases with level. Roll equal to or under Attack, opposed by your target’s Defense.

Defense​: If unarmored, 10. Every Meat slot filled with Armor gives +1 to Defense. Roll equal to or under Defense
to dodge an attack, modified by your enemy’s Attack.

Movement:​ 10’ + 1’ for every empty Meat slot. Each point of Encumbrance or Fatigue is -1’ to Movement.
Movement helps you Flee from chasing enemies.

Stress: ​Starts at 0. Increases every time you fail a Save, are reduced to 0 HP or below, something extraordinarily
bad happens, etc. Decompress with food, sleep, and friends.

Opposed Rolls
A PC or NPC must roll equal to or under their stat, modified by 10-[their opponent’s relevant stat]. Examples:
- Holding a door closed. The PC has 8 Meat, the goblin has 13 Meat. The PC needs to roll a 5 or less to
succeed. (8 + [10-13])
- Chess. The PC has a Head of 12. The fae has a Head of 11. The PC needs to roll an 11 or under to succeed.
- Racing. The PC has a Movement of 12’. The gladiator has a movement of 15’. The PC needs to roll 7 or
less to win.
Skills
Skills are a word describing a thing you’ve learned. They are mental tools. There are no perception, stealth, trap
solving, or charisma skills. If a PC has a skill, only make them roll if the circumstances are dire even with that
knowledge.
Advantage and Disadvantage
Advantage is when you roll a dice twice and take the better result. Disadvantage is when you roll twice and take the
worse result. Both are roughly equal to -4 or +4, depending on context. This is a roll under system, so advantage
means taking the lower result, the opposite of how 5e does it.
Combat
When bloodshed is inevitable, switch to combat rounds. If one side surprises or ambushes the other, they act first,
then initiative is rolled normally. Each combat round is 10 seconds.

Initiative
One player rolls group initiative on a d6 vs the DM. Lower roll wins. Players win odd ties, DM wins even ties.
Light, encumbrance, and wounds may modify rolls. If the PC’s win, they can act whenever they want. If they lose,
they act after the monsters.
On Your Turn
4 different small actions separated by three “and’s”, or the same thing twice. You can only attack and cast a spell
once on your turn. “I grab a handful of dust and throw it in its face and then I run forwards and attack”. If you repeat
the same action twice “I snort two doses” that ends your turn. Talking and dropping items is free.

Attack Rolls
Roll under your Attack, modified by your enemy’s Defense, like an opposed roll, to hit them. Examples:
- A 1st level fighter with 10 Attack tries to stab a berkins with no armor. The fighter must roll 10 or under.
- A 2nd level scholar with 11 Attack tries to gut a tiger with 14 Defense. The scholar must roll 7 or under.
Certain circumstances (being on fire, being drunk, fog) may penalize Attack rolls. Ranged weapons get -1 to Attack
for every 10’ past the weapon’s range.

Critical Successes and Failures:​ On an unmodified roll of 1, the attack deals double damage. Roll the damage dice
twice and multiply any modifiers by two. On an unmodified roll of 20, the attack automatically misses. Further
penalties may apply.
Damage
To calculate damage, roll the relevant dice and add the proficiency bonus, if relevant. If you wish to incapacitate an
enemy, simply state that your attack’s damage is non-lethal before you roll the damage.

Weapon Proficiency:​ If you are proficient with a weapon, you may add your total templates to its damage roll. If
you are not, you may kill 2 things with that weapon to become proficient. All classes are proficient with daggers.

Unarmed:​ Fists deal 1 damage but you can attack twice. If you are proficient with your hands, 1d4 damage.
Light Weapons:​ Daggers, spears, etc: 1d6 damage. Spears have a 20’ range, tripled with atlatls.
Medium Weapons​: Macahuitls, tomahawks, warhammers, etc: 1d8 damage, or 1d10 if wielded with two hands.
Heavy Weapons​: Quauhololli, glaives, tridents, etc: 1d12 damage, must use two hands.
Slings:​ 1d4 damage, 100’ range.
Blowguns​: Fires a dart for 1 damage, 30’ range. Ideal for delivering poisons or similar things.
Bows​: 1d8 damage, 75’ range.
Crossbows:​ 1d10 damage, 40’ range.
Guns: ​1d6-1d12 damage, depending on the make. Range varies from 25’-200’. Guns are very rare.

Hit Points
Think of them as “don’t get hit points.” You’re fine as long as you have more than 0. If you drop to 0 or less, roll on
the Death and Dismemberment Table in MRoS.
Healing
Lunch: ​Once a day you can eat food. Every time you prepare a meal according to the ​Dungeon Gourmand​ doc in
this folder,​ which takes 2 hours, you gain 1d6-3d6 + your level HP back and remove 1 Stress. If you eat a ration,
which takes 30 minutes, you regain 1d4 + level HP and remove 1 Stress.

Sleep: ​When you sleep, regain all your HP, remove 1d4 Stress or one Crack, and lose all your Fatigue. Sleeping
requires a safe place, a heat source, and a ration. Every day you go without sleep, your current and gained Stress
doubles, you have disadvantage on all rolls, and you gain 1d4 Fatigue.
Permanent wounds can only be healed with surgery or strong magic, usually available for high prices in cities.

Reaction Rolls and Morale

When encountering unknown sentient creatures, roll 2d6 + levels of most leveled party member and look below.
2-3: Offended or disgusted. May attack immediately.
4-7: Suspicious. May attack if victory is likely.
8-11: Benign. Willing to parley or bargain.
12: Favorable. May choose to cooperate.

Morale:​ Works on a 2-12 (craven-unbreakable) scale. All enemies and hirelings have a Morale score, and may run
away if combat goes against them. Check Morale after:
- The first death on that side.
- When half that side has casualties.
- If something spectacularly horrible occurs.
If your Morale roll is above the creature’s Morale, they attempt to Flee, retreat, surrender, or panic.

Fleeing
There’s no shame in making mistakes, only in pugnaciously seeing them through. When you attempt to Flee combat
(running away from enemies chasing you) on your turn, roll under your Movement. You may drop any number of
items to gain a -1 bonus for each drop. If successful, you escape. If unsuccessful, roll Defense as your pursuers
attack you. Each Flee roll is a combat round (10 seconds). Regardless, you gain 1 Fatigue.

Inventories
You have three inventories: Meat, Head, and Soul. Physical, mental, and metaphysical. Here’s what you put in them.

Hirelings
Hire out at fixed rates. Dangerous work may require bonuses. Generic hirelings have 10 in all stats, 5 HP, and no
skills outside their profession. You may have your level in hirelings. Aside from any items required for their job, a
hireling has 3 free Meat slots, 3 Mind slots, and 3 Soul slots. Consult Many Rats on Sticks (pg. 52) for prices.

Meat

A Meat slot can hold: - 30 darts

- 3 light weapons (dagger) - 3 bottles or flasks
- 1 medium weapon (axe) - 1 lantern
- 0.5 heavy weapons (maul) - 3 books
- 1 bow - 3 rations
- 1 crossbow - 1 point of Armor
- 20 arrows - A shield
- 1 sling - An augmentation
- 20 slingstones - Fatigue
- 1 blowgun - Encumbrance

Three Meat slots are quick access​. It takes 1 round to dig something out of the others. Plan out your Meat slots.

Armor
Each Meat slot occupied by Armor gives you +1 to Defense. There is no limit to how many slots you can fill with
Armor because you’ll never have many free Meat slots.

Shields​: Shields take up 1 Meat slot and one hand but give +2 Defense provided you can see your attacker. You may
sunder your shield to reduce incoming damage by 1d12, after which the shield breaks.
 Encumbrance
You gain 1 point of Encumbrance for every extra physical thing you carry. Each point of Encumbrance imposes -1
to Movement, Meat Saves, and Defense. Every combat with Encumbrance gains that much Fatigue.

Fatigue
Fleeing, travel without rest, or excessively tiring activities inflict Fatigue, which takes up a Meat slot. If you have no
free Meat slots, you must empty one or stop moving. Fatigue is removed by sleep or by shifting it into your Mind
slots as Stress.

Head
A Head slot can hold:
- 1 language (any fluency) - 1 Stress
- 1 Skill - 1 Crack
- 1 Spell - 1 Madness
- 3 cantrips

If you want to learn something but have no empty slots, simply choose something to erase. Cracks, Stress, and
Madnesses cannot be erased.
Stress
Gain​ Stress when:
- You fail a Save (1) - An ally dies (2)
- You or a friend take damage (1) - You run out of light (3)
- An ally falls to 0 HP or below (2) - You run out of food (3)
- You fall to 0 HP or below and live (2)

Lose​ Stress through:

- Eating (1) - Cracking
- Sleeping (1d4) - Drugs
- Praying - Moving to Meat as Fatigue
- Personal items - Sharing with friends
- Recreation - Venting to your best friend

Losing Stress
Everything that removes Stress has a cost: time, light, sound, money, etc​. Make up your own, improvise rules.
Here are some ways to decompress. Everything takes an hour unless otherwise stated.
- Cacao bars remove 1 Stress when eaten, but they are expensive, delicate, and rare. 1 round.
- Musical instruments remove 1 Stress if you sing along, but the noise can trigger encounters.
- Dirty comics and masturbation remove 1 Stress but if someone catches you you both gain 1 Stress.
- A shadow puppet show removes 1 Stress but requires a torch or brighter.
- You may pray with a text to remove 1 Stress. Belief is a choice. If you believe, you can be hurt that way.
- You may cut yourself with a bloodletting knife for 2 damage to relieve 1 Stress.
- Smoking relieves 1 Stress but supplies are limited.
- An enema removes 1 Stress but you’re rather incapacitated while performing it.
- A daguerreotype or portrait of a loved one can store up to 3 Stress, but if it’s lost you gain twice the Stress it held.
- Confessing to your best friend removes 1 Stress.
- Drugs are their own consequences.

Spellcasting
Spellcasting is powered by Magic Dice (MD). MD are d6’s. 1 spell takes up 1 Head slot. You can memorize as
many spells as you want. To cast a spell, select the number of MD you want to use and roll them and empty the slot
you stored the spell in. Most spell effects are determined by the [dice] invested and the [sum] of the dice. On a roll
of 1-3, keep the MD for future use. On a roll of 4-6, the MD is burnt, and is regained after a good night’s sleep. Any
doubles trigger a Mishap. Any triples trigger a Doom. Three Dooms and your wizard is ​gone forever​ unless they
complete an epic quest. Special items (​staves of power​, powdered wizard teeth, hats, scrolls, etc) may add MD,
boost MD, provide additional cantrips, or provide new spells to transcribe…

DrUgS
Drugs have a positive, a negative, a method of application, and a duration. You may take as many doses as you
want, but you must Save vs Soul if you take more than one dose per day or become addicted. When addicted, you
must take at least one dose of your drug per day or you gain 2 Stress. Poisons use the same rules but only have
negative effects, and allow a Save to negate.
D6 Drugs and Poisons

1. Soldier rocks. Small white granules that must be
crushed and snorted.
Duration​: 2 hours per dose.
Positive​: -1 to initiative rolls and you can notice
details while moving quickly.
Negative​: Can’t gain any benefits from rest or lunch
as long as you’re high.
2. Balche. Fermented honeyed bark. Use your enema
or mouth to get drunk.
Duration​: 1 hour per drink.
Positive​: You gain 1 less stress from stressors per
drink for the duration.
Negative​: You have a penalty to Meat and Head
saves and initiative equal to the number of drinks
taken.
3. Peyote. Dried cactus buttons. Make tea out of them
or chew them.
Duration​: 3 hours.
Positive​: You have advantage on Soul saves against
adverse effects as you hallucinate.
Negative​: You hallucinate! See the table below.
4. Tobacco. Smoke its dried leaves in a pipe.
Duration​: 10 minutes.
Positive​: Remove 1 Stress every time you smoke and
gain -1 to initiative rolls.
Negative​: If you smoke more than one per day,
you’re addicted, no save.
5. Bufo glands. Injected venom from a toad. Meat
Save to negate.
Duration​: 1 hour.
Effects: ​Hallucinate vividly. If you get 2 doses, Save
vs Meat or fall unconscious for the hour. 3 doses
kills, no Save.
6. Purple gills. Burn the mushrooms to release the
spores. Save vs Head to resist the anger.
Duration​: 1 minute.
Effects​: Fly into a murderous rage and try to kill
every living thing near you.

HaLlUcInATIOns
When a PC or NPC encounters something requiring description, roll on the below table and alter your words.
1-3: Adjective. Describe what's happening with a different set of adjectives. Give what's happening different
descriptors.
4-5: Verb. Describe what's happening with a different set of verbs. Change what actions are happening right now.
6: Noun. Describe what's happening with a different set of objects. Change who and what is here right now.

Mental tools
It’s understood that everything in your physical inventory is up for grabs. The same isn’t quite true for mental tools,
but they are transferable. PC’s are assumed to be fast learners.

Transfer/gain ​instantaneously​: Stress to Fatigue (Head slots to Meat slots) or vice versa
Transfer/gain ​over 10 minutes​: Stress/Fatigue between friends.
Transfer/gain ​over a meal​: Friends, rivals.
Transfer/gain ​after a rest​: Skills and language practice. Skills gained this way require a refresher every night from
the teacher until you level up or spend a week knowing the skill.
Transfer/gain ​after a week​: A skill, permanently, or one step of language fluency, permanently. ​A week is 10 days​.
 Languages
3 steps of fluency. Each step is a relative level of complexity. It takes 3 weeks to learn a language. Each one derives
from a common base (except for Coatl), so universal words (light, food, water) are shared. Each rest you spend
learning a language, put a hash mark by the slot. After 10 marks, you gain step 1. Step 2 is 20. Etc.
Step 1: You can ask for directions to the market.
Step 2: You can report a crime to a guard.
Step 3: You can debate a lawyer. You gain the language’s benefit.

Benefits
Languages confer different modes of thought. This is understood. Knowledge expands your brain in new and
terrifying ways. This is also understood. Language is a double-edged sword, so ignorance can be a defense.

Ashanti​: By rumbling in your throat, you may speak to the blood in living things, and it will respond. You can do
this while you talk, and say two different things. Non-speakers cannot consciously hear your rumblings.
Berkins​: As long as you reference the domestic details of your home, you may convey a coded message to other
speakers who know you.
Fae​: Yours is the imperious sneer of cold command, the overseer who is a slave themselves. You may scream your
demands and they will be accommodated, at the cost of hate and your voice. One minute before your voice breaks.
Goblin​: You may communicate in silent burps and farts. Distance is possible, given the right conditions.
Tiefling​: The flesh is clay. By speaking to it, you can bend it to your will. People may not understand, but they will
know if you try to warp them, for good or ill.
Coatl​: You may speak to your affinity, (electricity/acid/fire/water) and it will answer, but it will demand things.

Cracking
When you have no empty Head slots, and you gain Stress, Save vs Head. If you succeed, nothing happens. If you
fail, lose 1d4 Stress and roll on the Crack table with a d6. Each time you Crack, step the dice size up. Bolded Cracks
stick around, overwriting a random Head slot if necessary. At any time, you may choose to lose all your Stress and
Cracks to roll on the Madness table once. Madnesses are extremely difficult to get rid of.

(d6->d8->d10->d12)
1-2. Panic. +d6 Stress (don’t roll to Crack, though).
3. ​Twitchy​. Disadvantage on Meat rolls.
4. ​Scream: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! If anyone didn't know you are here, they will now. May provoke a random
encounter.
5. Fight/Flight/Freeze: For 1d6 rounds, you either viciously attack the source of Stress, Flee mindlessly, or freeze.
Your choice.
6. ​Phobia​. Gain 1 Stress when you encounter something that reminds you of this stressor.
7. Shock: What's happening? Save vs Soul once per round, until you succeed you can take no actions
8. ​Abusive​: Why aren't they pulling their weight? Once a round, when an ally fails an action, they take 1 Stress as
you scream obscenities at them..
9. Nausea: You gag or vomit for a round, and cannot benefit from Lunch today.
10. ​Blackout​: You faint for 1d6 rounds when you take damage. You can be slapped awake.
11. Hopeless: All is lost. You make all rolls with disadvantage until a group success.
12. ​Self-Mutilation​: Every time you would gain Stress, you can instead take 1d6 damage. If you take no damage for
a whole day, you must hurt yourself for 1d6 damage. You are covered in scars.

Madness

1. Delusion: Roll d6: 1) You are the long-lost heir of the throne. 2) You can fly. 3) You will burn in sunlight.
4) You are of a different race / an animal. 5) You are invincible. 6) All magic is inherently bad. You cannot
be convinced otherwise and rationalise any evidence as an illusion, trick, or any barely believable
"explanation".
2. Depression: Every day is a struggle. Roll with disadvantage until the first time you succeed on a roll in a
given day.
 3. Minor Compulsion: Once per day, when the GM calls for it, you must stop everything else to satisfy your
compulsion (wash your hands, count your money, vandalise something). Good roleplaying of the
compulsion should prevent the GM from using this at too troublesome times.
4. Major Compulsion: Once every week, when the GM calls for it, you must stop everything else to satisfy
your compulsion (kleptomania, necrophilia, cannibalism). Good roleplaying of the compulsion should
prevent the GM from using this at too troublesome times.
5. Nightmares: Save vs Soul each night or wake up screaming, gaining only half the effects of rest. Alcohol or
drugs may grant you serene sleep.
6. Paranoia: No one counts as a friend to you. You must Save vs Head to accept aid or work in a team.
7. Quirks: You have personality quirks. Severe ones. Roll d8: You 1) talk to yourself, 2) laugh wildly and
inappropriately, 3) constantly fidget, 4) eat odd substances, 5) mimic those around you, 6) have irritating
tics, 7) stutter, 8) suffer tremors. You take a penalty to Reaction rolls and social checks equal to current
Stress.
8. Schizophrenia: Make a new character sheet with a different class, but the same name, race, attributes etc.
Each session, alternate between these two character sheets.
9. Deadened. Lose your powers of (d4): 1. Sight, 2. Hearing, 3. Touch, 4. Speech.
10. Veracity: Every time you deliberately lie, Save vs Head or faint.

Soul
A Soul slot can hold:

- 1 GLOG template - 3 enemies/rivals

- 1 Mutation - 1 nemesis
- 1 Effect - 3 friends
- A possession (ghost, demon, etc) - 1 best friend
- A curse - Disease
- A blessing

If you ever run out of Soul slots, and you want to replace something, you must undergo purification, fasting, or a
ritual quest. If something tries to force its way into your Soul, and there is no space, you Save vs Soul, with
advantage against the effect, but if you fail, the thing overwrites a random Soul slot.

Friends and enemies

Anyone can be someone to share the burdens of your travels with or add to them. You can declare someone to be
your friend or your rival after having shared a meal with them, and you may declare someone to be your best friend
or nemesis after a perilous encounter with them.
Friends and best friends, if they are able to talk to each other, may transfer Stress with about 10 minutes of honest
conversation. You and your best friend (you can only have one) can decrease each other’s Stress by 1 after eating or
resting together, and you can choose to fail a Save you both make to have your best friend reroll it.
This comes at a cost. Every time a friend/best friend of yours takes damage, you gain 1 stress, and every time a
friend/best friend of yours drops unconscious or dies, you gain 2 Stress instead of one.
Rivals and enemies, on the other hand, are simpler. You don’t gain any Stress when they die or drop below 1 HP,
but you can’t lose Stress from eating with them or performing any Stress-reducing activities as a group.
Nemeses you wish to see destroyed. You gain Stress when you see your nemesis succeed, but you lose Stress when
you see them fail or hurt them, and you lose all your Stress and a Crack or Madness if they are killed or defeated at
your hands.
Disease
When you get a disease, from people, bad food, or the air, it takes up an empty Soul slot, and your symptoms
manifest. Roll a random Soul slot if all of them are full. Every interval, the number of diseased slots ​doubles​. When
there are no more free slots, it spreads to your occupied slots. You can’t use diseased slots until the sickness is
cured. When the cure is applied, halve the number of diseased slots daily until they are gone. You roll to recover
naturally after all your Soul slots are filled with disease. You have a 3 in 6 chance of getting each party member sick
each day unless precautions are taken. Remember, ​a week is 10 days​.
 D6 Diseases
1. The Plague: Doubles ​daily​. Symptoms: Gain Fatigue at the start of every day equal to the slots filled with Plague.
Cure: Religious intervention. Extremely expensive drugs. Recover without help in a 1 in 6. Die if you fail.
2. Stomach bug: Doubles ​hourly​. Symptoms: Barf up all food and water. Can’t recover HP through food. Cure:
Natural roots, some emetics. Recover without help in a 4 in 6. Keep being sick until you pass your roll.
3. Rabies: Doubles ​weekly​. Symptoms: add the slots filled with Rabies to Attack, but you can’t stop fighting until
every enemy is dead. Cure: Secret government chemicals. If all your Soul slots are filled with Rabies, you go feral.
4. Cholera: Doubles ​hourly​. Symptoms: each hour, gain Fatigue equal to infected slots as you hemorrhage water.
Cure: One ration of water every hour for a day. Recover without help in a 2 in 6. Die if you fail.
5. Mummy rot. Doubles ​daily​. Symptoms: every day after you contract this, a random limb stiffens up. Your head is
the last one, but when it stiffens, you die. Cure: Appease the mummy you offended or find a priest to do it. Requires
a sacrifice of human organs. Recover without help with a 1 in 6 once all of you is paralyzed. If you fail, you die and
rise as a zombie in service to the mummy after a day.
6. Brain rot. Doubles ​weekly​. Symptoms: Each week, empty random Head slots equal to infected Soul slots and fill
them with dementia. When you lose everything in your mental inventory, you go gently insane. Cure: Rumors of
secret surgical procedures, powerful sorcery, or powdered frog bladders.

Dungeon Procedures
In a dungeon or similar space with a focus on room-to-room, floor-by-floor exploration, time is measured in
minutes. A usual adventuring day is 12 hours. Every hour past that incurs 1 Fatigue.

Light Sources
Outside of the light range, light illuminates shadows. Vague shapes, movement, and reflections will be visible in
shadows, but no details. Lighting a torch or lantern takes one round. Magic or cantrips may light immediately.

Candles​: 5’ light, 10’ shadows, 1 hour.

Torches:​ 20’ light, 20’ shadows, 1 hour.
Lanterns​: 30’ light, 30’ shadows, 3 hours/oil flask.

Movement
PCs can cautiously move 20 10’ squares (200’) in 10 minutes. Round up to the nearest 10 minutes. PC’s moving
cautiously spot all signs of traps. Disarm traps using common sense and inventory items. No skills.

PC’s can quickly move 60 10’ squares (600’) in 10 minutes. PC’s moving incautiously might get a chance to roll
under Head to notice a trap. You can always find traps with HP and hirelings.

Searching
- A cursory search of a 20’x 20’ room takes 1 minute and reveals only the most obvious information.
- A proper search takes 30 minutes and reveals most hidden information.
- A thorough search takes 1 hour and reveals all information.
- Multiple PC’s can combine to search a larger room in less time or a smaller room in less time.

Random Encounters
The DM will roll for Random Encounters every 30 minutes or whenever a loud noise happens. They usually happen
on 1-in-6. If the PC’s are moving cautiously, they’ll get the Omen before the encounter occurs. If not, they don’t.

Other Activities
- Picking a lock usually takes 10 minutes.
- Identifying a magic item usually takes 1 hour.
- Deciphering an inscription, reading through a book, or sorting through items takes 30 minutes.
- Lunch takes 2 hours (for a meal) or 30 minutes (for a ration).
- There are around 6 combat rounds in 1 minute. Assume combat, a breather, and looting take around 10
minutes.
 - Eyeball other things. Round up a bit.

Wilderness Procedures
Hexes are 6 hours across. Not miles. Hours. If miles are needed, the PC’s can travel 30 miles a day. Horses don’t
make the journey faster, but they do make it easier.

Every hex travelled on foot fills 1 Meat slot with Fatigue. Riding a horse or a vehicle negates the Fatigue gain unless
the weather is terrible or the road is very rough. Hexes contain an Obvious Feature (which the PC’s will find) and a
Hidden Feature (which you might encounter if you search the hex, spend time there, or visit it several times).

Test for a random encounter each 6 hours or whenever the PC’s attract attention to themselves. Usually 1 on a d6.
Roll for the weather each day. Most activities usually take an hour.

PC’s can travel safely for 12 hours (2 hexes per day) or push their luck by traveling 18 hours (3 hexes), losing the
benefits of lunch. In Civilized Parts, roads and villages are everywhere. In the wilderness, they may not exist.

Experience and Leveling Up

Experience points (XP) are how PC’s usually track development. They are gained by dealing with problems
violently or non-violently, acquiring treasure, and acquiring knowledge. Once you acquire treasure and knowledge,
even if you sell them, you retain the XP. The most direct conversion is one gold piece (or equivalent) for 1 XP.
Think of a gold piece as a 100 dollar bill in my game.

Experience Progression
Template 1:​ 0 XP (150 XP to level up a hireling to their first template)
Template 2:​ 300 XP
Template 3:​ 600 XP (Total 900)
Template 4:​ 1,200 XP (Total 2,100)
Beyond:​ Multiply the last one by 2.
Note that these numbers are not one total. When you reach level 2, you do not need 300 more XP to reach level 3.
You need 600 more XP. XP requirements will vary from game to game, but you can generally get a sense of
monetary inflation from them.
Levelling Up!
You made it! Well done. Take a moment to appreciate your survival. Then roll 1d6 + 1 and add that number to your
HP. Choose a new template and add those abilities. Increase one Save by 1 and one stat by 2 or 2 stats by 1.

Player Advice Hat

Map it.
Use a pencil.
Help each other.
Never split the party.
Running is an option.
Good plans don’t roll.
Ask questions, take notes.
Have you tried talking to it yet?
0 HP isn’t death, just dismemberment.
The answer isn’t always on your sheet.
Answer the question the way you want.
When the DM asks “Are you sure?”, seriously consider if you are.
Classes
Zouave
Thanks to DEUS EX PARABOLA at ​Numbers Aren’t Real​ for writing this excellent fighter.
For every template you have in this class you gain +1 HP. If you have at least one template of Zouave, you cannot
fumble with ordinary weapons.

Skills​: (d3) 1. Forestry, 2. Rock-Climbing, 3. Ditchdigging

Starting Equipment​: Slightly ridiculous old-fashioned uniform (2 slots of Armor), an iron ringsword (medium), a
good pair of boots, excellent backpack, one drug or trinket of your choice.

A​ Tall Tales, Nonplussed, Extra Attack Per Round

B​ Respect
C​ Old Friends, Extra Attack Per Round
D​ Nose for Trouble

Tall Tales: ​You've been everywhere​, man. Roll 3d12 on the War Stories table of mostly-true things you did before
becoming an adventurer and record the results. If you roll the same result twice, take your choice of the one above or
below.

Nonplussed: ​You've seen it before. ​Twice.​ You have a +4 bonus on Head saves. If you succeed, allies and hirelings
who can see you have a +2 bonus to theirs.

Respect: ​You aren’t some bumbling conscript, you're a Zouave, and people around here are starting to remember
what that means. Peasant militias, wandering thief-catchers and other assorted low-caste warriors will look to you
for guidance in the absence of actual authority. Even the nobility will stop to listen if you make a fuss, although they
might have you horsewhipped if you say something they don’t like. In addition, you can issue a ​challenge​ to an
NPC you aren't currently fighting. Roll a ​d6​ to determine their response, which depends on their social class:

1. Peasant:
1: Disbelief and derision,
2-6: Intimidation and apology.
2. Soldier:
1: Loud mockery. Expect his friends to try and beat you up.
2-5: They accept. Expect a fistfight or, at best, a choice of two sturdy clubs.
6: Intimidation and awkward verbal submission.
3. Noble (shitty):
1-2: A horsewhipping.
3-6: They accept. Name your terms.
4. Noble (not shitty):
1: Guards! Guards!
2-5: A horsewhipping, followed by a second and more thorough horsewhipping.
6: Pistols at dawn.

Old Friends: ​They found you at last; the ones you've been trying to avoid for years. They might owe you a debt, but
they are probably here to collect instead. This is someone who featured in one of your tall tales; maybe a survivor of
a siege, or a hero, or an angry husband. Or a giant. Or a goat. Or a dead wizard.

Nose for Trouble: ​Your paranoia has saved your life many times, and if you attend to it closely it will save you
many times more. You always go first in combat. If you are surprised, you aren't. If you take someone else by
surprise you deal maximum damage with all attacks on your first turn. You sleep with a loaded gun under your
pillow, and unless you've been strip-searched you always have ​1d4​ knives on your person. If someone demands you
hand over your weapons you can pull the old unloading-an-armory gag and hand over all four — but you will still be
carrying the ​1d4​.
War Stories
1. Crossed the Deserts Bare​. Your long campaign took you as far as the frozen mud-puddle of Arel, where trees
never grow and people wear stupid coats all year round. A six-month guerilla campaign against a vastly superior
force of manhunters taught you the value of good boots and warm wool socks. You and your party travel at full
speed over rough terrain.

2. ​Breathed the Mountain Air​. Your long campaign wound through the mountains and over steep peaks. You
developed an instinct for avalanches and rockslides, and learned the ways of the goat and the warg. You and your
party travel over normally-impassable terrain as if it were rough.

3. ​Travelled Every Road in This Here Land​. Your long campaign took you... everywhere, really. You can read
roadsigns in any language, and you and your party move 1.5x as fast when on actual roads.

4. ​Hunted the Dead in the Hills​. During one part of your campaign, your unit was tasked with cleaning out
undead-infested ghost towns which threatened your supply lines. This was treacherous work, and you still have
nightmares about an encounter with a cobold in the cellar of a church. You can smell a human corpse from 200'. If
you stay perfectly still for a minute and control your breathing, you can hear the difference between a dark room
which is silent and a dark room in which someone is not making any sound.

5. ​Forded Eden White in Flood​. You took part in a famous pre-dawn raid over a broad, deep river. Half of your
force was swept away and drowned, but the enemy was taken entirely by surprise, and their leaders were slain
before the watchmen were roused. Educated officers will have learned about this raid in the academy. You have
advantage on any roll against being moved against your will.

6. ​Killed an Evil Wizard With My Bare Hands​. This one is a straight-up lie: you actually bashed the wizard to
death with the occult manacles he had placed on you in preparation for a goetic sacrifice. You can tell the difference
between magical and non-magical items by tasting them, and you get an extra save against any Command spell.

7. ​Waded Ankle-Deep in Blood​. You took part in an infamous blockade of a fortified city. The six-month siege
resulted in the destruction of the walls and the slaughter of the inhabitants, which caused a mass-rising of the
undead. The city is abandoned to this day and the survivors curse your name. You can identify the value of a
mundane item in a real damn hurry, to within 20 gp.

8. ​Rode Beside A Hero​. You once rode vanguard for a young man with a strange birthmark and a bad habit of
rescuing people. Later, he distinguished himself as the Chosen One in some prophecy or other. This fact might be
worth a free drink or two, but unless you can find the boy again, you probably won't get the full benefit of this tall
tale.

9. ​Strolled Through a Blockade​. You were once besieged in a fortified city, cut off from supplies of food and
water. When all hope seemed lost, you slipped out a side door one evening and walked through the enemy line. No
one challenged you. You were as surprised by this as anyone. Outside of combat, people just assume you are where
you belong, unless given a compelling reason not to.

10. ​Killed Three Men With One Shot​. This one is also not true. You shot one man who was at the top of a tall
ladder, and he knocked two others off as he fell. If you roll a critical hit with a firearm you make a ballistically
improbable shot. The target you hit moves up to 10' in any direction you choose, including straight up. It's the
Dungeon Master's problem to explain how this is possible.

11. ​Won a Game of Riddles With A Giant​. Self-explanatory, really. They were good riddles. Non-player
characters take your riddles very seriously, although this usually isn't enough to dissuade them from killing you.

12. ​Narrowly Escaped an Angry Spouse​. One escapade in a post-battle debauch led to a deadly choice: face an
angry and armed city soldier while totally nude, or leap headfirst out a third-story window. You chose the leap,
survived the fall, and haven't been afraid of heights since. You treat every fall as if it were 10 feet lower.

Scholar
Thanks to LEXI at ​A Blasted, Cratered Land​ for writing this nerd.

A​ Rhetoric, 1 field at random

B ​+1 field of choice, 1 at random
C ​Font of Knowledge, +1 field of choice
D ​+2 fields of choice

Fields: ​You have the listed ability and also gain the appropriate Skill. All chances-in-6 increase by 1 for each
additional Scholar template you have. Failure on these chance-in-6 rolls does not mean that nothing happens, it
means that you get a plausible answer that has (d4: 1. a minor detail wrong, 2. a major detail wrong, 3. only a minor
detail correct, 4. entirely false). The DM rolls the d4 secretly.

Rhetoric: ​You can convince a layman of anything with a long enough debate. Someone else might be able to
convince them back. Educated persons such as other scholars, certain nobles, or young wizards (though not more
experienced wizards) get a save.

Font of Knowledge: ​You've read and learned so much that whenever you examine something, you can remember
additional trivia about it on a 3-in-6 (like a Field roll).
Fields
1. ​Alchemy: ​You can identify substances and know how to handle them safely. You know how to mix poultices that
give +1 HP when healing, and potions that imbue the drinker with effects of their ingredients on a 2-in-6. ​Tools:
Box of glassware, tongs, goggles, thick gloves
2. ​Anthropology:​ You know the customs of other civilizations both ancient and modern, and can make predictions
about their culture on a 2-in-6. You can deduce the general meaning of their writings on a 2-in-6. ​Tools: ​3 small
trinkets from other cultures, dead language guide
3. ​Architecture: ​You can make accurate mental maps and sketch them perfectly. You know the general plan of any
building you see, as well which walls are load-bearing, and where the designer may have hidden secrets. ​Tools:
Measuring tape, calipers, level, mapping paper, set of pens
4. ​Art: ​You can paint photorealistic paintings (takes 1 hr). Reproduce accurately from memory on a 3-in-6. You can
sell your paintings in town. ​Tools: P​ ortable canvases, paint set, brush set
5. ​Astronomy: ​You can navigate by the stars, and make astronomical predictions about the weather (accurate on
3-in-6) or the future (accurate on 1-in-6, get 1 cryptic detail from the positions of the stars) once per night. ​Tools:
Warm heavy coat, spyglass, sextant, astrogation charts
6. ​Etiquette: ​You know how to compose yourself and seem like you belong, no matter the social scene. Nobles do
not get saves vs. your Rhetoric. ​Tools: S ​ ewing kit, makeup set, 2 sets of fancy clothing
7. ​Journalism: ​You can scribe in any handwriting, and you can write prose that will be believed by the masses no
matter what twists in the truth it may contain (as Rhetoric). ​Tools: F ​ ield notebook, set of fancy pens and inks
8. ​Law: ​You can, on a 3-in-6, argue yourself out of legal charges, and on a 2-in-6 argue others out of legal charges.
Failure might make you enemies, or get you out given stipulations. You can write legally-binding contracts, and can
on a 2-in-6 slip in clauses that the other side won't notice (on failure, there might be unintended loopholes). ​Tools:
Book of law, a friend in the local legal system
​ ou speak and are literate in 2 additional languages (+1 for each Scholar template), and with a day
9. ​Linguistics:​ Y
of exposure to a new language, you can speak it crudely (2-in-6). A week lets you speak it conversationally (4-in-6).
A month lets you speak it fluently. ​Tools: T ​ ranslation dictionary, field notebook, quill and ink
10. ​Mathematics: ​You can perform advanced algebra in your head, predict the flight paths of objects with perfect
accuracy, accurately eyeball measurements, and judge the amount of strength (and length of lever) you would need
to lift any object. ​Tools: ​Abacus, book of reference tables
11. ​Medicine:​ Anyone you tend to during a rest gets to roll HD with advantage, and you can heal an additional
wound of theirs, or give them advantage on a save vs. disease. This forgoes your own chance to heal during the rest.
Tools:​ Scalpel set, thick gloves, long coat, jar of leeches
12. ​Music: ​You can sing and play music that can powerfully evoke an emotion of your choice in all listeners. When
you stop performing, the effect stops. You also have perfect phonographic recall, and can mimic tunes (and some
natural sounds) from memory. ​Tools:​ Instrument of choice, mechanical metronome, pile of assorted sheet music
13. ​Occult:​ You can identify whether an item or effect is magical. You can read magical runes and scripts. ​Tools:
Vials of esoteric powders, robe with inlaid sigils
14. ​Oratory: ​You can get and hold a crowd's attention for as long as you're speaking. Your voice carries over
distances of up to a mile. If you shout, you can distract people in earshot, who get disadvantage on whatever they're
doing. This only works if it's surprising. ​Tools:​ [level]d6 fans whenever you return to town to give speeches
15. ​Philosophy:​ You can cast 1 random spell as a Wizard's cantrip. You can spend a long rest studying and
retraining your mind to learn a new random spell to replace that one. You can convince wizards that they can't cast
spells on a 2-in-6. Failure causes both you and the wizard to roll on their Mishap table. ​Tools:​ set of logic puzzle
toys
16. ​Research:​ You can guess where in the town/region/world you might find a particular piece of information on a
2-in-6. You have a 1-in-6 of having already read something about it. You can read 30 pages per minute, with perfect
recall. ​Tools:​ 3 random books
17. ​Tactics: ​With ten minutes of observation, you learn the tactics a group of foes will use on a 2-in-6. While
traveling, you can stretch supplies for double their duration OR you can make the party travel at double speed. Each
round in combat, you can give someone within earshot an extra action. Your party has +1 initiative. ​Tools:​ Random
ornamental weapon (step down damage die), spyglass, maps of area, compass
18. ​Theology: ​You know a Domain and can invoke 1 miracle as Cleric. You can obey the letter, rather than the
spirit, of your domain's Commands. ​Tools: H ​ oly book with accompanying annotations, various sacred incenses
19. ​Who's Whom:​ always know someone's name and social standing if matter of public record. If you've spent
more than an hour in someone's company or read sufficient biographical information you have a 2-in-6 to predict
their reaction to any given event (increases by 1-in-6 for spending a week/month/year in their company). ​Tools:
Book of genealogy and noble crests, an unspecified favor from a local official
20. ​Zoology:​ You can identify mundane creatures, their dangers, and how they are valuable and/or best-prepared to
eat. You can calm them on a 1-in-6 if they are hostile, and tame them on a further 1-in-6. Failure means they won't
stay that way for long. ​Tools:​ Thick gloves, magnifying glass, net, lantern, 3 syringes of tranquilizer

Thief
Credit to the vivacious, voracious, vexing VE​LEXI​RAPTOR.

A ​Con Artist, Second Story Worker, pick 1 talent, roll an extra class skill
B ​Pick 1 Talent, roll 1 talent, roll an extra class skill
C​ Roll 2 talents, Con Artist duration becomes hours, pick an extra class skill
D​ Pick 1 talent, roll 1 talent, Con Artist duration becomes days, pick any skill of your choice

Con Artist: ​So long as no one can verify what you’re saying is wrong, you can lie through your teeth and they’ll
believe you for at least d6 minutes.

Second Story Worker: ​You climb just as well without climbing gear as with it. If a climb would be trivial using
gear, you don’t need to roll, even if you’re free-climbing. If a climb would be impossible using gear, you can roll
anyway.

Starting Equipment
Thief A:​ Cloak with many pockets, dagger, lockpicks, roll two random items
Thief B: D​ isguise kit, 3 stilettos, roll a random item

Skills (d20): 5. Pickpocket

1. Lookout 6. Casanova/Seductress/Them Fatale
2. Forger 7. Doctor
3. Poisoner 8. Merchant
4. Gambler 9. Hunter
10. Cartographer 16. Fop
11. Musician 17. Cultist
12. Bully 18. Sailor
13. Cook 19. Gladiator
14. Jailor 20. Animal Handler
15. Duelist
Talents
1. ​Acrobat: ​You can move an extra 10’ per round (20’ total). You can jump 20’ instead of 10’. Treat your falls as
20’ shorter.
2. ​Actor: ​Anyone can use makeup and do an accent, but your makeup and accents are impeccable. You don’t have
to roll to impersonate someone in casual conversation, but gaps in your knowledge can still reveal you.
3. ​Cat’s Eyes: ​As long as there’s a little bit of light, you can see 30’ in darkness (no color).
4. ​Coward: ​Cover grants an additional +1 Armor
5. ​Divine Grunt: ​1/day Issue an irresistible one-word command. Only affects: d4 1 Undead, 2 Animals, 3 Plants, 4
Furniture
6. ​Fashionable: ​Fancy clothes provide +1 Armor and don’t take up Meat slots .
7. ​Getaway Horse: ​You start with a horse. Horses you train can be stealthy, understand abstract directions, and
follow a schedule to the minute.
8. ​Lucky: ​1/day, reroll one of your d20 rolls.
9. ​Dog Whisperer: ​You start with a dog. Dogs you train can be stealthy, communicate if an area is obviously
dangerous, and track a week-old trail by scent without fail (barring magical concealment).
10.​ Opportunist: ​When you have a situational attack bonus, deal an extra 1d6 damage.
11. ​Quick Fingers: ​You have advantage on Meat tests to pickpocket people. You can steal things directly out of
someone’s hands with a Meat test.
12. ​Recorder Crow: ​You start with a crow. It can make and play auditory recordings. It responds to Record, Stop
Recording, Play, Pause, Rewind, and Fast Forward. Max storage: 1 hour. It’s very smart.
13. ​Redirect: ​Once per round, when an enemy attacks you, you can Save vs Meat to redirect their attack to another
enemy they can hit.
14. ​Second Chance:​ Once per lifetime, cheat death.
15. ​Square Meal: ​Lunch heals you to full HP provided you pair it with alcohol. Balche, anyone?
16. ​Tongues:​ 1/day Speak with d4: 1 Weapons, 2 Doors, 3 Birds, 4 Clothing
17. ​Tricky: ​You gain an additional and in your actions only usable for stunts.
18. ​Urchin:​ A street rat demands to learn under you. They’re a very sneaky hireling that doesn’t ask for pay. If you
lose your urchin, you can recruit another wherever urchins are plentiful, but it will be difficult if you have a
reputation for getting them killed.
19. ​Watchful: ​You have 1 initiative and a 50% chance of acting in surprise rounds. You can’t be snuck past.
20. ​Wizardly Initiate:​ By tasting an object, you can tell whether or not it is magical. You know one cantrip.

Berzerker
Wow, something I personally wrote!

A​ +1 Rage Dice, Conduit

B​ +1 RD, Froth, Malaise
C​ +1 RD, Mindless, Die Hard
D​ +1 RD, Relentless

Rage Dice​: To rage, roll any number of d4’s on your turn or in response to damage. Your rage lasts [sum] rounds,
grants you [dice] extra attacks per round, [sum] extra HP for the duration of the rage, and a [dice] penalty to
Defense. RD burn out on 3-4, doubles, triples, and quadruples, and return after a good night’s sleep.
While you rage, you can only take actions towards murdering things, only cast damaging spells, and if your rage
doesn’t expire, it lasts until all enemies are killed, subdued, or driven off. To stop raging, Save vs Meat. Any extra
hit points over your HP maximum disappear when your rage ends.
Your ​Conduit​ channels your rage. It grants you a passive ability and an active ability to use while raging that
decreases the duration of your rage by [dice] rounds. If your Conduit is broken or lost, you lose its active and
passive benefits, Froth, and Malaise. You may acquire a new Conduit, but without one, you must Save vs Meat or go
into a rage when you gain a point of Stress or take damage.

Froths ​and ​Malaise​: When you enter a rage and roll doubles or triples, consult the Froth table and apply its effects
for the duration of the rage, then suffer the associated Malaise after your rage ends.
If you roll quadruples (1% chance with 4d4), roll twice on the triples chart and apply both effects.

Mindless​: You’re immune to mind-affecting magic while raging.

Die Hard​: You have 4 turns to heal Fatal Wounds instead of 3.

Relentless​: If you drop to 0 HP or while raging, you are able to keep raging and ignore the effects of Fatal Wounds
as long as your rage lasts. Disintegration and the like will still kill you. Be reasonable.

Conduit: A Mirror Darkly

Somewhere, sometime, you collected a small hand mirror of unknown provenance. The handle and frame are stained
silver, the mirror a bright slab of inky stone. There’s a gemstone setting without a stone on the handle’s end.
When you look in the mirror, you see yourself as you wish to be. Sometimes you see an older you with a gentle
smile, surrounded by vague black silhouettes at a smoky table in a blurry room. Sometimes you see your torn, rough
hands cradling a child.
Sometimes, you see a face torsioned by muscle into a blood-drenched rictus.

Passive​: The mirror provides you with flashes of what might be, augmenting your senses. You have a 3 in 6 chance
to detect ambushes and similar surprises right before they happen.

Active​: For a round, your exposed skin becomes empty and reflective. Any hostile creatures who can see you must
Save vs Soul or see visions of their most likely death, believe it to be possible, and react accordingly.

Doubles​: (1d4)
Froth:​ When you are damaged in a way that could
break glass, everyone in melee range takes [dice]
damage.
Malaise:​ Your flesh takes on the qualities of glass for
[dice] hours.
Froth:​ You reflect light sources stronger than a
torch. Those looking at you must Save vs Meat or be
blinded for [dice] rounds.
Malaise:​ Every bit of your body reflects light
powerfully for [dice] hours.
Froth:​ You can attack the reflections of enemies.
Malaise:​ You can only see the world reflected for
[sum] hours.
Froth:​ You only become visible in reflecting
surfaces.
Malaise​: You swap consciousness with your
reflection for [dice] hours. You can still interact with
creatures’ reflections and retain all your belongings,
but you must exit where your body is.

Triples​: (1d4)
Froth:​ Your reflection splits off from you and can
attack and be attacked by enemies as if it were you. It
is unaffected by things that have no reflection.
Malaise:​ Your reflection stays enraged and
murderous for [dice] hours. It’ll seek things to kill.
Froth:​ You split into [dice] copies, each with
[current HP]/[dice] and your equipment. Each one
can make 1 attack. You control each one, and if they
all die before your rage ends, you die.
Malaise:​ Any enemy you deal max damage to for the
duration of your rage splits into [dice] copies of itself
with HP equal to [current HP]/[dice]. These copies
last until killed.
Froth​: When you kill an enemy, they explode in for
[dice] damage to nearby enemies. If another enemy is
killed by this damage, they also explode with the
same effect.
Malaise​: This above Froth applies to you and all
allied creatures for [dice] hours. If you gather all the
shards of a shattered creature up and put them back
together, a stone to flesh spell might do something...
Froth:​ Roll twice on the Doubles Froth table and
apply both Froth effects.
Malaise​: Apply both Malaise effects for the Froth
effects you rolled.
Conduit: Drug Fiend
You have 8 doses of a substance that keeps you on the straight and narrow and 1d4 doses of two more recreational
ones. Needless to say, you are addicted.

Passive benefit​: You can tell what a drug might do by handling/sampling a bit of it. You can also hook people up
with some good stuff cause you know the right people, and you can tell what drugs someone is on with a glance.
Become a drug connoisseur! Sample poisons! Experiment!

Active benefit​: You can consume a dose of your drug to instantly end your rage.

Doubles​: (1d4) explode for [dice] damage (you’re unaffected) and

1. Froth​: Exhale the drug or poison you’ve most
recently taken. People close to you must Save or be
affected by the drug or poison for [sum] rounds.
Malaise​: You continue to breathe out drug stuff for
[dice] hours.
2. Froth​: When you damage an enemy, they must
Save or suffer a random drug’s negative effect for
[dice] rounds.
Malaise​: For [dice] hours, any person you touch has
to Save or suffer the negative effects for [sum]
minutes.
3. Froth​: You gain the effects of [dice] drugs you’ve
ingested of your choice.
Malaise​: You suffer the negative effects of those
drugs for [dice] hours.
4. Froth​: You become immune to a harmful
liquid/powder/paste inside of you/that you ingest.
Malaise​: You suffer it’s effects for [dice] rounds but
make your Save with a [dice] bonus.
Triples​:
1. Froth​: When you take damage, [dice] small
homunculi crawls out of the wound. They have [dice]
HP, and when they die or touch someone, they
cause all creatures within 10 feet to Save or be
affected by a drug of your choice. You direct them.
Malaise​: Homunculi crawl out of your mouth for
[dice] hours, and you don’t control them. If they’re
prevented from escaping, they explode inside you for
[dice] damage.
2. Froth​: You’re immune to a method of exposure to
drugs of your choice. (Piercing, slashing, snorting,
ear dropper, etc.)
Malaise​: You’re vulnerable to that method of
exposure for [dice] hours. Take 2x that damage type,
fail your saves against gaseous things, etc.
3. Froth​: Your blood is horrifically corrosive.
Anyone within 10 feet of you when you take damage
takes [sum] acid damage. Save for half. Metallic or
organic objects are degraded by this stuff.
Malaise:​ This substance turns into a gas that has the
same effect with radius equal to 10 * [dice] when
your Rage ends. Run!
4. Froth​: Roll twice on the Doubles table and gain
both effects.
Malaise:​ Suffer both the Doubles effects at the same
time.

Conduit: The Hunger (LEXI)

YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR YOUR
GUTS!

Passive​:​ ​You are nature, red in tooth and claw. Step up the damage die for your unarmed attacks, and they deal
slashing damage.

Active​: When you deal a wound with slashing damage, you can eat what you took. Immediately gain 1d4 HP as if
eating a ration.

Doubles creatures you've killed with your bare hands

1. You can make an additional unarmed attack each (​Malaise)​.
round with your teeth (​Froth)​, but for the next day 2. Your blood boils out your eyes, mouth, and nose,
you can't get the benefits of rations except from creating a red mist that obscures other creatures'
vision for dice*10' around you (​Froth)​, but all that
blood loss deals (dice)d4 damage to you (​Malaise​).
3. The stench of battle and rage attracts (dice) HD of
fellow local predatory animals that'll go for your
enemies first (​Froth​), but after your rage ends you're
gonna be their next meal (​Malaise​).
4. Your melee attacks Wound on max damage
(​Froth)​, but once you engage a target, you can't
change targets until they're dead (​Malaise​).
Triples
1. When you kill an enemy, they explode into chunks
of meaty gore that force anyone they hit to save vs.
fear (​Froth)​, but anyone who passes the save flies
into a 1-die Hunger Berzerker rage (​Malaise​).
2. When you deal maximum damage to an enemy you
automatically wound them regardless of how much
HP they have left (​Froth​), but enemies have
advantage on damage rolls against you (​Malaise​).
3. You can tear off spontaneous cancerous growths of
yourself out to throw as impromptu grenades that
deal (dice)d4 damage to everyone within 5' of where
they explode (​Froth​), but doing this deals (dice)d4
damage to you, and not throwing any leaves you with
unsightly growths that fill (dice) Meat slots and
-(dice) max HP until your next long rest (​Malaise​).
4. Roll two Doubles ​Froths​; their ​Malaises​ also
apply.

Conduit: Murderous Mantra (LEXI)

I am one with my rage and my rage is with me.

Passive: ​You are supernaturally calm. You cannot be frightened or charmed. Nothing will sway you from your grim
mission.

Active: ​When you pass a save, you can force another creature in the combat within range of the effect to save
against it instead.

Doubles
1. You can sense life and emotional states for 100'
around you (​Froth​), but you also feel their pain and
take (dice) psychic damage whenever they take
damage (​Malaise​).
2. You can foresee your enemies' attacks, and when
you dodge, redirect the attack towards someone else
within range (​Froth​), but your movement is halved
(​Malaise​).
3. Multiply your move speed and jump height by
(dice), and you can climb at your move speed
(​Froth​), but when you take damage you're knocked
down (​Malaise​).
4. You are immovable. Effects cannot slow you, stop
you, or push you, and you're immune to
environmental damage (​Froth​), but you cannot move
in any direction besides towards an enemy (​Malaise​).
Triples
1. You astrally project your mind from your body,
become intangible, move at double speed, and deal
psychic damage with your attacks (​Froth​), but your
meat body is a drooling immobile husk (​Malaise​).
2. Your blows connect with immense strength. All
your attacks deal maximum damage (​Froth)​, but you
take maximum damage from all attacks (​Malaise​).
3. With each repetition, you strike somewhere new.
Treat all enemies who can hear your mantra as
adjacent to you even if they aren't nearby (​Froth​),
but when you hit someone or are hit by someone you
are teleported next to them (​Malaise​).
4. Roll two Doubles Froths (​Froth​), but their
Malaises also apply (​Malaise​).

WIZARDS!
A Note on Wizards
There’s lots of variations on the recipe. Please use these templates below but follow your sources rules for chargen.
A:​ Spellcasting, +1 Magic Dice, +2 Spells, Spell Breeder
B:​ +1 MD, +1 Spell, Spell Consultation
C:​ +1 MD, +1 Spell
D:​ +1 MD, choose 3 spells from your class’s spell list

Spell Breeder:​ ​You can attempt to crossbreed two spells into one new spell. Both spells need to be stored on
separate scrolls initially. This process takes 1 week of work. You can breed the spells to produce one of the
following:
a) a random spell from your spell list (roll 1d10)
b) a random spell from a random spell list
c) a mutant version of one of the two spells

When the process is complete, Save vs Mind or suffer a Mishap. Gain a +1 bonus to Save for
a) every 1 gp spent on reagents, inks, magical artifacts, incense, or other tools of your trade
b) the number of Wizard templates you possess
c) each ritual preparation you describe to the GM
d) the number of times you'd previously cast the spells you are combining

Spell Consultation: ​Instead of allowing a prepared spell to have its usual effect, a spellcaster may expend and
forget the spell to speak aloud to a manifestation of it. The spell is an expert on relevant information. Only the caster
and others with magical sight will be able to see or hear the manifestations.

Adipomancer
Courtesy of the inimitably edible DAN D at ​Throne of Salt​.

Perk:​ You gain +2 Defense for every unburnt spell die past the first. Your unarmed attacks do 1d6 damage.

Drawback​: Each unburnt spell die takes up a Meat slot. You can only regain burnt spell die through consuming an
additional ration's worth of food.

Cantrips:
1:You may spend a ration to gain advantage on a reaction roll.
2: You may enter Mountain Stance. You cannot move while in this stance, but gain +4 to saves vs being knocked
over and your unarmed attacks do 1d8 damage.
3: You can burn any number of spell dice at will, to no additional effect.

Spell List:

1. Belly Drum R: Touch T: Self D: 0

R: Touch T: Self D: 0 Recover [sum] HP.
Cuts current HP in half, provides that many points in
additional damage that may be split among 6. Gravity Pull
subsequent attacks. R: [sum] x 5 feet T: Object or creature D: 0
The target is pulled in a straight line towards the
2. Aura of Warmth caster. By choosing to burn a die (an additional die if
R: Touch T: Self D: [sum] hours one was already burnt), the caster may make an
The caster is immune to cold environmental attack after casting.
conditions and takes half damage from freezing
attacks for [sum] hours. 7. Black Well
R: Touch T:Point D: [sum] hours
3. Cannonball Dash The caster creates a stationary black sphere that can
R:50' T: Self D: 0 store [dice] Meat slots. Secret training of the
The caster barrels ahead at great speed, doing [dice] adipomancers permits them to carry this within their
+ [sum] damage to all targets in their path. Targets mouth, but they cannot speak or eat during this
may make a Meat save vs being knocked down. period. Items can be released from the Pit at will, but
this will dissipate the spell.
4. Fist of Burning Spice
R: Touch T: Self D: [sum] attacks 8. Become Delicious
The next [sum] attacks will ignite flammable material R: Touch T: Creature of [dice] x2 HD or less D:
on contact. [sum] varies
Target smells and tastes delicious for the spell's
5. Metabolic Overdrive duration. The smell radiates 20' in calm air, but can
spread via wind or leave a trail. Sentient creatures can
usually resist the urge to eat the target without a save,
but animals and other ravenous creatures must Save
vs Mind or select the spell's target as their primary
attack target. Insects will be attracted to the target for
the spell's duration. The target may Save vs Soul at
the end of each duration interval to negate the effects.
1 [dice]: minutes, 2 [dice]: hours, 3 [dice]: months, 4
[dice] years. This spell can also affect dead creatures.
9. Gravity Wave
R: < 30' T: Self D: 0
The caster can either repulse or attract loose objects
and creatures of [dice] HD or fewer, within a radius
of their specification. Repulsed bodies will be pushed
to the edge of the area of effect.
10. Sweet and Sour Palm
R: Touch T: Creature D: 0
The target is launched back [dice] x5 feet when hit.
The attack deals acid damage and will leave a
burning red handprint.
11. Pudding Bomb
R: Touch T: Self D: 5 minutes
The caster creates [dice] lipid simulacrums of
themselves. These creatures have 1 HD and can
explode for 1d6 damage. Unexploded bombs will be
reduced to an inanimate puddle if they travel more
than 100' away from the caster, or as time runs out.
The caster retains remote control and awareness of all
bombs. All dice spent on this spell count as burnt.
12. MESHI MESHI MESHI MESHI ORA!
R: Touch T: Creature D: 0
Burn a spell die: gain an additional attack this turn.
Die explodes on a 6.

Mishaps
1. Spell die only return on a 1-2 for 24 hours.
2. Paralyzed for 1d6 turns.
3. Take 1d6 damage.
4. Struck with incredible hunger, spend a turn eating a ration.
5. Burnt spell die do not reduce encumbrance for 24 hours.
6. Bizarre and obtuse cravings for 1d6 days. Save vs Soul at end of period, permanent on failure.
Dooms
1. Your appetite flees you. You cannot regain burnt die for 24 hours.
2. Food tastes utterly disgusting for 3 days. You must pass a save vs Meat to eat a meal.
3. You permanently lose your faculties of taste and hunger, and may no longer eat additional portions.
This doom can be avoided by preparing and consuming a dish of True Angelfood, or by fasting for ten days and
nights.

Radiomancer
Credit to TLN at ​Unlawful Games​ and MONSIEUR at ​Bottomless Sarcophagus​.

Perk: ​You have clothing which works as a Hazmat suit, protecting you from external radiation. It does not give you
armour value, and ceases to function when damaged, though you know how to repair it.

Drawback: ​Constantly working with radiation has left your genetic code more like a genetic guideline. -4 to saves
against mutations.

Cantrips:
1. You can produce or make disappear a Geiger counter, allowing you to measure the ambient radiation level. You
can pass this device to others but you cannot produce more than one at the same time. If it leaves your sight it
automatically disappears.
2. You can force radiation onto crystal, glass, liquid or gas, making it scintillate and emit light as a candle as long as
you touch it.
3. You can determine the exact time of death of any organic thing through carbon dating.
SPELLS:
PHOTON MULTIPLIER
R: 20’ T: 1 Creature D: 0
You absorb the light of a light source and multiply it
into a vast swathe of electrons, firing them as a bright
blast: the target takes [sum] damage and must save vs
Soul or be stunned for [dice] rounds. The light source
is unusable for one round.
ISOTOPE TAG
R: Touch’ T: 1 Creature D: [sum] rounds
You tag a creature with radioactive isotopes,
affecting it with radiation for one round and allowing
you to locate it based on radioactivity within 200’ for
the duration of the spell. The creature cannot conceal
itself from you as long as it is affected by the tag.
You can keep tabs on [dice] creatures this way.
EXCITATION
R: Touch T: 1 Ally D: 0
You spend an amount of magic dice to generate a
high-energy radiation shock, which energises an
ally’s spent magic dice, and refills them by the same
amount of dice you spent. However, if these magic
dice are not used by next round, they affect your ally
with a round of radiation per die that has decayed.
SUPPRESSION FIELD
R: 10’ radius T: Self D: concentration
Though your capacity to clean up your own
radioactive mess is very limited, you can strain
yourself to suppress a radiation or wave type in a
small area as long as you concentrate. Moving does
not break this concentration. This spell can suppress:
1[dice]: Radioactivity
2[dice]: Light
3[dice] Sound and minor heat
4[dice] Telepathy.
IONISE
R: Touch T: 1 Creature or compound D:0
You direct ionising radiation to break up molecules in
a target. You can target one specific compound, like a
poison or an enzyme, and make it fall apart. This
spell will never last for more than [dice] rounds when
targeting a compound native to the body.
RADIOSCAN
R: Touch T: 1 [sum] HD Creature or compound D: 0
You can scan a creature’s body or a compound,
gaining full oversight of its insides (its structure,
irregularities, poisons, mutations, embedded objects
etc) at the cost of affecting it with radiation for one
round, unwilling creatures may Save vs. Soul.
CONTAMINATION
R: 0 T: 30’ cone D: 2*[sum] rounds
You spray out radioactive isotopes that emit ionising
radiation, causing a 30’ cone in front of you to be
irradiated for the duration of the spell. Spraying this
into a liquid or gas will cause the radiation field to
move as the liquid/gas moves.
REACTOR EXHAUST
R: 0 T: 30’ radius around self D: 2*[sum] rounds
You forcefully blast out a field of radiation along
with hot steam that obscures vision. The heat of this
steam deals [dice] damage to anyone within the area
of effect for each Magic Die you have already used
that day.
ALPHA INSERTION
R: Touch T: 1 Creature D: [sum] rounds
You touch a creature and create a source of alpha
radiation within its body. Because of its low
penetration power, alpha radiation from an outside
source is not very dangerous, but when it is inside the
body it is extremely destructive. The affected creature
must save vs Soul or lose [dice] HD for [sum]
rounds.
CASCADE EFFECT
R: 50’ T: 1 Creature D: 0
You fire a blast of highly energised radiation at a
target, dealing 2*[dice] damage and a round of
radiation. If the target also has MD or a variant, one
of their MD is consumed to deal 2*[dice] damage and
a round of radiation to two other creatures within 30’
of them as the radiation activates their MD and tears
it loose from the caster. This effect will continue to
chain as long as there are creatures with MD that the
spell has not affected yet within 30’ increments of
previous targets. This effect does not differentiate
between friend or foe.
ANNIHILATION
R: 50’ T: 1 Spell D: 0
When an enemy casts a spell or uses an ability that
uses MD or some variant of it, you may invest an
equal number of dice to create a positron to their
spell’s electron, an anti-spell, which interacts with the
enemy spell and neutralises it. The enemy is affected
by radiation for [dice] rounds.
PRIPYAT SUNRISE
R: 100’ T: 1 Creature + 50’ radius area D: 0
You make a creature with more HD than [sum]/2
save vs. death (creatures with less HD than this get
no save). If it fails it explodes into nuclear slag,
making its corpse the source of a radiation field that
extends in a radius of 50’ around it. Rolling
maximum on (one of) your dice causes all other
creatures (friend or foe) close to the exploding target
to take [dice] damage from the blast fallout and fail
their first save against the radiation. The radiation
field only fades over a [dice]*[sum] days, and only
once the corpse is encased in lead.
MUTAGENESIS
R: 20’ T: 1 Creature D: 0
You blast a creature with immense amounts of
mutagenic radiation, turning their genome into a
jell-ome. The target rolls on the included (or any
other) mutation chart twice taking the most
hampering result, [dice] times.

MISHAPS
1. The chain reaction is out of control! Use up an additional MD! If you have none left you are affected with
radiation for 1d3 rounds.
2. You accidentally scintillate yourself! Emit light as a torch and draw everyone’s attention for a day.
3. You irradiate your immediate area! Cause a radiation field in a 10’ radius around you that lasts for a day.
4. Your spell produces dangerous side radiation you had not anticipated. It produces heat and blisters your skin!
Take 1d6 points of damage.
5. You mutate yourself! Roll a random mutation for 1d6 rounds, then save with a -4 penalty. Permanent if you fail.
6. You become a radiation source for 1d6 rounds. You yourself and anyone who touches you or comes close to you
are affected by radiation for the duration of this effect.

DOOMS
1. Your genetic code finally gives up and goes home. Roll twice on the mutations chart and take the most hampering
result. Repeat this until you have three new mutations.
2. You become a being of radioactive sludge and bones, bound inside of your hazmat suit. It is considered your new
skin. If it is broken you start leaking out, taking 1 damage per round until you plug the hole. People who touch your
gooey self are affected with radiation for a round.
3. Somewhere inside you a metaphysical reactor hull cracks. You explode into radioactive slag and cause a
permanent radiation field in a 50’ radius around your corpse. You remain semi-existent as a radiation ghost, and can
only communicate by throwing off measurement equipment and talking through radio static within your radiation
field.

You can avoid this fate by building a body that is mechanical, with plenty of lead in it. Who needs that pesky DNA
anyways? Better keep your brain though, can’t let anything happen to this genius.

The rules stop here. Peruse further at risk of sentimentality and philosophical bullshit.

WTF is the GLOG, What are Templates, What is the OSR?

So glad you asked. The GLOG is, loosely speaking, a D&D hack derived from AD&D and lots of houserules.
Templates are like levels in the GLOG, with a focus on acquiring abilities rather than being locked into one
progression. Multiclassing is expected. GLOG templates offer diminishing returns, so a 1st level character will
always be useful. The OSR stands for Old School Renaissance: think of it as a gaming philosophy that focuses on
ease of use, problem solving, and resource management.

Why These Rules

I reduced the stats to inventories. That’s what a character is, when you pare away the derived numbers - a list of
traits that make them an individual. Your PC isn’t defined by their Intelligence and Wisdom. They’re defined by
what they know and how they use it, and that information can’t be reduced to a number disassociated from the
concepts that define them. Bones PC’s may seem more complex than other OSR systems, but I’d like to argue that
I’m simply increasing the information density of a character. The goal is to have all the items inside the stat pissing
out.
Part of the 6-stat orthodoxy is the diffusion of power across stats to avoid any one becoming too good. The risk of
imbalance is greater with less stats, but I want my stats more impactful as opposed to struggling to find a purpose for
certain stats outside niche class features.

I also included rules for friends because of the weird paradox inherent in dungeoncrawling, where you trust someone
to save your life but are careful to not form a lasting attachment because they might die. I say bollocks to that. If
y’all’re playing this game together y’all’re probably going to become friends anyway. No need to assume your PC’s
are emotionally distant robots. Care for each other. I think the game becomes richer with that kind of investment.

I don’t like numbers. Fiddly +1 to X, -1 to X - yes, it arouses the pattern finder, but sums are the first thing
defenestrated by memory in stressful situations. Does balancing systems of bonuses make the game more fun or are
they simply fun to design? Depends on you and your players.

Does any of the philosophizing above really matter? I don’t know. If 3.5, 5e, or Mothership work for you, go for it.
Play what makes you happy. But try to find out what doesn’t work, and make it better.

Modifying These Rules

No license needed. I hope there’s something here worth stealing.

Credits
Thanks to ARNOLD KEMP and his blog Goblin Punch for getting me into this. Thanks to PATRICK STUART for
writing his weird shit. Thanks to K YANI and IAN REILLY for being cool in the days of G+ and in the present.
Thanks to SKERPLES and RED KANGAROO for unapologetically writing good shit and providing rules and tables
to crib from. Thanks to LEXI, SPWACK, DIYANDDRAGONS, and other friends on the OSR Discord, especially
in the #glog_ghetto, for proofing my scribbles and putting out quality material.

A big thanks to CHRIS H, LEXI, DUNNA, MAGOS OF THE MIND, MICAH, and SKRUMBIS for playing in my
first GLOG campaign, even though it petered out. (Or did it?)

And finally, thanks to self-quarantine for giving me the space needed to write this.

List of Direct thievery

ARNOLD KEMP: ​http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/
SKERPLES: ​https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/
LEXI: ​https://crateredland.blogspot.com/
RED KANGAROO: ​https://attnam.blogspot.com/
DAN D: ​http://throneofsalt.blogspot.com/
DEUS EX PARABOLA: ​https://as-they-must.blogspot.com/
TLN: ​http://unlawfulgames.blogspot.com/
MONSIEUR: ​http://bottomlesssarcophagus.blogspot.com/
MERIDIAN MILLER: ​https://wyrdspeak.blogspot.com/
OCCULTESQUE: ​https://www.occultesque.com/

Future additions
My mutation table, language classes, a character sheet, augmentations, gun rules, divinity and its chattel, a price list,
setting, location, etc.