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Pirates Guide to Freeport is my favorite fantasy city sourcebook. Statless, it gives a good overview of tone and themes, the city history, it’s place in the world, and then a good organized well by city section, giving a good breakdown of the sections and factions plus individual things like...

Priest's Spell Compendium Vol 3 (2e) 2e Animal Spirit: ? Spectral Death: ? Animal Spirit, Ghostly Beast, Spirit: ? Animal Spirit, Ghostly Beast, Wolf: ? Animal Spirit, Ghostly Beast, Bear: ? Animal Spirit, Ghostly Beast, Tiger: ? Animal Spirit, Ghostly Beast, Lion: ? Spectral Death, Billowing...

Priest's Spell Compendium Vol 2 (2e) 2e Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Being, Undead Monster: ? Undead Tied to the Positive Energy Plane: ? Level-Draining Undead: ? More Powerful Undead, More Powerful Form of Undead: ? Creature Without a Functioning Heart: ? Corporeal Undead Creature, Corporeal...

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The opponent specifically had an offhand weapon, the maneuver was to counter a low double thrust. Drow in 1e had a racial ability to double wield two weapons and a lot wielded either short swords, daggers, or light maces (for clerics) in the 1e modules and according to their 1e monster entries...

Priest's Spell Compendium Vol 1 (2e) 2e Ghost Pack: These are predators, such as wolves or lions, destroyed by encroaching civilization. Baneguard: Create Baneguard spell. Baneguard, Skeletal Undead Creature Gifted With a Degree of Malicious Intelligence: ? Crypt Servant: Create Crypt Servant...

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I am not sure if this is JRPG in the video game sense, but Kamigakari: God Hunters is a Japanese TTRPG with Japan media themes so things like Japanimation including mechanics of building up to do your big strike a bit into the combat Voltron style instead of first shot D&D style. The mechanics...

I had the second game a little while ago. It went well. I embraced an old school dungeon crawling ethos. When exploring around the tunnels in the wall of the giant tree house we saw a skeletal hand sticking out of a collapsed side passage my first question was "does it have a ring on it?" It...

Sometimes I see themes of demonic taint in an area or a far realms aberration incursion as affecting wildlife that can be a used as a metaphor for pollution affecting an area's ecosystem to its detriment.

I enjoyed those a lot as a teen when they came out and they show a development in Salvatore's writing over the original Icewind Dale books, but my friends and I at the time regularly ridiculed the double down maneuver Drizzt develops as we were doing LARP sparring. From my decades old memory...

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Weapon smuggling, then get drafted.

Player's Secrets of Tuornen (2e) 2e Lanelle, Ghost: ? Dalton Flaertes, Duke of Tuornen, Ghost: Lately, however, a popular bards' tune has begun making the rounds again, and it is sung even within the court of Tuornen. The song claims that Dalton was never slain, but that he met the ghost of his...

Player's Secrets of Tuarhievel (2e) 2e Undead: ? Banshee, Wandering Vengeful Spirit of a Slain Elf, Roaming Banshee: ? The Lich: ? Roaming Shadow: ? Wraith, Wandering Vengeful Spirit of a Slain Human, Roaming Wraith: ?