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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quentin Bauer" data-source="post: 9535379" data-attributes="member: 7037950"><img src="https://d1vzi28wh99zvq.cloudfront.net/images/11333/505901.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Here at the 'The HAG' we are alight with hopeful festivity — a brief acquittance from the quest. For the holiday, we present a Miscellanea of Curiosities & Unearthed Apocrypha — for both the Unblenching Reconnoiterers of the Realms, & the Guileful Suzerains of Dungeons alike. Enjoy.IN THIS ISSUEBards are more than mere itinerant performers (such as minstrels, troubadours, lirnyky, & skomorokhi); or wandering poets (such as goliards & clerici vagabundi). They are advisors & emissaries, protectors of ancient lore, and feared poet-prophets invoking the very powers of the gods (and even eventually traveling to other planes of existence).<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New Bard class: A well-researched bard for your old school setting (& detailed up to high levels) — with resources vital to your poet-seer & potential planar traveler, a curated list of bardic spells, & folklore for the bard's divinely inspired epic poetry</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sages & libraries: Expanded rules for using sages in your setting, with plentiful tables for unique lorists & their libraries (roll up hundreds of random tomes in seconds, such as: Ysoria's Folio of the Economics & Trade of Giantkind (with secondhand notes); Furnica's Primer to the Customs & Etiquette of the Fair Folk (annotated in squid-infused ink); Isentrud's Omnibus of Reason (with woodcut printing); Lere's 5th edition: Art & Music of Mankind (smelling of alcohol); Nebat's Omnibus of Living Things (feeling icy to the touch); Philo's Almanac of Armor & Weapons (annotated in blood-infused ink); Abet's Codex of Strategy & Tactics (with missing covers); or, The Libram of Giantkind: Religion, by Qedar (annotated in bone powder ink))</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Treasure types (& treasure that tells a story): Treasure types expanded for higher levels, & now annotated with useful notes for easier dungeon design & stocking, with detailed tables for more evocative treasure hoards</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Magical instruments: Procedural tools for generating hundreds of unique magical bardic instruments for your campaign (these are truly instruments of the gods having unique personalities & powers, possibly opening gates to other worlds, & integrating perfectly with the new Bard class in the player's section)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dungeon Stocking (& the Treasure Index): Updated procedures & advice (expanding the Dungeon Master section in the original game) for stocking treasures & other rewards, creating treasure indices, & assuring the perfect rewards for players (even at higher levels)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plus: Hidden lore for gems, jewelry & magic items, optional rules offering XP for magic items (especially useful at higher levels), magic items re-organized by rarity, & more</li> </ul>Elegantly packaged in a well-designed 35 pages.PLAYTESTINGThe MADDER HAG issues will introduce & explore a new campaign setting: written & run by a designer who started playing the original basic & expert editions (Moldvay/Cook) & advanced first edition (Gygax, et al.) of the Game of Games, back in the early 1980s; & play-tested by a modern generation of adventurers aged 13 to 16 newly introduced to TTRPGs, along with adults aged 40 to 50. More setting material will be revealed in future issues.GET THE ISSUESGet <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/505901/the-madder-hag-issue-three" target="_blank">The Madder Hag Issue Three</a>Back IssuesGet <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/498045/The-Madder-Hag-Issue-One" target="_blank">The Madder Hag Issue One</a>Get <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/499111/the-madder-hag-issue-two" target="_blank">The Madder Hag Issue Two</a></blockquote>

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