Half Man, Half Bat, All Cool (GLOG Class: Thief, I Guess)

“I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.”
    ― Zak Bagans, Dark World: Into the Shadows with the Lead Investigator of The Ghost Adventures Crew

    A class for Buckets of Blood.

Source: pants

 

Class: Vigilante

    You are a Vigilante, a hard man for a hard world. Life is a sequence of events that fucking suck. Dead parents and dead kids. Everyone deserves it. You can't be a real Vigilante until you understand that everyone deserves it. There is no good on earth that isn't smiling and waving with a gun in the small of its back. You beat up people on the street to cover your rent. Drug dealers, if you can get them, since the cash is untraceable and drugs are always good to have around. Homeless people too, if they have nice shoes. If you could only go after criminals that would be swell, but sometimes a Vigilante needs to make do. Roll for a Tragic Backstory if you want. It doesn't make a differnece. Everyone is just as fucking miserable.


Skills: 1. Cinema 2. Canoeing 3. Fashion
Starting Equipment: Iconic mask, dark clothing (as unarmored, +1 sneak), a signature light weapon (like a boomerang shaped like a bat), grapnel and 60' of rope.

• A Perverse Incentives, Improv Class
• B Death Note
• C Death Wish
• D Death Sentence

Perverse Incentives
    Nothing means anything. For some reason, the police never care about what you do. Scenes of brutal violence left in your wake are quickly forgotten. They'll pursue you if they see you doing something bad, but after a car chase and one of those classic cop-car pileups they'll forget all about you again. Deliberate effort by authority figures (mayors, sleuth reporters, mob bosses) can override this, but only so long as the effort is continued.
Improv Class
    To be clear; no one means anything. The world is laden with tools of emergency self-defense. Any rigid object the size of a fork or bigger is a light weapon in your hands; the object is probably destroyed on a nat 1 or a max damage roll, or the first time you hit someone with it, depending on how fragile it is. Ignore any penalties for improvised, shoddy, janky or implausible weaponry.

Death Note
    There is, always, a little notebook and pen somewhere on your person. If you write down someone's name in your notebook you have advantage on all movement-related rolls while pursuing them, such as when scaling walls, dropping down from skylights, or hoofing it through the woods.. If you write down someone's birth name, you always know the last place that they slept.

Death Wish
    When you attack someone from surprise, they must save vs. death. no matter how ludicrous your position (like hiding beneath a bed or up on some rafters) or plain ol' stupid your weapon (like a single arrow, or a plastic bag) is. 

Death Sentence
    Whenever you receive damage, you may choose to play dead. While playing dead you are immune to bullets, knives, long drops, fire, water, cars and poison. Superficial damage to your body (e.g. being burned to a crisp or impaled) does not permanently harm you in this state. Even trained medical professionals are unable to tell you're merely playing dead, until you abruptly catapult up to kill them with a scalpel.

TRAGIC BACKSTORY (roll or select):

1. Father fell down the chimney on Christmas Eve and broke his neck, and that's how you learned there ain't no Santa Claus.
2. Parents killed in front of you by a man in clown makeup.
3. Mom killed Dad, after Dad killed Mom, after Mom killed Grandpa, after Grandpa forced Mom to marry Dad.
4. A seven-tailed demon was bound inside your chest. Everyone hates you.
5. Corporate American raised you as a child-soldier who infiltrated other parts of Corporate America to blast CEOs through their 100th floor office windows.
6. Hideously disfigured as a result of illness in young adulthood, person they considered love of their life turned out to be depressingly shallow and left them over that.
7. Father made them kill their dog to make 'em tough.
8. Manipulated for years to help with a deeply immoral scheme (I dunno, poisoning old people to steal their achilles tendons, that was apparently a thing in Poland for a while) until they realized how fucked up that was and quit.
   

So Angry I Might Die (GLOG Classes: Barbarian 5e Conversions)

    I hate 5e. Here are some 5e classes.

Barbarian

Source: DDF 20 by FabianMonk

    Like monks, barbarians tap into a primal force of the universe. But where monks seek enlightenment and careful control, barbarians prefer terrific explosions of vitality and noise. Is it fair to call one more impressive than the other? Does raw power require any less skill to master? Doesn't quantity have a quality all its own?

    All barbarians have a pool of Rage points, 2 at first level and +1 every level after that. You may spend a point when rolling a strength-related check to take a nat 20, or when combat initiates to enter a rage for the duration. While raging, you take half damage from all weapons and must attack each round if able (if your only option is to attack an ally, you may save to end the rage early).
    When you eat a rich feast, drink deep, and get a good night's rest, regain a point of Rage. When you go hungry, stay up all night and brood on your many enemies, regain a point. If disrespected while your Rage pool is full, save vs. flying right off the handle.

    Unless otherwise mentioned you may wear light armor only, may use shields, and are proficient with hatchets, knives, clubs, shortbows and any weapon you start with.

Ancestral Guardians

    For you, rage is a family heirloom passed down through generations, like a pocket-watch or a cake recipe. Its embrace is as comfortable as a pair of well-worn boots. When you scream your battle cry, a hundred ghostly voices sing in harmony.

Skills: 1. Taming frightening animals 2. Combat-as-sport 3. Calligraphy. You may wear medium armor and are proficient with longbows and bladed polearms.
Starting Equipment: sharp katana (medium, adds initiative bonus to first attack in combat) in an unadorned sheath, abs you could zest a lemon on, glow-in-the-dark-tattoos depicting slightly-embellished family legends, silk breechcloth.

• A Ancestral Protectors,
• B Spirit Shield, extra attack
• C Consult the Spirits,
• D Vengeful Ancestors

Ancestral Protectors
    In the morning, burn a pinch of incense as you face back the way you came. Old ghosts will mutter in your ears for the rest of the day. Most of their opinions are about racial politics or horse breeding, and anyone attuned to the spirit world will notice and be slightly offended. But if you point to a city, cool sword or person older than one-hundred-years they have a [level]-in-6 chance of knowing/remembering its name and feeling like telling you.
    When you enter a rage the spectral forms of your ancestors appear in an icy blast, eager to wheeze incredibly racist remarks and make fun of your horse. Their presence on the battlefield is a hindrance to your enemies as well; the last person you hit has disadvantage on any attack (and deals half-damage even if they connect) against anyone besides you.

Spirit Shield
    The press of the ghostly bodies makes it hard for others to do any fighting. While raging, choose an attack or other source of damage once per round. 1d6 points of its damage are blocked. If this reduces it to 0 or less then loud ghostly voices laugh mockingly.

Consult the Spirits
    Now you're big and mean enough to demand straight answers from the clamoring ghosts. You may ask for an augury from your ancestors (the DM will tell you if a plan is well or ill depending on its 30-minute consequence window), or ask them one specific question about a person, place or thing one could plausibly have encountered. It costs a point of Rage each time you do this past the first each day.

Vengeful Ancestors
    You may spend a point of Rage to grant an ancestor a corporeal form, which resembles their body in life but has your statline (the ancestor will complain). They are a 4th level barbarian of some sort, under no particular obligation to do as you say (though they like you and are always eager for a fight), and disappear in a wisp of smoke upon reaching 0HP or being splashed with holy water.

Beast

    For you, rage is a curse you did nothing to deserve. It is payment for rights and privileges enjoyed by an ancestor but never enjoyed by you; it is hostile; it is repulsive; it is as unwelcome as looking down and seeing a body not your own.

Skills: 1. Haute cuisine 2. Library science 3. Field medicine. You are proficient with rapiers and pistols.
Starting Equipment: Baggy expensive clothing, a signet-ring (your choice), rusty steel cuffs, strongly-scented fake rose.

• A Form of the Beast
  
• B Infectious Fury
• C Bestial Soul
• D Call the Hunt
  

Form of the Beast
    There's something wrong with you. Some ancestor sold their soul to Hircine, or promised a descendant to Artemis, and now you're footing the bill. Dogs, cats, small birds and other creatures with strong senses of smell or morality will avoid you. NPCs treat you with nervous and superstitious respect, but may be easily convinced to run you out of town at pitchfork-point
    When you enter a rage, choose one of the following horrible transformations your body suffers for the duration.

• Jaw: Knife-like carnivore teeth or insectoid mandibles sprout from your mouth in a shower of blood. Your bite is a heavy weapon, and heals you for 1HP when you bite someone edible.
  
• Claw: Each hand twists into a scythe-blade of meat and bone. They ache with the desire to harm others, and grant you an extra attack on your turn.
  
• Stinger Tail: Segmented, armored, and extending from the base of your spine. Serves as a heavy weapon and a shield at the same time, with the reach of a whip.

Infectious Fury
    Your Rage can be borne by others, like a disease. While in a rage, those harmed by you must pass a save against poison or be filled with bestial fury themselves, and either attack the nearest person or take 1d10 damage (their choice).

Bestial Soul
    What's inside you is growing stronger. Your teeth, nails, and tail (if you have one) are magical weapons which can damage werewolves and demons and things of that nature. Every morning, choose one thing you're able to do in plain defiance of physics:

• Dive: You can swim as fast as you can run, and breathe water without gills.
  
• Scale: You can climb walls and ceilings as if crawling across flat ground.
  
• Leap: When you jump, make a movement check: distance is increased by your result in feet.

Serve the Hunt
    The beast within grows so powerful that it deforms and distorts the world around you. Whenever you enter a rage, the closest [level] creatures besides yourself gain a Form of the Beast for the duration. You gain 2 temporary HP for each creature that does this.

Berserker

    For you, rage is a means to an end. That end is violence. Bloodslick omophagy, wide-eyed wide-mouthed soundless screams, brutality inflicted on whole crowds of idiots who thought they had a chance; that's what rage is for.

Skills: 1. Causing revolts 2. Horse combat 3. Foreign literature
Starting Equipment: Double-headed axe (heavy), leather straps for attaching double-headed axe to your back, one sock.

• A Battlefrenzy, +2 HP
• B Mindless Abandon, +2 HP
• C Horrible Eyes, +2 HP
• D Retribution, +2 HP

Battlefrenzy
    Greet the dawning sun with an insane stream of invective, slurs and death threats. Tell the sun you're going to sodomize its grandmother with a mangonel. Call it a chicken, bawk bawk bawk. Claw your bare chest until the blood flows freely. NPCs who hear you rightfully conclude you're out of your mind. For the rest of the day, your teeth and nails are light weapons, and you may make a free attack with them against anyone in grappling range.
   When you enter a rage, you may choose to spend two points instead of one to enter a frantic rage. While frantically raging, you have an extra attack on your turn and your attacks cleave. If you do not attack and are not attacked during a combat round you drop to normal rage.

Mindless Abandon
    Gibber and drool. Lose yourself in savagery. Roll your eyes back until it hurts. When you enter a rage, immediately gain 2 temporary HP per [level] (which are lost when the rage ends). While raging, you are immune to mind-altering effects, and those who attempt to read your mind receive a concussion.

Retribution
    Once they have you completely surrounded there's nowhere left for them to run. When someone within melee range attacks you, immediately make an attack in return, as many times per round as is necessary.

Horrible Eyes
    Broken blood vessels and split pupils cloud your vision at all times, and mortals will not meet your gaze if they can avoid it. You can require a morale check from anyone you can see by spending a rage point, and creatures who don't have more HD than you automatically fail. Causing an enemy champion to flee usually provokes morale checks from the rabble.

Totem Warrior

    For you, rage is a connection to the natural world. Merely the first step on a spiritual journey of a thousand conceptual miles. Let the monks in their cells shiver and quake and pray silently; for the fire of Heaven is on the dusty ways, and the wayside blossoms open to the blaze.

Skills: 1. Psychoactive brewing 2. Wilderness tracking 3. Astrology
Starting Equipment: Buckskin jacket (as unarmored, grants advantage on stealth in underbrush), atlatl, quiver of 3 javelins, flensing knife (light), earthen pot of kohl (3 doses).

• A First Totem, +2 movement
• B Second Totem
  
• C Communion, +2 save
• D Third Totem
  

First Totem
    When you start down this path, you choose a totem spirit and gain its feature. You must make or acquire a physical totem object—an amulet or similar adornment—that incorporates fur or feathers, claws, teeth, or bones of the totem animal. You may also gain minor physical attributes that are reminiscent of your totem spirit. For example, if you have a bear totem spirit, you might be unusually hairy and thick-skinned, or if your totem is the eagle, your eyes turn bright yellow. This is highly religiously significant, probably.

• Mole Totem - No penalty when fighting blind. Walk through walls while raging.
• Owl Totem - Spot movement at any distance, regardless of light conditions. Totally silent while raging.
• Porcupine Totem - NPCs feel inexplicably inclined to be quiet and respectful in your presence. Everyone within 10' takes medium weapon damage from a spray of shrapnel when you enter rage.
• Snake Totem - Immune to poison, identify poison by taste. All melee attacks reach like a pike while raging.
• Squid Totem - Your blood comes out in a thick, sticky black fog that conceals a 10' sphere for several minutes. Extra pair of arms per level while raging.

Second Totem
    Choose another totem animal, and create another physical totem object. The animal doesn't need to be the same one you picked for your First Totem.

• Mole - 30' of tremorsense (see through walls).
• Owl - Head can rotate full circle, can't be surprised.
• Porcupine - Roll into a ball with 20AC. You cannot act, but if you roll into somebody they take 1d6 damage.
• Snake - Those who meet your gaze may not break it on their own.
• Squid - Once per day, throw yourself 100' in a blind panic.

Communion
   You know a ten-minute ritual which causes one of your totems to appear before you as a effulgent spirit animal and offer you guidance. It tells you about the following things as they relate to the landscape around you for about three miles as the crow flies:

• shape of terrain and bodies of water
• prevalent plants, minerals, animals, or peoples
• presence of powerful celestials, fey, fiends, elementals, or undead
• influence from other planes of existence
• position of major buildings or collections of buildings
  

Third Totem
    Choose your last totem animal, and create another physical totem object. The animal doesn't need to be the same as your First or Second Totem. For most Totem Warriors, this is the last connection of this sort you will make with the world. Only a few particularly ancient and wise shamans could tell you the secret of bearing more than three totems.

• Mole - While raging, your nails grow into six-foot superlativeswords, but you can't hold anything.
• Owl - While raging, you can glide down silently from any height.
  
• Porcupine - While raging, huge spikes grow from your skin. They can be chucked as light javelins, and prevent anyone from grappling you.
• Snake - While raging, burst out of your skin at any point and leave it behind. You lose your equipment when you do this. You can pass through the bars of a cell if you can stick your hand between them, jump out of your own mouth to escape a guillotine, or do this a few times in quick succession to confuse the Hell out of a stupid opponent.
  
• Squid - While raging, you can grapple with one limb. Automatically deal medium weapon damage to grappled enemies every turn.

Vampire

    For you, rage is a creative passion, not a destructive one. It drives you to ever-greater heights of bureaucracy, poetry and calligraphy. The squirming licentious crowd does not understand that there are infinite subtle pleasures to the repetitive and identical, infinite variations on patterns of black and white. When you grow old, the simple pleasures of rage will be all that you need.

Skills: 1. Calligraphy 2. Poetry 3. Stultifying paperwork
Starting equipment: Rich silk robes (as unarmored), incense sticks (3 doses), ritual suicide shortsword (light), scroll of Command Peasantry.

• A Jaded Mandarin, +2 INIT
  
• B Hate-Reading
• C Breach of Etiquette, +2 INIT
  
• D Straightforward Application of Force

Jaded Mandarin
    Uncounted grains of rice strewn on the ground, thresholds you have not been invited over and fords or bridges you haven't paid to traverse are impassable barriers to you. If you cross them, your skin turns pale and waxy, your joints creak, your hair goes brittle, and your body produces an awful smell of preserved meat. These indignities continue until you swallow at least 6HP of fresh human blood. Unless you have recently crossed a barrier you are invisible in mirrors, cannot be detected by magic, and appear to everyone as a dignified and respectable older gentleman in old-fashioned clothes.
    While raging you take no damage from natural weapons (teeth, claws, hands and feet, &c). People who know about you may outfit their wardogs with steel chompers and distribute sap-gloves to their Monks, but people from Around Here are probably unfamiliar with this behavior.

Hate-Reading
    Spend a point of Rage and ten minutes of careful study to understand a book or scroll or tapestry or carving, even if you don't understand the language or visual style. If you already understand and have read the text (or already understand and have examined the picture), you gain insight into some subtle meta-textual bullshit the author subconsciously included, along with a really strong opinion on these things

Breach of Etiquette
    If someone insults you to your face, you may immediately challenge them to a battle of will. Both of you roll a save. If they fail, they take 1 point of damage for every word in the insulting sentence as if inflicted by a cloud of tiny blades. If you fail, they may lay a geas on you. It is possible for both of you to fail your saves.

Straightforward Application of Force
    When entering a rage, you may choose to take the form of an albino tiger (remarkable stealth, lethal sneak-attacks) or a black dragon (flight, armored hide). They are both 6HD creatures. When they are reduced to 0HP you drop out of rage and return to your normal form at 0HP (you may reenter rage as normal).

Zealot

    For you, rage is a gift from your deity. Your connection to this primal force, facilitated by your god, allows you to work His ends in the material world. Other clerics, those who are not Zealots, are almost definitionally corrupt, and misuse divine power to make themselves fat and wealthy. Other Zealots, those who are not you, are probably insane, and they should be put down like dogs. Only you can be trusted to avenge the good against the world.

Skills: 1. Acting like a "real" priest 2. Architecture 3. Classical lore
Starting Equipment: Holy symbol (your choice), book of scripture, heavy but nondescript traveling clothes (as leather), concealable knife (light weapon), leather sling.

• A Ablution, Dog of Heaven, +2 stealth
• B Divine Protection
• C Neumos, +2 stealth
• D Beyond Death

Ablution
    At dawn, noon and dusk, wash your hands and feet in potable water. If you miss one of these ritual washings you are unclean, and cannot again be clean until you have completely immersed yourself in "live" water (a spring or a river). While you are clean your touch burns immaterial undead, you may add your [level] to the damage and to-hit of any attack, and your fingernails glow in the presence of evil.
Dog of Heaven
    It is impossible to kill you before your god allows it. If reduced to 0HP and "death", magical healing works on you as if you were alive. You might need to be sewn back together if sliced into proper collops, and if you've been burnt to ash or crushed to a paste your body might need mending, but you're still not dead until your god calls you home. Allegations that certain temples have whole rooms full of the canopic remains of dozens of Zealots, "just in case", may or may not be true. No promises about what happens when someone casts a Banishment spell on you.

Divine Protection
    Once per rage you may reroll any save. If you don't like the new result, you can spend another point of Rage and reroll it again.

Neumos
    While raging you may chant a religious hymn. Any who hear you and chant along with you may add your [level] to the damage and to-hit of their attacks. Yes; if your enemies join in the chant they can add your bonus to their attacks against you. Your god isn't picky.

Beyond Death
    While raging, you cannot drop below 1HP. Roll injuries as normal.

Orbiters 20, Not The Economic Council (Orbiters Local 519 addon)

    Alright I don't know what happened at the end with all the Hardsuit lists and their broken whitespacing (there are leading spaces after the numbers that will not go away) but you have to win sometimes and, other times, you have to lose.

    I've written a partial redux of Archon's GLOGhack Orbiters Local 519 (also sourced from its upcoming 2e). I've managed to collapse one more class into another, reducing the final count to a paltry three; half the original number! The main new features are some unexplained business involving shuttle upgrades and a different way of handling the Sentry class.



    Find the document here, and Red Air here.

Lucidity Is Not A Possibility (Orbiters Local 519 Dungeon, Aliens, Weapons)

    This is a spaceship (a dungeon) for Archon's hack Orbiters Local 519, a game of derelictcrawling, salvage and insurance fraud. I've also included some optional alien PC races from a planetary romance setting I used in my pre-GLOG days. Purple text is read-aloud narration.

Setting

    The System is, obviously, a solar system. It's made up of dozens of life-bearing planets, with almost as many intelligent species, orbiting a subgiant star named, unimaginatively, "the Sun". The System's civilizations have been spacefaring for a few centuries, but tech level is still sub Star Wars — it's a bit like the Honor Harrington books, if you've read those. No generic "forcefields", no robots, no AI, no hyperdrives, hacky mechanical artificial-gravity, combat largely centered on torpedo salvos (love a salvo) and railgun broadsides and boarding actions (love a good boarding action). Everything I need for rough and tumble dieselpunk planetary romance.

    I read Orbiters Local and said to myself, "G. R. Michael, this is a brilliant little game. Spaceship scavenging. Space hulks. Space. What a great idea. Say, how about you write out some crap for the System setting from all those years ago?", to which I responded, "Yeah, maybe". Seven months later, here we all are.

Species

Avian (Lesser)

    Slender, feathered, six-limbed humanoids from the gas-dwarf moon of Ava. As the first space-faring race of the System they spread their technology and their values to other civilizations (much to their own regret). Employed as engineers, architects and armorers on every world, station and ship out there. Culturally, Avians follow a rigid caste system which can only be escaped through off-world service.

SOLDIER-CASTE AVIAN
3' humanoid, 12' of batlike wings.
No movement penalty in microgravity. Free movement in pressurized microgravity (flight).

WORKER-CASTE AVIAN
3' humanoid, extra pair of massive arms
No movement penalty in microgravity. Strength is 16 when forcing things with extra arms. Extra hands count as terrifying size.

Pure (Lesser)

    Slender, scaled, six-limbed humanoids from the volcanic moon of Purity. Closely related to the Avians, though a little taller, more assertive, and with more toxic stingers and fangs and suchlike. The Pure are often stereotyped as all being pirates, procurers, poisoners, phanatical worshipers of the god of Hell, or some combination thereof. This stereotype is very accurate.

PURE
5' humanoid, weird eyes
Remain conscious in hard vacuum. Choose: natural thermal scope OR natural electronics scanner.

Sylvan (Normal)

    Tall, willowy, catgirl humanoids from the forest planet of Satanazes. Introduced to the System relatively recently by corporate interests trying to abduct the males of their species, the monstrous Woses, for use as some kind of bioweapon (this was a hilariously bad idea). Sylvans considerably outnumber the males; this situation is partially alleviated by large harems and partially alleviated by wandering catgirl sharpshooter mercenaries.

SYLVAN
7' humanoid, catgirl
Agility is 3d4+4. +1 reaction rolls (everyone loves catgirls).

Lithian (Normal)

    Horned, highly-reflective, batlike humanoids from the desert planet of Lith. A nation of gunboat capitalists, ferocious in battle and dominant in commerce. The word for their incandescently pactolian super-terrestrial world means "the larger of the two suns" on both of its inhabited moons (Ava and Purity). Lithians are found in every corner of the System and at every level of the social totem pole, except for the bottom, which is for the people they don't like.

LITHIAN
6' humanoid, crown of horns
+1 to Strength, Agility and Perception.

Mission

    "While docked at fueling station over the gas-giant Eos, your crew hears of a tragic accident: two boats, one of them a massive cargo hauler, have collided in low orbit. They're expected to fall into the clouds below in days, if not hours, and be lost forever. What a shame."

THE BOAT:
    "The privately-owned LUCIDITY IS NOT A POSSIBILITY was carrying material to a construction point in Eos orbit when she was struck. As a cargo hauler, the boat is blimp-shaped, with a small (usually detachable) area for the crew and a cavernous (usually depressurized) area for the stuff. She's newer-model, so the powerplant should still be operational if it has fuel, and the phantom-grav should keep working well past crush-depth. Her manifest isn't particularly detailed but you should expect heaps of steel beams and plenty of construction equipment."

THE PROBLEM:
    "A smaller boat smacked into her, hard. So hard that you only have automated distress signals; no one from either boat called for help themselves. The second boat blared about a second and a half of factory-default radio-noise before dying. That means it was probably a pirate or a smuggler with jailbroken systems; either way, you have no information on who she was or what she was carrying."

OBJECTIVE:
    "Reclaiming the main cargo hull with a mothership your size is out of the question. The thing is hundreds of meters across and it's falling into the gravity well of a gas-giant as we speak. Instead, recover as much high-value cargo as possible, and try to salvage the crew-area. Salvaging the crew-area will count as a successful mission."
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
- Manifest indicates 10 spacers and 2 "guests". Confirm the status of all 12 who were on board at the time of collision.
- Identify the second ship and prep it for salvage.
- ???
- ???

scale suggestive, not intended to be accurate.

    That, uh, "map" is for my own reference, and is only semi-readable to others. Let me give you some more information:

Approaching:

    "The LUCIDITY IS NOT A POSSIBILITY sits in low, decaying orbit, almost brushing the farthest-reaching fingers of the gas giant's clouds. The crew-area clings to the swollen cargo-area like a beetle on a ball of shit. Her tiny plasma engines are still online and struggling to keep the structure upright; the much larger primary engines, on the cargo-area, are dark and cold.
    "The second boat, the one responsible for this collision, looks like an Avian warship. Long, thin, designed for ramming cargo boats like this and disemboweling them. She sticks halfway out from the side of the cargo-area, bent like a hairpin. Looks like someone tried to jam a cigarette into an egg and gave up. Her engines are dead as well.
    "There's pretty significant damage to the hull of the cargo area, obviously. Looks like the whole thing warped and buckled from the forces of the impact. Pseudo-gravity is online, and the warship is visibly fighting to tear free by gutting the cargo-area completely. You might have a few hours before the superstructure collapses, or you might have thirty minutes."

    You don't need to point them out immediately, but a quick glance at the hauler makes it obvious to the PCs (all veteran spacemen) where points of interest like the conning tower, phantom-acceleration room and power plants are relative to each other.

Entering:

    "There are three plausible entrances to the cargo boat. The conning tower on the crew-area should have an airlock appropriate for your shuttle, and the lights are on so the systems should be functional. The massive loading doors on the bow of the cargo-area probably weigh as much as your shuttle, but there are wickets for easy access to the bay, which you should be able to hack or otherwise breach. Finally, there's a whopping great hole where the warship rammed the cargo-area. Shouldn't be a problem to hop from the shuttle into the Lucidity."

    It will, in fact, be a problem to hop from the shuttle into the Lucidity. The pseudo-gravity is leaking; a jump from the transport shuttle over to the hull might turn from a straight line to a ballistic arc just at the end, sending you "down" and, probably, towards the atmosphere of the gas-giant. Uhoh.

The Koss Transport:

    She's what the Avian warship collided with in the hull. Bad luck for the Avians; these transports were built in the second Battery War specifically to withstand collisions like that. Koss transports are 50m long and shaped something like a horseshoe crab. Their armor is the second-closest thing to indestructible in the System, and they have a dozen tiny pseudo-gravity systems built into their hulls for the sole purpose of bleeding off impulse (techno-babble for "their interiors don't have artificial gravity but also the crew doesn't splatter when the ship hits something").
    The transport can physically blat lighter, twinkier boats out of heaven. She can intercept fire from battleship main-guns without flinching, and run an arbitrarily-dense blockade with up to a dozen (skinny) (tightly-packed) VIPs and a single pilot. Koss transports are the armored limos of space: you wouldn't want to pay for the gas on a roadtrip, and you wouldn't want to have to crack one open with only a conventional warhead.

    This transport has four stasis pods, two of them smashed and their occupants killed, two of them on emergency power and their occupants badly injured. The transport's captain is lying prone behind a rifle on the loading ramp, in position to defend her ship and her crew with her life, if she hadn't bled to death in her ruptured suit a few hours ago. She died cold — bad luck. On her body is half of a contract stick. Combined with the other half, found in the Command room up in the crew-area, makes you the legal owner of one more combat mission for the two surviving Koss mercenaries. Worth a credit to the right buyer.

    The ship itself is a secondary objective if you can get it out of the cargo-area and to the Mothership for scrapping. The controls have been fried by EM, but you could try and jury-rig them to bash your way out of the hold, or just cut the hull out from beneath the transport.

Primary and Secondary Lifts:

    The elevator cars are smashed at the bottom of the shafts. If the pseudo-grav is still on, you'll have to climb with a grappling hook or magnet boots. The two shafts could be cut through fairly easily. If they're cut or collapse on their own (this happened to one group) then the cargo-area will start to rapidly fall into Eos and the crew-area will stabilize its own orbit, making for relatively easy salvage.

Navigation Room:

    The crewmen in this room died very, very hot — good luck. The hold was pressurized, so the warship's impact popped the hydraulic seals at the base of the primary lift, the door into the nav room, and the door into the crew quarters. The six corpses in these rooms show signs of primary blast injury; mottled faces, ruptured chest cavities, and crushed eyeballs. Go all in on the scene. "They're dead, but they don't even look surprised about it". Say things like "the walls are splashed with frozen blood" and "loops of icy intestines are splayed out like spaghetti".

Command Room:

    There's a handwritten note left on the big fancy captain's chair, reading

        Not my fault.
        Can't hail the rest of the crew.
        Falling into Eos.
        If you're looting my ship sometime in the next two hours, fuck you.

            Captain Valerio Adhara

    Of the two ultra-premium lifepods (mahogany paneling, leather seats), one is missing. The other can be jettisoned empty, or filled with bulky loot if you'd like. The shuttle can pick it up easily enough.
    An examination of the console reveals that the captain deleted his half of the contract with the Koss mercenaries, but forgot to empty his trashbin. It's easily recovered.

Phantom Acceleration Room:

    Here's how Lithians make artificial gravity: they start with a few discs-within-discs of ultradense material suspended on a cushion of magnetism, they spin 'em up to incredible speed, mrmflrbhurbabfm, linear momentum to angular momentum, linear moment to angular moment, mmmblafdhbiblf, gravity is not a force, murmblfhf, impulse, curved spacetime, bup bup bup.

    This is all well and good unless you're standing in the room with those spinning discs when your boat gets hit by something. The crewmember who was in here has been reduced to something like 13 kilos of carbon dust and 42 kilos of water vapor, assuming he started out at 70 kilos.

Loading Area NPCs:

    As soon as anything interesting happens on the boat, Zayman will try sending out from his hardsuit. The shuttle will hear him and notify the PCs by radio. If they're ever face-to-face, Centiplease, as a Psion, will contact the PCs telepathically and try to negotiate a deal to get him and his bodyguard off the ship and onto a neutral space station. It's not unreasonable for some Lithian company-men to want their comings and goings to be kept hush-hush, but Centiplease and Zayman will carelessly reference their warship instead of their cargo-hauler, will unconvincingly claim to be normal crewmen with no idea what happened, and have obviously been in a recent firefight.
    If pressed, Zayman will explain a "hypothetical" where "maybe" a group of "freedom fighters/terrorists" attempted to "intercept a Lithian black-ops squad" and were "unpleasantly surprised by the contents of the cargo-hauler" but were ultimately successful in killing the black-ops squad and "throwing their bodies" out of a convenient "airlock". Hypothetically. He can give the PCs dogtags if they think they need physical evidence of the fate of the two guests.
    If pressed further, or if the players start seriously discussing a plan to attack the two OOC, Zayman will use his Jump Jets to tackle the nearest PC and burn Simulspace rerolls kill the Hell out of them with his Vibro-Wakizashi. Be up front with the PCs about the risk; he's got Threat Projection, after all. Zayman will sell his life dearly to protect Centiplease, though the two of them are probably toast against more than one or two PCs. A sad end for a legendary pair of space-bandits.

    Centiplease's organization has enough money to make their rescue a secondary objective. Turning them in to the authorities for the bounty also counts. Faction play!

NPCs and Monsters

Laser-Rats
    Laser-rats are, technically, a kind of mustelid.
HD: ½.
Lasers: 1d4 damage, 1d6 if they didn't fire last turn.

Stowaway
    Freezer-burned and somewhat crazy, wearing a bubble-helmet and not enough layers on his body. Miraculously survived the impact despite being exhausted, dehydrated, and space-crazy. Either desperate for rescue or murderously enraged, depending on the reaction roll.
HD: 1.
Wrench: hits for 1d4 damage.
Space-Crazed Babble: Every round you can hear his voice, make a Perception check. If you succeed, take 1 point of damage.

Barnacle
    As Cirripeds.

Eel
    As Anguillomorph.

Wose Young Juvenile
    The males of the Sylvan species are apex predators and obligate fratricides. They look like the reasonable halfway point between tigers and gorillas. They're brawny and ugly, with shredding-claws, crushing-jaws and camouflage stripes. Young juveniles are about the size of a shuttle.
HD: 20
Armor: 2
Obligate Fratricide: Must attack organic creatures which are larger than a rabbit AND not a Sylvan. Cannot fail morale checks if doing so would prevent him from attacking a valid target.
Apex: On his turn, makes one bite attack and two claw attacks
Bite: 1d6 damage, healing for the same amount if used on a biological enemy.
Claw: 1d8 damage, ignoring 1 point of armor.

Koss Mercenary
    Wearing combat-rated Hardsuits in their company's liverie, and armed to their many needle-like teeth. Koss women are about 12' at eye-level and feel no moral pangs when stomping on childlike enemies.
HD: 3
Armor: 1
Monstrous Size: PCs fail strength checks by default. Has 20 strength, if it matters.
Power Armor: Wearing the equivalent of a Hardsuit equipped with Coolant Tanks, Ablative Armor and a Tower Shield. Equipped with a Monstrous Handgun and a random weapon from their list.
Monstrous Handgun: 60' range, 1d6 damage.
K76 Sip-Northover Incendiary Problems Projector: a rapid-fire incendiary limpet launcher, designed for area-denial and ambuscades. 1d6 damage in 10' radius, pierces Thin walls when set off. Rounds stick to metal and can be detonated later. 100' range. Targets caught in the blast are set on fire, taking 1d4 damage a round until they take an action putting themselves out. Can be fired twice in a combat turn generating the Heat of two attacks.
K205 Cryptogenic Ski-Troop Enabler: a backblast cryo-fluid launcher, designed to give the user high-speed movement over level ground and small enemies. 1d8 damage in a 60' line, piercing no walls, generating no Heat. When firing the weapon everything within a semicircle behind you is tossed 30' away. If you lack 30' of rear clearance, you are tossed forward.
LSW-500 Woman-Portable Beam (Variable Lens): an internal-spooling incendiary beam emitter. 1d6 damage at 100', 1d8 if you didn't attack last turn, piercing no walls. Sets targets on fire. Internal mechanisms can change the beam type (the Ammo), given 1 Heat and an exploration turn.
[unnamed, poorly advised hunter-killer drone project]: a light flak drone hive. Deals 1d4 damage to anyone within 60' (goes around corners), piercing no walls. Max damage to flying enemies and objects.
K202 BLASH: a bombardment explosive rocket pod, for safely obliterating your enemies in a mixed-cover mixed-allegiance and target-rich environment. 2d4 damage in a 20' radius at 200', piercing Thick walls. Damage is divvied out to targets in the blast radius as you please. Can deal maximum damage in one attack, though its ammunition is expended for the rest of the mission

Centiplease Fortigaster
    An Avian scholar. The smallest caste, both physically and in raw numbers, but the top of the heap regardless. Their feathered wings are five meters from tip to tip. Their bones are too heavy for true flight, but they can hurt you terrible by flapping.
    HD: 3 (1/11 HP when you encounter him)
    Psion A–B: knows Lesser Telekinesis, Send/Receive and Remote Viewing.
    Scholarly Swordsman: may make two attacks per turn with his bitching space katanas
    Bitching Space Katanas: 1d6 damage, ignoring a point of armor.

Zayman Hazred
    A Pure. Grizzled, dangerous, wearing a hardsuit he's been tinkering with for 20 years. Probably rather gruff unless there's another old coot in a hardsuit or another mercenary with a simulspace addiction.
    HD: 3 (6/11 HP when you encounter him)
    Armor: 1
    Powered Armor: Wearing the equivalent of a Hardsuit equipped with Jump Jets, Passive Radiators and Ablative Armor.
    Mercenary A–B: knows Microgravity Agility 1, Threat Projection 1, Simulspace Addict 2
    Double-Barreled Varmint Gun: a rapid-fire frangible scattergun, for killing space-vermin without puncturing walls. 1d8 damage in a 30', rerolls 1s and 2s on damage rolls against unarmored targets, pierces no walls.
    Vibro-Wakizashi: a snub-nosed armor-piercing melee weapon, for killing the Hell out of combat robots and people in power armor. Deals 1d12 damage at grappling range, ignoring armor, passing through Thick walls.

Weapon Generation.

    Archon has two or three different systems now, but this is the way I do it. Roll 3d12 for Weapon, Ammo and Augmentation.

Weapon
1. Rifle- 1d6 damage, pierces Thin walls, 100' range.
2. Beam Emitter - 1d6 damage, doesn't pierce, charges to 1d8 if you didn't use it last round, 100' range.
3. Rocket Pod - 2d4 damage, split the damage between as many targets as you want, pierce Thin walls, 200' range.
4. Scattergun - 1d8 damage in a 30' cone, pierces Thin walls.
5. Melee - 1d10 damage in melee, pierces Thin walls.
6. Drone hive - 1d6 damage, can fly around corners, doesn't pierce, 60' range.
7. Autocannon - 1d8 damage, 20' radius, pierces Thick walls, 100' range.
8. Limpet Launcher - 1d6 damage, 10' radius, pierces Thin walls when set off, rounds stick to metal and can be detonated later, 100' range.
9. Fluid Thrower - 1d8 damage in a 60' line. doesn't pierce walls, generates no Heat.
10. Claymore Array - 1d6 damage to everyone within 100', destroys Thin walls.
11. Disc Launcher - 1d6 damage at 100', ricochets to a random target for 1d4 damage. Doesn't pierce walls.
12. Assault Cannon - 2d6 damage, +1 Heat per combat, pierces Thick walls, 100' range.

Ammo
1. Armor-piercing - ignores armor, wall pierce up step.
2. Frangible- no longer pierces walls. Reroll 1s and 2s on damage rolls against unarmored targets.
3. Flak - no longer pierces walls. Deals maximum damage to drones and other fast-moving targets.
4. Explosive - damage radius is increased by 20', wall pierce up one step.
5. Recursive - adds Heat to damage rolls.
6. Incendiary - targets take 1d4 damage each round until the fire is put out.
7. Cryo - targets must Save or cannot move on their next turn.
8. Pulse - targets must Save or be knocked down when hit.
9. Rail-assisted - range up one step.
10. Beacon - all your subsequent attacks against target have +1 damage. stacks.
11. Spalling - ignores armor, deals extra damage equal to target's armor.
12. Wildcat - damage die up one step, gain 1 Heat if damage is above normal maximum.

Augmentation
1. Light - damage die and wall-piercing down one step, reduce Heat cost to fire by 1.
2. Heavy - damage die and wall-piercing down one step, increase Heat cost to fire by 1.
3. Autonomous - fires under the control of a computer. You can use this weapon and take another action.
4. Rapid-fire - you may attack twice, each attack costing normal Heat.
5. Hardpoint-mounted - damage, wall piercing and range up one step, increase Heat cost to fire by one. You cannot move and fire this weapon on the same turn.
6. Assisted Targeting - spend an action and choose a target. Damage against that target is rolled with advantage. Targeting does not cost Heat.
7. Bombardment - you can choose to have the weapon deal its maximum damage on its attack, but it runs out of ammunition or charge and cannot be used again during this expedition.
8. Heatsink - the first shot during each combat generates 1 less Heat.
9. Internal Spool - may change Ammo type. This takes 1 Exploration Turn, and generates 1 Heat.
10. Backblast - When firing the weapon, everything within a semicircle behind you is tossed 30' away. If you lack 30' of rear clearance, you are tossed forward.
11. Snub Barrel - range down one step. Damage up one step.
12. Badly Malfunctioning - deals 1 damage to you when it would generate Heat. Damage die up one step.

Damage steps: 1, 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, 1d12, 1d20
Range steps: grapple, melee, 30', 60', 100', 200', 500'
Wall-piercing steps: none, Thin, Thick, Armored, any number of walls until it hits Armored, any number of walls

Smoky Sputtering Torch (GLOG Classes: Monk 5e Conversions)

    5e conversion is easy! Subclasses have 4 thingies, GLOG classes have 4 thingies. The conversion is practically already done. While 5e content is often lame and bad, you can depend on me to make it worse; I have your back.

    These were made with the assistance of Liches Get Stitches and, more broadly, the double-secret triple-platinum Discord server for the ruleset formerly known as "GLOG".

Source: Divine ceremony by Reicheran

Monk

    Like barbarians, monks tap into a primal force of the universe. But where barbarians prefer terrific explosions of vitality and noise, monks seek enlightenment and careful control. Is it fair to call one more impressive than the other? Is a little natural talent somehow superior to mastery achieved over a lifetime of training? Can you hope to make something perfect by adding to it?

    All monks have a pool of chi which they use to fuel their kung-fu. This chi takes up slots in your inventory like exhaustion; just like exhaustion, you take a point of damage if something would occupy the same slot. When you take an hour to calmly and silently meditate (it is nigh impossible to do this in a city), you may fill as much of your inventory with chi as you wish.
    You may use chi to: leap 20' horizontally, reduce damage from an arrow or thrown weapon by 1d6, treat a fall as if it were 10' shorter, upgrade an unarmed attack to deal 1d6 plus your highest modifier damage (it's your job to explain why intelligence makes you punch better but it shouldn't be hard. You're a smart kid), make a pair of unarmed attacks immediately after making any other attack, or whatever cool shit you can get your DM to permit. You may only spend as much chi in a round as you have templates as a Monk.

Way of Mortal Combat

    You can read about him here. He works a little differently, don't bother me about it.

Way of Saintly Virtue

    You can read about him here. He also works a little differently, fuck off.

Way of the Drunken Master

    True Drunken Masters are indistinguishable from morons. You spend your nights playing your qin at the finest of whorehouses, and your days nursing a hangover with hair-of-the-dog by the pint. When fighting, you tilt and lurch like a murderous wino; when doing anything else, you tilt and lurch like a murderous wino. Literati and the upper-crust, inexplicably, adore you.

Skills: 1. Epic poetry 2. Courtly seduction 3. Formal duels
Starting Equipment: Wine-stained finery (as unarmored), kukri (wickedly curved, light), well-cared-for qin, wineskin of very strong brandy (3 doses), calligraphy set.

• A Drunk "Technique", +2 Save
• B Tipsy Sway
• C Heaven Protects Children and Idiots, +2 Save
• D Intoxicated Frenzy

Drunk "Technique"
    Despite your wobbling and teetering, you cannot fall off anything which can bear your weight (tightropes, ledges around buildings, the tops of peoples' heads in a crowd). Any roll that would knock you over has disadvantage (or vice versa if you're the one rolling).

Tipsy Sway
    Terrain and conditions that would slow a normal person do not slow you. Your bobbing and weaving, mostly through accident, makes it more difficult (disadvantage) to grapple you with ropes and nets and nigh-impossible to do so with bare hands. You could stumble through a grasping crowd without being brushed once.

Heaven Protects Children and Idiots
    If it is even remotely feasible for you to have avoided damage (this works on a car crash but not on a Sun Soul bombing), spend 2 chi and do so with a pratfall and a shiteating grin.

Intoxicated Frenzy
    Spend a chi to immediately make an unarmed attack against someone, by kneeing them in the kidney or slamming your forearm into their nose or some such. This works at any time, even during someone else's turn in combat. Outside of combat these attacks are plausibly an accident.

Way of the Sun Soul

    When the universe was young, bearers of Sun Souls were common. Over the eons most faded, or ascended. Many — but not all — of the g_ds themselves began as Sun Souls. In these blasted latter-ages of the world apotheosis is less common, but still possible.

Skills: 1. Archaeological burgling 2. Largescale architecture 3. Management
Starting Equipment: White loincloth (as unarmored), painted begging bowl, healthy and thorough tan, calligraphy set.

• A Sunlit Body, +2 to-hit
• B Solar Crown
• C Radiant Arc of the Sun, +2 AC
• D Sideration

Sunlit Body
    Fire and heat cannot hurt you (though smoke inhalation still can). Four hours of meditation in direct sunlight is as good as a full meal. You do not cast a shadow outdoors.

Solar Crown
    If you focus your chi into your crown and eye chakras, you can project a brilliant beam of sunlight from your forehead and a halo of the same from your scalp, both visible for miles. It takes one point of chi to maintain these lights for an hour.

Radiant Arc of the Sun
    If you focus your chi in your heart and stomach chakras, you can create a blazing sphere about the size of a cannonball. You can throw this sphere about 300' (it is weightless and ignores most air resistance), where it explodes in a brief but deadly flash. This deals 2d6 fire damage to all creatures within 30'. The sphere costs 2 chi to create initially, and for every additional chi you invest the damage increases by 2d6.

Sideration
    At-will, a crackling haze of charged particles rises from your skin. Anyone who approaches within 10' takes 1d6 plasma damage, and you take 1 point of damage when this happens. Metal objects in the area spontaneously weld together. Grapes explode. If this kills you, your soul has an X-in-20 chance of rising into the heavens as a new star (where X is the number of people your plasma-field killed at the same time as you). If this roll fails, your soul breaks into extremely valuable gemstone fragments and a harmless purple fog which dissipates into the atmosphere.

Way of the Kensei

    That other schools ignore the sword is a missed opportunity. For a sword is not merely a weapon. Most "weapons" are, in reality, tools; spears are tools of hunting, nunchucks are tools of threshing, and staffs are tools of walking. But a sword is an extension of the self, a part of the self, just as much as hands and feet. You can't say you have mastered your self until you have mastered your sword.

Skills: 1. Nature painting 2. Lying to authorities 3. Horses, + proficiency in bladed weapons.
Starting Equipment: katana (medium, but using wisdom instead of strength), wakizashi (light), brightly-colored traveling clothes (as unarmored), letter of introduction (from important NPC), calligraphy set.

• A Sword Saint, Extra attack
• B Respect
• C Advanced Striking Technique #5 (Lethal), +2 to-hit
• D Exemplary Edge Maintenance

Sword Saint
    You may parry and guard like a sword-shepherd.

Respect
    You're recognized as a member of the Right Sort, even if you were born a peasant, or are currently wearing shabby hobo clothing. Nobles and military officials and minor divinities will tolerate backtalk and advice from you (don't expect this to work on emperors or tigers, of course). Members of the Right Sort are permitted more-or-less open warfare against each other without interference from Johnny Law.

Advanced Striking Technique #5 (Lethal)
    The golden age of the Kensei is long over and most legendary techniques have been lost to time. Not this one, though. Nobody could forget this one. By spending a point of chi, an attack from your sword can hit a visible target at any range. For each additional point of chi you invest, roll another of the sword's damage dice and add the result to the total damage.

Exemplary Edge Maintenance
    In your hands, every sword is a magical +1 weapon with the enchantment "Reroll a missed attack once per day".

Way of the Long Death

    To die quickly is easy. To live forever is difficult. But to die forever... few accomplish this. The followers of the Long Death resemble their cousins, the liches, only superficially. They possess martial arts instead of arcane powers, and where normal liches seek an eternity to gain knowledge and magic, the monks of the Long Death only wish to study one thing.

Skills: 1. Forgotten ancient culture 2. Human anatomy 3. Esoteric religion
Starting Equipment: Dusty yet festive clothing (as unarmored, +1 to reaction), steel mask which completely conceals the face, travel sewing kit, bottle of eau de cologne (10 doses), calligraphy set.

• A Dead Vespers
• B Hour of Reaping
• C The Touch of the Long Death
• D Lessons Internalized

Dead Vespers
    You are undead. Sunlight and running water hurt you like fire (and, incidentally, so does fire). You do not need to sleep or eat, and cannot be poisoned. You don't have darkvision but you can see the chakras of intelligent beings, even through a blindfold (which is good because you're going to have to wear one during the daytime). Healing spells and potions damage you, and you cannot heal by resting. You must repair your body with a needle and thread at a rate of 1HP an hour. You can sew on reasonably-fresh limbs if you lose your old ones, which might let you re-roll physical stats if they're particularly high-quality. If you are reduced to 0HP your body falls apart at the joints, but you can be sewn back together by your friends if they recover all of your chakras (if they recover at least four of the chakras you'll still be O.K. but they have to sew new ones in, and you must re-roll a mental stat for each original chakra you lost and take the lower value).

Hour of Reaping
    You can, at-will, project an unwholesome aura. Living creatures who can see you get a sudden nagging feeling they need to get the Hell away from you as fast as possible. Provokes morale checks from most NPCs.

The Touch of the Long Death
    A graze from a finger inflicts 2d8 points of necrotic damage to a creature per chi you invest. This damage is dealt at a rate of 1 per day, and permanently lowers the max HP of the victim. Magical healing counteracts the remaining damage, but does not regenerate the missing max HP.
    The experience of living in a rotting body is excruciating, and yet the victim feels obligated to keep a written record. At the moment of annihilation they make a save; if they fail, they become undead. This is the beginning of the journey you once took

Lessons Internalized
    If you kiss a dying humanoid who has at least as many HD as you, you can draw their soul out between their lips and swallow it. This permanently increases your HP by 1 (up to a maximum of 8HP*level). Most people would rather leap into the sea than let this happen to their soul. Doing this before witnesses provokes an immediate morale check, or a reaction check if there are enough of them to cut you to pieces at the joints and lay those pieces on a pyre.

Way of the Open Hand

    Swords! Liquor! Magic! How terrible! The monastic life should be about simplicity, sobriety, and meditation. Time spent studying war and sorcery is time that would have been better spent praying for the benefit of Creation or developing one's own discipline, perhaps beneath a waterfall of some sort. All a monk really needs is a good heart, the ability to vaporize human beings with his bare hands, and a sense of humor.

Skills: 1. Cooking 2. Gab 3. Ancient history
Starting Equipment: Saffron robe (as unarmored), clay lantern on a bit of rope, wooden flask of oil (3 doses), calligraphy set (the brushes have bone handles).

• A Lesson of the Buffalo, +1 HP
• B Useful Heart, +1 HP
• C Thirteen Blows Between One Heartbeat and the Next, +1 HP
  
• D Timeless Body, +1 HP

Lesson of the Buffalo
    While you aren't carrying a weapon or a tool, your inventory space is doubled. Weapons and tools have rigid handles, or metal heads. If someone shoots you with an arrow or stabs you with a knife, you aren't "carrying" that arrow or knife.

Useful Heart
    If you would fail a save of some kind, you may spend a chi point and reroll it. You may spend a chi point to heal 1HP.

Thirteen Blows Between One Heartbeat and the Next
    There is no limit on how much chi you may spend in a round.

Timeless Body
    You do not age if you do not wish to. While you sit in silent and unblinking meditation, you do not require food or water or rest or air.

Way of the Shadow

    Over the centuries, many organizations and many masters have claimed to be the true incarnations and successors of this semi-legendary order. It's possible they were all lying. Indeed, it's possible that the secretive Shadows never existed at all outside of fable and nightmare. Nobody has ever proved that they've seen one.

Skills: 1. Agriculture 2. Theater costuming 3. Gambling games
Starting Equipment: Matte black bodysuit with big red silk sash (as unarmored, +1 to sneaking), two sais (light), grapnel and 50' of rope, bundle of lockpicks, calligraphy set.

• A Pass Without Trace, +2 skill
• B Spreading Night
• C Razor Edge Between Light and Death, +2 skill
• D Shadow Step

Pass Without Trace
    Your mastery of the Shadow-Arts lets you move silently and without a trace. Leave as many footprints in snow or loam as you would on a marble floor, and make as much noise passing through gravel or water as you would walking on that marble floor in silk slippers.

Spreading Night
    Shadows you can see lie in any direction you wish, including towards lightsources. If you focus on a shadow for a moment it becomes inky-black with a stark edge, and this lasts for several minutes.

Razor Edge Between Light and Death
    Spend one chi per HD to instantly and silently slay any mortal creature occupying your darkness. When their bodies are found, they have no visible wounds.

Shadow Step
    Between the blinks of any observers, move up to 60' from one stark shadow to another. In a totally dark environment you cannot be seen with darkvision or located by sound, though you may act as if you were present.

Index Librorum Vulgatorum

    It is becoming difficult for me to navigate my own blog. Therefore shall I lay out an index for ease of reference.

Source: Ogun by spaghettibastard

Classes

• The Zouave, that rough-riding yarn-spinning veteran. By an overwhelming margin my most popular post. Received an expansion-pack of tall tales here. There's a cowboy form here, and a Han Solo type here.
  
• The Sword-Shepherd, against whom weapons are raised in vain. Find additional techniques here and here. Find a simplified super-fighter here.
  
• The Builder, more man than machine, straightforward and morally ambiguous.
  
• The Masked Cleric, right (or left) hand of the angels.
  
• The Leper, a natural fit for adventure.
  
• The Changeling, an unspeakable blight.
  
• The Palette Swapped Ninja, much like every other ninja.
  
• The Monkey Dad, both Dad and Monkey.
  
• The Deep Space Technician, less of a full class and more of an excuse for a space game.
  
• The Super Sentai, whose post includes some pretty wild Kaiju I never got to use.
  
• The Manufactory, Wizard of Industry and Hot Metal.
  
• Las ruinas circulares, un engaño complicado.
  
• The Metatron, a class you don't remember seeing before. Received an expanded spell list here.
  
• The Wave-Dancing Samurai, an alternative to the Fighting-Man. Imagine what a bitchin' world has this as the "default" class.
  
• Many Wizards, more trouble than they are worth. A take on the host-classes, such as Many Goblins and the Extras.
  
• Monkey Herder, also more trouble than they are worth.
  
• The Giant Spider Aaaaaa, a mistake the world must suffer. Vayra altered them here.
  
• Thief Guilds, representing a few social classes (and I don't mean ones with speech skills).
  
• 100 GLOG microclasses, created by the OSR Discord. Two posts, here and here.
  
• Half a dozen Chess classes, and an odd location besides.
  
• The Virtuous Saint, for a given definition of "virtuous"
• The Tomb Ranger, who knows his way around the bottom of a well.
• The Horizon Walker, interdimensional portal cop. 
• The Alienist, a madwoman with hurtful spells.
  
• The Considerer, who is half an astrologer and half a Dominic Deegan reference. Y'all remember D.D? Neither do I.
  
• A GLΔG Wizard. Just a touch evil.
• The Banking Wizard School, in league with dragons and possessing mostly utility-spells. 
• The Vigilante, a Batman/Jason type for Buckets of Blood. 
• The Hollow Man, a microclass whose development took up a whole year of effort!
• The Summoner, a Pathfinder-converted half-caster with a powerful, monstrous guardian that evolves as she levels up.
• The Noble, a pastiche almost identical to Locheil's original but more Unfinished-World themed.
• An updated version of the Manufactory, no-longer MD-based.
• A set of five casters (wizard, druid, warlock, cleric, sorcerer) under the assumption that most casters cannot generate their own MD.
• The Abaddon, an unholy ghost from the Blazing North. 
• The Demigod, child of mortal and human, with phenomenal cosmic power. 
• The Armature, a man-machine, pilot and mechanism both, one soul in two bodies. Something like a paladin, if the Manufactory is a cleric. 
• The Courser Wizard, a skeezy man-about-town and occasional man-rapidly-fleeing-town-pursued-by-pack-of-slavering-hounds. 
• The Mesmerist, a Pathfinder-converted half-caster with a horrible brain and an even less savory pair of peepers. 
• A trio of sword-and-sorcery classes, the Three Primes wizard (nasty little medico), Cloudskater barbarian (haunted starborne foreigner) and the Ratbastard rogue (literally a rat).
• The Contender, a pastiche almost identical to Locheil's original but more... kung-fu.
  

The Unfinished World

• The Initial Post, where a few things are made clear for the elucidation of the players.
  
• Further information on the Face, a major campaign in the setting.
• Animal People from the West.
• A rant about swords with THREE WORD NAMES.
• An entry to the City Challenge, with some loreposting.
• Campaign Report #1. 
• A lot of vague religious content.
• Thirteen items.
• Some simplified classes, FKR style.
  
• Some unimpressive angels.
• A Beftiary Ftudy of ye Bafking Coaft, by notorious Gentleman-Naturalist Artur Hoxha
• 20 Soulslike Bosses, in imitation of friend-of-the-blog semiurge.
  

Redwall

• Thoughts on a Redwall Campaign. It's a great idea!
  
• Campaign Report. It's less straightforward to put into practice!

5e Conversions

• The Monk, and 6 Ways to go by. The first of what turned out to be an extended... not really "series", more "compulsion". Fifth Edition's monks have great names but bad mechanics, so this was my attempt to steal the good bits and convert them to GLOG.
  
• The Barbarian, and 6 Paths to walk on. The second, and where I started to get my groove on. The Barbarians went down a little more smoothly, with a more obvious template to build upon.
• The Rogue, and 8 Archetypes to fall into. Required minimal editing, since 5e's Rogue is probably its best-designed class. Some of the archetypes even had non-combat abilities! In 5e! Remarkable!
• The Fighter, and 8 Varieties of fighting-man. Golly I hate 5e.
• The Ranger, and 7 Insults to my fucking intelligence. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.
  

Best Case Scenario

• The initial post explaining the rules for a lite-weight squad-tactics skirmish and roleplaying game in a modern urban horror setting for 2 to 5 players.
  
• An updated rule set after actually getting some playtesting done. 
• The most up-to-date document is in the sidebar under the heading "Houserules"! Check it out, keep your nose to the sanding wheel.
  

Fullmetal Humorist (name pending, anyhow) Calling it "Fire Kills", now

• An encounter table for a strange Napoleonic battlefield. More to come in this theme, stay tuned. 
• Fire Kills, a strange world recovering from the depredations of a body-horror WW1.
  

GLOGtober 2020

• Guns, day 1. Injuries for firearms.
  
• Blood, day 2. Vampires, their treasure, their cool swords.
  
• Goblins, day 3. Terrible magic swords.
  
• Swirling Rainbow Vortices, day 4. The Horizon Walker, remade in GLOG.
• Maps, day 5. A throne room and a garden.
  

The System

• Spaceships of the System
• Worlds of the System
  

Other Things

• Diseases. Not terrible for a fifth post.
  
• A grab-bag of artifacts and treasures. Thankfully no one read this, so I crib from it all the time. Another one here.
  
• A d20 table of Wizardly Tricks for Squig's Sage class.
• A recipe for a gin posset.
  
• Notes on an Arthuriana setting.
• Notes on a superhero setting. Further notes on a superhero setting.
  
• Notes on an urban fantasy setting.
• The Black Auction of 2001 (with thanks to the original).
• GLOG Pokémon!
• Hexmap storms.
• A spaceship map for Archon's Orbiters Local 519 (sort-of). 
• A hack of Orbiters Local 519.
• A set of unique Major Arcana as part of 2022's Secret Jackalope. 
• A map of the interior of an elf, for extra credit in 2022's Secret Jackalope. 
• The quarter-hour-of-writing challenge. Subject: "dimensions". 
• A set of 10 Black Books, in accordance with a challenge not deliberately issued but clearly implicit. 
• The Slush Pile, Episode I: The Fantasy Immanence
  
• 41 Feasts, a setting that came to me in a dream.
• 1d20x5 Raffish Ronins, in imitation of friend-of-the-blog semiurge. 
• Hwaet!, a 5e setting with associated classes.
• The Slush Pile, Episode II: The Snowclone Wars
• Self Same King, a Pathfinder-themed setting with odd cosmology
• A grimoire of GLOG spells, in imitation of various friends of the blog you can find here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. 
• Various encounters from the work of Stephen Crane.
• Picture Pong with Phlox, 1