GLÅUGUST26: The Questgiver

For GLÅUGUST, "A short class which is absolutely not a fighter, not a wizard, not a cleric and not a thief." Closing the month out with a fun one.

GLÅUGUST26: A Thoughtful Place

For GLÅUGUST, "Write a location where roughly 80% or more of the language is directly lifted from a single author or poet". A conversation collaged from the work of Grant Morrison. Spliced text is indicated by a | vertical bar.

GLÅUGUST26: Gore Eclipse

For GLÅUGUST, "Non-Lovecraftian cosmic horror". A weather condition for in-person session play.

GLÅUGUST26: The Classes of Northern Lights v1.1

For GLÅUGUST, "Futility of categorization". The list of the 16 base classes available in my upcoming campaign, with links to the associated post if applicable. The content within is already outdated, surely even moreso in the near future.

GLÅUGUST26: Infection

For GLÅUGUST, "guest stars!". A list of symptoms from Unspent Yarn and procedures for contracting and curing them.

GLÅUGUST26: Nobody

For GLÅUGUST, "Sequel to a Blogpost from Last Year". To be played as an interruption.

by katkeyboardmastah

The Lineman (or, designing again desire)

Another class for Northern Lights, and a discussion of its shortcomings.

Girly Bandwagon: DisΔssembly

An imperfect and imprecise (and very late) addition to the Girly Bandwagon. Dedicated to Unspent Yarn, who continues to inspire and surprise me. Thank you.

Appendix C.a

I'm late to the party as usual, but here's the list of core inspirations for my Northern Lights setting/campaign and its associated GLoGhack, tentatively named Parcel. This list is neither comprehensive nor meaningfully ordered.

Weather and Terrain

An expansion of Tread and my hexcrawl rules, laying out the mechanical effects of terrain and weather.

The Artificer

All it takes is some elbow grease and ingenuity.

by Mingchen Shen

The DreΔmer

A quick delta class lifting heavily from Austin Walker's Realis. Take it as a starting class, or add it to a pre-existing character for a different kind of narrative arc. It should comfortably layer on top of whatever dice-based resolution mechanics you're already using.

by Studio Ghibli

Blind Mice at the Open Table

Back when I started planning Northern Lights as a GLoG campaign, I wrote up an alternative to Monster XP/Milestones. They've remained basically unchanged since, and they're a close second to Tread as personal Design Highlights go.

TotSK Playtest Session 1

This Sunday marked the first session of my GLoGhack's inaugural playtest. The team is going through Skerples' Tomb of the Serpent King, let's see how it went!  

Northern Lights v0.3 Release

After much ado, I've organized the basic rules of my gloghack into a single document! It has all the basics for chargen and dungeon-scale gameplay and my next step is to solidify the overworld exploration loop and larger meta-progression mechanics. 

Check it out >here<!

Immortality, Schism, and Customs

If you're in Northern Lights, read no further!!

The Ranger

The weather is lovely right now. Join me for a walk?

by Germán Reina Carmona

The Monk

A faster, stronger, better idea.

by Anthony Ray

Glåugustober, Week 1: Lingering Will

I missed out on this year's GLÅUGUST, but late is better than never. I've been thinking a lot about Terra recently, so here's a short Delta class for playing the armor of a dead PC.

brilliant piece of fanart by balimaria

Structure and Intuition (the Shardmind & the Prophet)

Two more Stellar Classes, if you're in Northern Lights then don't look! (sorry)