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I’ve always been impressed by those that work with birds of prey. They call the art falconry, but it extends to farm more than just falcons. One of the most impressive things about it is that, unlike the relationship of man and dog, the relationship of man and bird of prey is more a negotiation than a command. It’s about understanding what the bird demands and not asking too much. It’s about forging a relationship and letting the mutualism carry th...
2025-05-01 15:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Ever since we did the Wick axe a few months back, I've been obsessed with the candle aesthetic and really wanted to explore that environment a lot more. It was with this in mind that I pitched the Wick Walker to Fernando and in typical fashion, he was on board. The chain hook and chandelier was all his doing, but they fit the aesthetic so well that I knew I had to bring them into the mechanics as well. We hope you enjoy our latest creation.
As with all of th...
2025-04-24 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Typically when someone brings me an old chandelier or luminary that has been hanging in a long forgotten place, they try to clean it up a little bit, so when one hit my desk still dripping in wax with a leather strap affixed to the back, well I was a bit confused. Once I saw what it could do though, I quickly understood that this was far more than a dusty old lighting fixture,this was something special in the hands of the right adventurer. I made a few m...
2025-04-24 15:00:21 +0000 UTC
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The spectacle of nature seems to know no bounds as it seems that every day I learn more and more about the creatures that make up our wildlife. Sure there are the hulking monstrosities that make us afraid to step into the woods, but there’s also some wonderful things to explore. I recently learned a bit more about the bird world and in doing so, came across a fascinating breed of creature that preys upon other airborne creatures. I was so fascinated that I...
2025-04-17 15:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The general forces of this world are well known to those that profess to study science. Heat and cold, wind and rain, the forces of gravity that keep our feet planted on the floor. What we’re less sure of is the interactions of the magical with those natural forces. Are magics truly able to counteract the very fabrics of this world and if so, what are the consequences? All things are push and pull and it’s not lost on me that there must be some side ...
2025-04-10 15:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The natural world possesses many wonders that are still yet to be found. Bursting with possibilities, the wilds still hold much that we don’t understand and some things that we would struggle to comprehend. Those who practice druidic magics know all too well that the world we inhabit is magical in its own way, possessing wonders and mysteries that few will ever lay eyes upon. One such mystery comes in the form of this gauntlet that seems purpose made f...
2025-04-03 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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As we come into spring, I find myself feeling a lot better about the weather at least. It's been a long winter in my neck of the woods and I'm so excited to get some warmer temperatures and greenery in my area. Hopefully you're getting a bit of a taste of spring around you as well. We're capping off another great month with our March Wrap Up. Each month we take all of the files for the month and bundle them together for you on our master posts for easy to grab conte...
2025-04-02 18:43:52 +0000 UTC
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I have been wanting to do some more spirits for awhile as I think the concept of unfinished business is such a cool idea to explore in tabletops. A creature that you can't simply destroy through combat, but you must actually lay them to rest, well that's just an interest gameplay element. I think that we could use more options like that when we're building our worlds and so I wanted to take on something I hadn't yet seen in TTRPGs, a ghostly librarian. You would t...
2025-03-27 17:00:25 +0000 UTC
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Dusty old tomes are something I’m completely used to in my field. Looking over long lost literature and the smell of musty paper are actually a comfort to me. It soothes my mind to know that knowledge can persist so long after the collector of that knowledge has passed. It gives me hope that my life’s work will endure long after my time on this mortal plane has ended. Listen to me getting all existential. I apologize. I know you’re just here to bro...
2025-03-27 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Craftsmen of these lands never cease to amaze me with their ideas. Sometimes it’s as simple as someone asking me a seemingly silly question, but then it gets my mind moving in all kinds of new ways. For example, I had a friend come to me recently complaining that the worst part of throwing knives was actually having to throw them. In my mind, I had never considered it, but he’s right. We have telekinesis. Why in the world are we not using that to tak...
2025-03-20 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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I’ve seen many attempts at creating stronger and stronger adhesives that will bond things together for time eternal. I’m not sure what the obsession is with creating stronger adhesives, but it seems that the drives of inventors are not always subject to the whims or reasonable thought. I had a different idea one day. What if we don’t need stronger adhesives, but a more interesting way to deliver them. What I didn’t expect was that the resulting g...
2025-03-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The holy orders of this world are always trying to one up one another in whatever new toy they’ve figured out this week. Blessed this, radiant that, I hardly pay attention to it because it’s all the same to me. That said, when I saw a new manner of gauntlet sitting on the wrist of a paladin in a pub, well I was interested. I assure you that this one was acquired in a totally legitimate way from very reputable sources so there’s no need to be worrie...
2025-03-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Something a little different for you all this morning. Good friend of AbyssalBrews, Tom Cartos is dropping his latest Kickstarter for his lay flat battlemap books and this time it's going to a modern setting.
The modern setting is something that I've always felt is a bit underserviced in the TTRPG scene. There's a number of great systems that this could be used for and I'm happy to see Tom's take on a new setting. I own all of his previous Into the Wilds book...
2025-03-04 15:10:49 +0000 UTC
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It's so nice getting back into my routines after the holiday season has left us behind. Don't get me wrong, I love getting together with family and friends. There's just something comfortable though about getting back in my creative routines and hopefully getting some more time to just write the things I've been wanting to write. As always, we try to give you one more thing to enjoy for the month and this month, it's our Cobalt Crawler.
As with all of these ...
2025-02-27 18:00:11 +0000 UTC
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When a sandswept nomad makes their way into your parlor, it’s often a good idea to take a moment and see what they have to say. Those that would journey into the deepest depths of the most arid climates of the world are made of tougher stuff than those stuck up nobles play fighting down in the arena. When one brought me a blade made of crystal and charged with crackling energy, I was befuddled, not understanding where something like this could have com...
2025-02-27 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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I’m not much of an expert in the field of cosmetics. You see there’s little time or reason for skin care when you spend much of your day tending to magical enchantments and testing questionable alchemical concoctions. When I was approached by a woman in black selling magicked makeup, well I didn’t know what to say. It wasn’t until she gave me a demonstration and I saw what I assumed to be a corpse stumble in through the front door that I realized...
2025-02-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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I’ve always found koi to be beautiful. Something about their varied colors and textures of scales has always instilled me with a feeling of wonder, and their general status as a creature that brings luck and wealth to their owner fascinated me. I came across a particular glassblower some years ago that kept some of the creatures in a pond behind his shop and we became friends over time. I learned much about raising these special creatures, but it was m...
2025-02-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Modern food science is about as much alchemy and magic as it is actual scientific labor. It wasn’t always this way and I can’t really say I prefer it to the old tried and true methods of messing with fungi and hoping it didn’t kill you. That said, one little niche that I’ve found myself quite fond of is the enhanced hot sauce scene. There’s been a lot of breakthroughs in formulating even hotter sauces or different stings to their bite and I hav...
2025-02-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As we start off another year, we’re excited to say that we’re entering into our 3rd full year of content creation here with AB. It’s been amazing that a little project we started up for some fun has made it as far as it has and we couldn’t be more thankful for all of the amazing support we’ve received from you all in that time. It’s not just lip service to say we couldn’t do this without you. All that said, we’ve got another One More Thing ready to...
2025-01-30 18:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The power to control the waters can mean much for those that wish to wield them. Providing nourishment to the thirsty and life to the plants of the world, it’s true that water is one of the core building blocks upon which we all rely. It’s amazing then that something so basic to life can also be so dangerous depending on the form it can take. This trident for example, came to me with an infusion of a waterlily already tied to it giving it both miracu...
2025-01-30 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Communication is such a complex field of magic. It’s amazing in a world where we can twist rock and earth, raise the dead, and even move the heavens above, that communication is still one of the more difficult things to get a grasp on. I have known for some time that a method of conveying greater amounts of information over longer distances could be quite useful, but the form is what never made sense to me. One day one of the neighborhood children left...
2025-01-23 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Even as a young boy, I was as fascinated by storms as I was terrified by them. I grew up not far from the sea, so the tumultuous seas would often tell the tail of a coming gale. The lightning and thunder rattled the windows of our cliffside home and I would lay in bed watching the world outside be illuminated by the bolts from the skies above. I never lost that sense of wonder. Observing the power of a storm is still awe inspiring to this day. That’s w...
2025-01-16 15:40:17 +0000 UTC
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There are those in the highest levels of the clergy that really get a bit of an ego about themselves. You see them strutting around in their gleaming platemail or stately robes, rubbing elbows with the social elite. I feel as though they might have lost touch with the point of the whole thing, but that’s not for me to judge. They’ve found their newest divine toy though, and I’d be a liar if I said I hadn’t wanted to get my hands on some to give i...
2025-01-09 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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There are those that are never satisfied with what they have on hand currently and I think that sort of inventive spirit should be encouraged. Some particularly studious dwarves noticed the way that molten rock can cut channels through solid stone and saw within it an opportunity. They began capturing the daystar’s radiant energies in magically attuned crystals found in the depths below until they reached a critical point of stored energies. They were ...
2025-01-02 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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There are those that are so devout in their faith that they take to pinning the scripture to their very garb to remind themselves of what they consider necessary to remember. It’s an odd practice, but then again, I craft magical items for a living so perhaps I can’t be so quick to judge. What I will say is that when one of these robes landed in my shop, I was confused as to what properties it may have, but it seems that I was even more wrong for bein...
2024-12-26 16:03:03 +0000 UTC
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The final month of the year and we wanted to celebrate the holidays in a bit of an odd way, by giving you an absolute nightmare of a snowball battle ready for your campaigns. We came up with this idea last month and we've been having a ton of fun putting together this troublesome elf that we hope will get your players in the mood for the holidays!
As with all of these One More Thing releases, it's exclusive to patrons. If you're not a patron and want this re...
2024-12-19 16:30:02 +0000 UTC
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The most magical time of year is kicking off and I couldn’t be more excited to get out in the cold and take part in the annual snowball fights. I’ve heard tell that one of the elves has a new mechanism that he’s looking to show this year and… oh no, what is that thing? Surely this can’t just be made for the merriment of the creator and those around. I’m uncertain if snowball based playful combat will ever be the same after this.
Ou...
2024-12-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Getting around in the icy north is always a troubling prospect. I’m not one for sure-footedness on the best of days, but add some ice and snow to the equation and you can forget it. I’m much more likely to end up on my rear end than where I intended to go. That’s when it hit me, why should I fight against the ice when there is the option to embrace it. A few of the right enchantments later and now I can get around as I need regardless of the temper...
2024-12-12 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Those little puppet box shows on the corner were always a favorite of mine in my youth. I loved seeing the manner in which the marionettes would dance about and put on a show. There was something magical about the suspension of disbelief that could come with a well organized show, so when a puppeteer came to me looking for aid in both their show as with unruly guests that might turn these wholesome performances into a brawl, well I knew I had to get invo...
2024-12-05 01:03:42 +0000 UTC
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We reach the end of November and it's time for our One More Thing release for the month. We're excited to bring you something very unique that I think could go a long way in making a really interesting encounter for your players. A living bridge that decides who can cross sounds like a pretty fun thing to me!
As with all of these One More Thing releases, it's exclusive to patrons. If you're not a patron and want this release, please consider 2024-11-28 16:02:42 +0000 UTC
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