1d6 Gunsmiths

The wagon is rolling around and this time it’s full of guns.

Here's what I managed to bang out:

1d6 gunsmiths

1. Koomla

A towering ameboid, its workshop is next to the meat market. Koomla drapes itself over a suitably large slab of meat and eats or dissolves away the edges until a gun shape is revealed. Then through a series of  chemical baths and processes that smell terrible, the shape is somehow made into an actual weapon.

Koomla cannot speak but is doubtless the Michelangelo of ameboid. 

2. Orgriffa

“Orgriffa” is actually seventy or eighty sentient roaches that have organized into a collective. Gross if you aren’t used to it, but their tiny legs allow them to make precise adjustments to their work. 

They specialize in guns that are, frankly, over-engineered. Nobody needs a six axis sight adjustment or a stock that can be lengthened up to 180 millimeters but Orgriffa makes them all the same. 

3. Gim gim gim 

An elf who collects bottled souls as a hobby. His workshop is lined with intricate and multicolor soul containers. Glass, crystal, big and small, hundreds of doomed essences are kept here for Gim gim gim’s viewing pleasure. 

Recently he’s started making artisanal soul-fueled guns to better justify his purchasing habits. The guns are impressively made for amateur work and shoot well if you don’t mind a little screaming. 

4. Landerson and Co.

Honest, hardworking folk who make something they call a “cannon”. As likely to explode in your face as the enemy’s, this fearsome device is a large metal tube mounted on two wheels.

The cannon is more suitable for attacking walls than lugging through a dungeon, but enthusiasts say its roar is “heavenly”, “beatific” and “soothing” and so cannon remains are found with some regularity in nearby caves and tombs. 

5. Ooo shhho 

An out of work angel, their “guns” are repurposed lightning bolts. Single-use, expensive, and can tear a hole through an elephant. Ooo shhho makes a decent living as a merchant of death, but misses their days in the heavenly host. Has a very normal amount of eyes when looking directly at them.

6. …

This humanoid figure always wears a cloak and hood that seems to keep them perpetually in shadow, somehow. They specialize in making small, concealable guns. Want something that can fit in your pocket but still fire one to three times? ... is your smith.

Finding the right shadow where their store front is can be a challenge, but no one makes better tools for killing someone at a masquerade.

Popular GLoG Posts in 2024

Here is a list of all posts that got ten or more reactions on the phlox discord blog-roll in 2024. Lots of good stuff written last year, and plenty more that didn't make the arbitrary cut off. 

 

After the list are a couple notes on methodology and such.  

Source	Title
michaeldugan2nd	ligaments
as they must	everybody brings his own fire glog
craggenloch	the folly of alchemists is believing
coinsandscrolls	osr treasure overhaul
goblinpunch	dungeon castle of gribblies
archonsmarchon	wiki diving
whosemeasure	considerations on jaquaysing dungeon
goblinpunch	glog class bioweapon
madgods	glog class mechanitor
archonsmarchon	eerie knightly orders glog templates
glass candles	best glog posts of 2023
crateredland	gog item templates
whosemeasure	meeting of four lives glog class archer
hglog	storm chosen
madmansmenagerie	lightnings hand glog class unfettered
shadowandfae	shadow fae 2e core rules
nothicseye	all are welcome oak tree hotel penny
bogblins	the colonizer
nothicseye	brass grimoire
spiceomancy	eliminate impossible glog class sleuth
goblinpunch	Deconstructing Healing, Potions, and Shrines
goblinpunch	deconstructing random encounters
as they must	20 soulslike bosses
as they must	kissing deaths mouth class contender
coinsandscrolls	osr material component magic system
glass candles	grimoire of fog
nothicseye	cartographical phantoms
archonsmarchon	the quasi elemental plane of lightning
shadowandfae	the old school referee
as they must	worlds of system
nothicseye	spell catalysts
goodberrymonthly	wells springs streams
dungeonfruit	human after all 20 ways to achieve immortality
whosemeasure	some bad things that could happen to pcs
whosemeasure	d30 rings
youtube (semiurge)	Transformers 3 Video Essay
spiceomancy	craftsman
dripping tap	glog class trampled
archons court	treasures and sept vessels of navigators
videtevulnera	ubi pus ibi evacua wound infections
spiceomancy	victorian romance slush pile
spiceomancy	i stared at ceiling today for few
mythocene	ironclad
as they must	rock no water and sandy road glog
goblinpunch	lessons from elden ring
glass candles	glogtober 24
vaguelyoriginaldrivel	ganymede
spiceomancy	ive figured it out
archonsmarchon	glogtober challenge esoteric orders
archonsmarchon	glogtober challenge patrons or 6 alien
spiceomancy	6 page grimoires printable
archonsmarchon	strange aeonic spellbooks
goblinpunch	the werewolf rule
whimsicalmountain	glogtober 24 completely normal girl
nothicseye	mutually assured destruction notes from
thelovelydark	ultrareality
thelovelydark	magician
as they must	give weight to smoke glog class
occultronics	osr social resolution procedures
garamondia	i would like to start putting down some
as they must	the little gods
goblinpunch	monster checklist
whimsicalmountain	glogtober 24 old apothecary
goblinpunch	the monstrome
goblinpunch	tower in wasteland v2
whimsicalmountain	exquisite crpse fox hunt
goblinpunch	angelmen monstrome v2
goblinpunch	cailish andorum
pilgrimtemple	how to win dawn war
nothicseye	six dungeon gods
goblinpunch	d6 more dungeon merchants
as they must	with worms down in mexico
goblinpunch	brain worms
archonsmarchon	d12 weapons in war on christmas
archons court games	owe my soul to the company store
nothicseye	the tauroctony club penny dreadfuls
occultronics	deep roots are not reached by frost
whosemeasure	lose some competition in role playing
madmansmenagerie	reaping what you didnt sow glog class
dungeonfruit	thirteen tongues making languages

Methodology notes

• I grabbed all the links manually, so you can let me know if I missed one
• I didn’t check for ten unique reactions, only ten total. Mostly because that would be more work and also I think enthusiasm might reasonably count for something
• Most sources and titles are derived directly from their url so they might not be completely accurate
• Link processing made easier by almost everyone using blogger haha
  
• Links should be in roughly chronological order
• There are about 80 posts :0
  

 

Other notes: 

• This post was partly inspired by a post that I can’t find. It was a lightly annotated and longish list of popular glog-type posts. I think it was written in the past few years. If you know what I’m talking about, let me know and I’ll link to it. 
  
• This post is also in response to, or alignment with, the bloggies. They highlight a lot of good work, but I also wanted to celebrate a wide range of the sort of RPG writing that I personally like best, which, for whatever reason, tends to be glog related.