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A very green grove, with light pouring from above. A fuzzy and/or boulder creature watches with slightly glowing eyes.

New year, new creature to look from the distance over me

My horrible demonic dracthyr and @goatjamrowan.bsky.social ‘s fluffy worgen.

A scary werewolf creature. It’s smiling at the viewer as it bathes in some red liquid.

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A drawing of a werewolf. It has a bit of blood in its fangs and claws. It finds itself in a rainy and foresty autumn setting.

I had a vivid werewolf dream tonight. I wouldn’t know if these were my actual colors since no mirrors meant I could only see my limbs. There was a while I just ran through some autumn hills under the cold rain. I deeply enjoyed that.

A playing card with a pumpkin devil. The text reads: 31) PUMPKIMP Born when the witches gather. It lives shortly to trick and eat naughty kids. HP 3 Bite/Claw d4 Candle Breath d4 Thick Skin -d2 Special Can be easily distracted with sweets.

Day 31: Pumpkin
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A playing card with eldritch star creatures. The text reads: 30) THEM A most cursed scroll, one that is written in an unknown language and yet you understand the warning to not open it. The seal itself can drive you mad. If you try to open it: 1-3 The madness consumes you. The seal imprints over your own eyes, forever insane and blind. 4-6 You open the scroll* *They speak to you in something that is not a language. They pity the dying sun. They mark you forever. 1 It is too much. You combust in a flash as bright as the dying sun. Ideally your character sheet does the same. 2 They demand sacrifice. For every eye you burn, earn 5 coins. 3 They do not like you, depriving you of their light. Only man-made light can help you now. Darkness emanates around you. 4 Every d10 days, you can simulate the light and warmth of another sun for d4 hours. 5 You are granted a scroll with the power of a small sun to unleash upon your enemies and absolutely everything else within range for d20 + 5 damage. Pass a DR12 or the range includes you. 6 It all makes sense now. Leave your mortal shell behind and join the ones laughing at your world. The scroll disappears.

Day 30: Star
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A playing card with a hole. There’s an evil creature inside. The text reads: 29) JUMP (crossed with a skeletal claw) DON’T (crossed end) JUMP.

Day 29: Hole
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A playing card with a nasty bread covered with seed. The text reads: 28) BREDIL Magical hermits have learned to bake a disgusting but very useful bread from special seeds deep in the woods. It may come in handy when lost, a single serving can fill you for 2 days worth of hunger, but be careful. Eat more than one per week and the seeds shall bloat your body and use its nutrients to spread another worthy harvest.

Day 28: Bloat
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A playing card with an icicle and a scroll. The text reads: 27) DINDUIT Unclean Scroll - DINDUIT Summons an icicle capable of doing d10 damage. It will melt in a round.

Day 27: Ice
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A playing card with a reef of coral that burns when it reaches the surface. Something else is also watching. The text reads: 26) EVERCORAL Some believe the world beyond has already been consumed by flames and destruction. It might be true, but in some cases it is but an Evercoral reef. It grows from the dark depths of the ocean like tendrils reaching for what little light is left in the sky, only to be eternally scorched by it.

Day 26: Torch
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A playing card with a magical man doing a thousand-yard stare. The text reads: 25) TODOLOVEO This cursed wizard is in constant pain just to keep his eyes open. HP 5 Knife d4 Special For a day’s worth of water to help hydrate his eyes, the hermit will trade a random unclean scroll. Careful else it might go off when trading.

Day 25: Hermit
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A playing card with a haunted tree stump. The text reads: 24) REVENGE The ancient forest promised eternal growth, a promise broken by an axe. HP 10 Claw d6 Petrified -d4

Day 24: Stump
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A playing card with an incomprehensible flower. The text reads: 23) OSTRILDAMU A sniff of this flower will either allow your game master to give you a hint of the future, or will completely delete your ability to smell anything ever again.

Day 23: Flower
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A playong card with a little devil with incredibly long arms. It stole a necklace. The text reads: 22) ROBITOS Small creatures that love to infiltrate homes with kids. They’ll steal from the family, and magically transfer the blame to the young ones, provoking angry parents. HP 3 Long Slap d4 Sneaky -d2 Special The only way for the parents to see the truth is to present them with the Robito’s corpse inside a clear water container.

Day 22: Thief
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A playing card with a weird creature made of vulture and unicorn parts. The text reads: 21) YOU EATER A gorgeous creature. It is an honor being broken and chewed by such beauty. HP 14 Bite/Claw d6 Special Offer yourself to the being and give your allies a tressure from its pile. Refuse and pass a DR10 or be slowly munched on for 2 damage per turn, needing a DR8 to release yourself.

Day 21: Beak
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A playing card with an ashen corpse, its broken the pole it’s tied to and is jumping towards you. The text reads: 20) NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY NOT GUILTY HP??? Run.

Day 20: Ash
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A playing card with an evil gnome holding a bread knife. The text reads: 19) SNAPPY Nasty little gnome thing that should’ve never been given a knife. HP 4 Knife d4 Morale 5 Special Obsessed with being annoying rather than attack directly, d20 1-5 Cuts you 6-10 Cuts your waterskin 11-15 Cuts your armor 1 tier down 16-20 Cuts you twice

Day 19: Broken
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A playing card with a dried air plant, now cracked and covered with spines. The text reads: 18) AIR EATER Once a beloved pot plant, its dreams of thriving were cut short. It will now cut your oxygen flow in revenge. HP 4 Whip d2 Special Will take +1 damage if hit with fire. Every turn near it pass a DR6 or take +1 damage in carbon dioxide poisoning.

Day 18: Wither
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A playing card with a skeletal Death, bone wings sprout from its head as does a spines halo. The text reads: 17) MERCY You are safe now. Destroy your character sheet.

Day 17: Warden
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A playing card with a monolith covered in runes and bones imagery. The text reads: 16) BONELISK The Obelisk of a Hundred Skeletons The black sands surrounding it are said to be full of countless treasures and dark secrets. …And a hundred skeletons.

Day 16: Obelisk
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A playing card with a spherical creature. It walks on four claws, rusty nails make its giant teeth, and has a tiny spiked tail. The text reads: 15) CHOMPUS A horrible creature with a most foul bite. HP 5 Bite d4 Special When hit, succeed DR10 or enjoy super tetanus. You have d4 days to find a cure before your jaw locks in place, not allowing you to speak or eat, and d20 days before the rest of your body suffers bone breaking spasms.

Day 15: Nails
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A playing card with a mermaid in knight armor. Her tail is actually an anchor. The text reads: 14) IRONMAID It is not rare to find poor souls drowning in what little water sources they may find, but don’t be fooled by the call of the maiden of iron, else the poor soul becomes you. HP 10 Bite d4 Special The Ironmaid will attempt grappling its victim on a DR12. One last chance is given to release before she sinks deep into her dark domains. It’d take a DR18 + Strength to pull one of these out of the water, revealing her anchor body.

Day 14: Anchor
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A playing card with a big fat spider made out of more tiny spiders. The text reads: 13) MOTHER Nope… HP 8 Bite d2 Special On a 1 after rolling d2, you’re poisoned for d2 damage every hour. Killing the mother will explode her body into d20 smaller 1 HP babies with a 1 in 2 chance of crawling over you for 1 trauma damage. What have you done?

Day 13: Web
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A playing card with a snake made of chains. Its head is a fanged lock and the tail a rattling key. The text reads: 12) CHANACON When chains hold someone that dies in their links, a hunger for more can make them slither away to hunt. HP 10 Morale - Whip d4 Iron Body -d4 Special The unholy beast will strangle its victim on a failed DR10 roll. Every turn roll Agility to attempt releasing, fail and suffer 1 damage.

Day 12: Binding
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A playing card with some suspicious scales. The text reads: 11) YOU FOOL Legitimate basilisk scales. Absolutely. Of course you found these. 200s, roll a d20: 1 They’re real, HE pulls you into the ground to claim what HE owns, and your imprudent life. 2-15 You got scammed, dummy. Good luck getting rid of fish rot smell. 16-19 Still fake, but they look cool. You might sell them to someone dumber than you. 20 They’re real. The voice of the basilisks echoes in your head. +1 Presence and Toughness when the scales replace your skin. A painful -d4 damage process.

Day 11: Scales
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A playing card with a beetle covered in gems and a chain. The text reads: 10) GOLD BROOCH A brooch made with a magical beetle. It will grant you +1 Strength when worn, at the cost of it taking -1 Presence by crawling inside your nose and eating a bit of your brain. This can also mean taking -d2 damage depending on how smart you were before.

Day 10: Beetle
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A playing card with a bear mixed with a prickly pear. The text reads: 9) OPURSUS Colloquially known as a prickly bear, this creature is as dangerous as it is a meal. HP 15 Morale - Bite/Claws d6 No armor Special Its deliciously sweet flesh can give d8 rations with a healthy d2 extra HP, but you’ll have to get through its thorny skin. It gives the bear -d4 protection, and on a 1-2 on a d6 roll the thorns hurt you for 1 damage.

Day 9: Thorn
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A playing hat with a lizard wizard. He wears a pointy hat and a star on the tip of his tail. The text reads: 8) LOUWIZAR A most powerful mage that wanders the world as a lizard to keep everyone else safe from his incredible power. HP 6 Morale 6 Bite d2 Slippery -d2 Special Anger the mighty wizard, roll a d20: 1-4 He’s just a lizard, dummy. 5-15 He skitters away. 16-20 He summons a meteor over your head doing d20 + 1 damage.

Day 8: Wizard
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A playing card with a piece of glass brought to life by magic. The text reads: 7) SHARDLING Some idiot must have thought it’d be possible to repair a broken window with magic. HP 1 Glass Cut d4 Special Will break into d4 pieces with 1 HP each, which will turn into dust when destroyed.

Day 7: Shard
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A playing card with a dog made out of dog fur shedding. The text reads: 6) HUSK-Y The uncanny shade of a good dog. No matter the years that pass, the fur remains. It gets everywhere. Pray to your gods you’re not allergic. HP 3 Morale 6 Bite d4 No armor Special If tamed, DR12 it gets the zoomies rather than obey you. When killed, one may collect the fallen fur. It will reform in the next morning. Loudly.

Day 6: Husk
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