2024 Deer Season – Lessons Learned
Michael / Chgowiz As I type this today, it’s the last day of the Illinois 2024/25 deer hunting season, and the temperature w/wind chill is a dangerous -16F/-27C. I’m not that dedicated that…
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The 3 Essential Elements of the Perfect D&D Village/Town/City
Heh. How click-baity can I make that title? But, I’m dead serious with this. There are three things that, in my experience, PCs tend to care about in a town,…
Dungeon23 – Wk 18 – The Death of Brog in the Black Maw
I’ve started populating and keying Level 6. This is going to represent a definite shift in the dungeon, the players are halfway through and things are about to get… interesting.…
WIP – “Rescue of Hommlet” – Playtest weekend
Having written stolen and mashed up rules to create a Chainmail/Book of War hybrid Frankenstein monster, I wanted to make sure that the thing played well, and I wanted to…
Three Hexes ‘Zine #3 – Modern/Sci Fi Campaigns
Just released on DriveThruRPG – Three Hexes ‘Zine #3! Not all campaigns are fantasy based and Three Hexes isn’t just for fantasy. You can take the idea of starting with…
Three Hexes ‘Zine #2 Released!
The second issue of my periodic ‘zine “Three Hexes” is now available as PWYW on DriveThruRPG! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/294790/Three-Hexes-Zine-2 The Three Hexes ‘zines are juiced up, rewritten and improved version of my…
Mines of Phandelver – Session #1 and 2 Recap
Yep, 5e. I’m running a game with it. Mainly so that I can #1, learn it, #2, use the free Starter Kit that I won at GameHoleCon (Thank you for…
NPCs Come Alive! Using the NPC Note Card File
Make your NPCs come alive, through consistent and fluid events that can shape the world that your players experience! We’re going to do that by taking the NPC Note Card…
How I Started My Sandbox
Nine years ago, I started on a little experiment. Over time, it grew in directions both bad and good. Over those nine years, I’ve blogged a lot about my Dark…
Update: Hirst Arts Tower/Gates and Pointmapping my Con games
Wow, time flies! It’s been a month since I last posted, so WTH have I been up to? There’s a certain madness that happens when @thePrincessWife mentions moving or a…