… or, how I became a mad scientist of spreadsheets and abulafia-style random generators! I’ve mentioned elsewhere about my project to convert my old hex/encounter generation system (using a spreadsheet)…
I like simplified rules. I want to get to the point of the thing, not chew through dozens of rules and various charts to get to the point. So it…
I see a lot of DMs and gamers who try to get precision and reality into their games. “How exactly big is this hex”, “How long to steep the potion…
The poor, maligned goblin. First shown as some sort of a strange dwarf-like creature in 1974 D&D … then reintroduced as a small, fierce but weak creature in 1st edition…
My tabletop players have just reached a new year in the campaign calendar. This marks the third campaign year that PCs have been exploring my world and with this year…
I was looking for a relatively self-contained adventure for a one-shot game I was putting on for a group of folks recently. I was looking for an adventure that would…
Are you not entertained?!? Is this not why you are here??! Gladiator combat. In my experience, it’s either all fun or all boring. I’ve seen it done as a simulationist…
I love poking around the Intert00bs and Google+ to find great new blog posts. And just when I thought I had seen it all with one page dungeons, hex crawls,…
Too often, NPCs have felt as stiff and unchanging as the little metal figures I parade across the table. I’ve caught hints over the years that this doesn’t need to…
“Man, those Legionnaires marching around, not talking … they’re giving me the creeps!” (paraphrased from Ostlen’s player this weekend) It’s dawned on me over the past month just how the…
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