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View ArticleWhat's In The Middle Of The Castle?
Roll d20 2-8 (2d4) times and consult the picture to find out what's in the courtyard.click to enlarge
View ArticleAbandoned City, Goblin Fort, Alchemist's Home, Encounters
The numbers on this one indicate places you can put important details or encounters--the blue ones indicate exterior encounters, everything else is inside the buildings.You can treat the interiors as...
View ArticleWhat To Do With Kings And Queens
So ever since Jeff posted this method of generating reigns for kings, I've been wondering how to make the depth this adds to the setting immediately gameable.I eventually decided the best thing to do...
View ArticleMaximum Road. A 5e/Atomic Highway PostApoc Mashup RPG
Mallory:...it was a BOLD MOVE, I thinkat what could have easily been the end of the moviefor Tom Hardy to stop and say“hey, hey. wait a second”“what if we just…go do the whole movie again, but...
View ArticleI May Actually Run This
It's 2078.Water is scarce, the bomb has long since dropped.The remains of Ciudad Juarez are ravaged by interclan warfareegged on by oligarchs churning out colossal machines.You don't mind. They're your...
View ArticleBulette…or not
Back to redoing the monster manual...The bulette never convinced me--the hulking, silver kaijulike creature in the late miniatures have their appeal but (as I've said before) I can't really picture...
View ArticleGoblinforce Murdervengeance
Every goblin incarnates a bad idea. In this case--retribution.For what? For all the fucking goblins you killed. They had families, you know.They have some good ideas, too--like sneaking up on you using...
View Article…and then the cleric became a stomach
So our session begins with Ela Darling's ranger ably employing her charlatan background to continue to pretend to be the Black Knight, champion of the Black Wing Church of Tiamat. They walked into the...
View ArticleThings of Leon
I stole this county full of D&Dables from Noisms. I've subtracted nothing but have added some bits to it in courier below.If you like it, I encourage you to now steal it from me and append some...
View ArticleThe World's Most Difficult Subject
This is not an argument from biology or tradition, but let's begin with both. Here's a dog:Chewbacca (pictured above) was born into a life of--by dog standards--magnificent and omnidirectional...
View ArticleFantastic Damage
I was thinking there should be a robots-in-the-city game that does for underground hip hop and electronica what Vampire: TM did for goths. I haven't written or more importantly drawn it but it did get...
View ArticleI Got Nominated For A Bunch of Awards So Cam Banks Compared Me To Hitler
Sorry I've been posting light--Mandy's been in the hospital again a lot (they've decided to feed her through her heart, which is strange and dangerous but so far ok).Anyway, it's nice to wake up to see...
View ArticleWhat We Learned This Year About The Drama Club
Mandy got out of the hospital yesterday and is recovering. They're feeding her on 12-hour cycles of Total Parenteral Nutrition--a tube of marshmallow-colored goo straight to her heart. She's in good...
View ArticleBring The Many Claws
Ennie voting is open.Everyone knows awards are dumb and everyone knows they're useful.In our world "award-winning stuffmaker" survives a little longer and gets a little more of what she or he wants...
View ArticleClue The Movie vs Skipping Rocks
"State tracking" is keeping track of information specific to your game piece that can change--(hit points, demeanor, equipment held).The more a fiction tracks your state the more RPG it is. That is,...
View ArticleRadical Game Critique Isn't
That fucking lone orc guarding that fucking chest in that fucking ten foot room.Ever since I first started playing I knew exactly one thing about the much-maligned lone orc in the ten-foot room.That...
View ArticleThe Unicorn Thieves
The key to taking the beast is a clattering music which deranges it internally, rendering the mind of the unicorn inchoate and sensitive. So long as the authors of such sounds ply their trade in...
View ArticleD100 3D Shapes for Caves
Coming up with a list of easy-to-imagine caves to use in False Patrick and Scrap's upcoming Veins of the Earth spelunking-D&D book.Most of these can be upright, inverted or sideways, of course, but...
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