The Seeking Orbs
Here is what your character knows about Seeking Orbs:Each one is a small glass sphere about the size of a golf ball that appears to contain a dwarf universe.They are indestructible and unalterable so...
View ArticleHengeyokai, or the Those With Two Skins
Text in normal font is stolen from AD&D Oriental Adventures. Modifications are in this font. For clarity's sake, some of the stuff in the original has been just left out.Hengeyokai are intelligent,...
View ArticleUpdated Character Generation Rules (now with Fuck It Mode!)
Character generation rules for Zak's games..1. There are four methods of character generation, disaggregated by associated bragging rights, choose whichever you want...A) ("Pornstar's first character"...
View ArticleBattle of Hex 1911. Day 1.
Trent aka Sir Manning wrote this Actual Play Report/Plea For Aid after our last Cobalt Reach game...Stuff in black by him, stuff in blue by me.----COBALT REACH Travel.. Tip? Battle... thing?Ok we have...
View ArticleSome Excerpts From Pat Robertson's Recent Anti-Dungeons & Dragons Rant
"…D&D (and anything close to it) is quite a morally bankrupt game. It's about characters who deliberately choose to go into violent conflicts because of greed; it's about performing violence and...
View ArticleShadowy, narrow, and consistently hovering around ~480–400 Terahertz
Thanks to Trey for tracking down this picture of Satana by Mike Vosburg. I always imagined this is what Mandy's tiefling cleric looked like.Basically, whatever it says on the tin: she's a witch. Like...
View ArticleThere Is A Desert
The collaborative hexcrawls keep coming. Here's a desert via Joey and friends.An oldie but goody to go with it.---
View ArticleVictory Through Superior Joie De Vivre
6th level drow thief. The blonde kind. Baron Vorgus, ex-goblin warlord, now Demilich of Cobalt ReachThe skull represents a skull-walker golem ripped from RIFTSUsed the top of this drawing to take notes...
View ArticleThirty Things In Post-Apocalyptic New York
(Roll D30)1. Dead pigs wrapped around dead cows.2. Airport surrounded by dead trees.3. Buildings trying to crush each other.4. Hotel with gleaming (possibly stolen) modernist fixture retrofitted onto a...
View ArticleFuckYeahIslandsThatLookLikeDungeons
This is the Greek island of Santorini, aka Thera. Cycladic architecture is dope. It's a charming resort......no, wait, its The Black Drowning Pool of Nith-Nod.
View ArticleTrying To Remember All The Things That Happened
When last we saw our heroines and that guy Adam, a demilich had taken a book from them and they were mad about it.YOU CANNOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF GOATMEN ARE NOT CONSULTEDSo then they headed...
View ArticleTerrain, Weird Sharks, & A Homemade Tank
Somebody asked so here's some of our homemade Warhammer 40k terrain. The picture will get pretty big if you click it.It's made of random plastic stuff, hamster toys, military model kits, whatever was...
View ArticleComic Book Guy's Razor
Comic Book Guy's Razor PrincipleThe most insulting possibly explanation is rarely the correct one, but it's the first one you'll hear on the internet.Self-Loathing Academic Anecdote Corollary (SLAAC)...
View ArticleThanks For The List, TSR
As blogland well knows, every sneezerag and post-it Tactical Studies Rules ever produced is secretly useful so long as you read it right.And so, yes, that includes this.What to do with TSR's list of...
View ArticleDuct-Taping The World Together
Ok, so this is kinda nuts...Click to enlarge, otherwise you'll kinda miss the pointWhat you are looking at is the worldmap of our campaign that Connie drew with the numbers 1-3612 overlaid on top of...
View ArticleYour Map With Numbers On It. Immediately.
So yesterday I did this custom numbered D&D campaign map.And that took forever.So then, of course, some guys used technology to makethis which does it automatically--feed in any picture that's on...
View ArticleAll Mouths Lead To One Stomach (The Concentric Dungeon)
Ok, so megadungeons are fun, right?But the problem is you have to tell your players like "This is where the action is, ok? Go in the dungeon a lot or else I've prepped all this shit for nothing."And,...
View ArticleTake Ten Minutes And Do This
Here's a map. Key it.Now you have a back-up dungeon.Some day you'll be glad you had it around.Here's mine...---
View Article20 Down. 3,592 left to go
Hexes for the big map...1 Northwest corner of the world. The water flows from two directions over the table of our sealevel and onto planes at right angles to ours. Desperately sad.2 A ghost ship. 17...
View ArticleManticores Are Jerks
Now that Type IV D&D is soon to be an ex-game, it is my solemn duty as a game blogger to explain how, actually, all the 4e books are secretly madly frothing fonts of ludolomantic wisdom.Speaking of...
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