I’ve been really inspired by Blog of Forlorn Encystment’s AD&D Series recently (I think it deserves a Bloggie!). So I’ve been rolling dice in my ol’ DMG and narratives are emerging! Below is a small region that I’ll be porting to a big hex crawl I’m working on slowly. I hope you find something gameable …
As long as Grist isn’t on the battlefield, it’s a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. This is the first line of text on the Magic: the Gathering card Grist, the Hunger Tide, a planeswalker first printed in Modern Horizons 2. I first encountered this version of Grist at a very casual …
A while ago, I picked up a copy of the AD&D 2e book “Player’s Option: Skills and Powers” and it set off some kind of explosion in my brain in terms of designing a modular, kit-based game. I had already been sketching a heartbreaker-style document of old-school, OSR-ish procedures I wanted to use, so this …
Last week, I posted some gods I had written years ago — I think for a 4e game that was never going to happen. I was really inspired by dungeon doll’s Dungeon Gods and Dungeon Shrines posts, so I wanted to write out some shrines + rituals as a way to flesh out these gods …
Inspired by this post by Mazirian’s Garden, I wanted to write up some spellbooks. I found that post through this one from the excellent I Cast Light! on making 1st level magic users interesting, it’s definitely worth the read. While I was making this, I remembered I had a little “Council of Wizards” brewing for …
“The Circle of the Lustful” Francesca da Rimini Here’s a roster of gods I wrote years ago, I think for a short-lived Torchbearer campaign? The main conceit with this pantheon is that they all represent broad concepts, and often both sides of dualities. I’ve since given them all alignments for use in OSR-ish games, plus …
In the world of the Nether Prison, orcs are the condemned souls who wander the Underworld in physical form. The sins the gods deem worthy of condemnation range wildly, and the spirits of those condemned do change.
I’m really enjoying the language-themed blog posts going around right now, check them out if you haven’t. “The Ugg-Tecture of Language” by Playful Void “Quantum Languages for Basic D&D” by Pointless Monument “Thirteen Tongues (Making Languages Interesting)” by Dungeonfruit Inspired by the Dungeonfruit post, I wrote some languages and their special uses. Descriptions or mechanics …
I’ve discussed on here this blog before how I’ve never been able to stick to a year-long challenge of any kind before — or really any kind of long-running structure like that. I made it about 3 months into #Dungeon23 before falling off the wagon. That being said, I’ve got an idea. I’ve been far …
Today I’ll be continuing level 4 of my megadungeon, this one entitled “The Cyclopean Ruins.” In case you missed it, I’m basically trying to create a series of isolated environments, and then I’ll connect them with a mess of passages, overlapping encounter tables, etc. For the first part, I’m just stocking the dungeon. I haven’t …