RPG ideas to steal. Spooky words. Author's thoughts.
The thieves’ guild isn’t a franchise any more than the black market is an event that happens in a local temple’s parking lot on Saturday mornings. There is no single guild that all thieves join to get union wages.
Recently, I helped u/DougTheDragonborn with an idea to make a table where you roll one of every dice in a set (d20, d12, d10, d8, d6, d4) to create neat things. We started with Omens from dreams. Continue reading “Omens from Dreams | An All Dice Table”
No one reads the Terms of Service. Especially if there’s appendices for appendices and that section is the majority of the contract. How bad could it be? Continue reading “50 Things in the Fine Print of That Fiendish Contract You Signed Without Reading”
Lizards are incredibly diverse creatures. Geckos, chameleons, komodo dragons, iguanas, five-lined skinks. The variety of specialized and incredible abilities lizards have makes lizardfolk possibly the greatest for customization in an RPG. Continue reading “One Page Lore: Lizardfolk (And Full One Page Lore Kickstarter)”
While this was supposed to go up with ZineQuest 2020 on February 2nd, but either through my fault or a website glitch WE’RE LIVE NOW!
Want to go straight to the campaign? Here you go! Continue reading “One Page Lore Zine is now LIVE ON KICKSTARTER (oops!)”
The vast variety of mushroom people always look neat, but I was curious what playing a fungal folk would actually be like. What makes them unique? What fungus-based features would give them advantages over their fleshy party mates? What shortcomings would hinder them that others wouldn’t even think about?
Dungeons need not be a collection of mismatched monsters and slapdash snares. Some dungeoneers pride themselves on creating unique works of deadly art.
Doing 3 Minute Review on EscapistMagazine.com (and Gameumentary before that) is an amazing experience. While I try to give reviews on a base level of quality with opinion sprinkled in, my top and bottom five of the year are fully based on personal opinion. As such, several of my bottom five games are there more because of disappointment than a complete lack of quality. Continue reading “Top/Bottom/Honorable Mention 5 Games of 2019”
If you enjoyed WTF Is My Ridiculous Magic Item Generator (or even if you hated it), you’ll enjoy 150 backstories for magic and powerful items. Some silly. Some serious. It’s a solid spread. Continue reading “Origins of the Rare and Powerful: 150 Magic Item Short Backstories”
