Okay, here’s a new combat system. I’m calling it Pennetra because I had to write the word ‘Penetrating’ like 10 times in this post and other potential names like Penetrox are already taken by industrial aluminum joint compounds.| Goblin Punch
You're Hex-Crawling. | Shadow & Fae
"Froken Selmer" from Codex Agea| Shadow & Fae
An OSR tabletop gaming blog.| archons-court.blogspot.com
As I said in this post| VDonnut Valley
I was thinking about the classic principle of Just Use Bears. I think this can be expanded a bit, by looking at other animal archetypes. This might be useful to flesh out encounter tables, or create interesting custom monsters/wildlife – take an animal and reskin it. To keep it system-agnostic, I’m using keywords instead of […]| Dice Goblin
I came across 2×71 by emmy on Itch.io, a new version of the original 1978 rules for Gamma World. Browsing through them, I came across an idea that I think deserves a spotlight: Artifact Examin…| Dice Goblin
A whimsical mini-campaign set in rural medieval France. Players are monks who must gain the allegiance of local monstrous factions in order to save the world. Due to the nature of the system and adventure, it will be difficult to avoid spoilers in this review.| The Benign Brown Beast
I've been running D&D 5e for a group of remote friends recently. These are the “house rules” that I've adopted to make things go smoother, or at least reassure myself. I'm sure I got most of these from other places, but I can only credit what I remember.| The Benign Brown Beast
I like to, when working on TTRPGs, think of particular scenes, feelings, moments, setpieces I want to emulate. If a system I thought of works well, these moments will occur naturally, putting playe…| Dice Goblin
Instead of invoking and binding spell-spirits, why not provide them with a nice place to live? Possible whacky theory about the evolution of beekeepin| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
I was reading up on interesting ways to do abstract wealth, treasure & spending today, and I came across many interesting interpretations, such as Bury Your Gold: On Abstract Wealth by Prismati…| Dice Goblin
There's a lot of options when it comes to modeling weapons and combat with dice games. I'm of the bent that combat should be just as interes...| shadowandfae.blogspot.com
Art by Andy Romanchik Someone on Reddit got me thinking about a loose class system that really lets you go wild with building your characte...| shadowandfae.blogspot.com
No magic, no problem! Dive into Born from Ice, a unique 5e setting, and explore how the absence of magic creates new storytelling avenues.| Born from Ice: Stone Age Role-Playing
In 2018, I bought my first and only 3D-printer: The Anet “Firestarter” A8 DIY kit. A few months later, I wrote a post about what upgrades and modifications I did to this printer (No more firestarter). Now, in 2022, I once again upgraded this printer. Like the Ship of Theseus, at what point does it stop being the original printer?… Read More →| CHRZ Engineering
I don't like HP for a number of reasons, and I'd like to replace it with something better. Abstracted as 'hit points' it could mean almost anything, but most people tend to read it as 'health' or 'life,' which makes turn-based battles feel like everyone is standing in place, just hacking away at each others abdomens until one of them finally drops. But that's not really how fights work, and it leaves you with what I think is a pretty weak conceptual and mechanical foundation to combat.| Words for Yellow
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For a long time, I had the same random encounter table rules as everyone else: Every 3 rooms (or 30 minutes of exploration time), roll a d6....| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
One of the most unforgiveable things that mainstream D&D has ever done was to make Diplomacy a skill. Weapon skills and knowledge skills, su...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com