I am having a really hard time explaining people what I do when I run games. It is the next section I am trying to work on for FLoK, but eve...| tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com
My submission for the RPG blog carnaval . This month's topic is Magic Shops and Their Alternatives . I like the idea of potions being dis...| tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com
I like slow recovery, but I don't like HP as anything other than the way they are used in ITO and systems inspired by it. Slow recovery forc...| tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com
With the begining of a new month a new topic for the RPG Blog Carnival begins as well. It was my pleasure to host last month's carnival , ...| tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com
The title is a tad provocative. Charisma is often used for stuff I find it perfectly serviceable for, but currently also often used for something I'd rather do differently: how do people you frequently interact with regard you? This is after the charms, the first impressions, but not quite the notiriety or reputation that precedes a party as they move about. Both of these are about first| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
Fleshy coils folding into each other forming loops and a single giant spiral. Two holes, one circular and one oval, seem not so much to gaze at you, as to do the auditary equivelent. They harken. They are the manifestation of single-minded obsession. The only way they show themselves is in their complete and total intollerance for anything other than the object of their monomania. What| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
Something I want to try regarding swearing oaths and asking for divine favours. The blog carnival this month is On my word: Making and breaking promises, vows and oaths hosted by me, so consider this my own contribution to the carnival.There is also a conclave bandwagon thingy going on, but seeing how the pope got elected yesterday, I don't think this still qualifies.Anyway, if Gods are real,| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My second submission for the RPG blog carnaval. This month's topic is Magic and the City. The town is surrounded by water, a clear sign of its former use during the Fallen Empire's rule. Except for the massive bridge and the monolythic walls, the buildings are all shabbily made on top of ancient ruins, temporary lodgings whose use got extended for longer than intended. What guards| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My submission for the RPG blog carnaval. This month's topic is Magic and the City. A sewer witchIn the still of night, broken only by her footsteps, Mildred thought she heard something behind her. 'It is probably nothing,' she wished to herself as she quickened her pace. Probably nothing lingered a moment in the gutter, watching Mildred walk-run-walk down the street. 'Poor thing', he thought '| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My submission for the RPG blog carnaval. This month's topic is Over the garden wall - Beyond the OSR.My job is being a teacher, a philosophy teacher to be specific. The course I teach is very language heavy and the answers I want my students to produce are very specific in how they should be formulated. One of the biggest frustrations I encounter at work are the poorly worded answers my students| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
For this GLOG hack I am making I want to do something like Electric Bastionland in approach to character options. This is because I have found that they are a great way to communicate a setting and get players excited. A large number of them isn't as overwhelming to newcomers because they are relatvely simple, having no advancement. Now, I do not think myself capable of coming up with 100+| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My submission for the RPG blog carnaval. This month's topic is Dragon Neighbours. Dragons are like natural disasters: unpredictable, destructive and devilishly difficult to kill. Thus the best way to do away with a dragon threat is to placate it with offerings until it falls asleep. As long as the hoard remains sufficiently big, the dragon will not wake and calamity can be kept at bay. The| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
For the Star's Prison, a megadungeon game I want to get going sometime soon. Inspired by Electric Bastionland's scar table and the following design principle from the 2016 GLOG: "Consolidate ruthlessly. Turn two rolls into one, turn one roll into none. Turn tables into formulas, turn formulas into static numbers." HP is your ability to not get hurt (as per GLOG).Rolling| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
Making a GLOG hack to run the megadungeon I started during for dungeon23. Hopefully having folks play in it will motivate me to continue working on it, but in order to do that I need a ruleset. Reading Gus L.'s wonderful advice on dungeon crawling over on his blog All Dead Generations, made me realise that for a dungeon crawl type game, Risk Economy is the most important thing to figure out,| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My ttrpg self was born in 5th edition. After my first two steps I noticed that this house was wrong. I tried redecorating, changing lore and adventures to better fit my tastes, but quickly I started remodeling it entrely, changing rules and adding procedures without having any real experience yet with running ttrpgs, let alone designing them. And it remained wrong, its wrongness, I believed, lied| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My submission for the RPG blog carnaval. This month's topic is Worlds Beyond.The domains of the Gods have fuzzy edges. Where the forest ends and the mountain begins, where one straight becomes another sea, or where a town turns into wilderness isn't always clear cut.These liminal spaces are usually no problem to traverse. Rarely does one try to exit a town intending to enter a forest and| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My submission for the RPG blog carnaval. This month's topic is Beyond Vancian Magic.Knowledge is power:To get one of the powers to do your bidding requires chanting the right incantation during a specific ritual to prepare the spell, and an action combined with a verbal trigger to cast it. The preparation of the spell and the casting can be no further than 1 day apart.No innate power or even| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
My secret santicorn gift.My prompt was: 'The party walks into an abandoned house full of 4d6 sprites, interrupting their holiday festivities.' I rolled a 5, 5, 5, and a 2. Recent historyYears agoOld man Harris used to live alone on his farm. He was a grouch and had very few visitors, but every week he would come to the market to sell excess butter and produce, and to yell at the local children to| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
Spells are entities from a world parallel to ours. Some call them demons or angels, others the more neutral spirits or gods, but their names don't matter much. The mortal mind isn't made to directly interact with such beings, which is why most of us never realise our numerous encounters with them. This also means that, in order to contact these spirits to coerce, beg or trick them into affecting| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
A while ago I read the Ilias and the Odyssea by Homerus (probably not the English spelling, but English is my second language and I don't feel like looking it up). One scene, in which Achilles kills a bunch of people in a river, really worked its way into my mind. The river had a god (or maybe it was a god or both or neither, I don't know the specifics of ancient greek metaphysics as| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
I've written a playreport for this session here in case anyone is interested. For the post itself I want to focus on what I did and what I can do better. My group uses 5e with some modifications (such as simultaneous initiative). Their level 1 PCs are from a smallish village and the adventure starts with an attack. Thoughts on how I ran the session The idea for the attack is| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
If you just want to see the Troika! hack go hereI recently started a new campaign with some friends. Earlier this year I ran a Mausritter campaign for them, but that fell apart because it didn't match their expectations of play. The core points of contention at the time were:They experienced a lack of motivation for their characters to adventure. Part of this is a lack of external| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
This is an idea I want to try next time I run a dungeon crawl. Completely untested, pure theorycraft. TL;DR: Combine Encounter Stew from Goblinpunch with Usage Dice from the Black Hack and (as the titel would suggest) the Overloaded Encounter Dice. What:For each active time sensitive resource you want to track, give it a Usage Dice and add them to a pool. So for example ongoing magical| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
Step 1: Finding a suitable hostAs demons solely reside in the Dreamworld, they cannot manifest in the Wakingworld without a host. Fortunately, as almost everything dreams almost anything can host a demon. Unfortunately, the demon is limited in what it can do based on the host it resides in. So finding a suitable host is all about what you want the demon you summon to be capable of.The most| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
Resurrection is a part of classic D&D that don't really love. For one, I don't like the gameplay implications. If resurrection is relatively easy, it devalues death. If it is somewhat hard, you get this weird situation where a player has to play a temporary character, or sit out one or more sessions, while the rest of the party tries to get their old character back. Both of these things| Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet
I am honored to be hosting this month's RPG blog Carnival . The topic I would like to invite you to explore is that of the making and brea...| tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com