Seed of Worlds: Regional encounters & complications for the Scaled Lands
Setting up Yaksha's hexfill as the 'regional encounter table' for the collapsing lizardfolk imperium of the Scaled Lands - it is the same j...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
In My Campaign gives us this months prompt Other Worlds for the RPG Blog Carnival. | Seed of Worlds
Fresh links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
tl;dr: lessons learned from bringing a good adventure to a bad open table.| Seed of Worlds
Setting up Yaksha's hexfill as the 'regional encounter table' for the collapsing lizardfolk imperium of the Scaled Lands - it is the same j...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
TTRPG goodness from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
I am a few sessions into running my Lizard Kings campaign - below are my notes on trying to get up the learning curve of running 2d20 by tap...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Inspired by @prokopetz making the point that "hospitality was a major part of a wealthy household’s basic social obligations" and "at any given time, a large household might be playing host to a bewildering assortment of friends, relatives, friends of relatives, relatives of friends, celebrities both far-ranging and local, dignitaries, con artists, miscellaneous weirdos, and that one guy who nobody can quite place" so that "you’re missing an opportunity if you never talk about the Guests"...| Seed of Worlds
Things I found interesting over this last week online. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
tl:dr; a city sandbox with a grounded feel, packed full of hooks, sites and factions to sustain a good chunk of play. I grabbed this in the...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Seed of Worlds - writings on tabletop RPGs| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Murkmail had a cool idea for hex/sub-hex encounter tables - Mixing hexcrawl encounter tables and I gave it a spin as part of Hexcrawl25. I...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Shiny links from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog ...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Previous campaign was a decent knock-around game - run with Brancalonia so drawn steel led to 5e combat with all its flaws and extravagant a...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
tl;dr: how I crushed the time to spin up a campaign setting by bulking out a skeleton of inspiration with the best of OSR random generation ...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Seed of Worlds - writings on tabletop RPGs| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
I wrote about " rebooting a campaign with 2d20 Conan " - spinning up a new campaign in the Scaled Lands. In the grand tradition of getting ...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
Seed of Worlds - writings on tabletop RPGs| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
tl;dr: roughing out your local crystal sphere can pay dividends in keeping campaigns consistent.| Seed of Worlds
Shiny links from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum" - Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera)| Seed of Worlds
Wobble Rocket gives us this months prompt Magic Rocks for the RPG Blog Carnival. | Seed of Worlds
Fresh links from about the internet! For more, see last weeks deep-time trawl found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
tl;dr: continues the stable trend since 2023 - 5e still 2/3 of campaigns, very little sign of change anywhere. So on the one hand, this is a 'nothing to report' report - on the other, the stability is the point.| Seed of Worlds
On the theme of 'how I prep' - sometimes you hit inflection points or changes to the campaign that require some unusual prep. My home campaign has been running a while, I have talked about 'shifting gears' before but there is an unusual prep condition that crops up when you *shift back* in trying to recapture an old campaign mode. This could also apply where you are trying to spin up a lore-true campaign in a setting with a lot of books; say a Baldurs Gate campaign with players who are Ed Gre...| Seed of Worlds
Some more deep-time blog-trawlings while I am away. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
In response to the Appendicitis N Blogwagon and Prismatic Wastelands request for "a list of inspirational media (books, movies, comics, video games, what have you) that impact your design, inspired by the original Appendix N at the back of the 1979 Dungeon Master’s Guide for D&D" here is a list of the inspirational material that fed my original AD&D games back in the early 90s.| Seed of Worlds
tl:dr; fun old school dungeon with a romance-story core, solid recommend.| Seed of Worlds
Start September with some shiny links. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links.| Seed of Worlds
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #6 is from a list of their own - "Paladin of an unorthodox Law" - the law here is gravity, these paladins it's wardens.| Seed of Worlds
Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #5 is from a list by Archon - "Minor social movement" - we discuss below the Comission for the Ethical Sourcing of Construct Souls.| Seed of Worlds
As we pass the mid-point of the year, taking a look at how this Hexcrawl25 challenge is coming along. On a pure stats, it is not bad - 57% ...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
This months blog carnival from VDonnut Valley has the topic of Other, Between, and Under – The Worlds Beyond - which matches to some rumina...| seedofworlds.blogspot.com
