Goblin Punch: What Is Tested?
When designing a dungeon, one question you should ask yourself is: What am I testing for? Math tests challenge your math skills. Drinking...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
When designing a dungeon, one question you should ask yourself is: What am I testing for? Math tests challenge your math skills. Drinking...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
This is Part 2. Here is Part 1 . Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowde...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Or at least, this is how I think I think creatively. Your mileage may vary. 1 Keep a slush pile. This is where you put all of...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Wizards and Witches In Centerra, men and women are equally adept at magic. However, attitudes towards women and magic use vary acr...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Remember that post I did about dwarven gender? | goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Remember that post I did about dwarven gender? | Goblin Punch
Have you written your own dungeon?| Goblin Punch
In my last post, I dropped a DM Cheat Sheet in Appendix D but I never actually explained how to use it.| Goblin Punch
I wrote a dungeon. It's about 25 rooms.| Goblin Punch
Hopping on the bandwagon: this is a single-level class that might be compatible with Cloak-and-Sword. (See here .) From what I can tell, i...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Adventure is infinite in all directions, eternal through all timelines, and utterly inescapable. There is no room where Adventure cannot fi...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Everyone has a homebrew ruleset, and everyone wants to show it to other people, or at slap it around until it's presentable. But no one is...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I haven’t had a regular over-the-table tabletop game in years. In that time, I’ve wandered pretty far afield. Time for a new system, methinks.| Goblin Punch
Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky. | Goblin Punch
Monstrome v6 is now complete. It's up to 60,000 words and approaching book territory, which is cool. | Goblin Punch
Your blade pierces his heart and the man reels against the dungeon wall before collapsing against the floor. A few seconds of labored gasping and then perfect silence. | Goblin Punch
I joined Bluesky last month and decided to pretend that it's actually G+ and the year is 2015. | Goblin Punch
Work continues of the Monstrome. I'm now on v5. You can read it| Goblin Punch
Monstrome v4 is complete. New in this version:| Goblin Punch
Progress on my bestiary continues. I've completed Monstrome v3! New monsters:| Goblin Punch
Bospero| Goblin Punch
Angelmen| Goblin Punch
I recently asked my patrons what posts deserved a sequel and Tower in the Wasteland was one of the first replies. So here's an updated version of that dungeon. It's 12 pages now, so roughly twice the size it was before.| Goblin Punch
So I've been writing like I used to--just sitting down and writing for 5 hours straight.| Goblin Punch
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
Ever since the nose-blind apes succeeded in driving them away, wolves have carried their hatred in their guts, like a cold embryo. | Goblin Punch
This is a continuation from this post.| Goblin Punch
I know I’m late to the From Soft party, but I’ve finally beat the Elden Ring DLC and after a couple hundred hours in that game I finally have enough opinions for a blogpost.| Goblin Punch
Inspirations / Design Goals:| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
So, I've been thinking about how to differentiate monsters, and I don't think it's through stats. Here are a bunch of monsters that are pre...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I reread some old blogposts today. Holy shit, remember the horses I did with Chris McDowall? Those were great.| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
So, here's my dog class. I'm still thinking about class duets--two players that play closely linked characters. In this case, a PC and...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Some Notes on the Setting Centerra is the setting. It's sort of a secular setting, even though it has plenty of religions. It's a fantasy...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I wanted to design something iconic for Centerra. After all, D&D has its beholders, which have that great eye theme going for them. ...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
These monsters are natives of the Mythic Underworld. The Dungeon beneath all dungeons. The darkened halls that we all visit in our earlies...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down ...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I was a Pathfinder guy who got inspired by blogs, and then spent some time trying to figure out what the fuck the OSR was. I read stuff, li...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I reread some old blogposts today. Holy shit, remember the horses I did with Chris McDowall ? Those were great. The d6 Dungeon Merchants...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Okay, so you’re writing up a monster entry. Run through this checklist to make sure that you haven’t missed anything. #1. The concept shoul...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Hexcrawls kinda suck, don't they? Or at least, the best hexcrawls are never as good as the best dungeons. You can probably name your fav...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
EDIT: PDF updated on 24Apr2020. EDIT: Ben was kind enough to supply some excellent maps for those of you using Roll20 (or similar)....| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I while ago I put out the call on G+ for some OSR-style challenges . These are obstacles that meet the following requirements: No ob...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
I'm one of those people that thinks that ghosts shouldn't have stats. Instead, ghosts are lingering bits of soulstuff, typically just a...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Although their abilities defy classification, their forms do not. Dragons of the Upper Air Of unknown provenance, perhaps even more powerfu...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Sometimes I write dungeons. Today I wrote a checklist of things to put in the dungeon. The first couple items are pretty obvious, but it's...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
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
Thank you everyone who invited me to participate in #dungeon23. I've decided to try to complete it. Also thank you for everyone who checked...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
