The Ten Rings of Qwaar the Axiomatic
These ten enchanted bands are much sought by arcane masters. Each golden Ring of Qwaar has two functions, the greater of which requiring great wizardly skill to activate.Ring of Ice - Identifiable by...
View ArticleMore LotFP contest results: Pro-Am category
Nearly everybody being judged today did their best to tell me how they were really not a professional game artists, but the fact remains that their work was published somewhere prior to the contest. I...
View ArticleDig this bad boy.
This is a modern replica of a 12th century 'bar' style mace fished out of the Thames.
View ArticleDCC fighter thoughts
So the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG gives the fighterly types this thing called an Attack Die. At first level you get a d3 and it increases in die size as you advance. You roll this die every time you...
View ArticleThings you should know about Wintoncester
So I'm starting to gear up for a new Wessex-based D&D outing. This time I'm going to set the game and the dungeon in/under Wintoncester, the biggest and oldest city on the map. Here are some...
View ArticleReputed entrances to the Dungeons Below Wintoncester
A hole in an old Roman wall at the end of Crap Alley. It's called Crap Alley because several houses along the south side of High Street are perched over it and anyone passing along the alley are in...
View ArticlePre-FLAILSNAILS cross-campaign logisitics
"When last winter's tedium was broken by the fun and games at WINTER FANTASY, I was scheduled for DMing continual adventures in Greyhawk Castle, and that is exactly what they turned out to be ...
View Articlehybrid Chainmail/DCC spellcasting
Rolling dice to cast a spell goes back to Chainmail. Here's the basic 2d6 chart:2-5 Fail6-7 Delay8-12 Success-1 for a first level spell, -2 for a second level spell, etc.+1 caster level 1-2+2 caster...
View ArticleI was interviewed
Jennifer Steen interviewed me for one of her Jennisodes podcasts. She was a lot of fun to talk to. You can check the interview out here.
View ArticleI live for stupid crap like this
So last night at the Armored Gopher we were playing a third session of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. The party was descending this big spiral staircase somewhere under the Tower of Zenopus when some...
View ArticleDig this
I've been remiss in not reporting this item sooner. Starships & Spacemen second edition is a project from Goblinoid Games that takes a musty old sci-fi rpg and updates it to full compatibility with...
View ArticleZzarchov Kowolski has his head on straight
Here's how I know that:The Known RuleNGR contains a large number of rules, and in the end it is not likely someone will have them all memorized. The rules of this game are only applicable if someone...
View Articlequickie wandering monster tables for DCC RPG
Two things I like about the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG are its good supply of neat monsters and its radical devotion to random die charts. Two things I don't like are its lack of wandering monster...
View Articleso I may have to run 4e
Or at least a 4e powered game. My daughter caught me reading the 4e-based fan-made Adventure Time RPG. It seems pretty groovy, despite being more fiddly than I like. She used this character creator...
View Articlepress release followed by commentary
This appeared in my inbox because GenCon still thinks I am a legit member of the press.Hostile Work Environment Brings Life to Roleplaying Games SEATTLE (August 1, 2012) There is a new company...
View Articlesome Fiendish fragments
Okay, so thanks to Aplus's DCC Monster Helper charts I'm going to try converting some monsters from the Fiend Folio (the 1st edition version) to Dungeon Crawl Classics standards. If I find this fun...
View ArticleYo, Banesfinger!
On an old post Banesfinger recently asked:Does anyone know of a good Zocchi dice retailer (on-line) up here in Canada?I asked around on Google+. Here are the responses I got:Eric BoydYesterday 4:05...
View ArticleStar Frontiers and Space Elitism
Nice custom paint job on that outer space van.Star Frontiers was the first sci-fi roleplaying game I ever owned. As a kid I didn't get it. Back then I thought all things sci-fi flowed from two...
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