Deep Carbon Observatory, Session 1: Report and reflections

17 Jan 2017

Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers for Patrick Stuart and Scrap Princess's OSR module, Deep Carbon Observatory. Read on at your own risk.

Immortal Athkan, take 2

28 Feb 2016

I've already written about Immortal Athkan here. But for a quick refresher: Ancient warrior turned god, giant gold-covered skeleton sleeping deep inside a massive tomb. This here is my attempt to make that a self-contained class that works better with how I've been running my games these days.

I bring you...

THE ATHKANITE

This is the only permitted representation of Immortal Athkan. All others are sacrilege.

Passive-Aggressive Wizard Generator, or, d12 Alternatives to Geas

27 Feb 2016

The Wizard wants you to do something! How's he gonna make you do it?

Books

7 Jan 2016

SCRAPS

5 Dec 2015

SCRAPS

Lunch-hour D&D

18 Sep 2015

Okay so I was just doing my thang being on Google+ when Daniel Davis (who also does a D&D Actual Play podcast) asked this very interesting question:

Two session reports from San Serafin (as hastily mashed out on Facebook)

13 Sep 2015

So I've been sick this weekend which should mean I'm miserable but instead I've been playing in Mateo's San Serafin games. This is how I told it to my boyfriend via facebook chat:

Stick this on your arctic encounters table

7 Jun 2015

Let's Go Camping

26 May 2015

A while ago I raised the question on G+ about how you might bring something like Darkest Dungeon's Camping Actions into a tabletop RPG. I really like the idea of having a portion of play set aside to talking about how characters are unwinding - or not - after a hard day of adventuring. It seems like a wonderful beat to add to the adventuring day. So I've spent a lot of time thinking about it. Here's what I've come up with:

I have a hangover and this dungeon hates you

18 Apr 2015

Last night I overindulged and now my everything feels gross. Sherief Gaber wants ideas for ways to make his players miserable without making them fight things. Turns out these things go well together. Here's my response.

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