d12 Secret Door Mechanisms
Bonk is a famous grumpy tomato frogOne thing I felt was neglected was details on secret doors.In my games, I have a spot skill and if you spend 10 min in a square you get a stat rollSkilled get a full...
View ArticleLevel Title Tiers
So a feature of old dnd is level titles. At a certain level your fighter was a veteran or a hero. In modules and on tables you would meet six myrmidons and everyone know what level fighters they...
View ArticleSad death of Ratty, Gamelog
Post apoc game as a player absents so we played out 6th lv Broken hill campaign characters unused in a while. Basically did lots of consolidating their bases and working on the problem of a rival snack...
View ArticleFantasy Chase Obstacle Tables (Post 1999)
Karl the Viking Comics in print againThis is post 1999I will try to do something for no 2000But For now thisWhen chasing someone or running away you often come across some obstacles on the run. These...
View ArticlePost 2000 Revised EMO Space Book
Celebrating Post 2000A revised version of the book with 30 more pages and the cover I commissioned over 5 years ago is finally on it. You are welcome to share a link to this page (it gives me a better...
View ArticlePost Apoc Chase Tables
This is based on the ones I did for fantasy a few posts ago.In a chase, you could use a map or an abstract approach. Draw a line. Divide the line into segments before the person being chased reaches a...
View Articled12 Weird Magic Swords
Arlac the Smith made various weapons to arm those who arose from the darkness but as he ran out of bronze and iron he resorted to stranger materials and each blade was used by one of the great heroes...
View ArticleZines on Patreon
Zine no7 out nowLinks for 1-7 up now All on PatreonMostly details Anglerslund a nasty cult filled island and a few pages of post apoc locations each issueHardback books on LuLu soon
View Articled12 Psionic Treasures
d12 Psionic Treasures1 Dust of Leng - save or have horrible nightmares for months. If save have fantastic visions of ancient pre-human civilisations, when darkness and sorcery reigned. Save again or...
View Articled100 Terrible things behind that dungeon door
So your players are getting sleepy as your roll the contents of that room they just kicked the door in. So you need some sudden violence. This is for my generic dungeon dimension influenced redbrick...
View Articled100 Apocalypse Beach: Surf Nazis Must Die!
Big thankyou to everyone who gave me nice comments over post 2000 space pdf and the blog in general. Also big thanks to the new Patrons. Several have requested more gothic fairytale stuff too which...
View ArticleHaunted Chariot Barracks and back
My bronze age Exilon game caught up and players went to ruins from their home village without trouble and stopped by their friends the snake cults. Our bold fighter, cunning wizard and the draconic...
View ArticleNecropolis of Yor
So a terrible idea for an ancient near east desert ruined necropolis of a forgotten empire. A bronze age megadungeon in an area still used by people. At night its haunted and guards by entrances...
View ArticleMusic for Cthulhu
So in my games, I don't often use sound fx. In Call of Cthulhu I occasionally showed some scenes from film a film version of a HPL story. So I made playlists but most often I would put on a bunch of...
View ArticleEaster Gamma Encounters
Hoops are giant humanoid-rabbit mutants with a knack for firearms and are to turn metal into rubber somehow. They often ride horned riding jackalopes and they are well known for being jerks. They can...
View ArticleStrange Spirits of Auldwood
Auldwood is the dark forested region away from the more built-up coast. It is famous for a few things. Being haunted and backwards are the most popular assumptions. It has various knights estates...
View Articled100 Events on a 5 Year Exploration Mission
So one of my dream campagns is to run my Commonwealth Gunship Campaign where a fleet of armed FTL ship is searching for hundreds of much slower one way colony ships sent out 200 years earlier. Some...
View ArticleAlien Encounters
Following from last post and detailing Aliens to contact while exploring space and searching for early colonies. Real aliens are rare. Most cantina freaks are modified colonists who adapted to survive...
View ArticleSome Quick Reviews...
EMO zine #8 and 3fold on the Necropolis of Yor recently on Patreon Like a few people I have been getting the POD releases for 80s D&D books I probably never saw in the day and as I was a propper...
View Articled100 That funny time at the bathhouse - Carousing while being clean
This for those civilisations that have public baths like Rome or the Indus and possibly could be a steam bath or other similar social communal hangout. You could scale down for that backwood Viking...
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