A few potions
I’ve been placing a lot of potions lately, and although I appreciate the basic ones based on standard spells I though I’d put together a short list of “special” potions; I imagine these are created by...
View ArticleHit Points (once again)
The discussion about Hit Points seems to be never ending among those of us who play D&D; are they stamina, luck, injuries, skill? I’m not too worried with the discussion, actually; they are a...
View ArticleItem breakage in Pits & Perils
I like resource management; I think that’s been made fairly obvious on this blog (consider for example the latest post about Hits in P&P). So far, however, I’ve not included item breakage; I didn’t...
View ArticleBeastmen
Beastmen come in many shapes and sizes; their chaotic nature means they are of an almost infite variety. There are some larger and slightly more homogenous groups, however, and these have been given...
View ArticleA fashion statement
My players are still plunging into the depths of the Barrowmaze, and as is typical for that dungeon they keep running into a LOT of undead. My “What’s up with these Undead” table does provide flavor...
View ArticleEncounter activity
There are a lot of tables describing the activity of a random encounter out there, some of them really good, but I went ahead and put one of my own together anyway. I like to have a balance between a...
View ArticleThe Pipes that played at the World’s End
A set of bag pipes. The bladder is made from the descaled skin of some deep-sea creature, and is a sickly purple. The mouthpiece is made from ebony, and carved in the likeness of a beautiful maiden....
View ArticleThe other life
My campaign isn’t as suggestive or dream-like as many others; it’s in all honesty pretty bog-standard fantasy, although the frequency of monsters (humanoids especially) is dialed down a lot, inspired...
View ArticleEquipment slots
I use the LotFP encumbrance system; I like it’s blend of doing away with math but retaining a bit of complexity as compared to the very bare-bones systems of “carry STR items”. For my current campaign,...
View ArticleA Dragon
Suddenly, in my campaign, I needed a dragon. I use them rarely, but now the players would eventually meet one, and even though I doubt they will come to blows with it I felt it necessary to at least...
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