Friday, February 2, 2024

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Spider Children

Well, I've joined a ton of itch.io TTRPG jams and it's made me weirdly productive on the gaming front. So, let's talk about the two things I released recently.

This image is by megamoto85 / martin andre and is used under a  CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Hopepunk_24

So, this little freebie / PWYW game is a solution to a problem: I was in the Hopepunk Jam, and had only 3 hours to go. And I was also in this 24 Word RPG Jam...

So, a 24 word Hopepunk RPG.

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

What's in Their Pockets? (Post-Apocalyptic) d20

 Here is TWO random tables written entirely by me, with no help from others. Well, other than the giants whose shoulders I stand on...

In any case, both tables use a d20. The genre is post-apocalyptic. One is for "normal" things you'd find in pockets, and the other is for rare and/or weird things.

What's in Their Pockets? (Post-Apocalyptic)


Monday, January 15, 2024

Shameless Plugs: Derelict Transdimensional Anomaly

So, hey, are you in the market for a free one page science fiction system neutral pointcrawl? Well, you're in luck!

https://itch.io/jam/one-page-derelict-jam-2024


This is an entry for the One Page Derelict Jam 2024. It seems that I was so enthusiastic about this jam that I have the first submitted entry...

I'm going to use this blog entry to add some thoughts about the adventure that didn't fit on one page, things I de facto cut because I knew they wouldn't fit.

Potential spoilers!

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Shameless Plugs: BBB10 and Occult Space Ravens

 For the first time in five years, I've produced one of my tiny Black Box Books supplements for Swords and Wizardry WhiteBox. It's called Black Box Books Tome Ten: Jungles and Jaguars.

For 98 cents, you get new tables, new monsters (yes, including jaguar stats), a new Fighter subclass / variant, and a new race (a take on jaguarfolk, naturally). As usual, there's a full size version and a tiny, foldable pocketmod included, not to mention a plain text version for your cut and pasting delight.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/464480/Black-Box-Books--Tome-Ten-Jungles-and-Jaguars?manufacturers_id=682

Oh, and this is my first time using the Mythmere Games AELF license, a replacement for the OGL, for those who care about such things. 😉

The jaguar art on this cover image is courtesy of Proyecto Hunab Ku
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Friday, December 15, 2023

d10 Surreal Encounters in Faerie

 As I've mentioned a few times by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables.

This should be the last one for a while; I've caught up with all the tables on the server that I've started.


d10 Surreal Encounters in Faerie

Surreal, maybe whimsical, maybe disturbing, things that can happen to a travelling group in Faerie

Thursday, December 14, 2023

d20 Disturbing Sounds

 As I've mentioned a few times by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables.

Art by Inhus, used under this license:

d20 Disturbing Sounds

Disturbing sounds that one does not want to hear alone in the dark in an English-speaking country in the 19th century, or a setting like that.

Who or What Was That Person Communing With? (d30)

As I've mentioned a few times by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables.


Who or What Was That Person 

Communing With? (d30)

Where Was the Leader of the Moon Cult All This Time? (d20)

As I've mentioned a few times by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables.

Where Was the Leader of the Moon Cult

All This Time? (d20)

Ghosts on the Moon (d30)

 As I've mentioned a few times by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables.

Ghosts on the Moon (d30)

d66 Titles of Goblin Nobility

As I've mentioned a few times by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables. 

Titles of Goblin Nobility (d66)

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

How Did That Ancient Civilization Die? (d30)

As some of you likely already know by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. I'm presenting tables that I started, now that they're finished.

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables. 


How Did That Ancient Civilization Die? (d30)

Monday, December 11, 2023

Setting Via Equipment Lists (Santicorn 2023)

It's time for Secret Santicorn!

I got this prompt: "Characterize a number of different settings - as far apart as you'd like - via equipment tables only. Bonus points the more specific the tables."

I was pleased to get this one, because trying to imply setting with equipment tables is something I want to be able to do, and have experimented with a little already.

So, here I've got two links to two different versions of the same thing. A Google Doc, and a PDF, in case the fonts in the Google Doc don't work for y'all.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AZqo8CMP4t8NSywbIRBeuducUCNIxZwic4yuysEynxg/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Dj6NHNNkCceziL31nq5pnMLyX3Ue7iV/view?usp=sharing



Thursday, December 7, 2023

The Failed Colony (d10)

As some of you likely already know by now, there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. 

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I remain very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables. 


The Failed Colony (d10)

d20 Odd Alien Animals

So there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. 

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I'm very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables. 


d20 Odd Alien Animals

d100 Weird Space Jobs

So there is a great channel on the OSR Discord server called #dice-democracy where you can crowdsource random tables. 

Therefore, this isn't 100% my work; the people on the server are very creative when it comes to stuff like this. I'm very grateful for them putting up with my ideas for tables. 

This is by far my favorite table that I started, tho. 


d100 Weird Space Jobs

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Settlement Names for FORGE

 I wrote this for FORGE, but it works for any OSR game, really. And a few other games besides.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-kMx_rlPO12gLnGU73hW3_XOW6vsM3BfprqWPdQsbFk/edit?usp=drivesdk




Serpico in Space! Or Something.

 Secret Santicore 2017!

Prompt: An encounter table for 1970s New York City, except the genre is space opera and people are just getting used to visiting aliens and future tech.

I have this as a DOCX, but it's prolly easier to just cut and paste it here. Also, in this version I've corrected a couple of errors and tried to make it a little clearer. 



Serpico in Space! Or Something.

Soluble Sahuagin

12 OSR monsters. 200 words, not counting the title. Written in 2016, IIRC. 

I later used some of these for my "Strange but Useful Critters" entry for Secret Jackalope 2022.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cUBQWwAnCr9_sx9g4cNj42G0QCoOn_Kfzr9dtkYYcSw/edit?usp=drivesdk



Troika 19280!