Goblin's Henchman

I recently pondered the idea that surnames must at some point merge into one single name.

I don’t usually do play reports, but what the heck … I discovered that the youngest Henchling had invited his friend over (his friend’s older brother decided to come along too) to play D&D (well AD&D 1e) over the Easter break.

I came across the below highlighted text in Jorge Luis Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings: Borges seems to believe that while the writing became fancier over time, the vibe was lost.

I have no idea if anyone out there in internet land might find this useful.

For those that observe, it’s that anniversary (2011-2019) G

EDIT – Might also make an interesting magic item property random table From a project that I will probably not take anywhere, so instead of binning here it is: Here is the PDF if want it Also, as a sort of D20xD20 spark table Or, try it out on this Percha…

I’ve only just learnt about Sicherman Dice One die has sides 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4 and the other has sides 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 What is fun, is when you roll and sum these two dice they have the same probability profile as rolling and summing normal 2d6 (peak at 7,

EDIT – Individual images: I’ve decided to keep this page for the mile stone updates, making collages.

Asking for a friend: Does Everything have to be a Point Crawl?

Blurb: I listen to podcasts, some of which often throw out a game design ‘nugget’.

Ever wanted to play a table top war game (like Warhammer Fantasy Battle) solo, that is against an army commanded by A I General?

I saw this blog post (All Hail King d12) and it made me chuckle – I presume it was at least partly tongue in cheek!

This Hex Flower Game Engine is a homage to the classic arcade game Pac-Man.

Blurb: I listen to podcasts, some of which often throw out a game design ‘nugget’.

Blurb: I listen to podcasts, some of which often throw out a game design ‘nugget’.

Blurb: I listen to podcasts, some of which often throw out a game design ‘nugget’.

Blurb: I listen to podcasts, some of which often throw out a game design ‘nugget’.

Blurb: I listen to podcasts, some of which often throw out a game design ‘nugget’.

Adding a minotaur ‘hunter’ mini to the Hex Flower maze & pursuit gave the kids more buy in!

People use the word ‘terse‘ a lot when describing RPG content/adventures with concise content.

The OSR/NSR (and splinter movements thereof) fly high the flag and associated benefits of random tables and procedurally led outcomes.

You might not know, but I have a YouTube channel.

A Hex Flower mini-game for learning your times tables.

This post relates back to the ‘Forget polyhedrals – Cubism is in !!

This post relates back to a ‘composite dice‘ post I made a little while ago.

2024 was a reasonably quiet year for me (reasons).

Edit: No animals were harmed in the writing of this post Very important context I recently got included in this Meme (What the dice doin???

I’ve been listening to a bunch of Call of Cthulhu (CoC) actual plays recently (Andy Goodman’s Grizzly Peak Radio) and was interested in the dynamic of a “Pushed Roll“.

I’ve only recently realised that I’ve had a Random Table Itch that I’ve needed to scratch for some time.

CC image – click to see source (in theory the above is the opposite of my idea :O|) In a similar vein to my “Random Encounter Tables – When the Boss Monster comes out swinging” blog post, I like the idea that only certain parts of the random encounter tab…

(Image Credit: Big Trouble in Little China) I like random encounter tables (maybe you do too!)

I saw a post on BlueSky by Ktrey of the d4 Caltrops blog fame about ‘Usage Dice’, and wanted to spotlight this idea on my blog.

I bought an old game on eBay.

I saw this post by Kyana and really liked the idea that changing something’s name a little can conjure up a whole new idea.

I was listening to the Swords against Madness podcast (maybe you should too) and there was a bit were some giant beetles where about to do something fancy – and for some strange reason I thought they were a custom monster that was going to spin a spell-li…

Last post of 2024!!

I’m writing an adventure.

Edit – behold a 5e version (not mine) of this idea and in the spirt of Lego builds: LINK I’m sure like most of you, you get Ben Milton’s The Glatisant news letter (if not, you should).

I saw this interesting post by Joshy McCroo (a sort of psychic card guessing resolution mechanic) and this cool looking crowdfunding project by Aaron A.

Get the higher resolution PWYW PDF here It’s been a little while since I made a Hex Flower, so I thought I’d make a new one.

Just some work updates: In the Heart of the Unknown – recently went platinum metal best seller on DriveThruRPG (following in the footsteps of my Hex Flower Cookbook) This is particularly pleasing because it’s Pay What You Want (PWYW), so despite being ess…

Get the PWYW PDF here I was recently asked about interesting ways to generate D&D type stats (more below) and that got me thinking about the possibility to generate these using a Hex Flower.

I’ve not been blogging much lately as I’ve been following the invasion of Ukraine by the genocidal regime in Russia.

Marcin s the artist in many OSR works need of some help: LINK: https://www.gofundme.com/f/xy5nzg-i-need-help The details are on the GoFundMe page and I hope collectively we can give a great artist a hand up.

A (hopefully) fun festive idea – an Advent Calendar Dungeon (‘Advent(ure) Calendar’).

Update: On my Drivethrurpg page there are now playing card decks versions of these LINK1 LINK2 We all know that giving NPCs some character can be difficult, and so I wondered if a set of cards (or booklet) of personality profiles might be a helpful start.

I love the idea of mazes.

UPDATE – Reddit said this better: “I think more precisely, flipping the sign of a die doesn’t change the distribution, just the offset” I have to admit my brain did not intuitively grasp the below when I recently stumbled across this (mathematicians wince…

We all know that giving NPCs some character can be difficult, and so I wondered if a set of cards (or booklet) of personality profiles might be a helpful start.

To celebrate Face Folio going Gold Metal Best Seller on DriveThruRPG, I’m making available 10 community copies of Face Folio: COMMUNITY COPY CODE Of course, the idea is for people to use the code if they cannot afford to buy a copy (life stuff).