Sometimes an encounter is not a monster! Sometimes your PCs are foraging, exploring or setting up camp and they encounter a normal-sized, non-magical, completely mundane creature.
But how many can you think of, right off the top of your head? Now you don’t have to!
Roll a d30!
Gazelle Buffalo Zebra Rhinoceros Elephant Warthog […]
I’m working on making keys for three dungeons right now. Because I have ADD and can’t just do one thing at a time, LOL.
Anyway, I saw a tweet this morning:
@goatmansgoblet's Rakehell: The Battlefield is a spectacular take on making a 'dungeon crawl' feel dynamic and inventive, by turning it into […]
From 1961, a novel by Poul Anderson. Weighing in at 220 pages, this old novel is a fraction of the size of the contemporary fantasy novel. But that just means the story moves faster, and there is a lot less fluff than in today’s offerings!
The classic tale of a modern man thrust “back in […]
Good afternoon, I wanted to share with you some of the blog posts that I really enjoyed this past week.
First up, Fen Orc has a good one about his supplement to the Zenopus Dungeon:
Holmes’ introduction to the dungeon links it to the mysterious fate of the wizard Zenopus, who created a Tower […]
When I was a little boy, I was a voracious reader (still am!). One of my favorite places in the whole world was a little room in the corner of my grandparents’ basement, where my uncles all took turns living, as teenagers. On one wall was a set of home-made bookshelves that were filled with […]
d30 Thursday: NPC Factions
Who are these people? What did he mean with his dying words, “I will be avenged”? Who is in charge of this town? Why are horses so expensive here?
I guess the answer depends on who you ask, because it’s always about “who you know”, right?
Roll a d30!
The Order of […]
d30 Thursday – Master-Crafted Weapons
The World of Weirth is going to be a low-magic, low-fantasy style game. This means I’ll need to keep the number of magical weapons to a minimum. I’m also going to be incorporating the idea of the Master of Dungeons from Fen Orc’s blog, which will be a fun way to relieve PC’s of […]
For this set of tables, your PCs may need to know someone already in place in a settlement. Or they may need to be “sent” off ti find an NPC, and you aren’t sure who or what they are.
This d30 table determines the basic role of the NPC. I’ll leave Class and Race choices […]
d30 Thursday – Quirks and Tics
Sometimes people do things without realizing they do them, like crack their knuckles or pinch their eyebrow. These little quirks and tics can make an NPC memorable.
Anthony Owens shared a bunch of them, that we can adapt for D&D.
Roll a d30!
Carries a large coin which he or she is always playing […]
The World of Weirth has no “traditional” goblinoid creatures. No Goblins, Hobgoblins or Bugbears. Rather, what the people of Weirth think of as Goblins are small, clever anthropoids who like to take things apart and put them back together.
Frequency: Common
No Appearing 20-200
Armor Class 7 (due to size and speed)
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