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)
Journal: Quarantine day 8 Social distancing is taking its toll. I can’t stop scrolling online Social Media Apps!
Wait! What’s this? A pretty cover and Oh! some wicked creative ideas! BRB
Not having a job for a bit has a silver lining: I’m getting caught up on TONS of reading, especially gaming stuff I just […]
Adding Personality to Your PC
Spotted a great thread on Twitter tonight: @anxietywizard
It was requested that Wizard put this thread into a blog post, and they might, but I though I might add a little commentary.(Also, I edited the tweet into a collated set of lists)
it’s actually very boring when all the features of […]
Ever wonder what plants are like under the ground? Some fun things for your PCs to discover while foraging.
Roll a d30!
Magical Roots and Tubers
Some are known by the name of the food-stuff made from their roots, others by the flower, shrub or tree they support. These seemingly common roots and tubers […]
Clerics, Witches, Paladins and Druids
“There are a number of other character types which are detailed in ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. There are sub-classes of the four basic classes. They are: paladins and rangers (fighting men), illusionists and witches (magic-users), monks and druids (clerics), and assassins (thieves).”
page 7 – Dungeons & Dragons, by Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson – Edited […]
Books! Scrolls! Maps! Your PCs always want to know what’s in them, what are they about…
What treasure will this map take us to??
Roll a d30!
Book of Receipts and Disbursements – a detailed ledger of the Housekeeper’s accounts. Food, drink, and other supplies. Aeroica’s Codex – “Poems and Fancies” – a collection of […]
No Proficiencies in Particular
When D&D 2e came out, we were pretty psyched, because the new PHB had a bunch of cool new Proficiencies. Something that IIRC had been introduced in Dragon Magazine as an option had been expanded and made “official”.
We quickly discovered that by relying upon a limited number of skills that our PCs could be […]
Making Encounters and Descriptions More Thematic
Getting back into writing more narrative-style content for D&D adventures has led me to do a bunch of research on keeping my theme and tone consistent. Two recent resources that have been very eye-opening are Adventure Writing like a F***** Boss by Venger Satanis and Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley.
These two […]
d30 Thursday – Foraging
Searching for food, for material components? Perhaps the PCs are Hunting, Fishing, or Prospecting for precious minerals.
Here is a chart designed to help determine how long it takes to find an item of a particular level of scarcity.
Roll a d30!
1 6 hours Very Rare 2 5 hours Rare 3 4 hours Scarce […]
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