I’m doing some homebrew with The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s World Building Guide by James D’Amato. I highly recommend Jame’s podcast, One Shot. My first pass at making magic led me to create a framework for complex ritualistic science magic. I think this magic, during it’s rare practice, focuses on divination but of course it…
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Solo RPG Knave 2e in Dyson’s Delve
Alton, Mari and Jess had met in the ruins. They had stumbled uponeach other while pursuing various interests and it was Alton whohad built the shed where they all stored their tools. Mari stashedher trapping equipment and repaired nets there while waiting forslop to dry into clay. Jess had installed observation equipmentand took astrological notes…
TTRPG 5e One Shot Map Drawing: The Docks
I’m running a one shot called Treaty of the Tiger King for my beginners 5e table at the LGS. I’m using the maps provided with the adventure to inspire this battle map. I use washable markers on a vinyl map grid. Stay tuned for pics from the play table with minis and everything. This is…
TTRPG Session Prep 5e One Shot
I’m preparing to run Treaty of the Tiger King for my 5e beginner table. This one shot is a soft farewell to their characters because it is the last one shot before I begin the summer campaign: Phandelver and Below. When we begin the campaign I will be asking that the players build new characters…
Morticians TTRPG Session 0 Wrap
I ran a session 0 for a new TTRPG called Morticians. One more session 0 and we’ll have a full crew ready to kill some zombies! Morticians is an adrenaline pumping, fist-bumping, belly-laughing, zombie-hacking new tabletop role-playing game! I was a play-testing Funeral Director (Game Master) for the starter kit. I play in a campaign…
TTRPG Session Prep for the start of Cy_Borg
Cy_Borg is a dark cyberpunk fantasy game. About a dozen players rotate through in groups of 3-4 take on the chaos of the apocalypse every other week. This is the world/system synopsis that I’ll be providing to players next session. CyBorg Start of the world Meta Synopsis Miseries on a 1d3 Every in-game time dawn…
Map Wipe #1
Today’s the day to erase some maps and get ready for new maps This Map is from B1 In Search of the Unknown. It was drawn collaboratively at the table during play. Several different players all took part in creating this map from descriptive narration. I provided the narration, drew lines when we were short…
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