Fun Afflictions

Here's a little something for Secret Santicorn 2025.

Prompt: Fun diseases and/or curses! You'll be sad once you recover.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j4ZxcAdsIpR_i0ABtfs2i284pOXzZIX3A8VKU_hVgRs/edit?usp=sharing

I might add more to this list later, but I wanted to get this out before Christmas.

Capsule Reviews: Dice Goblin!

 As part of Covert Critic, a sort of Secret Santa for TTRPG designers, I drew Lars Huijbregts, AKA Dice Goblin Games.

So. I'm choosing to do quick capsule reviews of all his free / PWYW stuff. There's a lot of it! I'm going to be going in the order they currently are in his itch.io ... Just click on that link or the one above to see what I'm talking about.

Time Jump!

It's time for Secret Santicorn!

I got this prompt: Design downtime mechanics for a large time skip (e.g., 25 years forward): how do you measure if PCs achieve their long-term goals during this period?

This one was fun. My favorite is the random table at the very end. 

Google Doc or PDF!

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uyk7NV96slOrxKuf1C2b6feEId0O48SJ/view?usp=drivesdk

Troika 19280!

Troika! is a great game. So when I saw there was a Troika! jam, the first thing I thought to do was to combine it with the 1928 jam.

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.

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.

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)

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!

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.

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 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

 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:

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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)

 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)

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)

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

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)

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

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