Jack McNamee presented Matt Rundle’s Anti-Hammerspace Item Tracker, and I have to say that I like it. It’s quick, it’s workable, and it addresses something few workable encumbrance systems I’ve seen have: just where the stuff is. The short form, modified for D&D 3.x: Each character has up to six …
Scrolls are one of the simpler tables to populate. This isn’t complete yet, but trivially covers most of it. I’d like to see more ‘special writings’, especially at low levels, but scrolls are about it. I could imagine mundane books of interest, but there really isn’t much exciting by way …
I cobbled together a quick worksheet for choosing general items for each treasure type and tier. I want the value of the treasure associated with each card to generally trend upward with the rank of the card (Aces low), and the value between tiers to roughly triple. The values within …
A few days ago I described approximate card values for generating hoards by the cards. Ultimately I found the card values really hard to work with because the range for each card was so narrow. For shiggles I reworked the table, expanding the range for each card to span three …
Another week spent more on writing than reading. I’ve been delving into a series I call ‘Hoards by the Cards’. It started as an exploration of Looting Hoards by the Cards, but I’ve since started on Generating Hoards by the Cards, doing some Groundwork, working out Card Values at various …
Hi Pop, Vesper figured that the stories we’d been told about the village problems might not be true. The dragon ate the girls I told you about, so how could they be the ghouls bothering the village? He also thinks the crypt we were exploring was there for a long …
I quickly sketched together a potions table earlier today, I think I’ll try armor this time. I’m not going to bother with the Epic tiers because they’re outside my expected range of play. I’ll keep the Basic tiers because low-level creatures are likely to have hoards of low-value items… though …
In Generating Hoards by the Cards, Groundwork, I suggested different cards might have different ranges of values. I’ve calculated possible values such that each card is roughly the same amount larger (by ratio) than the card below it. The values of Aces and Twos overlap the nominal upper values of …
A couple days ago, in response to a question Jeff Rients asked on Google+, I described a method of Looting Hoards by the Cards. Jeff seemed to like the idea and linked to it, and one of the comments sparked another idea… that I’m not going to explore yet, because …
Nothing for the Hall of Fame this week, though there are a few series I have my eye on. More blog reading than recent weeks, but I’m still almost two months behind. Ah well, it’s not like I’m on a schedule. I even got a bit of writing done this …