The Reliquary I always like magic items, especially when they’re interesting. Swords with enhancement bonuses bore me. It appears I’m not the only one who feels this way. RKDN Studios is working on a magic items supplement, The Reliquary, for 13th Age, Pathfinder, and Savage Worlds that aims to do better …
Game Grids This looks like a great idea for managing the table for certain games (Carassonne being the key one, obviously). Having had the table disturbed during a game can be immensely frustrating for tile-based games like this, and these grids are designed to prevent exactly that. Unlike another solution …
The Keep System for Game Storage and Travel Grumpy Owl Gamery’s first ‘Keep System’ project (I think I linked to it on this blog before) didn’t get funded. I think it was simply too ambitious. This looks much more realistic — still ambitious, but the goal is one-third the previous one …
PURGE: Sins of Science – The 1st Real Time Strategy Card Game I like strategic games and have been thinking about how it might be possible to implement such a thing as a card game. It looks like someone else has the same goal, so I plan to see how …
After the work I did on the node-based megadungeon, I think I’d like to take it for a test drive. I’ve wanted to try Blood & Treasure since I got my hands on it, so I think for the first pass at least that’s what we’ll do. I aim to …
It took me a couple days past the end of my weekend to finish this iteration through the megadungeon. This thing? It’s big. In total there are 107 nodes in this dungeon. Many would be mapped as single rooms, most could easily be 3-5 rooms. Many could be even more — …
Shalthazard the Pale Campaign Role Broad-reaching mastermind with claws in many schemes. Theme Spectral wyrm so consumed by lust for knowledge and manipulation he did not notice his own death. Threat A powerful ghostly dragon with influence over political, financial, and military power over most of the land. Reward A …
Pit of the Misshapen Campaign or Scenario Role Dumping ground, a miscellany of creatures and objects. Almost anything can be found here, potentially, but it’s probably not in very good condition. Theme Civilization of broken creatures. Threat Very defensive and insular, will view interlopers with suspicion at best (and as …
Fungoid Cavern Scenario Role Meta: Relatively safe centralized navigation area between areas of the upper megadungeon. Theme Overgrown region of fungus, slimes, oozes, and other non-plant vegetation. Threat Does not pose much of a threat to the rest of dungeon, most of the space is inhospitable to the creatures here. …
I’ve updated my full-megadungeon map. It’s, uh, getting big. I think I’ll revamp the Fungoid Cavern tonight. Its layout was a placeholder to satisfy GraphViz and it’s starting to bug me. Also, I’m still trying to figure out what I’ll do for Salthazard the Pale. I have some ideas for …
