Game Master ... or Taskmaster?
People who enjoy dice-based TTRPGs enjoy rolling dice, but I've been watching quite a lot of Taskmaster lately and felt like "taskifying" character creation.
Berserk?!
Light fanboyism and potential spoilers for the first 34 volumes of Berserk released by Dark Horse.
Name Generator
In a world with Fantasy Name Generators, no one needs a new name generator. Except me. This pairs given names from the estimable Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources with surnames from various Internet sources. Update: Added dwarves, elves, gnomes and halflings.
It's the Final Countdown
... or is it? I love Decagone's time loop gimmick, so I put together a Countdown app to visualize (and audiolize?) it.
Infocom: A Family Trip from A to Zork
Sesame Street taught me the alphabet; Scholastic taught me to read; Infocom taught me how to play with words. Through shared and solo play, interactive fiction shaped how I read, my sense of humor, and my appreciation for imagined spaces in ways that still inform my approach to OSR play.
Solo Play, Part 1 of X
Wherein I take stock and mentally prepare to take the Solo Play plunge with a crawl through Stonehell, with the help of DM Yourself.
Under Construction?
Remember those old animated gifs that used to exist on every Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod and FortuneCity (my personal preference) sites? That's what this post is, minus the epilepsy trigger.
The Art of the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Game
My introduction to Dungeons & Dragons was found tucked away among my dad’s back issues of "Heavy Metal," some Rifts books, and Frazetta art books.