Telecanter's Receding Rules

For those of you just joining this series, I realized that the default for travel in the wilderness is usually-- nothing happens-- and tha...

The desert is a grueling waste and the best way to deal with it is spend as little time there as you can.  For every three days the party ...

Here's another attempt at a simple way to engage players while they travel the wilderness while making different types of terrains feel ...

First, I never mentioned that I would consider any kind of road or known track to be civilization and by using them players can avoid these ...

And now to the culprit that left me wanting something better, the sea.  I thought about it for a while and I decided a cool archetypal chall...

This is related to the last couple of posts about the abstractness of wilderness travel in our game.  It isn't a mini-game so-to-speak, ...

Some more thoughts on spicing up travel through the abstract wilderness.  Keep in mind I intend these in addition to encounters and in addit...

Hill Cantons just posted about the tedium of wilderness travel and I was recently struggling with the same thing (you think a hex crawl is ...

Arkhein asked how to make lockpicking interesting.  Here's my attempt: Your thief knows four ways to manipulate locks: Bump Probe ...

Part of me doesn't want a map because it feels each detail cuts off a multitude of possibilities (thus the abstract city of Nidus).  But...

On the Year of the Dungeon a small dungeon was posted with a rumor/encounter escalation chart for a curse, depending on whether the player ...

I haven't followed Year of the Dungeon closely, I've stumbled across it a few times in my blogoramblings. But a recent compilation ...

Using poker chips as a means of tracking isn't a new idea. Lord Kilgore blogged about it here . But I don't know that I've hea...

This is still a work in progress. I've tweaked the numbers a little added local guides and now that I have my campaign's first rog...