Telecanter's Receding Rules

One of the last mini-games I posted about was for shopping .  And, in play, it didn't work that well, most of what it did was make what ...

I'm currently trying to shake my players out of the city and get them back into creepy, dangerous dungeons.  But I've made it hard b...

These aren't "encounters" so much as the groups of people characters moving through a city might encounter.  They may be just ...

This is a revision of this table .  I added a column for traditional fantasy magic as suggested by a commenter.  Some of these are quite pot...

First a public service annoucement: I screwed up with my web host so all my sidebar links will be dead until I get it sorted.  Sorry, I'...

Happy Birthday D&D!  I remember the moment I first heard of the game.  My friend was excitedly  telling me about it on the playground of...

I was hoping to do the room stuffing thing with my friends tonight, but I don't think I'm really prepared for it yet.  I did sit do...

Daily OSR Fix is a newer blog with some cool posts.  I wanted to take this post about sidequests and try and kick it up a notch.  So rath...

One way we could add details and logic to secret doors is to look at them from the angle of what was meant to be hidden.  I broke that dow...

Here's my take on a trap chart in the Roger the GS style.  If you read straight across you get a standard trap that should be easy to ...

I was never as excited about Jeff Rient's Carousing Table as everyone else because it seemed the only player that would roll on a table...

Here is my best shot at making a reality of what I had in my mind.  A cool isometric view of an actual specific port.  Size and layout of ...

I'm up in the mountains.  Spent the last several days with a bunch of family so my mind is kind of muzzy.  But here are some ideas for d...

Is that a lump?  A bruise?  I had bad dreams, dreams that someone was cutting me open, dreams that they took something that should be there ...

This one's for Richard who asked on G+ what the citizens of Bukhara might be dreaming of.  It took me a while.   I just started listing ...

Here's my gift of Goblin Alchemical Mishaps.  First a chart: And next something a little more ambitious, a game where you drop your d...

So, If we put a relatively small number of creatures that can be randomly encountered in a particular area it will give it a flavor, a sense...

At work, so I'll make this into a nicer chart later.  So, tired of the drugs in your campaign being plant parts that are smoked or chewe...

I've come to realize my phone is quite handy on game nights.  If I forget something I have pretty much everything I've made on my bl...

Give your next megadungeon faction a little zing .  Hell, roll multiple times. I tried to think of features that would make a faction (not ...