Telecanter's Receding Rules

A few years back I offered an idea of a way to make lockpicking more engaging and interesting for players.  You can go back and read that po...

What if different difficulty of locks had different hit dice?  And specific locks had hit points, even armor classes?  Then roguish charac...

I try to gather up ideas that seem a little too thin to warrant a separate post into these miscellaneous posts.  Usually they are small hous...

Bards don't get too much interest in the OSR from what I can see, not metal enough.  And while I'm not too interested in a Alan-a-Da...

I wasn't quite sure how to handle what happens if you get stuck out in bad weather or don't have food and water.  Here is a round up...

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 ...

Jeff asked a question about cleric spells on G+, the normal Vancian system being too much like "a snap-your-fingers-and-God-comes-runni...

1 Has anyone tabulated monsters from various old D&D versions into spreadsheets?  I've noticed a few differences and I'd like t...

Some caveats: Read this post from me to see where I'm coming from.  Today's post concerns inherited mental powers. If you're...

The Future as Web (aka the Grand Destiny) This view of the future isn't really a third model, but a complication of one of the other tw...

Future as Possible Paths This kind of foretelling is the opposite of inescapable fates.  The future is an infinite number of paths stretchi...

Like a lot of fantasy elements , how to implement foretelling the future in an rpg is complicated by the fact that there are multiple confl...

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...

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 ...

I posted twice about trying to make rules that actually encourage more interaction with NPCs here and here .  I've used the card system...

I've never used this, don't know how useful it would be, but as I was falling asleep last night I thought of giving a player a seale...