Telecanter's Receding Rules

These reclusive, swamp-dwelling cats are tawny with deep black rosettes.  On closer inspection, the rosettes are actually cities and landmar...

Alejandra the Shepherdess spoke with animals and could heal them with a touch and the peasants prayed to her because of it.  When she died t...

When I go looking for images I need I often find cool things I never expected to find. These images are all in the public domain: I wis...

Trying to think of monsters that treat xp as an attack vector for players.  Wights are the traditional monster for this but I was interested...

I realized in my game there are three kinds of monster: placed, wandering, and discretionary*. "Placed" are those you know are i...

In this recent post I tried to find a way to flesh out and differentiate monsters that have similar mechanical undercarriages.  It didn...

I mentioned in this post that I could use the behavior categories also as a kind of template, so, as a base, vermin have giant rats stats b...

So I blogged here and here about wanting to have a simple system to help with how creatures will act when they become hostile, but I reali...

Continuing to come up with a system to help me run monsters.  First a few thoughts I've had since last post: I thought of "want t...

I don't see my DM role as being an adversary of the players.  I see myself as a facilitator of adventures.  In other words, I have to do...

This angel appears as nine alabaster-white discs floating just above the ground.  If touched, they give some but won't move from their p...

The Angel of music appears as three alabaster-white cylinders hanging in mid-air, each shorter than the last.  Disturbing one of these cylin...

Nothing too exciting this time, but these things have started cluttering up my desktop so let's get some more out there.  Here are publi...

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...

Here it is, the fiftieth batch of public domain silhouettes for your maps, charts, and counters.  Use 'em or lose 'em. I wanted so...

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...

For your charts, maps, and player handouts, these are all public domain, so use them as you wish. A wild dog, rabid dog, or wolf: And ...

A wide chasm.  Riches rumored to be on the opposite side.  Murders of crows cawing and hopping about on this side.  If you sleep near the cr...

The russet bear has reddish hair and likes the sweetest things.  It will follow you about hoping for more if you feed it berries or cream.  ...

A barefoot, young girl with a wooden pail of warm milk walks in a dangerous place.  Oddly unharmed, she says to the party "All worried ...