Telecanter's Receding Rules

The first trader said "In my youth there was song popular in the wine houses about such a veil.  The Lover laments being unable to expr...

Years ago I made a series of posts about geographic wonders players exploring a fantasy world might find.  I promised to make a compiled ...

First, sorry if the last post was a bit scattered (I did spend several hours composing it).  Second, a close read of Chris Kutalik's po...

The Hill Cantons blog has a very interesting question about how to randomly generate wilderness for a hexless pointcrawl.  I think an unspo...

These might look familiar.  Go here to see me come up with the ideas. 106. Valley of Graves - It's easy to miss that the low, woody...

If nothing else, these might serve as models for your hand-drawn maps: Here is a page from the book I got some of these ...

I mentioned I wanted to go past 100 so I could replace some earlier entries I thought weaker, so here we go: 101. Waterfall Tree - A huge...

Back from camping with a few more ideas for sandbox or geographic wonders.  This get's us to 100 but I won't stop here because some ...

People gathered around a fire is as old as us.  To cook and eat, to talk and rest and keep the night at bay until the sun returns again.  ...

I've had my players in this little sandbox for a while and needed a larger world outside of it.  I am not good at this because of indec...

91. Dark Ice Caves - The ice these caves are found in is a dark, purplish hue.  It melts to water of the same color.  This water freezes in...

86. Grey Hills - These low rolling hills are a sickly grey and made almost entirely of clay.  They are treacherous in wet weather but folks...

81. Sand Falls - A plateau in a desert with dunes on and around it.  Every third day sand falls from above.  The sand is so pure and fine i...

76. Moth Fogs - Marshy lands where any movement causes millions of tiny, white moths to rise up and flutter about.  They are drawn to faces...

I've been fighting a cold for a week now.  It isn't bad, but I feel too tired to be very creative.  Here are a few wonders just to k...

More sandbox locations meant to evoke a sense of wonder in your players: 63. Sculpted Forest - Old oak forest carved in marble.  Each lea...

Just a very small update.  I collected my terrain related mini-games into a pdf before, but came up with additional challenges for the deser...

Continuing to try and come up with places a player could encounter in an rpg sandbox that might evoke a sense of wonder.  But first a couple...

Phew, it is getting hard to come up with new ones, and that's assuming any of the ones I am coming up with evoke a sense of wonder.  I...

33. Ice Flats - These areas look as if a great lake was covered in ice and then the water disappeared.  Sailing ice boats is a quick but da...