In the second episode of our #CSIMidderlands game, our four heroes travel to the Grand Library in Tomegate, attempting to determine what actually happened to Gwenneth, the young girl they rescued from the Witch-hunters.
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This is an expanded version of the handy alleyway table included in Monkeyblood Design’s Grey Lunden book:
In the first episode of our #CSIMidderlands game, four heroes from various different parts of #GreatLunden come together to try and prevent a young girl being burnt as a witch and tumble onto a more sinister plot connecting with the #LaughingPlague.
Continue reading CSI Midderlands: session 1In this interview I speak to Jarin Dnd from Power Up Gamers about their forthcoming book L’gats Tome of Amazing Creatures Vol III currently on Kickstarter.
Continue reading RPG Interview: Jarin DnDI’m super excited! I’ve just received my Kickstarter stuff for the Midderlands: Great Lunden, I’m really chuffed to have played a small part in the writing of this excellent set and am grateful to Glynn Seal at Monkeyblood Design, both for giving me the chance to play in his sandbox and also for rushing me the books in time for my game on Friday.
Continue reading Unboxing Video: Midderlands Great LundenYou can get ideas in the most unlikely of places, in this case it was when listen to the Thought Eater podcast, I misheard the host Froth when he said “Pick your OSR clone of choice” and thought he said “Pick your OSR cologne of choice.” I realised my error pretty quickly but–the more I thought about it–the more the idea of random colognes appealed to me, so I decided to put together a series of linked random tables.
Continue reading Random Thing: PerfumesIt’s #RandomThingThursday here at the blog, I’m going to start trying to put out a new chart or random plot-inspiring element every Thursday:
Continue reading Random Thing: Things you may find in a sewerAs I’m sure you all know by now, I’m a massive fan of the Midderlands setting by Glynn Seal of Monkeyblood Design and have even been privilieged enough to write on a couple of projects for them. One of my other loves in RPGs is the random trinket table from D&D 5E, so it seemed only natural to combine these two loves.
Continue reading Random Things: Midderlands TrinketsI recently posted an article (you can check it out here) about how much I enjoyed Cantrips in D&D 5E and how it was one of my favourite parts of that system. One of my long-time online gaming-buddies Dennis Bach posted on Facebook that he thought there might be some duplication of existing spells if the effects were just to be ported over, which is a very valid point because the idea of Cantrips is to give magic-users some cool extra stuff they can do, not to replicate or replace the higher-level spell systems.
Continue reading Cantrip ComparisonAnother random table, this one to determine what a group of people are doing around a cart.
Continue reading Random Things: What are those people doing with that cart…?
