Putting Together a Solo Dungeon Crawl Generator

I recently discovered that Inspiration Pad Pro can incorporate images into its output. This would be an ideal way to simplify one aspect which had proved one of the clunkier sides of generdaating solo dungeon crawling - corridor and room layouts. Running the Ruins of the Undercity's spatial directions through IPP had worked well enough …

Thoughts on collaborative attacks in Off-White Cube

I typed up some thoughts on Discord for our Barrowmaze campaign, and it turned into something of a brain splurge. Thought it best to paste it here for personal reference - I'm always losing things in the transient Discord channels. The context for it is that I've just floated a draft of Off-White Cube 0.14, …

Ruins of the Undercity – Solo Playthrough

Inspiration Pad Pro generator at the ready, I gave Ruins of the Undercity a run through. Rather than complicate things with lots of different classes and special rules, and threw together an Excel document to track a party of six Adventurers (using the Off-White Cube Adventurer class) and armed them as RotU suggests - very …

Procedurally-generated dungeons

Two of my favourite OSR products are my home printed copies of Gardens of Ynn and Stygian Library, two adventures which generate maze-like journeys through otherworldly settings on the fly. Roll dice to find out what the next 'room' is and contains, and the deeper into the 'dungeon' you go the stranger the things you …

Session Report: Return to Lootin’ Tootin’

Participants Kalis & Sam (same player, splitting XP and gold as a share)Woakeston Expedition Considering the small number of player characters, the decision was made to take out a loan from the jeweller Huffnpuff to hire all prospective employees: two torchbearers, two halflings and two men-at-arms, along with a borrowed wardog. Mounting up on nine …

Session Report: Lootin’ Tootin’ again

Fun times - got to be a punter again. A tale of more lost hirelings, and a slightly better treasure haul. Participants Father Kask (level 1 Cleric)Quagg (level 1 Ranger)Sgt Rumpus (level 1 Barbarian)Sam (level 1 Thief)Woakeston (level 1 Adventurer) Several adventurers decided to try their luck once again in the frosty temple. After a …

Session Report: Lootin’ Tootin’

Balances out playing a 5e rogue with a net modifier bonus of +0 A first session report as a punter. One of my Barrowmaze players volunteered to run a dungeon in the campaign world to try out Off-White Cube, so I got to roll up a character myself. And rather splendidly did the dice fall: …