The Haunted Dungeon – Fantastical Pulp Alley AAR

There have been some recent rumblings from my dormant miniature gaming hobby. I'm slowly warming myself up by putting together some papercraft scenery, and to make up for the shortfall in actual miniatures and terrain I've dared dip a toe into Tabletop Simulator. More on that perhaps in another post. It had me go looking …

Character Flavour Tables

A big assumption behind Off-White Cube is that a character is not defined primarily (or much at all) by their class. Instead, the class serves as a recognisable archetype which should help guide players as to how their character's goes about adventuring. My personal preference is to do away with classes entirely, but they do …

Off-White Cube 0.21

Several versions on from the previous iteration of Off-White Cube, this new document has been pared down and simplified further in an attempt to reinforce the elements that I find more enjoyable in gameplay. For the benefit of anyone who's interested, and so that I have something of a log of my thought processes, this …

Online Character Sheet – Old School Essentials / Labyrinth Lord / BX D&D

I have to confess to have played very little BX D&D and its retroclones, for all that it seems to be one of the more popular OSR games, so it's taken me a little while to get round to putting together a online-ified version of a character sheet. Then I came across a character sheet …

A month’s worth of sessions – a megadungeon reflection update

Quite a few more sessions have passed since the first look back at running an open-table megadungeon, so it seems appropriate to have an update. From the Barrowmaze GM Screen Affairs so far Of the 41 sessions so far (current global matters have ensured the capacity for rather a lot of games in a short …

Online Character Sheet – Electric Bastionland

Source: Kickstarter Electric Bastionland (with a free edition available here) was the first time I dared venture into being Kickstarter backer. I very rarely go for a physical copy of any RPG product - cost is a factor, when I can economically print them myself, and as there is only so much shelf space I …

Online Character Sheet – Knave

Source: youtube Here's a character sheet I put into Google Slides for the benefit of an online Play-by-Post game running through Stonehell using the TheManWithAHammer's Knave hack. The campaign was fun but unfortunately shortlived, as has been the case with any PbP game I have played in or run. But that's a post for another …

Online Character Sheet – The Black Hack 2e

Source: Oubliette Magazine In this time of greatly increased virtual play, and at the instigation of someone on reddit asking for online-friendly character sheets, I thought it would be good to start putting together some characters sheets for the game systems I've used, for my own use and should anyone else want to use them. …

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, …