A Monday Miscellany of Links Pt. XVIII

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Kyonshi

2024-05-21 11:13:22 UTC

ANother of my link collection posts. Enjoy.

Source:
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/a-monday-miscellany-of-links-pt-xviii/

Play your PCs like they’re stolen cars. Die horribly. Roll up a new one.
— Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys Blog

Good Stuff

TTRPGs for Trans Rights – West Virginia (itch.io) – 529 TTRPG items for
a good cause
https://itch.io/b/2383/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-west-virginia

Free Stuff

Warlock Class for OSR (PWYW on drivethrurpg)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/208205/PC11--The-OSR-Warlock

Muster: a primer for War (PWYW on drivethrurpg)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/413382/muster

Random Tables

(Weird) Fantasy world automated generator collection (Lizard Man Diaries)
http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2024/03/weird-fantasy-world-automated-generator.html

d20 Random Button and Lever Effects (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)
http://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2024/04/d20-random-button-and-lever-effects.html

Grotesque Gains (Weird & Wonderful Worlds)
https://weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com/2024/05/grotesque-gains.html

d100 Carousing (Luke Gearing)
https://lukegearing.blot.im/d100-carousing

Player Aid

d20 Character Icebreaker Questions (Traverse Fantasy)
https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2024/02/d20-character-icebreaker-questions.html

New Player Advice: Try to learn the rules (Stargazer’s World)
https://stargazersworld.com/2024/04/24/new-player-advice-try-to-learn-the-rules/

GM Aid

Black Snakes Gang – an AD&D Bandit group (Eldritch Fields)
http://eldritchfields.blogspot.com/2024/04/black-snakes-gang-ad-bandit-group.html

1D20 Dungeon Merchants (Coins and Scrolls)
https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2024/05/osr-1d20-dungeon-merchants.html

D6x6 Simpering Serpentmen (Archons March On)
http://archonsmarchon.blogspot.com/2024/04/d6x6-simpering-serpentmen.html

D12 Anomalous Orbs (Alone in the Labyrinth)
http://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/04/d12-anomalous-orbs.html

5 Ways To Make Combat (More) Fun in OSR (Castle Grief)
https://castlegrief.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-make-combat-more-fun-in

Why Are You So Emaciated and Your Face Half-Crazed? (Whose Measure God
Could Not Take)
http://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-are-you-so-emaciated-and-your-face.html

Wizard Diss Tracks (Prismatic Wasteland)
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/wizard-diss-tracks

100 Thieves’ Guild Quests (OSR Vault)
https://osrvault.com/100-thieves-guild-quests/

RPG Theory

Ten Unanswerable Evergreen Discourses (The Indie Game Reading Club)
https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/ten-unanswerable-evergreen-discourses/

Kafka and his precursors (ars ludi)
https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/3498/kafka-and-his-precursors/

D&D isn’t fun enough (Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys)
https://enthusiasticskeletonboys.blogspot.com/2020/04/d-isnt-fun-enough-or-enthusiastic.html

The True Birth of Roleplaying (Grognardia)
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-true-birth-of-roleplaying.html

Emergent Characters vs. Bespoke (What a Horrible Night to have a Curse)
http://lordgwydion.blogspot.com/2024/03/emergent-characters-vs-bespoke.html

TTRPG Rules Reading as Play (Trollish Delver)
http://www.trollishdelver.com/2024/04/ttrpg-rules-reading-as-play.html

RPG History

An unlikely source for early D&D rules drafts: Court records (Chance and
Circumstance)
https://chanceand.com/2024/02/27/a-journey-through-the-july-1973-draft-and-dds-foundational-saga/

With His O’ertaking Wings (d20 Ships and Captains) (Whose Measure God
Could Not Take)
http://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2024/05/with-his-oertaking-wings-d20-ships-and.html

Worldbuilding

Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding (Sheep and Sorcery)
https://sheepandsorcery.blogspot.com/2024/05/dragons-great-victims-of-worldbuilding.html

A Campaign Where there is One of Anything (Rise Up Comus!)
http://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-campaign-where-there-is-one-of.html

Cool Stuff

Legojam: Castle Hexcrawl (Rise Up Comus!)
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2024/05/legojam-castle-hexcrawl.html

Grimoire Handout Zines (Idraluna Archives)
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/grimoire-handout-zines/

Special Plug

Few Lovecraftian inspirations from real life and beliefs (Zapieski Adeptusa)
https://adeptusrpg.wordpress.com/

And let me leave you with a song…
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gila Monster

Justisaur

2024-05-21 13:22:54 UTC

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Post by Kyonshi
ANother of my link collection posts. Enjoy.

Wow! A lot of that looks interesting. So much stuff to read, there's
no way I'm going to get to even half that.

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Spalls Hurgenson

2024-05-21 16:08:16 UTC

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Post by Kyonshi
ANother of my link collection posts. Enjoy.
Random Tables
(Weird) Fantasy world automated generator collection (Lizard Man Diaries)
http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2024/03/weird-fantasy-world-automated-generator.html
d20 Random Button and Lever Effects (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)
http://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2024/04/d20-random-button-and-lever-effects.html
Grotesque Gains (Weird & Wonderful Worlds)
https://weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com/2024/05/grotesque-gains.html
d100 Carousing (Luke Gearing)
https://lukegearing.blot.im/d100-carousing

Does anyone really use these tables in actual gameplay?

I enjoy them for the read, and sometimes peruse them for ideas while
generating an adventure... but I'd never, ever use them in actual
gameplay. But maybe that's just because I like consistency and reason
in my adventures. I don't like just dumping an event or item into the
world without first ensuring it fits with the style and setting of the
game.

Plus, too many of the results of tables like these also seem to be
purpose-made to punish players for their curiosity. "Push button, roll
1d20... hmm, the entire room explodes with 2d6 fireballs. Because it
was completely random, there was no way you could figure that out
before hand; no warning runes, no nothing. Fuck you players!" And
that's just not the sort of game I like to run.

Kyonshi

2024-05-22 13:24:02 UTC

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Post by Spalls Hurgenson

Does anyone really use these tables in actual gameplay?
I enjoy them for the read, and sometimes peruse them for ideas while
generating an adventure... but I'd never, ever use them in actual
gameplay. But maybe that's just because I like consistency and reason
in my adventures. I don't like just dumping an event or item into the
world without first ensuring it fits with the style and setting of the
game.
Plus, too many of the results of tables like these also seem to be
purpose-made to punish players for their curiosity. "Push button, roll
1d20... hmm, the entire room explodes with 2d6 fireballs. Because it
was completely random, there was no way you could figure that out
before hand; no warning runes, no nothing. Fuck you players!" And
that's just not the sort of game I like to run.

I think they are supposed to give you inspirations for your own game,
not necessarily to allow you to do some straight rolls on them. I think
most people just use them as inspirations, although it can be
interesting to occasionally have a specific event be determined solely
by tables.
In a lot of cases it's more about getting some ideas that you otherwise
would not have had because you have your own frame of reference.

The carousing tables are supposed to be adventure generators though. The
idea is that you overimbibe (fail a poison save when wasting your
ill-gained gains) and get into all sorts of drunken shenanigans that you
now have to deal with.

Justisaur

2024-05-22 23:24:19 UTC

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Post by Spalls Hurgenson

Does anyone really use these tables in actual gameplay?
I enjoy them for the read, and sometimes peruse them for ideas while
generating an adventure... but I'd never, ever use them in actual
gameplay. But maybe that's just because I like consistency and reason
in my adventures. I don't like just dumping an event or item into the
world without first ensuring it fits with the style and setting of the
game.
Plus, too many of the results of tables like these also seem to be
purpose-made to punish players for their curiosity. "Push button, roll
1d20... hmm, the entire room explodes with 2d6 fireballs. Because it
was completely random, there was no way you could figure that out
before hand; no warning runes, no nothing. Fuck you players!" And
that's just not the sort of game I like to run.

Generally used when generating adventures.

Carousing is used in place of training, IIRC from some Conan game, and I
do like that, and used it once or twice, but the one I had was a bit
punishing and made my own, then discarded it as not really fitting with
the type of game I wanted to run.

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Ubiquitous

2024-05-23 08:30:48 UTC

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Post by Spalls Hurgenson

Post by Kyonshi
Random Tables
(Weird) Fantasy world automated generator collection (Lizard Man Diaries)
http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2024/03/weird-fantasy-world-automated-generator.html
d20 Random Button and Lever Effects (Whose Measure God Could Not Take)
http://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2024/04/d20-random-button-and-lever-effects.html
Grotesque Gains (Weird & Wonderful Worlds)
https://weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com/2024/05/grotesque-gains.html
d100 Carousing (Luke Gearing)
https://lukegearing.blot.im/d100-carousing

Does anyone really use these tables in actual gameplay?

What, you never used the random hooker table?

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Let's go Brandon!

Justisaur

2024-05-23 16:25:28 UTC

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Post by Ubiquitous

Post by Spalls Hurgenson

Does anyone really use these tables in actual gameplay?

What, you never used the random hooker table?

I did use the city encounter tables, but I don't think I ever rolled on
that sub-table. With all the insane things like vampires and demon
lords wandering around at night (I did each of those once,) players
quickly learned to stay inside at night in the city/town.

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