SoloDark: Four Drunk Priests

Dabbling into some solo play using SoloDark. Rolled up the party last night. 3d6 down the line and pick the best class for the results. It was tragic.

https://youtu.be/wYybWh72To8

My Next Project on Patreon

Hey Everyone,

First off I'd like to shout out a few new members that has joined our ranks. The latest one is Peepeetugboat. I believe I know Peepeetugboat from somewhere. It's hard to forget a name like that. Mike Halleron aka the Erudite DM is in the house. Mike is a notorious Franophile and a friend I've gamed with last year. And Jon Smith has decided to get some cool things in the mail. I appreciate you and everyone else who's joined my Patreon. I'm nearly at 550.

On to the things that are happening. First, The Demon of Porters Crown has been printed. I just need to sit my ass down and prepare the labels and shove them in the mail. I plan on getting them out on Monday.

The picture above is what I'm working on for the next project. When I did my poll a few months back creating urban locations was the highest vote getter. Fogest & Beluer Alleys is the first of the series. I am including what the cover will look like.

One of the reasons I started this Patreon, in 2011 (I think), was to do these short projects so I could play with different layouts, graphic design, and just ways to present information in different ways. This one is a little different from my typical offering as it is a top fold. I have to perform some acrobatics with revising it for printing compared to a typical zine design. It allows the GM to see a full page when opened.

It's one of y more involved projects for Patreon, probably my largest. I am adding a lot of elements into the project.

· A map of solid blocks to represent each of the individual buildings. Labels on the detailed entries. Not all buildings are labeled. The way I uses the unlabeled buildings is as homes, tenements or yet to be determined. Sometimes your party needs a cartographer nearby and you can take a blank building and create a cartographer shop instantly.

· Each block has its own unique random encounter table. Each neighborhood has its own unique feels but I also have things overlap with other parts of the city so its not isolated.

· Each entry has a short description of the building itself.

· Then owner and who ever is involved and the services provided.

· Price lists.

· Averaging 4 to 5 Adventure Seeds if the GM would like to get the party involved into something more than buying charcoal.

· Other NPCs that can often be found frequenting the business.

· What associations the location has with the neighborhood. It provides a quick look at how the neighborhood reacts to the business.

· And then there are sections where I describe/stat an important NPC or item I mention.

· Art from kickass artists like Rick Hershey, Dean Spencer, The Forge and others. I've linked to their Patreons. I highly suggest you take a look and consider joining. 

As you can you can see by the list I've tried to jam this full of cool content that is easy to access and use at the table.

I'm hoping to complete it this weekend. Fingers crossed.

Worldbuilding Thru Play

So here's my plan. I am running two duet games (1-on-1 games), soon to be three. This in addition to playing in another. I took a break for a few months. I needed it. Now I've dove head first into a pool of dice. Why would I run three duet games? To worldbuild. To expand my campaign world through game play.

Also, to build content for my channel. I am lax on the content making. I like exploring creative aspects and tonight I'm struggling how to do Shorts. You'd think I'd be a natural since they are named after me. It's true. I was given suggestions on which program to help me with such a task.

Paul is a great person to assist with this. Joe knows how to push me into things I hadn't developed yet and Ken has played in my world as long as anyone so he knows the clock is always ticking.

I hope you'll give it a watch. I'm attempting to keep these videos as brief as possible.

Thanks!

Map Attack #2 & Secret Doors

 

Here is the second level of the dungeon map. This time I just drew it with pencil while watch The Blacklist. Then went back over everything with Microns. The walls 05, the stairs and doors 01 and the stippling and debris 005. 

Secret Doors

In the western half of the dungeon are a series of secret doors that are poorly hidden. Done on purpose. I avoid writing in the traditional S through a door to show a secret door. I try to draw the wall as 'samey' with a hint of a possible door there. Or what I've done in the past is leave a small gap between the wall and the room/corridor behind it. I do this because most of the people I know play on-line and use the maps on VTT. Having a big S in the wall is too big of a hint. Not much secretness there. And then they have to figure out how to open the secret door.

That said the GM needs to have some good skill with the masking in the VTT to hide the corridor walls beyond the wall. That's why I like drawing a gap between the door and wall. It allows the GM to unveil a section of the map without looking suspicious. I know I look for that when I'm a player. 

Map #3 I'm hoping to have out by next weekend. I'm thinking for level three there will be a split. Two completely different sections. One section of level three is access by this level and the other part can be accessed by coming up from level 4. 

Map Attack, First of 2026

My first map attack of 2026. I primarily focus on smaller maps for shorter adventures. This one is a multi-level one. The second level is in the works. I used a random table to determine the dungeon corridors and rooms and I have a die or two that also randomizes the dungeon creation. 

I don't have an idea for this map yet. I tend to draw maps in batches. I'll put on a movie/TV show and draw. Zen out. I do this when my brain is fogged and tired. I can at least draw some lines. 

For this map I used a random double stone pattern for dungeon walls. I did not shadow the stones like I do with the single stone technique. I thought the shadowing cluttered the look of the map. And then for the stippling I did a fire-like pattern flaring from the stones. I like the effect. 

Instruments used were 0.5 Uni Kurutoga mechanical pencil to do the initial drawing. Then Microns, 05 for the stones a water border, 01 for the details within the map such as doors, stairs and pillars, and lastly the 005 for the stippling and water current. 

Back to level two. I'll share it here when I'm done.

More Reading in 2026

I need to feed my brain more. I used to eat up books like Cookie Monster ate...cookies. I've gotten out of the habit. My reading time has been replaced with social media crap, texts about how the world ought to be, opinions (oh god, the never ending opinions), dog videos (damn it I like them), artists doing their thing (to me they are like magicians, they scribble on the paper or canvas, I have no idea what its supposed to be and then out of the chaos a cool picture of Jimmie Hendrix appears) and idiots hurting themselves (yeah, I like those videos also). Death scroll is the term I've heard over the past couple of months. Accompanied by brain rot. Yep. Yep. Those terms are accurate.

To help myself, is to put more effort into reading books. Not just gaming books. Get back into the novels both classics and contemporary. Indulge into non-fiction books. I've got lots of them waiting for my attention. I used to love reading music biographies and I can't tell you the last time I did that. 

I decided for 2026 I will put the effort into reading. I don't make resolutions. I remember when people would ask "What's your New Years resolution?" I'd answer with my snide answer, "When I had hair my resolution was to never making another resolution and I've been keeping it ever since." One of my favorite tactics, giving an answer without answering. I missed my calling in politics I guess. Bree-Yark!

More books. More books. More books. I have to retrain my brain to focus for long periods of time because that is gone. It's there. Somewhere. I just need to retrain it. Sit. Be quiet. Focus. Read. Do it after dinner. Do it in between things. Do it while waiting. I am so used to be on other people's time I've forgotten how to read a few pages while waiting for a doctor. Sitting in the parking lot. At night, before bed. That last one is dangerous, I've thumped myself a few times. 

Reader Tip: If you read before bed, make it a paperback. You're welcome.

Part of the reading thing is to keep track of it. This blog will reflect on what I'm reading. I have no idea what shape that will come in. I want it to be more than a tally board of how many I read. I don't expect it'll be many because it'll take me longer to get through books these days. But want to look back a year from now and check my progress. And then set an improvement goal. 

To all those reading this thank you. I hope you next year is full of good stuff. While I know it won't be without its shitty points, but I hope you are armed with the ability to get through it or have someone to help you through it. 

Good New Year to you. To improving yourself. Making yourself better for those close around you. To improve those skills so when someone needs your help you are able to do it with grace and dignity. 

Unbalance the Scales, a free ShadowDark Adventure

It's Christmas. I'm in my office. Snowing outside. Coffee in hand. Netflix in my ears. Drawing a map. I wanted to share an adventure I shared with my Patreon a few days ago. I used a different layout. Very much inspired by the one page dungeon contest. It's full of great artwork! It's an adventure using ShadowDark. Grab the PDF for free. As all of my adventures are available for free on PDF. Grab a small stocking stuff adventure gift for yourself.

Enjoy!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ma-115-unbalance-146333607

Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands: Looking at the Wilderness Encounters

This is the 3 video in this series. The first was the unboxing and the physical things inside. Then I moved onto the keep quests. And in this one I go through every encounter featured in the Wilderness Book. I provide options to, what I think, improve what is offered and the missteps WotC made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNvbAadyevs

Using the Silver Standard

 

I use a silver standard in my game. I prefer to make gold valuable. Making gold the currency of nobles, merchants, and temples. 

Most game systems use the gold system and I found that it was less satisfying to get gold. I wanted it to mean something when a gold coin or item is found. Let's look at AD&D that system I started with; Copper. Silver. Electrum. Gold. Platinum. All their values were based off gold. 

200cp = 1gp. 20sp = 1gp. 2ep = 1gp. 1pp = 5gp. 

Why didn't I like the gold standard? Part of it was prices and most treasure was give in gold. It makes it common. Expected. It holds the 2nd highest value out of the coins. It doesn't take long before the party starts kicking the copper to the side, and soon after, the silver. Don't get me started on electrum. And yes, I know electrum was the actual standard coin back in the day. 

Anyway, I don't like the commonality of gold. I use a different type of money system. This system is heavily borrowed from Rob Conley, Mr. Bat in the Attic. He and I have campaigns that borrow heavily from one another. This is my silver standard. HSP are hard silver pieces in my game. STB are silver trading bars. GC are gold crowns. 

100cp = 1sp.
1sp = 1sp.
1 hsp = 20sp.
1gp = 100sp.
1stb = 200sp.
1 gc = 500sp.

I use the four basic coins like modern day currency. Copper pieces are pennies. Silver are dollars bills. Hard silver pieces is a 20 dollar bill. And a gold piece is a Franklin. I wasn't looking for historical accuracy, but I wanted the currency to reflect the scarcity and value gold holds in my world. 

I want the players to become excited when they see the glint of gold. 

I am developing another kingdom where other metals are valued. Another version of coins. Some similar values but some distinct differences. Other cultures value different things and one way to reflect that is in the currency. 

But that's it for now. Game on folks. I hope you roll better than me. 

Unboxing the 2025 D&D Starter Set

I grabbed the 2025 Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set at Barnes & Nobles on Friday. An 'undented' copy. 

Because it is a Starter Set  and meant to assist help new players and DMs get into the game I looked at it as if I were 10 years-old and also as myself as of today. There are differences in opinion. 

GM Companion for Shadowdark

Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top ten. And if you look at his titles as a whole, 3 are Platinum, 3 are Gold, and 3 Electrum. Electrum? Don't get me started. That's one of those coins that is a little bit of this. Little bit of that. Not enough of either. With numbers like that Greg has sold thirteen buttloads of PDFs and books. Yes, buttload is a measurement (126 gallons). I think it's in the Bible. 

With that many sales and the number of books he written for Shadowdark Greg has earned his cred for being an authority on enhancing a Shadowdark. I speak from experience, I own nearly everything he's written (except his adventures he writes in French words). And if there is a podcast, YouTube channel, or Agway luncheon he's there. The man has turned into a PR machine. 

I kid. Not really. But I can't be too complimentary of Greg. I have to give him some shit. Because I'm going to talk about his book and it's very good. 

The GM Companion for Shadowdark is easily one of his best offerings if not the best. And one of the best 3rd party books for Shadowdark. I like to write adventures. A lot of them. When I write an adventure these days his books is close at hand if not smooshed down in front of me so I can refer to it. I want to break it down. All the fucking stuff its full of.

Point of Interest

The first section is Points of Interest. These are a collection of random d20 tables divided up into terrain types. Your party is traveling through an artic hex you can create an instant interesting 'thing'. Here my favorite party about these table. There are two columns. You roll two d20s and mix the two result together. These are my favorite types of tables because of expediential possibilities. He has 9 different terrains. Below is a sample of Artic table.

Hazards

The second section mimics the first but for hazards for each of the 9 terrain types. This time the tables use 2 d6. The first die determines the hazard and the second die determines what the hazard does to the party. The three categories are movement, damage and weakening. And of course combining effects is encouraged. Anything to make the players suffers gets the thumbs up from me. Another example of the tables found within. 

Settlements

This next section is particularly useful if a GM is struggling with a settlement along the way. The tables found here to generate a village, city or some redneck crossroads where everyone shares the same last name make it easy to give some depth. A few foothold to flesh it out before your party goes bat shit on the locals. The tables are detailed by districts. Each district type has its own d12 tables. At the end there are d20 tables providing possibility of businesses that could populate your town. Although Greg is being judgey in the one table where one of the entries is a predatory money lender. No other adjustives are in any of the other entries. I think Greg feels some kind of way about banks. 

I would have added a table here, but if you need to see 20 businesses listed then you'll need more than this book to be creative. 

Taverns

This is the obligatory tavern generator tables. It's needed. While there are several million billions of tavern tables if your going to write a book about generating colorful and handy taverns cause you know you're going to put a tavern where ever you can. Cause they are fun to have. If there is a tavern with the door hanging off its hinges, smells like an ogre's ass and the back part is one fire, the party is going in. 

The first table is to generate a name. Two columns. Roll separate. Smoosh together. You got a tavern. I rolled the Sullen Tooth. The third part of that table is what the tavern is known for. I rolled there is a magical fog that lingers around or in the Sullen Tooth.

The next d20 table is for the food and divided into poor, standard and wealthy. I'm going to say the Sullen Tooth is a standard tavern. Lets rolls on the grub table, Spiced Hoarfish. Sounds gross but that gives me an idea of where the tavern gets its supply of Hoarfish. 

Then on the drinky table. It has one column be still divided into poor, standard or wealthy to determine the number of drinks the tavern serves. And to determine what die type to roll. The lower numbered drinks are grog and gag drinks to the upper end they are the drinks one must stick out a pinky and take a whiff of it before drinking. Standard tavern serves three of these drinks and I roll a 2d8. Spiced cider, Bacon Broth Beer and Pudding Beer. Each drink has an affect noted with it.

Tavern Feast by Manolis Karavidas

Acts of Devotion 

While the rest of the party is getting trashed and causing problems, what is a devote holy man supposed to do? Watch their friends get cranked on a dwarven drink called Smegma from the Forge? Watch their thief in the party get into a fight with a bush while taking a leak and lose? Or watch the human ranger ask the serving wenches to play smell my finger? After discarding the option of smothering them with a pillow while they sleep, Greg has a couple of table that could prove to be constructive for the overworked, under appreciated man of holy. 

The first table is determined by the amount the priest is willing to devote to the act. The amount you give is accompanied by flavor texts of what happens followed by a bonus. Now the person of holiness is supposed to do this for altruistic reasons but we all know that's complete bullshit. Their true god is XP! 

The second table is to determine how please your god is. You roll a d8 and add your bonus on the table that goes to 14. Read the flavor text and gather all that sweet loving XP. In addition the priest can gain fanatics, allies, luck tokens or a frickin marriage partner. I can see players using their luck token to reroll on this table.

Then Greg adds tables like these for the other three classes. It adds a cool element to to off time. I think off time, between adventures are difficult for GMs to handle. Especially with games that don't have rules set into place for it. But with these tables you can divide up the time and have the players still be productive.

World Below or How I Built a Dungeon and Learned to Love the Ettercap 

Okay. This is where I rub my hands together and say, this section is worth the price of admission. This section takes the adventure from the original Shadowdark rule books and turns it up to 11. This section is divided into 5 sections: Dungeons, dungeon hazards, dungeon traps, NPCs and rival crawlers. 

Dungeons

I'm not dicking around with this section. I'm going right to the page I use the most. I have it marked so I can find it easily. It's the room type table. The original table is Shadowdark has a d10 table with 9 entries. Greg's table is a d20 with 14 entries. What are the additional entries? Each of these entries has additional tables to refine the result. 

• Change Over Time: Change the room every time the party leaves/returns. Love this addition. It allows the area to change and keeps the party alert. Tracking back to the entrance may not be as simple as retracing their steps.
• Magical Power: Magical effect that can harm/help the party. The PCs walk in an are revolted by the smell of charred flesh. A corpse in the room is blackened and smoldering. But I swear I saw it move.
• Combat Aftermath: Corpses of 1d4 monsters of average PC level. This is one of those entries I enjoy putting into my adventures. The hint of some extreme action occurred giving the place an active dynamic and depth. 
• Dead Zone: Hinders or completely negates a certain activity. I've used this in the past. When my PC priests find themselves in abyss and they are summoning their godliness I have them roll with disadvantage because of the roaming charges. 
• Unique Item: An object with properties not immediately visible. Objects with hidden properties is something I enjoy. It gives the eggheads in the party something to explore, research or if you have a player like Joe he slams it on and watches his hand rot. 

These additions and the tables that accompany the entries make dungeon/adventure creation a lot of fun. It provides juxtapositions you may have not thought of. Like in other of his table I roll twice for some rules and combine the results to come up with some great idea seeds.

I'm going to wrap this up but there are sections for Hazards and Traps. NPCs and rival crawlers with expanded tables. There is a lot of additions from Greg's Players Companion to Shadowdark. If you don't have that one get that one. 

Then to end the book Greg has a fantastic collection of monster and treasure tables. The monster tables are broken down in levels, 0 thru 9. I addition he's statted an assortment of monsters that are in the traditional games. He statted a rot grub. Just for that I approve. 

Then the treasure tables are broken into Dungeon Dressing, things of little monetary value but the party may find useful. Then the loot tables are broken into levels of 0-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10+. Is that all. Nope. He put a lot of effort into this section. Then collection of boons. Tables to create random potions. Tables to create random suits of armors. My only critique of this section is Greg added tradition, other suits of armor in his PC Companion, but did not include them here. Time to break out my Sharpie and modify. Then you find tables for magic items and magical weapons. At the end he includes a health chunk of original magic items.

As you can read this fucking book is packed. I am not going to call the GM Companion for Shadowdark a 3rd party supplement. It is THE 3rd party supplement. There is no hyperbole in my statement when I say when I write an adventure this book is open next to me. 

A lot of Shadowdark people have already bought it, but my pitch is to those who don't play Shadowdark. Maybe you play one of the thousand of RPGs available these days. This book only benefits you no matter the system. It is written in simple and straight terms. Easy to manipulate into your game.

Alright. I'm done giving Greg props. His head won't fit in his car. But I guess there is one more thing. He's got a Kickstarter running right now, ShadowCity: Blood and Neon. So far all the early opinions are glowing positive. 

What to do on a Gaming Break

It's summer again. Well it's supposed to be but with temperatures lingering around 40 it doesn't feel like it. Most summers I take time off. A couple months. To hang out with the wife full-time, if she doesn't get sick of me, to recharge the batteries. It's a standard procedure for most gamers. 

But when do you go back? Everything is relative. Sometimes after a week I start twitching. Compulsively reaching for my d20. Reading about the newest and greatest setting/adventure/supplement of all-time. Watch YouTube videos of 5e gaming because I watched all the old school gaming videos already. Not gaming can make you do fucked up things. Like posting a picture of a weird looking ginger dry humping a giant d20. I have no idea what this meme means. 

So what to do with that time off? Read. Read a lot. Read non-gaming things. Without hesitation I will say I get more gaming ideas from non-gaming material. 

Sub-Cutures

I enjoy books that focus on a sub-cultures (i.e. Melungeons, Sukeban, and Gopniks) with substance. Don't get me started on the Bagel Heads. You can grab a beautifully odd culture that is very specific and develop it into a wonderful setting. Maybe the idea is big enough to flesh out into a kingdom or just place these quirky individuals within an already established setting. 

Cults

Slip in any cult. Any. This material is rich with a skewed view of reality. Skewed POVs need to be solid, at least a little believable. Enough to make sense why people would belong. I see this as the biggest struggle when I read about gaming cults. They are kinda like DC and Marvel big bad villains. I'm doing bad things because I'm a bad. Or I want to rule the world! Or I want to destroy the world! But the reasoning behind their horrible attitude is missing. Superhero movies aren't bothered by this most of the time. Unlike these movies, we need to have something of substance in game. The players are interacting and moving within the world they affect. If a cult's reasoning doesn't have some semblance of reason, it doesn't have to make sense to the party, but it needs to saturate the cult you are selling as the next group of baddies. Or a pleasant group of well-adjusted people who happen to worship dog poop.

History

No brainer. Read history. Lots of it. All of it. Go ahead I'll wait. But I do steer away from this category especially the broad sweeping books. While they cover a lot of time, events and wide perspective, I don't get as much from these types of books. What I use them for is to find funnel material. What's funnel material? Oil, milk, flour, a little powder sugar... Let's say I'm reading the Roman Empire. Yup, the whole fucking thing. 27 BC through the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. Or thereabouts. Yes I looked it up. As I'm reading how wonderful and horrible these Romans were I read something about the Saminites. They sound interesting. I funnel down. I start read articles, maybe a book. They have interesting blended way of worship. Funnel down. They worship spirits called Numina and sacrificing animals to Vulcan, Diana, Mars and Mefitis. While the overviews are good I prefer digging down. Getting into the dirt. That's where I find my gold.

General Fiction

Read fiction. Fiction that you wouldn't normal read. It may surprise you how much you learn from these books when you go outside the fantasy/sci-fi genre. Part of this is I have such a hard time reading genre fiction because the ground is so tread upon. The fucking snake is dead. So I lean into quirky fiction. I find it an amazing source for NPCs. The beautiful depth you can capture to bring into your game. Unless someone buries and axe into his chest. First rule of NPCs: Don't Name them after an ex-girlfriend. Second rule of NPCs: Don't get attached. 

Weird Shit

Probably my favorite category. And probably the most adjacent category to gaming. Stuff like paranormal boogie ladies, cryptids, folklore, folk stories, and of course books about the strange fuckers who hunt them. Love these books. Don't be surprised if you find gaming material in the introductions. One of the lacking aspects of most campaigns is the sense of wonder. Because everything that is consider supernatural, extra terrestrial, ultra terrestrial, or myth is real. No need to wonder. Ned in the corner had his left arm torn off by Bigfoot. You don't have to wonder if it exists because it does. But if you can capture some sense of the wonder they provide in a game then that is a big fucking win. Reading these kinda of books help with developing the story behind the creatures and things. 

Next section. Lets talk about movies and videos.

YouTube

I have a confession. I hardly ever watched YouTube. I heard about all the shitty stuff they do to their creators. Hated watch those fucking ads. Promote the most asinine idiots of the week. And thumbnail after thumbnail were filled with faces I wanted to punch. In my text group they would send me a dozen videos during the day about dumb shit. Apparently when they are at "work" they watch YouTube.

Then I got a subscription. 

Pretty much. I vetted my channel. Subscribe to the faces I didn't want to punch. Had to learn a nanoscopic level of tolerance. It was hard. But now I find YouTube is a good source of other voices on topics I've heard a hundred times. I've been playing since 79 so what's that? 46 years. During that time I ate RPGs like they were Reece's Big Cups. Do I really need to watch a video about Hex Crawls? Random Encounters? Mapping? Or watch some dumbass tell me how little he knows about the horribleness of TSR adventure modules? No. But I like to hear how others do it. Granted you have to sift through a lot of manure to get to the good stuff but it's there. Lots of it. Recently I've indulged in a lot of YouTube. And I have my own channel because I wanted to be the face you wanted to punch.

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Movies

I  feel like this category doesn't pay off like it used to. Personally my movie watching has slacked off. I used to be a weekly movie-goer. Even if there wasn't a movie I wanted to see I'd pick one I'd never heard of and give it go. Back then I got a lot more out of movies. While I enjoy a good movie I can't tell you when the last time I left a movie inspired to create something. The last one I remember was the Matrix. 

Limited Series

I love how they call them limited series. I guess so we all won't get confused with the Unlimited Series. But this is where the new gold lies these days. There is a lot of great content we gamers can delve deep into. How many wanted to run a Yellowstone type of campaign after it ran for a couple seasons? How many people wanted to run a Rings of Power campaign...wait, bad example. You know what I mean. These series have cool elements. While many of the series are two-dimensional they may have juicy tidbits to pluck off the cardboard tree. 

Board Games

If you are playing a board game during your gaming break you are lying to yourself. You are gaming. Maybe it's not a thirteenth month campaign where you journey to the great white north to uncover a monster that will kill the world (see DC and Marvel movies above) but its gaming. Shush. You're lying to yourself. It's okay. Recognize. Accept. Change.

Conclusion

As you can read there is no such thing as a break from gaming. You walk into a local Taco Bell and see the toilets are clogged. You immediately want to blame it on the Quesada Otyuth that is obvious living in the large sewer tunnels beneath. You hear a clip of a conversation, "And I woke up with a rubber chicken with lipstick on it." How do I work that into a starter quest? Everything is fodder for your game.

There is no break. Once a gamer always a gamer. 

Adventure Writing Session Turns Into a Hex Crawl

Last Thursday I got on to do another Adventure Writing Session and Paul Turner joined me. We decided to use his zine, Critical Hit to roll up a hex flower. We had a lot of fun. A lot of participation from viewers. This is part one of a short series.

Best OSR Cartographers

A video about some my favorite cartographers in the game. This is not an exhaustive list, but the ones I go to the most and ones that have influenced my style of maps. 

If there is someone who needs to be on this list please add their name in the comments. 

Enjoy!