Hexplore24 Cerulea week one

Met Orblu-gao, a young naive politician seedling with a large hat. They are trying to know about Iya, a boy elf wanderer with small eyes. The boy is a refugee from the SE hills who knows of a dungeon. Travelled to SE Hills, wilderness except for stubborn young cloaked ranger with muscles grumbling about the

Hexplore24

I learned about Hexplore24 on 12/31, so I had to decide quickly what to do. Dungeon23 was difficult for me to keep up with last year, one part toddler at home and one part overthinking it. I definitely wanted to do something this year! I briefly considered Black Sword Hack or Mythic Bastionland, but I

Fianna

For as long as I’ve been familiar with the word “Fianna” I’ve taken it to mean “Fionn Mac Cumhaill’s band of mercenaries” (it’s pronounced Finn McCool, like the smoothest Irish poet-warrior you’ve ever met). I’m aware it comes from the Fenian Cycle, a collection of stories about Fionn and his fellow Fianna members, ranging from

Celtic Middle Ages

This image by the incredible Goran Gligović has stuck in my head since I saw it, along with the caption: “Imagining a much more Celtic Middle Ages”. My big pretentious idea that I’ve been working on is a medieval fantasy setting based on an alternate history where the Celts remained dominant in Europe instead of

#dungeon23

Write 1 dungeon room a day, get 12 levels and a 365-room megadungeon by the end of 2023. I’m going to give it a shot. It will be a good writing exercise, I can change up the theme every week for regions within a level, and I can flesh out my Hellmouth system and setting.

Hellmouth design choices

Thinking out loud about where this all came from and why I’m doing certain things. Several years ago a local brewery did a special release craft beer called Underdark, and had a big release party. I wanted to go and play some D&D at the event, and I made some character sheets with the goal

Hellmouth brainstorm

Rough, un-playtested notes for a rules-lite rpg. Even the name is probably a placeholder. Inspired by Electric Bastionland, Traverse Fantasy, Between Two Fires, and building off of my Underdark 1-pg game. Medieval Horror-fantasy The Lord of Heaven is sleeping, and the devils of Hell are testing their limits. Plagues and war spread across the land,

Super Mario Dungeon

Trying to focus more on this blog as a journal for my random rpg ideas, especially since I’m probably abandoning Twitter where I used to post stuff like this. Exactly like this, actually. This is a thread I did about how to put some Super Mario Brothers elements into a D&D game, originally posted on

Albion setting, first steps

When I run D&D or other fantasy games, I do about 50/50 homebrew and published settings. And when I run homebrew, more often than not its some variation of Celtic or dark ages Britain. (When I do published its Ravenloft or Eberron usually). I’ve done some setting guides for specific campaigns with a Celtic/British feel,

Race in the Nessian Wood

I’ve been running a 5th Edition D&D game in Theros, using a lot of inspiration from the indie rpg Agon for adventures. Sessions have mostly focused on small locations where the machinations of two or more gods have created strife that the heroes have to set right. I gave the players a few options for