Earlier today I was checking one of the RPG advertisement message boards and I saw an interesting post about Raging Swan Press’s latest release: Random Hill Encounters Based on the sample encounter (linked from the page linked above) the product …

Remember the Book of Lairs? Want Some Hexcrawl Encounters? Raging Swan Press Can Help Read more »

I have a few projects in mind that require monster art.  One of them is my current “Monster Stand-Ins” Kickstarter project. But then I thought there are probably a bunch of other small publishers, blog writers, electronic game publishers, etc., …

Creating a Qualtiy Color Art Library of Every 3.5 SRD Monster Read more »

In case you’re not on the mailing list, you may have missed this.  (The mailing list is barely monthly, so if you’re interested look to the right to sign up.) A little over a month ago when I was able …

All DungeonMorph Dice Sets Now Available… Read more »

Pretty interesting museum exhibit mentioned via USA Today: A centaur and a cyclops, a griffin and a unicorn — and their bones — not the usual stuff of science exhibits. Entitled “Mythological Wildlife,” the exhibit aims to make folks think …

Mythological Wildlife Museum Exhibit (in Tucson) Read more »

The new-news is that I’m able to include 12 plastic card stands with each set of Monster Stand-Ins.  If you’re unfamiliar with the project, or you missed the last update (a la carte pricing; increase from 160 to 200 minis) …

More On Monster Stand-Ins (Plastic-Card Minis) Read more »

My Kickstarter project’s pledging period isn’t complete yet, but it was able to reach its funding goal within two weeks. (I’ll try not to directly pimp it here.)  I know before I started the project I was very interested in …

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[I have not published RPG books or PDFs, but I do sell a couple of other RPG related products.  That said, this is mostly speculation based on what information I’ve gleaned.  Note that the main example is based on a …

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I knew this list of 1000 NPC traits (by Chad Samuels through Johnn Four’s Roleplaying Tips) was just what I needed to easily improve the staff and patron portion of my Random Inn Generator (which also does floorplans, rumors and …

Random Inn Generator Updated with more “Personality” Read more »

I was searching for a chart that lists random effects if one drinks from a magic fountain or pool of water.  (I just think the idea is cool.)  I only found references to NetHack’s fountains, an article in Dragon #34 …

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I made an update to the Free, Web-based Random City Generator today.  Here’s a summary of what changed: The number of layers of images was cut by more than a third.  I felt like it was loading slowly (and it …

How Stuff Works: Web-based Random City Generator Read more »