• RPG Theory – To TPK or Not to TPK

    RPG Theory – To TPK or Not to TPK

    There are many ways for a party of PCs to get wiped out. As the Game Master, you potentially have an unlimited budget of powers and creatures to bear down on even the most epic characters. But then, we don’t.* Why? Game Balance has been around for a couple of decades and even was baked… Read more

  • From My Table – Working Together in Call of Cthulhu

    From My Table – Working Together in Call of Cthulhu

    Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium is one of the classic skill driven RPG systems out there, using a percentile system that can be found in the family of games that includes Stormbringer, Ringworld, Runequest, and others spawned from the same core Basic RPG (link to Basic RPG). The most recent 7th Edition of the game… Read more

  • Games That Moved Me – Call of Cthulhu (TTRPG)

    Games That Moved Me – Call of Cthulhu (TTRPG)

    Something Squid-like This Way Comes … As a teenager, I wasn’t reading many of the same books as my peers. For example, while many of them were reading Stephen King (The Shining, Cujo) or Flowers in the Attic (horror of a different kind), I was mostly a science fiction and fantasy fan (Alan Dean Foster’s… Read more

  • Reskinning Magic Items – SCAMPER

    Reskinning Magic Items – SCAMPER

    To ‘reskin’ a creature or an item is to give it a new appearance in such a way that it changes how it interacts with players more in a stylistic way rather than in a mechanical one. One of the great creative joys of running a game of Dungeons & Dragons is magic items. I… Read more

  • From My Table – Fighting Styles Revisited

    From My Table – Fighting Styles Revisited

    The Fighter, Ranger, and Paladin classes have fighting styles available early on, but they do not scale up with levels. At our table we modified a few of these from the Player’s Handbook to make them closer linked to that increase of proficiency but still avoid breaching the ‘bounded accuracy’ of 5E. If the bonus… Read more

  • From My Table – Homebrew Feats for D&D

    From My Table – Homebrew Feats for D&D

    I have long been a fan of Feats and in Dungeons & Dragons 5E they help create more interesting characters. It is no surprise that we have a house rule that PCs start with a Feat and many encountered creatures have a Feat as well. These were originally written years ago with inspiration taken from… Read more

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