Free Map048: River of No Return

This is a set of two free maps, one with contours and one without, of a small section of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area. I needed only a small section of the map ( a few square inches at best) for an upcoming Tweak &Toss, but decided to go nuts and make a HUGE map.

My Patrons get the full-size map(s) which are around 120MB in size and a whopping 30" x 45".

d30 Challenge Day 12

This is my 12th entry in the d30 Challenge, which is a bastardization of an idea I first saw on Mark "CMG" Clover's feed. Now I'm a sucker for these things and I know some folks aren't so while I'm committed to answering one question about my favorite hobby each day, and putting together a d30 table before the end of the month, I know not everyone is so interested. I'll put the question & answer after the break, posting late in the day, and not promoting this on G+ so those who don't like this kind of thing should be exposed only minimally.

I think this is the best I can do....

Frugal GM Review: The Hounds of Halthrag Keep

I picked up The Hounds of Halthrag Keep a couple weeks ago intending to play it on the plane ride to Origins in anticipation to what I thought would be my 1st ever Dungeon Crawl Classics game (I actually got two games in). Unfortunately while I was smart enough to bring my dice with me, I accidentally left the adventure at home.

It's probably just as well because I could totally see me tumbling my dice all over the cabin and losing some of them. Some of my dice are pretty much irreplaceable.

The Hounds of Halthrag Keep is a solo "choose-your-own-adventure" style product that tries to put a bit of a twist on the standard DCC 0-level funnel. The author, Noah M. Stevens, gives you everything you need to play and tweaks things a bit so you can have a solo 0-level funnel. There is a decent game mechanic in the game allowing you access to the information gained from previous (i.e. Dead) 0-level characters that had gone into the dungeon before.

d30 Challenge Day 11

This is my 11th entry in the d30 Challenge, which is a bastardization of an idea I first saw on Mark "CMG" Clover's feed. Now I'm a sucker for these things and I know some folks aren't so while I'm committed to answering one question about my favorite hobby each day, and putting together a d30 table before the end of the month, I know not everyone is so interested. I'll put the question & answer after the break, posting late in the day, and not promoting this on G+ so those who don't like this kind of thing should be exposed only minimally.

I think this is the best I can do....

d30 Challenge Day 10

This is my 10th entry in the d30 Challenge, which is a bastardization of an idea I first saw on Mark "CMG" Clover's feed. Now I'm a sucker for these things and I know some folks aren't so while I'm committed to answering one question about my favorite hobby each day, and putting together a d30 table before the end of the month, I know not everyone is so interested. I'll put the question & answer after the break, posting late in the day, and not promoting this on G+ so those who don't like this kind of thing should be exposed only minimally.

I think this is the best I can do....

Origins 2015 Convention Report, Part 2 (The Looting!)

I like to think that most people don't really care too much about convention reports because they's rather have just gone there instead. Not a lot of fun to hear about your friend's fun at an event you couldn't go to.

If you fall into that category, then don't read the part 1, which I won't link to because that would be rude.

What I do think most people like, largely because I get this question from everyone (even on-gamers) is: "What did you get?" which usually just outpaces "What did you get me?" Obviously I need to stop bringing back home loot for friends & family.

Origins 2015 Convention Report, Part 1

This year's trip to Columbus for the 2015 Origins Game Fair was fun & quite a bit tiring. I've lost count how many times the Mrs. & I have gone, but this is probably the 4th time we've gone with my gaming group and probably the 2nd time we've split a hotel room.

Normally I'm not that big of a sharer, but since I'm the only guy in my group and we're all good friends, there really isn't a downside in sharing a room. We've done this trip enough we have it down almost to a science.

We fly in on Tuesday on the earliest flight possible and back out on the following Monday. We stay at a nearby Marriott property and get a good room. Meals are usually at the North Market, but we have three specific restaurant stops during the trip and we space them out to flow around the convention surges to our advantage.

d30 Challenge Day 9

This is my 9th entry in the d30 Challenge, which is a bastardization of an idea I first saw on Mark "CMG" Clover's feed. Now I'm a sucker for these things and I know some folks aren't so while I'm committed to answering one question about my favorite hobby each day, and putting together a d30 table before the end of the month, I know not everyone is so interested. I'll put the question & answer after the break, posting late in the day, and not promoting this on G+ so those who don't like this kind of thing should be exposed only minimally.

I think this is the best I can do....