OK folks...this is it...
My only "real" promoted post on this subject since I announced I'd be taking part in the d30 Challenge as proposed by Mark over at
Creative Mountain Games....and subsequently tweaked by me,
As far as I know only three people took up the gauntlet....I could be wrong:
+Mark CMG Clover
+Matthew Schmeer
+Me (duh)
The esteemed
+Dyson Logos lightly complained that he didn't care for this themed post a day bit, and while he seems to be a pretty stand-up guy, his opinion probably means jack squat. I thought he did have a good point though, so while I participated in this d30 challenge I did not actively promote it. For me this was an exercise in making more frequent and smaller posts while not necessarily getting to choose the content.
I took this as an opportunity to stretch a small bit and get out of my comfort zone, something I think we all need to do more often I might add. Good content, bad content....doesn't matter as much as the effort.
Below is the question that was asked each day, a TL;DR summation of my answer, and a link to the post if you want to read it for yourself:
June 1st, "How you got started":
Cool Uncle Set Example
June 2nd, "Favorite PC Race":
Elves?
June 3rd, "Favorite PC Class":
Mages, no Fighters
June 4th, "Favorite Game World":
Aldrazar
June 5th, "Favorite Die or Dice":
d30
June 6th, "Favorite Deity":
None, but not apatheistic or anything
June 7th, "Favorite Edition":
HackMaster 5th/Current Edition
June 8th, "Favorite PC of Your Own":
Yathen Brightblade
June 9th, "Favorite PC You'd Like to Play":
Waydol Glendarn
June 10th, "Craziest In-Game Experience":
My PC bought the farm
June 11th, "Favorite Adventure You Ran":
Little Outhouse on the Prairie
June 12th, "Favorite Dungeon Type/Location":
Underground Cavern Crawls
June 13th, "Favorite Trap/Puzzle":
Multi-use debilitating trap with well-defined triggers
June 14th, "Favorite NPC":
Couldn't narrow this one down
June 15th, "Favorite Undead":
Zombie
June 16th, "Favorite Ooze/Aberrant Creature":
Customized one-off aberrant variants
June 17th, "Favorite Animal/Insect/Arachnid":
Dogs
June 18th, "Favorite Planar Being/Creature":
Nefarians
June 19th, "Favorite Elemental/Plant/Construct":
Shrieker
June 20th, "Favorite Humanoid/Giant/Fey":
Orc
June 21st, "Favorite Dragon (Color/Type/etc.)":
Young Dragons
June 22nd, "Favorite Monster Overall":
Man
June 23rd, "Least Favorite Monster Overall":
Joke Monsters
June 24th, "Favorite Spell":
Preemptive Strike
June 25th, "Favorite Magic Item":
Libram of Storage
June 26th, "Favorite Mundane Item":
Toggle Rope
June 27th, "Favorite Curse of Cursed Item":
Random Cursed Sword
June 28th, "PCs you have sworn off playing":
Any D&D 3.5
June 29th, "Most frequently rolled # on a d20":
All of them
June 30th, "Best Playing/DMing experience":
My next one
As part of my tweak to the challenge I put together a d30 NPC generator, which is a free download over at
DriveThruRPG.
I'm not a huge fan of the way things are statted out and again one article felt like it was written for my inner 13 year-old, but yet again overall it was a great issue. Several new creatures are presented that with a little work, probably no more than you'd have to do sourcing monsters from anywhere else, would fit right in to a fantasy RPG.
