North Texas RPG Days 3 & 4

My intention was to post small daily con reports the day after but that kind of infringed on actually doing stuff at the con.

Saturday had me manning the booth all day, with little to no visitors, and one evening game. Having a table in the side room was a mixed blessing. I didn't really expect to have a lot of sales anyway, so getting to chill and listen to some stories from the early days of TSR was quite the way to spend the day.

Taking a Second Look at a Free GM Resource: Donjon RPG Tools

I'm trying something new here when it comes to the Free GM Resources in that periodically, no more than a handful of times a year, I'm going to take a second look at a previously featured Free GM Resource.

A lot of times these freebies are one shots that eventually "disappear" from the interwebs, or they get updated. A couple weeks ago I was contacted by the creator of a featured resource (not this one, btw) and I was informed that they'd be making a massive update "soon".

Donjon RPG Tools were a huge collection of online random table generators that was originally featured on Christmas Eve of 2012. Since that was 3 1/2 years ago I'm thinking that post has been buried deep on the Table of Contents page. While there were a lot of tables back then, there are quite a few new ones available now and if, like me, you haven't been to the Donjon RPG Tools page in a while, well you are missing out.

North Texas RPG Con Report: Day 2

For the overwhelming majority of the conventions I've gone to, it was generally to "work", so getting in any gaming was a bit on the rare side. So far I've managed two games....two!

Frugal GM Review: Metal Dice from Easy Roller Dice Co.

This is the third and final review of dice & dice accessories I received from Easy Roller Dice Co. I had to save the coolest items for last.

I received two sets of their metal dice and I have to freely admit that I've seen metal dice before and due to the price they never really interested me. Who wants a bunch of heavy-as-hell dice that easily run $35-$45 for a set?

Great Deal on a New Game (Limited Time Offer)

North Texas RPG is fun and all, but the majority of my 12 readers probably aren't here right now...and the rest of the world spins along while the lucky few sling dice here.

Not a brag, just a realization.

Earlier today I ran into DM Vincent (from the Roll For Initiative podcast). He let me know that DriveThruRPG had his new game Mazes & Perils Deluxe Edition for a buck.....$1!

I saw the hardcopy proof of the gamebook....pretty good stuff, definitely worth more than a buck for the PDF. Vince told me the sale ends on Sunday.

North Texas RPG Day 1 Report

After some brief, but unavoidable, drama and most of a day of travel I was able to get down to Dallas/Ft Worth for North Texas RPG. With an attendance cap of 350, this is probably tied for the smallest "real" con I've gone to*.

On the quick walk-through looking for the registration table, which my sleep-deprived brain didn't notice in the obvious location for such a table, I saw a bunch of legends in the RPG world.

Lucky for me I also ran into some great folks that I've only known virtually/online. Just in the last 24 hours I've managed to put faces to names and work on making new friends.....

New d30 Table up on DTRPG: Random "Painting" Generator

My newest d30 table has been posted on DriveThruRPG (and OBS).

This is the last d30 treasure table, rounding out the small series of alternate treasure tables for OSR games. I seriously considered making one other set of tables of monster treasure types, but I thought that might be way too close to infringing on other's IP.

As-is these tables can be used to generate alternate treasure in place of standard gems for any fantasy RPG.

This last table covers paintings and other illustrative arts. Assuming you use the one sub-table, most of the works generated will be paintings, but you could also end up with tapestries, sketches, and a couple other types of illustrative art that might prove challenging to the party to monetize.

To get to the PWYW d30 table, just click on either graphic of this post, or use this link.

Free GM Resource: Four Free Virtual Battlemaps

I didn't post a Free GM Resource yesterday because of the "holiday", so I'm putting this up today.

Virtual Battlemap is a program for making some pretty cool 3D dungeon maps that you can print off to 2D for tabletop or Virtual Table Top (VTT) use. Unfortunately the freebie isn't the program itself, as it isn't quite available yet...

....but if you are interested in the software there is some voting on Steam to get this project greenlighted (or is it greenlit?)

The Free GM Resource available now (and for free, obviously) is a collection of finished maps. As of this morning there are four maps linked right on the Virtual Battlemap homepage. The maps are available as Dropbox downloads.