This is an entry for a contest – tell us about one of your traps…!
This trap plays on the natural curiosity and avarice of the adventurer…
Jul 152014
Jul 122014
This is an entry for a contest – tell us about one of your traps…!
On first glance, this room seems to just be a room with a sandy floor. Digging down shows that there is packed sand down to about 12 feet (this takes about 2 turns). The door opposite has a tarnished brass pull handle with a lock. The door is unlocked….
Jul 072014
This is an entry for a contest – tell us about one of your traps…!
In one of my Shadowrun campaigns, I had the PCs hired to demolish a manufacturing facility outside of the Pullyup barrens. When they arrived, they discovered that several of the Johnsons that they had been working for had gotten together and agreed that now was a good time to tie up some loose ends. Just guess what those “loose ends” were….
Jul 052014
For our current contest, I just upped the prize pool to include a $20 Gift Certificate from DriveThruRPG!
Not The Gold Standard
Filed as: Editorial
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Jun 262014
For this month, I was going to spill some ink about earning XP for finding treasure. I had nearly 2,000 words in place, all ready to go. Something else, however, had been stomping around in my little attic and making so much noise, I felt compelled to go upstairs to find out what it was. So here we go. The post that I did not intend to write…
Jun 202014
The player characters are in an especially old dungeon or dwelling when one of them steps on a pressure plate!
Jun 032014
This is a classic Gygaxian trap, with a twist…
May 262014
…Closer examination reveals that there may in fact be something magical or at least shiny up on one of the top shelves…
Climbing the Wall of Text – let’s design an RPG adventure!
Filed as: Better Gameplay?
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May 232014
When I think back to the best times I had running adventures, I feel like they were great not because the adventure was fantastic (although in some cases, they were), but were great because of how we filled in the gaps…
May 212014
This trap is system independent. It works best when stumbled on in a campaign where the players are visiting past events magically, or are time traveling regularly…