I don’t like healing potions in most tabletop role-playing games because they feel too random and inefficient. Picture this: you're pla...

This post is a continuation of <a href="https://crateredland.blogspot.com/2025/07/conspicuous-secret-doors.html">this post...

Bumper Key This key will fit into any lock. Turning it to the left turns the threshold of the door into a portal that allows people to walk...

Mordax Necklace Total HP reduced by -1 while worn, but all attacks inflict +1 damage. Lofty Ring 1 charge Wearer can jump 10 feet strai...

Every time a PC misses an attack roll, they get a cumulative +1 to hit for their next roll (i.e., miss four in a row and you have a +4 to hi...

This was my original post for the Red Shirt playbook. You can download it HERE, from my itch page . CREATING A RED SHIRT To create your ...

The stories about gods are the stories of cultures.  When ancient Romans prayed to the goddess of sewers, Cloacina, they might have been pra...

purchasing from multiple stores online on a Friday evening! this is probably of no interest to anyone but myself, and I wanted to track this...

I wrote a playbook for Apocalypse World, you can find it by clicking here

During my last gaming session I was reminded of a mechanic in the Forbidden Lands RPG, players’ characters have an attribute called Empathy,...

It's official, google has killed yet another platform that I loved using. I'm going to look around for a new place to blog on, but I...

A horror is an unnatural creature - something inherently inhuman or inhumane. It either exists on the periphery of reality, barely understoo...

Every game I've ever played that had a Luck mechanic, a spendable resource used to modify rolls or situations, it's been useless. Pr...

...with apologies to velexiraptor , this is my take on their elegant OSR psionics system as applied to Apocalypse World. When you wield psio...

I have had to restrict commenting because I've been getting too many spam comments originating from this blog in my mailbox. Right now, ...

My first project for 2021 was a little more work intensive than I first expected it to be.  I created facsimiles of the original D&D whi...

I'm looking at my history of posts this last year and I am not surprised at my great lack of output. There was a great silence between A...

  Humanoids with radiant fungus growing out of their skin. The fungus doesn't take a single appearance, it can form as a mossy fur, tiny...

I had the idea that since I'm looked up in my house now is probably the best time to sign up for InDesign and see if I can convert some ...

Eva M Brown wrote " Instead of hit points use your hit die. When you're hit you can roll any number of hit die. If you roll higher ...