The Bogeywoman's Cave

Hi, normally I put off these posts just because I procrastinate but I missed yesterdays deadline due to mental health reasons. Sorry for the inconvenience. 30. Share something cool you made if you can at all justify it as RPG related. http://www.rpgnow.com/product/201856/The-Meat-Gods I made this. I think its pretty cool. Note: I'm gonna be writing another Halloween adventure this year, so I'll keep you posted on that

29. Goblins are great. Why or why not? I love goblins. I love them an awful lot, they're just so wonderful to use. There are so many directions you can take goblins in. Are they chaotic, nonsensical little green folk who are humorous but deadly?  Are they creepy giggling child-things which steal infants from their cribs and dwell in the walls of decrepit houses?  Or are they vegetarian monsters which transform humans into plants? The possibilities are endless. I tend to lean towards creepy with all of my interpretations of monsters, so goblins are usually pretty nasty and ugly. Unhealthily pale skin, warts, and asymmetrical faces. They eat kids and hide under beds, and they can be found everywhere. Demons and dragons are beyond the reach of the typical peasant, far away beings that you hear about in stories. But goblins haunt the nightmares of the common folk. All other goblinoid type monsters fill this same niche. Orcs, hobgoblins, gnolls...

28. What's a really cool imaginary place you've made up? Draw a map of it. Don't worry it's just a map. E'rybody can make maps. Screw it I made a map of a place completely improvised based on some ideas I had lying around. This is the Howling Desert, so named due to the fact that there are harsh winds here. Because magic is a thing and wizards are godawful, these winds are even worse than normally possible, and contain air elementals. The Dome is the only major settlement here. Its a giant octagonal thing made from glass and steel, and it contains an oasis within. Within the dome is a nearly tropical environment, with arboreal houses, though there are also extensive mines beneath the artificial forest floor. The Mountain Gate leads into the mountains, and leads down into an endless stairwell that nobody has returned from. It is said that Fyreiclau, an ancient and powerful dragon, descended the stairwell and eats any who try to reach the bottom. ...

Wow I sure did procrastinate on this didn't I? 19. What single change would you make to a popular D&D setting and why? Screw it lets go with Greyhawk: We don't need this many pseudo goblins. Xvorts, kobolds, orcs, hobgoblins, mites, all those guys, they can just be one thing. Just have goblins be themselves. Even Tolkien didn't make a distinction between goblins and orcs. They're the same. 20. Describe a mechanic you would put into your Science Fiction Heartbreaker. You have a space fever stat. You know how people stuck in a cabin go kinda bonkers after a while? Its like that but with a spaceship. The more time you spend in a ship without leaving, the higher this stat gets. When doing something stressful, you have to roll over your space fever stat or you don't do it and start babbling about the void. 21. Most unexpected spell that helped you get past the walls of the Fortress of See. Light. The honorable pastor Matthew cast the spell to distract the countles...

Where did these organisms come from???? Trees are: The veins of the universe, and the reason why magic works Really slow squid Slow flowing liquid that disobeys the laws of gravity and goes upwards Giants that fell asleep and never woke up (at least the really old trees are) Goblins are: Big frogs with swords Halfings' shittier cousins The evil thoughts of humanity brought to life in the rapidly regenerating bodies of stillborn infants Weird people shaped things that form out of nasty holes in the ground Monkeys that got too smart and now they kill people Dragons are: Lizards that drank demon blood and now they're big The personifications of greed what happens when you accumulate too much wealth and don't spend it War machines from an ancient age Apes are: False men, monkeys evolved to look like children so they can sneak around by night. What humans become if exposed to a strange disease. The devolved creators of humanity...

Hi welcome to once every three days post dump. Lets get started shall we? 16. Make an equipment list for a post apoc setting, using only things in 1 room of your home. Garage and kitchen are easy mode. See this is is easy as hell because my room is cool: Short Sword of ancient Scottish design Dagger Mace (Its garbage though, and breaks after 1d6 uses) Walking Stick Water Jug Nature Guidebook (Bonus to survival checks) Plastic Trombone Microphone with a several yard long cord Bottle of hand sanitizer Cap gun (not real but looks realistic enough to give a bonus to intimidation checks) 17. What political situation existed 500 years ago, and how does its fall affect the world of today? There was a nation of dragon riders and a nation of powerful wizards. One of these nations did something to piss off the other, and they got into a huge war.  The dragon riders managed to recruit the help of giants, and razed the wizards' kingdom to the ground, leaving nothi...

This  is rapidly becoming less of a RPG a day thing as it is an RPG every 3 days thing, but who is keeping score anyhow? 13. Three Sports Wizards Play How many shots can you take and still be able to do the exact calculations needed to summon an imp? Frog Uglying. You find a frog and mess with it magically to make it as gross and ugly as possible, while still technically being alive. Competitive Time Stasis Hide and Seek: These games can take years for the competitors, but take no time at all for everyone else.  14. Roll a d20 and count down that many photos on flickr.com/explore. Thats your prompt. https://www.flickr.com/photos/aizkorbe/37083369771/in/explore-2017-09-14/ So the first thing this picture made me think was "Silent Hill But Its In The Woods" and honestly thats just such a good concept I'm gonna roll with it, and write up 3 monsters that would show up in this setting: Dryad These things look vaguely like the outline of a woman, ...

I gotta catch up on this so here is another post. 10. What is beyond the wall? Beyond the walls of the Great City, the world is divided into petty fiefdoms, each ruled by a lord. These self appointed rulers often give themselves ludicrously grandiose titles, regardless of how much land they may actually control. For example, a man that calls himself "The Gold Crowned Emperor Of Laurencia" may actually only control 5 square miles of land and rule over a hundred people. Monsters roam the countryside, with goblins, faeries, dragons and worse killing at will. Most "kingdoms" have a small militia, but few are really capable of standing up to the monsters. Thus, adventurers and monster hunters are almost always needed.  11. Why is the stone circle on the hill broken? The stone circle on the hill was once a kind of temple or church, used by ancient people for worship. However, long ago these people angered the fae, and were slaughtered by them. All that remains...

Sorry, I've been busy for the past couple of days and haven't been able to post. Anyway, here is what I wrote for the DIY RPG meme for days 8 and 9. 8. ¨Mommy, what are tooth faeries like, and what do they do with all the teeth?¨ Faeries are weird and highly varied creatures. Some try to categorize them into different types, like brownies, dwarves, elves, and gnomes, but these categories aren't exactly correct or logical. Its like how medieval scholars thought barnacles were a kind of bird, humans just get things wrong about them. Changelings (the more human faeries that get dumped with people because they're annoying and fleshy and talk funny), like the playable halflings, dwarves, and elves, are the most consistent kind of faerie, but others are more nebulous and confusing. In any case, sometimes faeries just take kids' teeth. If you're lucky, its when the tooth is about to fall out anyway, but if not, they could always just whisper some magic words with ...

6. There are 6 kinds of vampires. Don't be boring. One: Aristocratic They are very fancy men, they suck blood with expensive golden straws and wear posh suits. They can bite, they have sharp teeth because they are vampires, but they much prefer to have their servants (usually goth vampire wannabes) capture victims and tranquilize them. If they particularly like your blood, they will keep you alive in their basement and bring you out for parties. Two: Dropper You know how ticks sit on leaves and fall down and land on people? These vampires do that, but they climb buildings. They are all skinny at first, but when they land on their victim and suck out their blood, they get a little bigger. The really successful ones are really large, but can still cling to sheer surfaces like an arachnid. They aren't very talkative, but they aren't stupid either. Three: Blood-drink Clouds These vampires spend most of their time as a cloud of gas. They have creepy red eyes ...

5. What sort of abilities would a Bug Knight class give to a character? You're an ascended insect, given sapience and a vaguely humanoid form by your patron, which is some sort of powerful lawful being. You have no need for armor, naturally possessing a chitinous exoskeleton, and you are proficient with shields and all melee weapons. You also are granted some minor powers from your patron, and can cast cleric spells as a cleric of half your level, rounding up.  Bug Knight  Hit Dice: D8s Armor Proficiency: None, but by default you have an armor class equivalent to chain mail. You can use shields though. Weapon Proficiency: All melee weapons. Experience Progression: As Elf (Or magic-user/fighter if using a race separate from class system) Saving Throws: As Fighter of equivalent level. Spell Casting: You can cast cleric spells as a cleric of half your level. Linguistic Pheromones: You can speak with all kinds of arthropods through the release of chemicals. Arthropod O...

4. Make a monster based on your deepest fear Mimics are demonic creatures which can assume the form of another creature. Usually, these beasts' main goals are the acquisition of more biomass, but some of the more intelligent ones gain a sick pleasure in imitating their victims. One individual, known as the Perpetrator, usually takes the form of a well respected member of a community. This person may be a king, a baron, or even a somewhat popular artist, the Perpetrator does not care. While using this person's shape, the Perpetrator commits a crime of some kind. The crime the Perpetrator commits varies depending on who they are mimicking. For example, if the Perpetrator was disguised as a famously chaste holy man, the creature may go visit a brothel and make its presence obvious. If the Perpetrator's victim was a outspoken pacifist, it would kill someone violently in public. After committing the crime, the Perpetrator slinks into the shadows to watch the conflict. It will pl...

What is a goblin? What are those things you find in dungeons that crawl and skulk in the shadows, stabbing at you with sharp bone knives and staring into your soul with their hateful shining eyes? Why do they hate you? Why do they build traps to kill and maim and hurt? Why do they cackle with glee as they cut out the entrails of your fallen comrades? Why do they stay away from the light? How come they are so much more dangerous by darkness than in broad daylight? They must need to see after all, why else would they have eyes? How do they breed? Do they breed at all? How come they are already in tombs and crypts and ruins and labyrinths long before humans break down the bricks that seal them in? What do they eat? Is it the adventurers they kill? The mushrooms growing in their damp caves and moldy passages? The fierce red eyed rats the size of dogs that squeak and scurry in the unnatural darkness of the goblins’ lairs? How are they related to the faeries? Why do fa...

2. Whats a campaign you would love to play in, but nobody is running? Completely gonzo genre mash up. All the different universes and time periods have smashed together into one weird physically impossible mess. Giant crashed spaceships controlled by goblins, World War 1 soldiers riding tyrannosaurs, armies of zombie dwarves with machine guns, that sort of thing. Characters could be made using any sort of race/class combination from anything in the OSR, as long as it was vaguely balanced. An adventuring party could be composed of an elf, a mutant, a deep one hybrid, a gray alien cleric, and an 18th century pirate, so long as the classes were all OSR. 3. How can a monster harm a character in a new and unusual way? If this monster touches you your bones grow longer. At first its just uncomfortable, but as the thing caresses and pokes you more and more you can feel your bones begin to pierce through your fingertips. If this continues for long enough, your ribs curve into your lung...

This  30 days of DIY RPG thing was posted, and it looked like fun, so I'm doing it. 1. What is a heretofore unknown secret of Troll ecology? (Beware, poorly thought out pseudoscience below) It is widely known that trolls turn into stone when exposed to sunlight. What is not known is that this process is caused by a strain of strange algae that has a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with their troll host. Curiously, this algae somehow gains energy from the absence of light, and this seemingly impossible power helps fuel trolls' regenerative process. Large amounts of UV light cause a chemical reaction in these bizarre organisms, rapidly transforming the carbon inside their cells into silicon. This process releases extreme amounts of energy, which is what kills the troll, and is why trolls' stony corpses seem to steam after the reaction takes place. Trolls were originally a relatively normal subspecies of giant, but at some point they were joined with this dark...

You and your party members woke up in a town. The town is old, but it is new, there is a mixture of architecture spanning centuries, but it is almost all crumbling and abandoned. Monsters lurk in the ruins, strange and terrifying. Your comrades seem to come from different worlds. One is a dwarf out of norse legend, yet another is a World War One submarine captain. The monsters in the town don't seem to make sense, they act more like puppets piloted by some unseen entity than real creatures, scary masks worn by a hidden force. You can find gold coins, all minted with the same pattern, all seemingly brand new. There are settlements of scavengers throughout the town, and in each settlement is a merchant, covered in black cloth. If you give a merchant gold coins, they will give you something in return. Do you find out the secrets of the town? Or do you merely want to escape? Do you wish to conquer the various tribes that live in this strange place? The choice is yours.

Our heroes and hirelings for this evening are: Job, a wizard Grog, a warrior Richard Dicky, a crazed hireling with a scalpel Bartholomew, an NPC wizard who assisted the party Bert, the hireling and friend of Bartholomew the occultist The heroes found themselves in the Shattered Lands, an ashy waste dotted with subterranean vaults. A new dungeon had recently been discovered, and the party decided to investigate and search for treasure, hiring a shady individual named Richard Dicky for assistance. They descended into the tunnels and found themselves face to face with 3 albino wolves. During a fierce combat, one of the wolves is slain and the other two flee, and Richard Dicky meets his untimely demise. The survivors find a small stash of coins hidden behind some loose bricks in the wall, and retreat back to the surface to nurse their wounds. After purchasing some armor and joining forces with Bartholomew and Bert, and occultist and his servant, they once more enter the dungeon, wh...

I feel that a lot of people, myself included, don't really like the standard rules for spell acquisition and research in old Dungeons and Dragons. I tend to hand wave the whole affair, simply letting players choose what spells they learn as they level up. However, the concept of spells as treasure has recently interested me a great deal. The concept of wizards delving deep into the Earth, facing monsters and traps to acquire a dusty old book of spells is quite interesting to me. Such spell books are likely to be written in a strange language or cypher, or maybe the book is damaged. In this way, a game master could both rule that only some spells may be readable easily, perhaps 1 or 2 per book.  If a wizard wanted to get more use out of a recovered tome of spells, they would have to enlist the aid of a translator. I picture that while fighters and other warrior types are looking for ancient magical swords, or powerful suits of armor, the magic users are scrounging through pil...

The Monocular Seer is the title of a deity whose name is too long and bizarre to pronounce by human tongues. His followers, The Watched, believe that if one were to write down his name it would use up all of the paper on Earth.  The Watched believe that The Monocular Seer observes everything in the universe, thus allowing it to exist. However, although he is a bringer of life and order, he is not a kind god. The Seer is a believer in strict morals and harsh punishment. According to the church, anyone who sins without repentance (which involves a donation to the church of course) is damned to Hell for all eternity. Any sin can cause this fall from grace, so long as it is not properly apologized for.  As a result of this belief system, the Watched are extremely guilt ridden and paranoid. Constantly fearing for the safety of their very souls. Every week, the Watched gather in their churches and perform a ceremony to cleanse themselves of sin.  The Seer's foll...

Guess who just got some new miniatures in the mail? Well, probably a lot of people, but also me! I got a Dreamblade starter set off of eBay, and have decided to show off what I got. Here is the Doomball, next to a D&D paladin on the left. This is one of the few miniatures I’ll get almost no use out of, he’s just a bit too boring and modern. Might be good for a sci fi game though. The Rune Tagged Brawler, I think is what this guy is called. He has really crappy feet, which I messed up even more after I cut him off of his base and put him on a 28mm one. Oh well. He’d probably be good as a golem (not the boring living statue D&D ones, the kind from Jewish folklore). The faceless stalker is a very good miniature, and would work well as a faerie or doppelgänger. Her paint job leaves something to be desired, but she is quite a usable figure. The Boneclaw Hunter is a nice sculpt, but I’m not sure what to use him for. He’s a bit too monstrous looking for a PC, due to his sh...

A lot of Dungeons and Dragons type games tend to be quite focussed on combat, and for good reason! It feels great to play a knight in shining armor, valiantly swinging your sword to lop off the head of a ferocious and deadly goblin. But there are a lot of different ways to determine how it all plays out. Below are a few combat systems I like, that have cropped up across numerous games. The Roll Over System The Roll Over system is used in every edition of D&D after second, Lamentations Of The Flame Princess, and every other damn d20 system game ever made. In essence, a roll over system involves rolling a die and hoping for a high roll. In D&D, this is typically the d20, which you then apply a bunch of modifiers to and try to roll over your target's Armor Class. Its much more straightforward than the weird combat charts of the older editions. Pros Easy to explain to new players Easily scaleable, simply make the target number higher Cons A little difficult ...

I’m on a roll of making miniature posts! This post is gonna be about custom minis that I’ve made, ranging from repaints to me sticking a toy on a plastic coin and calling it a day. I bought a pack of 36 “guardian knights” on amazon, made by toysmith. They have some good molds and as you can see are almost in scale with standard miniatures. They costed about 9 bucks. Here is an ogre/hill giant and a troll, both made from figures from a Lord of the Rings chess set. I haven’t used them much, but they look pretty good in my opinion. This is a spider-person, which I made using a cheap spider toy, the torso of an “alien warrior” party favor (more of those later), and the head of an Aliens toy. I painted the whole thing purple with black for the weapons. This weird looking figure is based on a demon from the Appendix M blog, and mostly made from a xenomorph figure. On the left is an old toy skeleton I had that I painted up. Its quite a bit bigger than the standard D&D skele...