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...

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...

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...