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Lego Solar System – kids / school project

For those that observe, it’s that anniversary | G➕🪦 (2011-2019)

Random Spell Name Spark Table

Sicherman Dice | 2D6 in the mix

Broken Monster Manual | Second Life in Colour

Can we de-quantize D&D? | … did Heisenberg’s Hobgoblins just enter the chat?

Podcast Taught Me What? | #7 Dungeons & Dreamboats (what else is a Dungeon?)

Solo Analogue AI for Commanding Armies in Warhammer type Battles – Hex Flower

Inversion of the standard 2d6 probability peak | “Why Mathematicians Hate This Simple Two-Dice Hack”

Hac-Man Hex Flower| a homage to Pac-Man

Podcast Taught Me What? | #6 Make Drawings & Descriptions Additive

Podcast Taught Me What? | #4 Taking the Pith (keep it short)

Podcast Taught Me What? | #3 Narrative Abhors a Vacuum

Podcast Taught Me What? | #2 Thoughtful Randomness

Podcast Taught Me What? | #1 Fixed Random Encounters

Kids play AD&D 1e | Ever been chased through a maze by a Minotaur?

Taking the Pith | Comment on keeping it short

Pre-rolled Random Tables | so you don’t have to

YouTube – some actual plays | Mausritter & AD&D 1e

MatheMat-HEX | Hex Maze Runners – a Hex Flower mini-game for learning your Times Tables

D&D like stats | a different way that no one will ever use …

Forget polyhedrals – Cubism is in !!

Did the Bloggies make me Blog more? | You?

Permission to eat the PC’s horses?

Can you Push it? | … are pushed rolls a thing in D&D?

Dynamic Random Tables | Controlling Access with Rule “Windows”

Faction Action – Burning the Candle towards both ends | An approach to Random Encounter Table design

Random Encounter Tables – When the Boss Monster comes out swinging

Usage Dice – there can be only one (left)

D&D type Stats – all 1s are 2s

Word Play – Old monster New monster

Simple Monster Hack | Generic creature + PC spell

Simple Card-Based Duo (and Solo) RPG -YES/NO- Oracle

Relationship Mind Map | visualizing NPC relationships

Lego block HP tracker | at the table widget

Cards with a Memory (sort of) | Card Based Oracle

Mass Combat Victory Tracker – Hex Flower

In the Heart of the Unknown – Platinum metal best seller on DriveThruRPG

Hex Flower – D&D Type STAT Generator

Dice with a memory | … sort of [Markov dice?]

Artist Marcin s needs some help

Advent(ure) Calendar | 24 Days of Festive Dungeoneering :: 2023

NPC Personality Profiles – at a glance (also includes 2000 NPC names and 2000 traits)

a MAZE ing | mazes in RPGs; cracking the code ?

Who knew adding/subtracting dice does not change the probability profile (well not me I guess)

Personality Profile Cards – NPCs at a glance?

Metal badges + Community Copies

6 Day Example | ‘In the Heart of the Unknown’ Hex Crawl

(NEW) Print on Demand x 4 | .. add them to your physical library ?

Perception-like checks too transparent? | add an ‘uncertainty/opacity die’ ?

Kickstarter | Carapace -&- In the Heart of Oz

2022 | end

Puzzle Design – is it possible to try to make a (semi) rigorous system?

Did I invent the Depth Crawl (first)?

” R ” is for Religion [[ OSR ]]

Advent(ure) Calendar | 24 Days of Festive Dungeoneering

Face Folio | Deck of Cards

Onion-, Zone-, Layer-, Shell-, Down-, Pancake, Gobstopper … Crawl

Do you even OSR ? | Response to Oct-OSR

Functional Entries in Random Tables | more scope but comes with more user load

Solo RPG idea | Sticky labels with QR codes

Collaboration: ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ (+) ‘When Sea Is Calling’

[FUNDED] Face Folio | for Zine Quest 4

Re-Kicking Face Folio | for Zine Quest 4

Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGs | Video walk through

Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGs

Monster Doodles | 1988 Dungeon

Ramp, Flat Ramp, Hill & Lone Mountain Type Random Table Formats

Quantum Ogre meet Schrödinger’s Troglodyte | Chekhov’s Gun – adventure design vs play

DxDy dice mechanic | … e.g. D4D6

Portuguese Translation – Hex Flower Cookbook

Two new Hex Flowers | Forest & Death Star attack

Face Folio | Ukraine Appeal

Face Folio | PDF rollout to KS backers

G- day | … have we moved on?

In the Heart of Oz | Ukraine Code

Wolfram’s 4 colour theorem | Relationship mapping?

Thinking outside the Hex | ‘Hex Flower’ theory stuff

Questing Beast review | Planar Compass 2

Hex Ed | Hex Flower online talk

Analogue ‘Fog of War’ hack … | Jigsaw over map

Grimbo Grotto | Christmas Farcical Horror Oneshot

In the Heart of Oz | Hex Flower based system-neutral procedural sandbox setting

Making Hex Flower Game Engines? Tell me about them?

D6(6)6 table | … D66 table with probability gradient

100,000 views | I suppose it is a landmark of kinds

Story Synth | making online customizable Hex Flowers

Hex Flower update | Weather Hex Flower -&- ItHotS goes Electrum

20 x Unexpected Rooms | Some puzzles and hopefully interesting room encounters

I sense a puzzle trap in this … | ‘Missing Area Paradox’ puzzles

Grimbo Grotto – 2021 One Page Dungeon Contest | a Christmas Farcical Horror Adventure

Hit Points replaced with ‘Usage Dice’ ?

QR kidding me ( ’tish-boom’ ) | QR code random room encounter table (… add your own?)

QR Codes – Random (OSE) Monster Table | Another oddball idea for you …

Hex Flower Demo | ‘Trial by Jury’ mini-game

Hex Flower Demos | YouTube Actual Plays

Musedusa | a gorgon type related to Medusa

Insect Crawl | Procedural Method for Insect Colony Point Crawl

Drachomeleon | even a dragon needs a buddy sometimes

Pit of Drelk | a trap monster

STR modifiers | Precise Strike -vs- Bludgeon Attack (options)

Tomorrow is G- day | … and it’s still not an April Fools Joke

‘D20/D21 bell curve’ | … strange things excite me!

Die from Two Dice | continued …

Monopoly Hex Flower Game Engine | PART 2

Monopoly Hex Flower Game Engine

Large D6 dice pools | adding more swing with ‘harmonic’ equivalents

Random Social Interaction Hex Flower Generator

Planar Compass 2 | 48 hrs to go on Kickstarter

What’s a Hex Flower Game Engines anyway ?

What floats your Astral boat ? | Planar Compass 2

1980’s Dungeon Map (never played)| Old Map in old binder

Face Folio | the 180 concept sketches are now all in …

Wrong doubles | using 2D6 ‘side double’

Grimbo Grotto | Christmas Farcical Horror Adventure

Hexing that alignment grid

Face Folio | just an update

Simple-ish Chase Mechanic | 2D6 race to a target