Dice in the North

Poet's Grove

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A poet's grove is a graveyard, serene and simple with no stones or markers. Instead of carving monuments to quietly erode over centuries...

d100 Weird Spy Satellite Locations

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I love the Weird Spy Satellite bot on twitter. It's delightful. Granted, it's a bot that (I assume) randomly generates the things it...

Gelatinous Tubes

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A domesticated variant of the gelatinous cube selectively bred to have a cylindrical shape. They're commonly raised and trained by plumb...

1d8 Magical Research Projects

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  The burning questions that the local wizard is conducting research on and wants your help with. 1 How do entities like dopplegangers, clon...

Generating Stats: Fool's Roll

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The fastest and simplest way to generate stats, but also the most risky. Roll 6d20 in order. That's it. It's quick, it's easy, a...

Generating Stats: Narrow Band

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This method of generating stats has a linear probability and uses padding to guarantee the values rolled fall within a smaller range than th...

Generating Stats: d6 Bell Curves

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Rolling a handful of d6's to generate stats with probabilities on a normal distribution is the classic method. Effectively the oldest wa...

Matrix Rolling

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I've said that rolling stats is an important part of character creation, but the actual process of rolling takes time. Not a lot, but in...

Thinking About Stats

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Most RPGs use stats. They're usually the first thing you do when creating a character and so common that you don't even think about ...

Tiny Coffins Challenge: December (bonus!)

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 Welcome back! This final prompt is: "undeniable beauty in desolation" Ice storms are an annual event around here. They're des...

The Triple Door

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Made of solid oak with birdseye maple veneer and patinated copper hardware, the Triple Door is a tasteful addition to any dungeon and the ul...

Troika! Background-Writing Tips

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A while ago on the MAC discord server I shared a list of the things I try to do when writing backgrounds for Troika!. I'm posting it aga...

Troika! Lists Reference

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Troika! only uses d6's which means most of the lists in the game are numbered in base-6 or base-3 instead of base-10. I was curious and ...
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