Dice in the North

The things that hold you up on an adventure aren't always the standard adventuring fare like monsters, traps, and harsh conditions. Some...

Sight hounds are artificial creatures created through a combination of obscure but well-documented alchemic processes. Their exact appearanc...

1 Outstanding warrants 2 There's a bounty on you 3 There's a ridiculously gigantic bounty on you 4 You were exiled on pain of death ...

1 A warning 2 A welcome 3 Evidence 4 A warding 5 A boundary marker 6 A trail marker 7 A midden 8 Aftermath of a hunt 9 Aftermath of a ritual...

Sometimes you try to roll a die and it just falls onto the table with a disappointing flop. Sometimes you get too eager and it goes shooting...

I like playing around with dice. Figuring out probabilities and how they'll change in different circumstances is fun. It's one of th...

1 Little girl in a pristine, frilly white dress. Happy to see you. Hands dripping red. 2 The combined spirits of eight thousand and one crow...

This is an idea I've had for a while about how players could communicate with an abstract entity that's influencing large numbers of...

1 A trail you've never noticed before appears. It connects to a trail you're familiar with and it's old, made of cracked concret...

The idea of names having power is ancient and mythic and practically universal across cultures. A magical name that describes the essence of...

Back in 2019 I was running a campaign that involved a lot of traveling. It wasn't a full-blown hexcrawl, but tracking time and managing ...

1 Bioluminescent [1 worms, 2 fungi, 3 jellyfish, 4 coral] 2 Giant crystal chamber 3 Massive geodes 4 Stalactite cathedral 5 Crystal pool 6 B...

1 Random hole (1 vertical, 2 steep-sided, 3 giant cenote, 4 ankle-breaker) 2 Chasm (1 deceptively wide, 2 jumpable(?), 3 narrow, 4 bottomles...