Category: Dice and Musings

  • To Sneezweed, or Not to Sneezweed?

    To Sneezweed, or Not to Sneezweed?

    Fun, or not fun? This is an herb that can be foraged in certain hexes of The Hollers , the Mauritter hexcrawl we are developing based in a mythological Appalacha setting. Traditionally, Sneezweed, is a snuff that was used in some places in Appalachia to induce sneezing to rid one of evil spirits or disease…

  • HexBrawlers Making Portals

    HexBrawlers Making Portals

    Work has been especially busy lately, but we’ve been busy outside of our blog designing custom assets for mapping in Dungeondraft. Not an artist, but its been fun pretending to be with a Wacom tablet and Krita, and we are focusing on more of an old-school mapping stye. Tonight I was making portals: i.e. doors.…

  • ChatGPT Lets Me be the Dungeon Master

    ChatGPT Lets Me be the Dungeon Master

    @ There’s been lots of talk about how chatgpt might serve as a dungeon master. However, DMs also tend to be the most obsessed with the game, and can sometimes have trouble finding willing players. Perhaps instead, chatgpt will replace players for DMs who want to play more or play-test an adventure. So I decided…

  • There is no perfect campaign, just the campaign you made. And its perfect.

    There is no perfect campaign, just the campaign you made. And its perfect.

    I love reading posts about TTRPG theory. Its akin to watching an artist straining to draw the perfect curve, seeking perfection, supreme beauty. But all we really have are the moments we share with our friends, the gift of seeing our friends enjoy what we created, even if it is only a tenth of the…

  • Yearning for Dice of Yore

    Yearning for Dice of Yore

    I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with dice. I know I am not alone. For me it came with the confluence of two encounters: 1) My dad buying my brother and me the 1983 edition of the D&D Basic, the “BECMI edition” Red Box Set and encountering the interestingly shaped dice within, and…