Becoming More of a Sicko (and another Cairn 2e background)
Why do you do art? Why do you REALLY do art? And another Cairn 2e background.
Use Tracing Paper
Using tracing paper on your maps! Make layers, like an onion.
You got your setting in my background - The Regulator, background for Cairn 2e
The final installment of my trio of militant religious backgrounds, worldbuilding through backgrounds, and a spark table.
We are so back
Comments are available now for real this time. (pls be nice). Plus, variations on the mermaid generator I made for Marcia B.'s Bite-Sized Dungeons.
The Exorcist and the Possessed, backgrounds for Cairn 2e
My 2025 was very personally tumultuous so I did not make time for blogging. But here is my promised follow-up to the Witch-Finder, the Exorcist. Since I was thinking about demons and possession, I also put together a background for a possessed person.
Rootin', Tootin', Shootin', and Barkeepin' on the Borderlands
A review/play report of Barkeep on the Borderlands and a supplement to a blog post by Prismatic Wasteland.
The Witch-Finder, Monster and Background
Founded centuries ago, the Order of St. Sigford, known as the Witch-Finders, is one of the three militant religious orders on Isurholm. While nowadays most Witch-Finders in the Barony of Ludenesse jail and fine herbalists, fortune-tellers, and practitioners of folk medicine, the most hardened of the order still hunt down powerful "evil" practitioners of magic like St. Sigford did in the stories.
4 Merchants You Meet on the Road
Meet some of the many rotating traveling merchants I have slotted into the 7 on my 2d6 random encounter table. I use a silver standard and stats for Cairn. ¶ Hannah Grimsdottir ¶ 8 HP, 2A (chainmail), 16 STR, flamberge Beloved One d10 + d10
Neither a Borrower or Lender Be
For blog Friday, folks are doing currency stuff. I had two ideas, so I'll be putting up 4 merchants you meet on the road next week too. ¶ In my 5e home game, my players opened a university/vampire nightclub (naturally). On their many adventures, they will often end up hiring a professor or bartender along the way.
Yes Chef! Chef background for Cairn 2e
Maybe a lot of us have been watching Dungeon Meshi. I put together this Cairn 2e background inspired by the show, the blogs I've read about cooking in TTRPGs, and my own love of cooking. As a sidenote, I recently injured myself on a mandolin and subsequently ordered a chainmail glove, so now I'll own some chainmail! Now that's D&D.
Weather Hex Flower App for Dolmenwood
I found this Hex Flower for generating random weather with sensible, gradual trends. Works great, really liked it, but I wanted it to work with seasons, so I forked it. Since I'm putting together a Dolmenwood campaign too, I wanted to add unseasons. I also want to add other types of seasons like wet and dry, but that will be later. Or never!
Hexer Background for Cairn 2e
My pal Rio (co-host with me on Tabletopped) said that he really wanted to play a Witcher character. I asked him what he felt the core of that type of character would be and he said the potions: gathering the ingredients, brewing them, and getting absolutely wasted. So I made a background for Cairn 2e that focuses especially on potions. I also included signs.
EPUBs for TTRPG Adventures
When I started publishing adventures last year, I decided to add EPUB and HTML versions to offer options accessible to screen reader users. I was curious about how many people actually use EPUBs to read adventures and Symbolic City put up a poll about it. 54% never use EPUBs while the rest sometimes do. But some of the comments mentioned that EPUB is very rarely an option. ¶ My educational and professional background is in publishing and I've been working with EPUBs for over a decade at this point, so I thought I would share my workflow for putting together EPUBs for my adventures.
Six-Room Dungeon Diagram Generator, based on BSD by Traverse Fantasy
Based on Bite-Sized Dungeons by Marcia B. ¶ Clicking the button below generates a dungeon; randomizes its contents, connections, and entrance(s); and displays it as a mermaid diagram.