Kill It With Fire!

Thru henchmen, all things are possible,  so jot that down. So you've seen this idea from be before ( when I did it for old D&Ds ), b...

These are rules to keep it brisk and keep me sane when the table is digital. Level titles=Level up quests. As per this idea . Some quests wi...

I started posting ideas about what happens if you stay too long in a megadungeon long ago, 2021 maybe. And I am still trying to thread the n...

The old/basic D&D level titles are kinda pointless when divorced from their war-game roots. But we can repurpose them to be goals in the...

Staying in any megadungeon when playing a drop-in game is a risky enterprise (cuz sheeeet, I dunno if you are gonna show to play in a week o...

  Remember years ago when I talked about Barony/Conrad's Game ? Today we're gonna mix the ignobles milestone advancement from that ...

Sometimes the seventh score is Luck, and that is a useful one to have, but this post is about starting gold. Many D&Dalikes have you rol...

Almost all games I run now use HP burn. Sacrifice a couple HP to raise (or lower) the results of one of your rolls. Will that burn come back...

I may try to advertise a 5e game the next time our Discord runs shallow. Behind the screen, I'd probably give monsters hits equal to th...

Well, as happens so often, my players have ended up playing DCC again. I've posted DCC houserules before, but that was years back. Have ...

This is attempt to patch a glaring hole in the rules of ICRPG, which probably shoulda had two more pages of weapons, one for gerblin gun pri...

First, the D&D old school thief needs a quick fix. Instead of lousy percentile skills, give the thief a 2 in 6 chance to do thiefy thing...

Recently my group started playing FAGE RPG. And players were like, rolling my race herp derp I'm a gnome! Hey me too!  And I'm like,...

You don't want to narrate tapping sticks throughout the whole tomb of horrors   This is not going to be a long post. It's just a lit...

One of my players of our Arduin hack said I should post about how the thieves work. As the rules are currently written, any class can attemp...

Ran across this in a Roll20 note I made. I think it has great potential. I guess I was using it in my homebrew Quest Ferrit a few years back...

Who's in charge here? This idea might be best introduced in session 0 or one. The PC with the highest Charisma or Personality score is t...

Imma give a surprise round to the monster tho. It's a simple idea: There are no rolls for initiative. First, the players are given a cha...

First, let me lay out my credentials for my click-bait title. Over on our Discord, (mail me if you want in on chances to play elf-games onli...

It had a baby! I've refined my DCCish old school elf game rules since the last go around. Here's what we got now. If you want t...