On Dice And Distributions
Matt discusses why dice are not only not fair, but don’t even roll their own unique distribution fairly.
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Apr 7, 2023 | Small Bites
Matt discusses why dice are not only not fair, but don’t even roll their own unique distribution fairly.
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Jul 15, 2019 | Small Bites
Obligatory recap: I’ve read about a system for creating urbancrawls (similar to hexcrawls but set in a city) from The Alexandrian. I had also been enjoying the Sorcery! gamebooks by Steve Jackson and their strange magic setting. Enter this series of articles, where I use The...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Jun 10, 2019 | Small Bites
Obligatory recap: I’ve read about a system for creating urbancrawls (similar to hexcrawls but set in a city) from The Alexandrian. I had also been enjoying the Sorcery! gamebooks by Steve Jackson and their strange magic setting. Enter this series of articles, where I use The...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | May 15, 2019 | Small Bites
So to recap from last time: I was excited about a system for creating urbancrawls outlined at The Alexandrian and was also inspired by the feeling of the Steve Jackson Sorcery! gamebooks and decided to give the urbancrawl system a shot to design a “strange magic” city. Links: Part 1 of...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Apr 8, 2019 | General, Small Bites
So to recap from last time: I was excited about a system for creating urbancrawls outlined at The Alexandrian and was also inspired by the feeling of the Steve Jackson Sorcery! gamebooks and decided to give the urbancrawl system a shot to design a “strange magic” city. Links: Part 1 of...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Mar 13, 2019 | Small Bites
I’ve been excited by a series of articles I read on The Alexandrian from way back in 2015 on building a city based campaign with a hexcrawl feel (it was called an urbancrawl there). I’ve also been inspired by the way the Steve Jackson Sorcery! gamebook series, which was translated to...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Jan 2, 2019 | Small Bites
It’s time for me to amble into my garage and offer up an assortment of the strange things that I find there. It’s a bit of a post-Christmas tradition here at the stew. I have to make room for all the coal Santa keeps bringing me for some reason… Each has an adventure seed baked in so feel free...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Dec 17, 2018 | Small Bites
In the past, I’ve written holiday articles about sinister Santas, and evil elves. This year I present a roughed out tongue in cheek Holiday adventure ready to be adapted to a system of choice or stolen for your own game. Setup: A dark god is spawning an avatar on the material plane. The PCs...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Dec 12, 2018 | Small Bites
This story has been told before, way back on the Treasure Tables forums, before they became You Meet In A Tavern, before that site also went defunct. Since none of those places exist anymore and I doubt the story got caught by the wayback machine, and since it was well received back in the day,...
Read Moreby Matthew J. Neagley | Jun 6, 2018 | Small Bites
A brief plug: for the foreseeable future, I plan on writing about one of these a month. If you think you can do a better job than I do at making maps (and who can’t?) and want to sell me one and have your work featured here, send an email with the subject line “details” to...
Read MoreHey you. Yeah, you. Do you know about Gnomecast 21? Why isn’t it in the archives? What are they hiding? If you value your safety… don’t go searching for Gnomecast 21…
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