This is a manually curated list of what I consider to be my “greatest hits.” I’ve tried to arrange them according to rough categories. For ease of reference some posts may appear multiple times. If there’s anything which seems like it ought to be here, but isn’t, please let me know! I always enjoy having my ego stroked.
- Proceduralism On a Red World Alone
- Structuring Encounter Tables, Amended & Restated
- Prep Tools, Not Adventures
- The Dungeon d100s (Part 1: Themes)
- Two Week Megadungeon
- Magic Words
- Better Magic Wands
- d100 Reasons the Wizard is More Than They Seem
- 8 Reasons Why D&D Is Better Than Video Games
- Proceduralism On a Red World Alone
- Structuring Encounter Tables, Amended & Restated
- Prep Tools, Not Adventures
- Better Not Die, ‘cuz PCs Don’t Go To Heaven
- The Engine of On A Red World Alone
- No-Prep Social Encounters
- Advice for Running Long-Term Campaigns Online
- The Core Mechanic of D&D
- Questions to Ask Yourself After a Session
- Example of Play for Running Traps Without a Search Check
- How Do You Hexcrawl?
- Central Problems vs. Central Mysteries
- Active and Reactive Worlds
- Dice, Take the Wheel!
- Two Questions for Better Battlefields
- Sex in D&D
- If You’re Not Metagaming, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough
- Yes, No, and Maybe
- Encumbrance in Online Games
- Stealth
- Questgivers are Evil
- Handling Factions
- Where Does Story Come From?
- I Hate Choice
- Skills: Mastery Versus Uncertainty
- Making Use of Waiting
- How Should Mind-Affecting Spells Work on PCs?
- When is it okay to trick your players?
- How do Player Driven Stories Work?
- Checking for Traps is Bullshit
- Obfuscation Through Volume
- Magically Generating New Adventures
- Bangtail (Revised)
- Gift Giver (Revised)
- Bear in Disguise (Revised)
- Beekeeper
- Possessor Spirit
- Friendly Ghost
- Clerics as Anti-Magicians (Update post. See the 3rd entry)
- Gobbos
- Warlock
- Spy
- Machine Man
- Action Hero
- Djinn Kin
- Windmaster
- Exiled Prince
- Slasher
- Lucky Motherfucker
- Lawyer
- Totem Magician (FFX Lulu)
- Blitzballer (FFX Wakka)
- Summoner (FFX Yuna)
- Warrior Monk (FFX Auron)
- Nope Slayer
- Hacking, Social Encounters, and an updated Cleric Class
- Running D&D with Starships
- My Players Captured Some Scientists
- The Haven Turn
- Adding Smartphones to your Game World
- Players Are Never Going To Stop Calling Their Shots
- Fighter’s Armies
- Bringing PCs Back as Cyborgs
- A Better Use for Bookshelves
- The Solution to Running Chases
- Vendor Saving Throw
- Simple, Deadly Poisons
- Simple Experience Points for Pathfinder
- Two Week Megadungeon
- The Goblin Bazaar
- The Dachshund Dungeon
- The Dungeon We Forgot
- Flux Space
- The Cozy Catacombs
- The 1 Hour Dungeon
- Changing my Dungeon Notation
- d100 Wondrous Items
- d100 Merchants
- d100 Secret Weaknesses
- Rules for Gobbos (Including d100 Junk Treasures)
- Revised Rules for Gobbos (Including d100 Gobbobilities)
- d100 Wizard Staves
- d100 Magic Wands
- d100 Reasons the Wizard is More Than They Seem
- d100 Additional Reasons the Wizard is More Than They Seem
- d100 Pieces of Technological Junk
- d100 Results of Drug Addled Engineering
- d100 Objects of Moderate Value
- d100 Curses
- d100 Small Town Quirks
- d100 Unusual Shops in Town
- d100 Dungeon Themes
- d100 Dungeon Structures
- d100 Dungeon Rewards
- d100 Dungeon Doors, Floors, Walls & Ceilings
- d100 Dungeon Factions
- d100 Dungeon Locks & Keys
- d100 Curios
- d100 Magic Words: General
- d100 Magic Words: Creatures & Evil
- d100 Magic Words: Body Parts & Simple Actions
- d100 Magic Words: Opposites & Evocation
- Level 1 Creature Behaviors
- 20 Wrinkles to Discover in the Thieves’ Hideout
- d100 Tricks & Treats
- d100 Materials Your Post-Apocalyptic Armor is Made From
- d100 Mercenary or Bandit Leaders
- d100 Payments
- d30 Books Found in the Wizard’s Study
- d20 Uses for Dwarf Beards
- d6 Forest Encounters
- d12 Morale Failures for an Overconfident Hireling
- d30 Critical Hits and d30 Critical Fumbles for Pathfinder
- Developing a Setting: My Trouble with Dungeon Moon
- Discovering Dungeon Moon: Base Camp
- Discovering Dungeon Moon: What is Treasure?
- Treasure Chest Card
- The Weathered Door
- Ladder Conundrum
- Undead Disposal Chamber
- Bugaboos
- Mind and Body Passage
- Dimensionally Attuning Paint
- Flippy Turny Fally Room
- The Slide Room
- Firebelly Statue
- Skeleton Dance Parlor
- Bladesea Sailing Ship
- Steel Beast Throne Room
- Battlefield Execution
- Gold Egg Lure
- Funny Tea
- Break Your Mother’s Back
- Twisty Turny Dead End
- Hanging Crown Dining Hall
- Midas Chest
- Fleeing Golem
- Staircase of Hunger
- Shockfloor Crypt
- Skeletal Assembly Line
- Fallback Corridor
- Sepulcher of the Order of The Gavel
- The Wet Passage
- Blastdoor Room
The Magic Words System, & Magic in the Moment
- The Original Proposal
- Experiment 1
- Experiment 2
- Experiment 3
- System Modification: Spell Failure
- System Modification: Getting Rid of Spell Levels
- d100 Magic Words: General
- d100 Magic Words: Creatures & Evil
- d100 Magic Words: Body Parts & Simple Actions
- d100 Magic Words: Opposites & Evocation
- Better Magic Wands (+ d100 Magic Wands)
- Better Wizard Staves (+d100 Wizard Staves)
- Magic Laboratories
- One Year Retrospective of Magic Words in ORWA
- Two Years of Magic Words in ORWA
- Magic Words 2
- Magic Words Suck. Here’s Magic in the Moment.
- Armored Boys
- Clackers
- Buzzbeard
- Rotocula
- The Ugly Thing
- Arraku Arraku Arraku
- The Seamster
- NES Bestiary 1: Dragon Warrior
- NES Bestiary 2: Ninja Gaiden 2
- NES Bestiary 3: Castlevania
- NES Bestiary 4: Faxanadu
- Your Dragons Suck
- How I Construct Dragons
- The Miscreated Creatures Questions (Meta)
- The Miscreated Creatures Questions Applied to the Axe Beak
- (Pathfinder) Simonlefera, or “Cricket Wizard.”
- (Pathfinder) Female Rotocula
- (Pathfinder) Male Rotocula
- (Pathfinder) Goldtooth Mosquito
- (Pathfinder) Kolera, or Beetle People
- (Pathfinder) The Gourd Golem
- (Pathfinder) Fotavyon
- (Pathfinder) Octorok
- (Pathfinder) Draugr
- (Pathfinder) Bloody Avenger
- (Pathfinder) Corpse Sewn Hekatonkheires
- Magic Technology
- Guns in ORWA
- The Bonebarrow
- The Scepter Prison of Thing No Thing
- The Arm of Saint Lawrence
- The Doll That Loves Every Child
- The Trifold Parchment
- The Tragical History of the Live and Death of Doctor Faustus
- Four Christmas-Themed Magic Items
- Getting Weird with the Classics 1
- Getting Weird with the Classics 2
- Getting Weird with the Classics 3
- Getting Weird with the Classics 4
- 15 Movement-Based Magic Items
- The Box of Nails
- Replacing +1 Swords
- Figuratively +X Swords
- The Skull Censer
- Toy Boat
- Cloud Armor Ring
- Spell Lock Axe
- Hellfire Jar
- Deck of Illusions
- Hat of 5 Birds
- Silvertongue Ink
- Steedmaker Barding
- Glasstouch Dagger
- Succubic Shield
The Daughter of Tangled Corpses (Fiction)
- Oracle
- Inquisitor
- Cavalier
- Alchemist
- Wizard
- Sorcerer
- Rogue
- Ranger
- Paladin
- Monk
- Fighter
- Druid
- Cleric
- Bard
- Barbarian
- Overview of Pathfinder’s Skills: Introduction
- Acrobatics to Bluff
- Climb to Diplomacy
- Disable Device to Fly
- Handle Animal to Intimidate
- Knowledge and Linguistics
- Perception
- Perform to Ride
- Sense Motive to Spellcraft
- Stealth to Use Magic Device
- Conclusion
- Designing a Pathfinder Skill
- Crafting Weapons & Armor in Pathfinder