Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Table Tuesday

It's Ten-sided [dice] Table Tuesday! Here's three dice tables for your Game Mastering convenience.

 

1d10 only situationally useful magical items

For fostering ingenuity and/or populating the back of the archmagician's wardrobe.

  1. Circlet of Tartar Control
  2. Belt of Expertise With Monkey Bars
  3. Bag of Dehydrated Oozes
  4. Ancestral Spirit Blade of Somebody Not Yet Born
  5. Animated Bucket of Sandcastle Making
  6. Epaulettes of Depilation
  7. Boots of Walking Up 45 Degree Slopes
  8. Amulet of Protection Against Boors
  9. Sword of Being Sundered
  10. Movable Rod

  

Enchanted sword with coiled salamander.


1d10 fresh mysteries

To hand your players when everything gets unexpectedly resolved and you're in a pinch for content.

  1. Someone woke up invisible today, only fades in slowly
  2. The temple is doubling your tithes
  3. Who stole the horseshoes off your steeds?
  4. Those bodies you left strewn about vanished overnight
  5. The moon has changed colour
  6. Your guide was an illusion the whole time
  7. All the bed frames in this inn are altar-stones
  8. Sudden glut of impossibly cheap spices in market
  9. Various signs of a persistently-nonexistent secret door
  10. Urgent yet cryptic message from a patron divinity

 

All signs point to a secret door being discovered behind a tapestry.

1d10 strange allies

For dispensing sage counsel, showing up when all seems lost, giving clues, or being piteously in need of help.

  1. Sealed terrarium of hyperintelligent moss with questions about the world
  2. White-haired retired crimelord with huge family
  3. Gloomy intelligent enchanted shovel with unfulfilled destiny
  4. Human-shaped mass of solar plasma in need of a friend
  5. Trio of cursed gourmands at table they cannot rise from
  6. Charismatic leader of uprising amongst sorcerously-created henchthings
  7. Very bored dark magician entombed in ice, speaking telepathically
  8. Ascetic anteater monk on strict regimen of single ant per day
  9. Abominable flesh-heap once worshipped as evil god, now exploring spoken word poetry traditions 
  10. Hivemind of swamp damselflies communicating through coordinated flight patterns

Fighter having a chat with a friendly gentleman.

Illustrations by Gordy H.

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

The First RPG Ever Published in 2025

It occurred to me that living in New Zealand (GMT+13) means a shot at being the first to publish a TTRPG in 2025.

So here it is.

Small Medium At Large. Book cover.

 

The premise

SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE is a mystery puzzle-based role-playing game for two players. Play as a small, psychic cat burglar and the specialised anti-psychic hired to hunt them down.

 

The background

Usually, of course, the REGIONAL CONSTABULARY simply hire a MEDIUM to solve any given crime. But this time, a MEDIUM is the perpetrator, and is muddying the PSYCHIC AETHER to cover their tracks. What's needed is a CLAIRVOYANT whose third eye can still see when things are UNCLEAR.

An UNCLEARVOYANT, in fact.

 

The game

This is a joke but also an actual game I made, and published at 12:45 AM, January 1, 2025, New Zealand time. Until I hear otherwise from my competitors in the Republic of Kiribati, I am declaring it to be The First TTRPG Of 2025.

You can check it out here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/507211/SMALL-MEDIUM-AT-LARGE

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