This is a reposting of an article I originally wrote for the Mox Boaring House website. How to use tarot or playing cards to generate “standard” RPG ability scores. Dungeons and Dragons has long used random dice rolls for determining…
Cosmonomicon Revisted
I’ve done some additional thinking on the 5th Edition Cosmonomicon D&D setting. I’ve recently reposted here on this site, but I originally wrote for the Mox Boarding House back in 2015, so I’ve had some time dwell on it a…
Cosmonomicon Repost
This is a repost of an article originally posted on the Mox Boarding House / Card Kingdom website from late 2015. I’ve always loved flying ships in my D&D. I own a copy of the 2nd Edition D&D SpellJammer setting.…
Let’s Build a Celestial Warlock
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything brings many new options to D&D 5th Edition, but it was the Celestial Pact Warlock which really got my attention. All the fun of a Hex throwing, Eldritch Blasting, Ritual casting Tome Warlock but with access…
Reposting: Ride That Dark Loathsome Highway Feng Shui 2 Starting Adventure
Reposting… It looks like Mox Boarding House has updated their website, and in the process a lot the content I made for them has vanished. I’ve had a request to repost some of it, and thankfully I retain the rights…
Let’s Make a Better 5th Edition Warlock
This is my second take on making a Warlock for 5th edition. Last time I did this, it was an exercise in learning 5th edition by building a character for the first time. Two years later, I’d like to look…
The Doom Which Comes For Rock City!
Random Fate Game Idea Time! The Doom Which Comes For Rock City! You’re an unsigned rock band, and you’ve managed score an invite to a legendary Battle of the Bands in the heart of Detroit. Of course so have those…
Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Game of the Galaxy
In honor of Towel Day, how about a quickly thrown together Fate game of gonzo slapstick science fiction, for when you want to play around in Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy stories? Before we get any farther, I…
The Return of John Blake
In a previous post, I invented a John Woo inspired player character for The Strange named John Blake. The character was created as a starting Tier 1 Earth-born, but I went on to list probable foci for various other recursions.…
Fate’s Unlabeled Hostile Invocations
Hostile Invocation is a term applied to a part of Fate Core’s mechanics that is often overlooked, but can be a very powerful tool for aiding the fate point economy. It’s a concept that is actually included in the core…