Panoptikontraband: hiding in plain sight

A blog about whatever, but mostly about tabletop role-playing games.

  • I really want to run: Hammerfast

    What it is: Hammerfast is a D&D 4 supplement by Mike Mearls. The setting is a Dwarven town somewhere in the Nentir vale (Where the Nentir vale is? No clue). Elevator pitch: A former necropolis filed with treasures turned fortress where dwarven and orcish ghosts roam the streets. What makes it interesting: I just love…

  • Why do I love Rolemaster?

    Rolemaster. Or Rulemaster. Or Rollmaster. Tables, tables everywhere. The butt of table jokes from all the cool roleplaying kids that play on that table over there since 1980. And one of my favourite systems. But why? To find out I guess we might have to go back a couple of years, to something like 1995.…

  • All quests are fetch quests

    Fetch quests: “A Fetch Quest is a subquest of the overreaching plot which must be completed in order to trigger a vital Event Flag. Find a key, save a kid lost in the cave, defeat the monster attacking the town, rescue the trapped workers, resolve an Adventure Town’s problem … each of these is a…

  • Name your mech part 2 – electric boogaloo

    After releasing this table into the wild, I got some feedback and decided to make it a bit more interesting. D20 roll First dice Second dice 1 Mountain- -Badger 2 Meadow- -Wolf 3 Fire- -Mouse 4 Torrent- -Reindeer 5 Urban- -Crow 6 Blossom- -Hyena 7 Alp- -Wraith 8 Shallow- -Cougar 9 Hill- -Goat 10 Crevasse-…

  • So you’ve got a mech and now you need to name it

    Having a mech is a big responisbility, you have to oil it, wrench it, make sure it’s cleaned, and have a lot of ammo. But to take some of the pressure off of you, here is a handy table to at least name your mech. Roll 2d10, apply one to the first column, and one…

  • A table of trees

    So you’ve lured your players out in the woods, you tell them they walk through the forest, and then someone has to ask “what kind of trees are there?” Well, don’t worry, here is a handy table of no less than 10 trees in the temperate zone: Roll 1d10 Tree 1 Oak 2 Birch 3…

  • A randomized writing prompt

    Wow that is a long title for what will probably be a short post. I got a tip over at dice.camp (It’s a mastodon server, check it out if you want to or don’t check it out I’m not the boss of you) for a command line shuffler that went through my ttrpg folder and…

  • I tried to play AD&D 2nd edition

    In my gaming, I like trying out new stuff, and often buy a product for a one-off session. Sometimes I happen to buy some old stuff to try out as well. I never got into D&D until 3rd edition. My group in the late 90’s played an unholy bastardization of BRP, AD&D and the Swedish…

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