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  I realized something recently and thought I should share. For d&d type monsters I always roll for HP the moment they first get hit. This has worked fine and sped things up however it didn’t save much time for high HD monsters, I now realized I can just roll one HD at a time and then simply roll the next HD when the current one gets depleted by a hit. Not groundbreaking but something I haven’t seen discussed before. I hope this helps you.

So I run an open table D&D game for a youth center. I got myself a notion that I had two months before I was gonna be running a game so I might as well try doing some daily dungeon keying and by the time I had to run a game then I’d have something sizable to run for the folks at the youth center, an d I could keep expanding it until I had a full megadungeon to one day release. I started brainstorming and decided on a general outline of the dungeon I came to this general premise The Burrow: heavily overgrown complex that while technically underground is only so by a foot or two of topsoil and has enough cave ins that natural light isn't unheard of ????: more standard dungeon, no strong theme but heavy aesthetic contrast with the barrows above with darkness and no greenery. The Grand Ossuary: massive catacomb complex teeming with undead. The caves of prehistory: like cavemen and shit can be found here, decidedly natural as opposed to the two prior levels, heavy focus on ...

you cannot have a meaningful hexcrawl ... if strict attention is not paid to the weather and seasons Hex crawls are games where time is currency. You spend a single day moving a distance, consuming resources as needed. The next day you do the same, and this repeats until you decide to stop for whatever reason. As one crawls through the hexes they can find interesting locations, and stumbles upon random encounters. What people rarely factor into hex crawling is how weather can change the situation. If you encounter 2d20 bandits in the woods in the middle of a snow storm it can radically change their goals. My prepping procedures for hexcrawls Create a hex map composed of 1 mile hexes. Create a greater hex layer over the top that is composed of 6 mile hexes. For each greater 6 mile hex pregenerate a year's worth of weather Write down all the weather in a big fucking almanac and reference it as need be for the rest of the campaign. If you run out of weather, do it all again. ...

     The worlds of d&d and other such derivatives are deeply sexless. This is of course not saying that sex cannot happen, it does in many tables and I am sure they have a great deal of fun pretending to have penises and vaginas getting wet and or hard in the many wonderful ways that can happen. However, there is regardless a lack of sex, to me many of the worlds do not feel lived in if sex is not somehow part of it, even though I have zero interest in roleplaying any form of sex in RPGs.      There have been many attemps at fixing this deep sexlessness, and these attempts fall into two main categories, these categories are as follows A Seattle based polycule has released a book full of magical whats its like magical cock rings or contresceptive spells A man who is on the verge of getting a restraining order filed against him by every woman in a 300 mile radius releases a book about all the ways you can circumvent consent and also writes a spell called ...

     When I run games I often wonder what will be the defining feature of the campaign. Having a moment or idea that defines the campaign can lead to a strong and satisfying narrative understanding of the campaign for everyone involved.      For me, however, this sort of setup isn't easily achieved. I like games where the players, are the parts of a larger whole, not the sort of people who shake the foundation of the world unless they have really earned it. On top of that, I value player character agency above all else, instead of having a set adventure path ready I have many many possibilities prepped and ready to be encountered.     One may ask how do you get a strong defining aspect of a game that you are unsure of even the most basic outcomes of, and for that, I have made the bombshell method.     A bombshell is an event that radically changes how the world functions, this can be infrastructural, political, supernatural, scientific, ...