Encounter-a-Day

Just wanted to spread the word about this 4e Style Guide put together by Icosahedrophilia. Helps maintain consistency without having to constantly reference the books and see how WotC did things.

MPTW (Formerly: MonkeyPirate TiddlyWiki) is absolutely amazing for making campaign sites. The really key feature to it is TagglyTagging. What’s TagglyTagging? Well, I could tell you, but it’s a lot easier to show you. Here’s the site for a campaign I ran last year.
See that gorgeous, hierarchical menu? How much time do you think I [...]

Just wanted to pass this along in case someone finds it useful.
Via freewaregenius, Storybook is some free, open source software specifically made for organizing plots. It has features to keep track of plot threads, characters, locations, who was where when, etc. Check out freewaregenius for a more in-depth review.
Seems like it would be useful for [...]

I’m considering running a western-fantasy D&D game, and what are cowboys without their guns?
New weapon qualities
Clip: After making an attack with a weapon with the clip property, roll the indicated die; if you roll a 1, the weapon is out of ammo and must be reloaded. Weapons with the clip property will always also have [...]

I’ve got some really good news for those of you who aren’t as big a fan of Windows as I am.
I’ve had two people confirm to me that Monster Maker seems to be working under the latest release of Mono on Linux. Presumably, this means it should work on Macs as well. I have no [...]

One day, the PCs find an old doll while exploring an abandoned house. Whoever first touches the doll becomes cursed.
From then on, the doll will randomly appear around the cursed character, regardless of any precautions they may take against it. Destroying the doll or locking it away does not help.
When the doll makes an appearance, [...]