http://www.encounteraday.com A new RPG encounter, every Monday through Friday! Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I like the idea of minions which require two hits to kill, but it sacrifices a major strength of the minion concept: that the DM literally has to track nothing as far as hit points go for them. So here's an idea for 2-hit minions. 1. A standing minion which is hit ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2010/03/10/simple-2-hit-minions/ Fantasy Flight Games recently published the third edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and it's perhaps the most innovative roleplaying game I've ever seen (note that I qualify that statement; there are plenty of RPGs out there I haven't seen, and I'm sure some could give WHFRP3e a run for its ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/12/12/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-3rd-edition/ Today Encounter-a-Day's been around for two years. Thanks to everyone who's supported me over this endeavor! http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/27/two-years/ A while ago, someone on Twitter mentioned using shelf liner to keep dungeon tiles from sliding around. I thought I'd posted about it here, but I can't find that post so I guess I didn't. For those not familiar, shelf liner is a rubber material meant to line drawers and shelves ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/19/use-shelf-liner-to-show-your-dungeon-tiles-whos-boss/ Only three people entered the contest for the google wave invites, and I've just invited all of them. So congratulations to: Kenton Henry DeaconFrost Guy Russel I'll post their entries soon. http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/19/contest-results/ Thanks to The Last Rogue who tweeted about this awesome D&D 4e Combat Tracker. Some of you may know that I've previously endorsed Turn Wacher as my initiative tracker of choice. It's got a lot of great features, including some things which this new program lacks, but it's also got two ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/11/dd-4e-combat-tracker/ I've finally gotten some invites for Google Wave, and have been looking forward to this opportunity to run a contest. All you have to do to enter the contest is send me a D&D 4e monster based on a creature from Magic: The Gathering. Everyone may enter up to three times, ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/11/win-an-invitation-to-google-wave/ Not RPG related, but I think there's a sizable overlap between RPGers and board gamers, so... I'm quite proud to announce my Dominion Randomizer. It's called, cleverly enough, "Asmor's Dominion Tool." I know, I rock the casbah when it comes to names. It's optimized for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, and ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/04/random-encounters-twenty/ The 4e DMG2 debuted official rules for 'companion characters,' which are basically just monsters that work for the PCs. I've been doing similar things for a while, and have even used this concept as a replacement for an actual PC when I had a player (the ubiquitous tag-along-significant-other) who didn't ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/11/02/stunt-doubles-for-absentee-players/ Sometimes you're reading things online and you come upon an off-the-cuff comment that just deserves to be hoisted up and displayed to the world. For example, there might be a Good/Evil zero sum rule. So every demon that enters the world allows an angel to enter to balance him. Which btw ... http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/10/15/setting-seeds-zero-sum-game/