Bard of Valiant

Taverns are a staple of many fantasy games. Roll 2d6-1 and pick one of these encounters for this week’s game.

When the players walk in, everyone at each table in the common room is drinking through straws from a bucket in the center of the table.
Every inn and tavern in the town stops serving drinks at [...]

Much has been written about how to make holidays matter in your game. as this article on strange Sunday laws illustrates, one of the more common things about religion is its need to legislate activities on holy days.
Here’s a table to pick a strange law for your festival, adapted from those laws. Roll 1d12:

Dominoes may [...]

The Junkyard Intranet was created for Deadlands but these tools could easily be adapted to any post-apocalyptic game.
Clicking on the orange arrow next to the label Random Stuff lets you choose among several random generators including a settlement creator and one to generate a pile of junk.
These are very well done. The Settlement Generator includes [...]

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No matter what level of magic you’ve chosen for your campaign, any wizard’s study is going to need bookshelves. Here’s a nifty generator based on Dungeon Magazine 135.
Here is an example of the results you can get:

Numerous display bottles labeled “danger” lie shattered here, some with fresh, we trails of goo leading from [...]

HTTrack – Saving Cool Sites
You find the coolest site for gaming EVER. You bookmark it. You read it religiously for several weeks then… life intervenes. You get buys. You spend less time online and don’t check back for several months. Finally, things calm down again but… it’s GONE!
How many times has that happened to you? [...]

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Even if religion doesn’t play a huge part in your game world, people have the ability to convince themselves of almost anything. Someone will see God. Somewhere. Make a little event of it as tourists and pilgrims from everywhere flock to the site of the appearance.
Whether or not the sighting was real…. well, [...]

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Familiars for wizards are very… yeah, familiar. But NPCs rarely have much besides other NPCs, whether other allies or just hired guns. Make an NPC a bit more memorable by giving him a pet.
63% of the American population own pets and I’d bet numbers are similar for other developed countries. [...]

Superheroes tend to be iconic and sometimes rather flat and Wolverine, cool as he is – is no exception. So I was thrilled to see all this alternate art for Wolverine Appreciation Month over at Marvel.
As I looked over these pictures, I tried to imagine the personality behind them and once again realized how much [...]

This will be the last “links collection”. In the future, I’ll highlight posts that can be used concretely as individuals instead of in large groups like this. This will allow me to post on a “theme” each day instead of trying to group everything together in a mess.

I’ve always been envious of those who are [...]

Cross-genre, or crossover games are very popular. One of the more common are cyberpunk/goth games but almost anything can be crossed for an original setting and game that is fresh and new. Recently, I stumbled across a new game called “In a Wicked Age” that seems tailored for just this.
The RPGNet Review: In A Wicked [...]