Category Archives: Gaming Tools & Accessories

Some Useful Links for Starship Adventures

Traveller Geomorphs: For Traveller Deckplans (using Paint.net). http://gurpsland.no-ip.org/geomorphs/#Archives Yet Another Traveller Blog: For even more deckplans. https://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/search?q=deck+plan Colonial Chrome: For lots of top-down drawings of speeders, fighters, and starships from Star Wars. https://www.deviantart.com/colonialchrome/gallery/all 2nd Dynasty: For 3d printable starships and … Continue reading

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Star Wars D6: Zipped ship trading cards

We’re starting a new Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) campaign using West End Games old Star Wars rpg (1987). The ships are pretty unfamiliar to me, so I’ve put together two sets of trading cards for the types of … Continue reading

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541 CY: Berkam Shem’s Spellbook (Judge’s Guild Dark Tower)

Here is the spellbook that Berkam Shem had in our Dark Tower campaign.

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Potions and Their Appearance in D&D1E

In our Greyhawk campaign, I wanted to make potions a bit more interesting than just naming them, so I added descriptions of their taste, smell, appearance, etc. so that players would have something to help them guess what they were, … Continue reading

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Making Digital Miniatures

I’ve always preferred miniatures to tokens, so I make my own digital miniatures. I’m sharing my current method for doing that here. Hope you find it useful! First, find a cool mini. I’m currently running an adventure in Faerie, so … Continue reading

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On using Minis, not Tokens, for Online Games

I’ve been making minis for use in Roll20 for a long time now, thanks to my friend Rainer, who showed me how. 200×200 pixels PNGs, edited in Paint.Net, with a 3 pixel surround of 50% (Effects/Outline Objects). Ray Otus posted … Continue reading

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Costs & Prices in Athas (Dark Sun), Excel/XLS file

One of the campaigns we are playing in is based in Athas, and I wanted a big price lists that I could understand. So I’ve reduced all prices to one denomination, which I think is in ceramic pieces. Help me … Continue reading

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Magic-user Spellbook Generator for AD&D 1e (in Excel)

When a party kills an evil mage, or when a thief steals a mage’s spellbook, a random spellbook generator can be very handy. I did this for Pathfinder wizards in 2014, and now that I’m running a 1e campaign, I … Continue reading

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Roll20: Finally some Character Portraits of Color

I create all my own minis for Roll20 using pictures of actual minis or character portraits. The residents of my world Navah do not discriminate by skin color, and there is a lot more color in the population. Unfortunately, there … Continue reading

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So you want to run a horror RPG…

Originally posted on Luciella Elisabeth Scarlett:
My contribution to the first volume of the Uncaged anthology is Galateya’s Will, a horror-themed adventure based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. In the introduction to the adventure I mention the use of safety…

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