4Ward/FrankenFourth: Age of Worms, Episode 110

Cast Adair (level 3 elf war cleric) Humal (level 3 wrathful cambion wizard) Sumia (level 3 elf rogue/ranger) Summary Tracking the lizardmen through the Mistmarsh was the easy part: they’d clearly taken no effort to conceal their course, sticking to elevated ground whenever they could, and the party discovered their den by the end of […]

Dungeon World: 10+ Treasure Vault

10+ Treasure Vault features every magic item from our 10+ Treasures line, plus various magic items drawn from our numerous Dungeon World classes, for a grand total of 174. It’s also in full-color, with a bunch of new illustrations, advice on making your own magic items (which we’ve put in every magic item book), and some tables to […]

A Sundered World: Color Hardcovers Are Available!

In addition to color- and B&W-softcover, A Sundered World is now also available in hardcover-color format (the hardcover B&W is on its way). If you purchased the pdf and want a print-at-cost discount link for the hardcover color version, email me (otherwise, wait until the other ones are available). If you bought it via DriveThruRPG, make sure your […]

Dungeons & Delvers: Bandit Blockhouse Stress Test

Going back to basics (so we can further stress-test numbers, and try out staggered skill and talent gains), we created a new batch of 1st-level characters (based on minis the kids picked out from our kind-of local game store) and sent them over to a small fort occupied by bandits. Things went more or less […]

A Sundered World: More Character Stuff Preview 3

For this preview of whatever we’re going to call our player-centric expansion for A Sundered World, I’m going to talk about what’s in store for the cthon race. For starters, we’re adding level 6-10 “crit” (ie, 12+) effects for some of the 2-5 essence moves, so an essence of lightning cthon can have its lightning […]

4Ward/FrankenFourth: Age of Worms, Episode 109

Cast Adair (level 3 elf war cleric) Hedris (level 3 greedy cambion warlord) Humal (level 3 wrathful cambion wizard) Sumia (level 3 elf rogue/ranger) Summary The scroll they discovered in the bowels of the Ebon Triad’s temple had instructed one of the priests to send agents to the Mistmarsh. Apparently, whoever had written it believed […]

Dungeons & Delvers: A Giant Playtest

Melissa wanted to try a higher-level Dungeons & Delvers playtest, so I bumped everyone up to 5th-level, gathered up just some of my giant minis (I left out fire and frost giants…for now), and ran them through something that might be kinda like Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (which I’ve kinda read but never played). […]

FrankenFourth: Taking Hits

Though FrankenFourth is based on various parts of various editions of Dungeons & Dragons, when it comes to armor it uses a model similar to that of Dungeon World, Numenera, and I’m sure many other games: armor reduces the damage you take when an attack connects (while shields prevent you from getting hit at all). Currently armor ratings range […]

Dungeons & Delvers: Meet the (Kobold) Cleric

It just so happens that the cleric art features another kobold, but since I already talked about kobolds here we can just skip straight to the cleric-y bits. The high concept for a cleric is basically what you’d expect: they’re servants of various gods that can channel various divine powers. The difference is that they don’t […]

4Ward/FrankenFourth: Age of Worms, Episode 108

Cast Adair (level 3 elf war cleric) Humal (level 3 wrathful cambion wizard) Sumia (level 3 elf rogue) Summary After spending several days recuperating, the party returned to the Ebon Triad’s temple. To say that it was in disarray would have been a vast understatement: the elevator was destroyed, forcing them to climb down hundreds […]