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Draft Goblin Market page / handout from the Treasure Overhaul. Special deal, toady only.
29.01.2026 23:36 — 👍 41 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Jinns, magic, shipwrecks, thrills, adventure, and 1000 elephants!
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I like to include little mistakes like that as copy protection (is what I tell myself). 😁
Druidic magic items are a bit tricky, conceptually, but I think this is a pretty solid list.
24.01.2026 01:00 — 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
The Summons chapter of the Treasure Overhaul is available for free on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/monste... 100 of the weirdest entities in the OSR, ready to help your players solve problems in unconventional ways (or trade one problem for an exciting new problem).
11.01.2026 23:06 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One day!
21.12.2025 02:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Automata chapter of the Treasure Overhaul is now available on Patreon. 3 compact pages of steampunk / cogfop / weird west / inadvisably advanced technology goodness.
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Was it this?
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More math! More charts! More "it depends, but..." procedures.
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Want a compact 3-page dungeon generator? Get it on Patreon:
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Empty rooms, traps, special rooms, room treasure, and plenty of helpful tips, all in a highly compressed utility-focused format.
Ooh, and it has a technical name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canitie...
28.11.2025 03:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Off the top of my head, I can push that back to 1835:
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Cover shot of The Monster Overhaul, A Practical Bestiary by Skerples
Interior shot of The Monster Overhaul depicting a maniacal magic-slinging eye tyrant above the chapter heading: “A Wizard Did It!”
At last, I have acquired another legendary tome for my library. 📚
The Monster Overhaul, A Practical Bestiary by @skerples.bsky.social is what all manner of monster manuals wish to be when they grow up. 👹
#bestiary #monstermanual #ttrpg #ttrpgs
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
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To check out the graph directly follow this link:
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🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
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I played a board game and I'm mad about it.
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I played a board game and I'm mad about it.
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It's been long enough since I read it, and in a probably out-of-date translation, that I have no definite thoughts. A comment pointed out that it's a plausible influence, but that it a) has minimal influence on Oriental Adventures b) gets a writeup in Dragon 54 by Joseph Ravitts.
16.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I reviewed every adventure in the book back in 2020
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They're well worth using. And $9! An absolute steal.
Theoretically, the PCs could enter room A, grab the lucky high-roll treasure, leave, level up, return, enter room B, grab the second high-value treasure, etc. But this would require the PCs not to push their luck, the GM to be lenient, and no restocking.
15.11.2025 06:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0True, but too much treasure is less of a problem than too little treasure, thanks to the XP cap. "A character should never be given enough XP in a single adventure to advance more than one level of experience." Since mundane gear is cheap, it only really affects hirelings and side projects.
15.11.2025 06:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It seems that both B/X and M&TA are using a capped system for jewellery values, instead of AD&D's upgrading/runaway system. AD&D and M&TA are segregated (one type of treasure/coin per result), B/X is additive (base of silver + chance of gold + chance of magic items).
14.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Resembles, but isn't the same. I think M&T is using its own methodology. Here's Level 5. Many more magic items than in either AD&D or B/X, and some of the entries are doubled up.
14.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@icastlight.bsky.social OK, here's the Level 1 table in the same format. It's not pre-rolled AD&D results (the values are off) and it's heavily coin-weighted.
14.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It is tricky to balance with the "low chance / high value" option in the mix. Sure, X rooms at Y average value is easy enough... but if 5% of rooms are somewhere between 20x and 50x the average value... And if the PCs miss that one room...
14.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Getting lots of use out ofthis post
icastlight.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-... by @icastlight.bsky.social and Lungfungus' tables.
More charts! I'm looking into various "room treasure" tables. Once again, the average value is misleading. Gems + jewellery dominate if present.
14.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
What can you infer about OD&D if you ignore its actual influences?
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OD&D by the book. Peril, plans, a fortuitous Hydra, and some very luck rolls.
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OD&D by the book. Peril, plans, a fortuitous Hydra, and some very luck rolls.
