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A couple of years ago I participated in my first Fate RPG campaign, where I played a dashing, swashbuckling-type character named Tānetotapahi: a foreign sailor gifted with the sight and the sword. I found myself struggling at the table to find interesting ways to describe my character in combat, beyond simple statements like I attack Continue reading Free Fate RPG Resource: Fate Swashbuckling…
Lately I ve been creating some general resources for GMing various TTRPGs. Previously, I shared tables for Dwarf Names and Elf Names. Here s my curated name table for Goblins. d66 Goblin Names d66 Male Female Surname 1 1 Blot Axna Bittybitey 2 Borg Bogna Blackbelly 3 Buglit Borb Boneshank 4 Deeb Bree Bristlebrush 5 Driz Burk Continue reading Free Fantasy Table: d66 Goblin Names
Lately I ve been creating some general resources for GMing various TTRPGs. Previously, I shared my curated table of d66 Dwarf Names. Here s another curated name table, this time for Elves. d66 Elf Names d66 Male Female Surname 1 1 Angalad Aladril Brightblade 2 Anoran Allindis Broadroot 3 Anwe Amariel Dawnflower 4 Arandir Amelas Deeproot 5 Continue reading Free Fantasy Table: d66 Elf Names
Lately I ve been building out my collection of homebrew rules and resources for GMing various TTRPGs. Specifically, I ve spent a lot of time curating some good ol random name tables, and I figured I d share them here as I make them. d66 Dwarf Names d66 Male Female Surname 1 1 Baldin Bera Axebane 2 Barli Continue reading Free Fantasy Table: d66 Dwarf Names
I started miniature painting back in 2023, and previously posted a catch-up post of the minis I painted in 2023. Continuing my journey into miniature painting, here s another catch-up post capturing what I painted in 2024. Mini #9: First Tree I started the year wanting to branch out and try building something from scratch. I ve Continue reading Learning to Paint Miniatures Part III: 2024
When I started painting miniatures back in 2023, I had grandiose plans to regularly blog my journey into the hobby. Obviously those posts never happened, but I actually have been painting this whole time, and have thoroughly enjoyed the new creative outlet. And while I didn t post my progress in real-time, I did get in Continue reading Learning to Paint Miniatures Part II: Ending 2023
A couple of years ago I got back into playing TTRPGs, and made a project out of making my perfect dice set. The goal was to source a set that would meet both my aesthetic and practical requirements as a TTRPG player. I wanted one set to rule them all , so I could play lots Continue reading Making my perfect dice set, part 2
Diceriffic is a simple polyhedral dice rolling app I wrote for Android. It looks similar to a simple calculator, and is now available in the Play store: Diceriffic Apps on Google Play. Like most software I write, it s completely open-source (see the source on GitHub here: https://github.com/jonthysell/Diceriffic). I wrote the app in TypeScript using Continue reading Diceriffic now available for…
In 2014, I built a bar-top arcade machine powered by a Raspberry Pi running RetroPie. The cabinet was a kit from an early Kickstarter, and I wrote about my experience, including my personal mods on the design, in a series of blog posts starting here: Building the Picade Mini Part I Now it s 2024 and, Continue reading Revisiting the Picade in 2024
I used to play Dungeons and Dragons in high school and college, but I eventually left the hobby as it took up too much of my free time. Now, some twenty years later, after the isolation of the pandemic and lots of Zoom fatigue , I thought some face-to-face tabletop role-playing might be fun to pick Continue reading Making my perfect dice set
