Sails and Stars

"Intergalactic Bastionland" (the future child of Electric Bastionland) has sparked my imagination. From Chris's blog: The general concept for the Living Stars is: It’s not like real space.Everything is changing and moving.Each star represents something, has an agenda, and the means to act on it. That first bullet point has me chomping at the bit. Bending the …

Electric Bastionland: The Rival Clock

I feel like this Rivalry would end in an "Indy shoot-out." No gun beats a djinn... Twenty days since the last post. Finals, moving, and many, many, papers behind me. A whole summer ahead! I can't, CAN'T, CANNOT stop reading Electric Bastionland (EB). The flavor, the three-pointed lists, the artwork! It's all delicious and I …

Open Table Game: Electric Bastionland

13 articles were published here last month. Whew! So what's fun about Electric Bastionland is the built-in group premise: You have a Debt to pay off with Treasure. Great, love it. I would like to make it bigger. Give it a more dramatic context that can incorporate lots of people instead of a handful of …

“Belly of the Fishy Beast” gets a makeover

It must be Christmas here in the Dragonslayer Domain. Last post, I made a digital copy of an example dungeon I made using Maze Rats. Quick and easy... And sloppy. The dungeon went from this: To this And now, by the graces of @Licopeo on the Questing Beast Discord server, this: Here is a link …

Ask the Dragonslayer #2: Example Single Sheet Adventure

Let's get to it! I love maze rats as a concept for intro/quicker type gameplay! I have a sixth-grader and some other noobs that I would love to introduce to the game, but I don't know what to do for the dungeon(size, #creatures, strength, features, etc). Is it possible to get some info/stats on the …

Growing the Habit of “Making”

Technically, this is a "one-page adventure." To get that "next level" of GMing, you need to make your own adventures. To get good at making adventures, you need to make a lot of them. I've been reading Atomic Habits, a book on building reliable, healthy patterns of doing things to ensure incremental growth. The idea …

Middle-Earth Adventures

Campfires, man. Magical. Last time, I was working on a Landshut hack set in Tolkien's universe of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This time, I'm continuing my work after a couple of realizations (and some reading): The Mirkwood Campaign can only be mined for ideas at best. The "adventures" in there are …