On Hiatus

It’s been a good year.  By breaking things up more than normal, I’ve been able to produce content every other day for the first quarter of 2016.  Unfortunately, it is probably going to be a while before anything else appears in this space.  My month long business trip is...

The Pool Room

Rooms full of weird pools meant to tempt, trap, lure, and reward adventurers go all the way back to those halcyon days of B-effing-1, In Search of the Unknown.  That was back when TSR didn’t sell adventurers to follow, they sold modules to explore and use to create your own...

Temporary Storage Solution

One of my Christmas gifts to myself was this great box.  It had personal hygiene products in it, but I’m a gamer, so did what gamers do and threw that in the garbage.  This box, though.  Sliding top, solid wood, pretty swanky.  At some point I will need to...

Mirror Mirror In the Hole

Still on the road, so just a quick hit today.  For those of you that haven’t figured it out yet, my posts are scheduled weeks in advance.  As you read these words, I am cooling my heels working in San Francisco for a month.  While I’m gone, please enjoy...

Puzzle Room

Imagine your characters walking into a large chamber dominated by this thing. The top is simply a 10mm wizard courtesy the fine folks over at Irregular Miniatures.  The base is part of a Kid’s Meal toy that’s been bopping around the bits box for years.  I always knew it...

The Iron Cage

Here’s a nice and versatile dungeon feature. It could be a cage trap set to drop on the unwary.  It could be a cage containing a rare and expensive monster that, whoops – the party just stepped on a release mechanism and now it’s escaped.  Or it could contain...

Another War In A Box

Inspirational!  From poster Teardrop World over at the Lead Adventure Forums, check out this fun approach to a war in a box: This is just a peek – check out the full thread (link) for a lot more pictures with a lot more detail....

Another Field Report

South of San Francisco, in the sleepy downtown San Bruno, you can find a loverly little game shop called Heretic Games. Warning to you mutants and chaos-tainted types, the store is watched over by one of the Emperor’s  faithful.  Standing around six and half feet tall, he’s more of...

Spear Trap

Another quickie for your lookie.  A wall of spears that leap out at adventurers who don’t exercise enough caution.   This dungeon feature looks a bit rickety on its own, but it was built to fit over the “walls” of the 2.5D dungeon, like so. You may have noticed...

Stonefall Trap

Inspired by a hallway in The Goonies, this heavy stone block is apt to fall from any ceiling without warning.  It’s actually modelled wrong.  It needs to have a hook in the top for a support rope, rather than crossed ropes which would be obvious to bypassers, but it...