Looks like your humble host is going to be working in San Francisco for the month of March.  If any reader out there has some time and could shoot me an email about the gaming scene, or maybe wants to get together with a poor wayfaring stranger hit me...

Doors are both boring and time consuming.  I really didn’t want to do them, but they are probably the single most important feature in the dungeon, so it had to be done.  After fiddling around with a bunch of designs for self opening doors that didn’t really work, I...

Here’s a quick and dirty little project to spruce up a dungeon – an enchanted garden full of mysterious and arcane fauna that should give the players some interesting things with which to interact.  Some may want to kill the characters, some to talk to them, and they may...

Relax, it’s not a Patreon call.  These ten support columns are cheap found items glued to washers. They are called wooden dowel pins, and you can find them online or at any local hardware store.  In the hands of a woodworker, they would be used to pin wood joints...

The two simple beds now have plain spun sheets and rather harsh looking pillows.  The sheets are facial tissue stiffened with watered down white glue, and the pillows are simple squares of cardstock.   Easy peasy A few more accutrements for the wizard’s amusement.  The not-a-palantir-honest on the left is...

My dungeon corridors are really wide.  At 2.5 inches from wall to wall, that equates to 12.5 feet using the scale in common use today.  What to do when you want to force characters to march single file?   Making separate tiles for bottlenecks doesn’t appeal, so instead I...

There are a few tidy little dungeon mapping software tools out there online, but none of them were quite what I needed for my simple little Castle Meatgrinder Maps.  With a limited tile set available, I needed something digital that would allow me to drop them in place and...

No wizard’s workshop would be complete without plenty of quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore. There’s some jars of unguents, spices, and weird skin creams mixed in with arcane copper devices and scroll tubes.  The dribs and drabs of hot glue that clung to the shelves despite my best...

Couple more pieces of furniture ready for the movers.  Another boring table for four, this one a bit smaller than the last, and pretty sweet wizard’s work table. The base of that table on the left looks pretty blah.  I’ll have to gray it up a bit to lower...

Oh, Cirsova, I wish I knew how to quit you. My RPG style has been regressing over the years.  The last time out it was pure 5e glory with the RPG elements in full blown glory, and the wargamey aspects utilized to the hilt.  When I run games the...