RPG a Day 19

Favorite Published Adventure: You mean people play these straight and not just mine them for ideas? No probably my favorite I have run was a portion of the Adventure published with the Wheel of Time campaign setting, perhaps that was because I was devouring the available book while the game happening.

Ones I would like to run or play in. Princes of the Apocalypse by Wizards, old school modules such as Ravenloft or Temple of Elemental Evil. It would be fun to adapt the Red and Pleasant Land as well.

Favorite Supers RPG: Never really played one. Marvel and DC are interesting but tangential to most of my interests. 

Anime has over the top hero's and characters and I have played BESM once, and would be interested in playing OVA in an over the top campaign.

Crazy Hair Random Table

Roll d10 for color  (d4 for common colors) 1. White 2. Blond 3. Brown 4. Black 5. Red 6. Blue 7. Green 8. Purple 9. Orange/ Yellow 10. Rainbow

Roll d12 for Style or Quirk (you may roll twice, d6 for more normal) 1. Straight 2. Curly 3. Short 4. Long 5. Shaved 6. Roll twice 7. Braided 8. Spiked 9. Swooped up 10. Constantly Moving 11. Super Bangs 12. Huge If you roll two things that contradict great. A mullet is someone who rolled short and long.

Note: I have found Pinterest to be of use when bookmarking. I tend to be visual so seeing an image is quicker recognition of the link. So I do try to include an image in each post. Most are generated by me if not credited, and by generated I mean either in a graphics program or by a camera. Museums are great when they have diorama's to photograph.

RPG a day 14

Best convention purchase: I have been to half a dozen anime conventions, one steampunk convention, but never a gaming convention. As for the conventions I have been, to I really like my LastWear Neo-Hakama pants (sadly they are out of business), there are just far too few opportunities wear it.

Random tables for you on clothing

Multiple Clothing Styles (d4) 1. Everyone wears the same thing 2. Class distinction in clothing 3. Gender distinction in clothing 4. Class and gender distinctions	Clothing Material (d6) roll 1d2 times 1. leather 2. cotton (d2 1 fine/ 2 corse) 3. linnen 4. felt 5. wool 6. unusual fabric	Clothing Cut (d4) 1. loose cut 2. fitted 3. bifurcated 4. un-bifurcated
Clothing Patterns (d12) 1. small border patterns only 2.muted Large central patterns 3.muted all over patterns 4.vibrant large central patterns 5.vibrant all over patterns 6.wild clashing patterns 7.nature patterns 8.no patterns 9.gradient patterns 10.embroidered patterns only 11. roll twice 12. roll for specific symbol here	Clothing Traits (d8) 1. revealing 2. conservative 3.vests 4. pleats 5. gathers 6. tied 7. clasped 8. asymmetrical	Clothing Colors (d6) roll 1d2 times 1. tans 2. browns 3. blacks 4. off white 5. 1d2 bright colors 6. 1d6 bright colors Bright colors (d6) 1. red 2. yellow 3. orange 4. blue 5. green 6. purple

Favorite RPG Accessory:

My favorite right now is my newest. The RPG bookmarks set shown above. Good bookmarks are a lot of fun.

RPG a Day Day 6

Last year I thought about doing the RPG a Day but did not do so. So this year I will and will answer questions related to both last year and this year.


Favorite RPG never get to play: Many of them really. I think one that I really like from a character build point of view is Maid RPG. However to play it seems to require some knowledge of Japanese Maid culture and how the RPG lampoon's it. It is romantic comedy in flavor and really would be hard to find a group to play with. I love the tables that have you describe your character's physical and mental insecurities, and color scheme. It also introduced me to d66 style tables, which are a great way of using common dice for random tables of more than 6 things (36 to be exact)

Imports/ Exports (roll 2d6)

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	wood	metal	stone	salt	chemical	animal
2	education	leisure	transport	communication	soldiers	medical
3	metalwork	woodwork	paper/books	clothing	fabric	leather
4	grain	meat	sugar	vegetables	fruit	oil
5	alcohol	fermented foods	preserved foods	dairy	eggs	tools
6	specialty items	beurocrats	soap	pottery	art	roll twice

Most Recent RPG played: Star Wars: Edge of Empire. I recently mentioned that I believe. 

I have a nice set of coins to use for credits to.


As one of our group just had a new baby come to the family, our schedule is a bit in flux for regular game nights. Hence part of the discussion of buying Fantasy Grounds. While my brother lives near town it is still a 30-40 minute drive each way, and with kids and babies that becomes more time than is easy to allot on a regular basis.

Day 5

My most old school RPG owned: Well Star Wars d6 is old school Star Wars, but most of the time this is referring to the OSR (Old School Renaissance of Dungeons and Dragons editions). I have downloaded several rule sets but have not played any. I do really like 5th edition and would much rather convert old school to 5th edition at this time.

However when it comes to adventures, blogs and other materials. I do quite enjoy some of the off-beat stuff in the OSR realm. Most recently A Red and Pleasant Land. While the author was the center of some controversy shortly before I really got involved seriously in Roleplaying again, I do find this book a fantastic cohesive idea. While most modern RPG's cast a wide net, this is focused, interesting, compelling and weird. The monster of Guests is especially awesome in it's variety and random tables.

Which is something I have always loved. Random Tables. So here is one I made for developing aspects of new cultures in an exploration game (never used in play, yet but to aide in world creation). Originally implemented in a python random generation program, it was not die based, but for your pleasure it is here.

Popular Type of Art : (d20) 1- Statuary 2- Tapestry 3- Jewelry 4- Dance 5- Plays 6- Novels 7- Poetry 8- Song 9- String instruments 10- Percussion instruments 11- Wind instruments 12- Calligraphy 13- Painting 14- Freezes 15- Martial arts 16- Pottery 17- Masks 18- Carvings 19- Headdresses 20- Clothing

Common Representations in the Art: (d8) 1- Animals 2- Specific Animal (pick 1d3) 3- Symbols 4- Specific Symbol (pick 1d3) 5- Geometric 6- Curvy 7- Symmetrical 8- Asymmetrical Note Specific Animal can include Human, Elf, Oni, Manticores etc. And likewise symbols can include body parts, arm, leg, heart, forked tails, dragon scales etc.

As I have been answering questions from both the 2014 RPG a Day and 2015 there are bound to be overlaps and things that don't apply. So the second question was a question posed yesterday. What is your most recent RPG purchase. However as that remains the same, I will instead mention my next expected purchase: Fantasy Grounds.

With all my current group except one, we have kids, wives and jobs. It makes it hard to get together. So by using an online tabletop this is much simplified. Also it allows us to include old friends in remote locations at times. So I would have bought it recently except I have yet to decide how. Fantasy Grounds has two licenses. One is the basic license, and one the ultimate. The ultimate can allow free unlicensed copies to join a campaign (and as such is the cost of about 5 basic licenses). The question is with 4 of us willing to DM who gets which license. To complicate there is a package on steam that is 4 licenses for a reduced bundle price, but then is tied to Steam. Grrr why can't decisions be easy. Either way I will likely purchase this week to start playing with it and trying to modify content etc.