Paper Pills – A Different Kind of Red Box
I’ve started a new category for ideas that sound really neat, but I don’t really know where they lead. Sometimes, like today, it may be a really bad idea. It’s posted because it contains a certain...
View ArticlePaper Pills – An Exploration of the Analytical Engine
Here’s a very interesting What If? that explores the possibilities of the Analytical Engine, had it been built. Now, I understand that a lot of the ideas that Babbage mentions are marketing materials....
View ArticlePaper Pill – Astral and Pranic Travel
Traditionally, D&D mentions the silver cord in regards to Astral travel. The cord allows the traveler to find his/her body again. If the cord is severed, the traveler will never find the host body...
View ArticleVikayra – The Transformative Art
This is post 250, a Paper Pill about a psionic ability. One of the things that can be tricky with psionics is the dreaded table in the 1e PHB that determined one-off psionic talents. I keep thinking...
View ArticleLinks I Want to Save
Unfortunately, I have no way to have a conversation on Twitter. I miss doing that a lot. I can, though feedly.com, share links to Twitter. This makes my twitter account a long list of links with little...
View ArticleACKS Space Setting Thus Far
A collection of random things posted on Google Plus: An item for the ACKS spacefaring campaign: Patchcloth: When combat pokes holes in a ship, it begins to lose air. In Pythagorian space, the air...
View ArticleEclectic Campaign
Any gamer worth his/her salt reads Jeff’s Gameblog for good reason. He has some really good ideas. I was happy to discover an older post of his through a post on Herb’s Places to Go, People to Be site....
View ArticleThe Valgema
This was the last primordial that I was working on before my gamer ADD put me on a different project. It is presented here in case anyone can use it. For what it’s worth, here is an slightly related...
View ArticleThe Mamen
noisms over at Monsters and Manuals posted something fun that I couldn’t resist. The idea is to roll randomly to pick 2d6 monsters from your bestiary of choice. (Fiend Folio, MM2, Monstrous Compendium...
View ArticleMore from My Son
My son is a creative boy. In light of John Cleese’s commentary on creativity, he has the lifestyle. One of his favorite things to do is to ask what an object would be like in a magical ‘land’ where it...
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