Relic Document: Redge's Dudes Stats

Here's a document like the one I posted yesterday, but one I made for my brother's team. The lore for it is interesting, and thanks to the note on his signature battlefield, I can tell these were both written in 2002, but I'm not sure if Redge ever even saw this document after it was typed up.

Relic Document: Austin's Veterans Stats

 This is an odd sort of project. I loved the game Worms 2 as a kid, and I seem to have made up a roster for the members of a Worms team I made on my parents' typewriter. I can tell that all the names (except mine) were randomly generated, and then I made up actual military roles for each of them based on what they could do in the game. My knowledge of military jargin has always been shoddy at best (the crap is a "prime navigator"?), but it's fun to see little bits and pieces of my childhood self in this writing.

My favorite thing to do on Worms 2 was to use the Ninja Rope to fling myself to specific places, so it's easy to see why that's my character's specialty. I wish I had a screenshot of "Newt Castle," because though I have no memory of what it looks like, I'm almost positive I made the map on Worms 2 as an actual map. I think my favorite aspect of this document is how I tried to explain away certain Worms 2 weapons that are utterly absurd in a sensible, game-manual-lore sort of way. Also, I think it's funny that I'm publishing this on my blog when I'm actually thirty-one years old. Not sure why I chose that age when I wrote this.

Heroes of Might and Magic Spells on DMsGuild!

In my free time, I like to adapt magic items and spells from other game franchises to D&D 5e, and the Heroes of Might and Magic series has always been on the top of the list for those. I recently finished, polished up, and published a collection of spells from both Heroes of Might and Magic II and III and put them up for sale on DMsGuild. It was fun to try and adapt the spells into unique and useful spells for a tabletop roleplaying game, and I know I'm definitely going to use some of them in my own campaigns that I run.

My suggested price is $2, but you can get it for free if you want as well. Click here to check out the product!

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D&D Mechanics Inspired by Divinity: Original Sin 2

With the recent announcement of development of the game Baldur's Gate III, I found out about Divinity: Original Sin 2, made by the same company. It doesn't take place in the D&D universe like Baldur's Gate will, but its cooperative, turn-based, roleplaying style is very reminiscent of Dungeons & Dragons, and just while playing through the game lately, I've been inspired by some of the game's mechanics that could be useful in a homebrew D&D campaign. I also was able to see existing D&D mechanics in a new light, which may help me be a better Dungeon Master.

Extended Wild Magic Surge Table

Do you play a Wild Magic Sorcerer in D&D 5e? Do you use the Wild Magic Table for wacky areas in your campaign suffused with magic? Do you think it's lame that the d100 Wild Magic table only has 50 options? Below is an expanded table with (I hope) 50 more effects that are just as wacky, powerful, and dangerous as the original table.

My D&D Player Characters, to Date

I've mostly been a Dungeon Master when playing D&D over the past three years, by preference as a creative outlet mostly, but also out of necessity since more people like playing than refereeing. But I've still had my share of chances to play in some games, and I thought it'd be fun to showcase these characters and their stories here. The only character I'm not showcasing is my very, very first character I made, who I never got to play, Mungo the Gnome Bard. He has no story, and thus no place in this post.

Relic Short Story: "Pain-Ball"

I remember writing this story around sixth grade, but I can't for the life of me remember why I wrote it or how I got the subject material. I was never into pinball, though I guess I was into books where the main kid protagonist got sucked into a video game.
It's funny that I made the main character a fictionalized version of myself, complete with my actual brother's name, but my best friend's name is Yoshi Grendel? Really? At least I got to hand it to my sixth-grade self: the similes are pretty silly, but well written. And I for one wish I had kept going with the story.