Liminal Ark

Trouble Jam! Just put up my Trouble on itch.io for the Trouble Jam go check it out along with all the other submissions !  https://itch.io/jam/ob-trouble-jam https://theark485.itch.io/trouble-never-again And another one! https://theark485.itch.io/cold-black-cloud-a-trouble-for-orbital-blues

 Best Left Buried Defensive Items Quick one. Currently running a Resident Evil inspired mega-dungeon for my brother and I. His Cryptdiggers have been having a real rough go of it and he was trying to find a way to spend Grip in order to save one of their lives' after a particularly vicious attack but to no avail. I feel bad for these poor souls but I also see an opportunity to try to introduce a cool mechanic I enjoy from the Resident Evil remakes; Defensive Items A defensive item is a special piece of equipment that provides a passive benefit when equipped but can be destroyed to provide a more powerful one for a short time. The take the same amount of slots as a normal item of their type. Shield. Provides +1 Defense when held in your hand. Can be expended to block an attack entirely. Lamellar Cuirass . Functions as Heavy Armor. Expend to deflect an Injury inflicted by a foe. Combat Knife : A Light Weapon that can also be Thrown. When Restrained or Grappled by a creature can be ex...

Best Left Buried: Zones, Props, and Hazards Inspired by Ava Islam's (@yungdumbitch) tweet talking about Monster Manuals and their lack of terrain / environmental pieces that can be dropped into combat encounters I've decided to do some of that work myself using Best Left Buried. However, the subject of the environment is huge with many layers intersecting with adventure design, worldbuilding, and tons of other stuff. What I'm interested in unpacking here will are the parts of the environment we interact with on a regular basis inside of a conflict. For that purpose we use...                                                           ZONES For our purposes Zones are pieces of an environment grouped together by a specific use or theme relative to the scale of the action. A city, a trench, that bookcase and the area ar...