Liminal Ark

 For those adventurers with children returning from a long journey. D12 Things Your Kids Get Up To While You Were Out Adventuring 1 - Rigged an old monster trophy of yours into a costume they now use to terrify the other kids. Their parents are furious. 2 - Spent the gold you left behind to throw a party! Your home is (D6): 1-2 On fire! 3-5 A mess! 6 Spotlessly clean. 3 - Regaled the town with a tale (true or not) of one your adventures. The mayor has a job for you. 4 - Took a magic wand and used it to (Accidentally) blow up a local business.  5 - Promised their friends they would get your party's autographs. 6 - Hid the town statue inside of a bag of holding. 7 - Tossed bat guano at the local bullies because of something they read in one of your books. 8 - Secured the family home with traps recovered from a nearby dungeon. Your welcome. 9  - Gave the dog a cursed sword. They talk now. 10 - Gave the cat a magic carpet. Still trapped herself up a nearby tree. 11 ...

Another one. D8 Disasters On An Icy Expedition 1 - Snowdrifts move like waves on the ocean threatening to bury anyone in their path. 2 - The sled begins to sink steadily into the snow pulling anything attached to the reins down with it. 3 - Ice crystals buffet the expedition like thousands of tiny daggers drawing blood on bare skin. 4 - Draft animals become frozen in place unable to move.  5 - Snowstorm approaches in the distance consuming everything in a darkness like the night sky. 6 - The ground rumbles like a thunderstorm from underneath. A glacier moves pulling the earth apart beneath your feet. 7 - A failed expedition is strewn out along your path. Frozen colleagues huddled amidst their broken vehicles block the way forward. 8 - Hungry predators circle the expedition using the frozen fog as cover.

Saw Dyson Logos Dicember prompts a little bit late and decided to use it as motivation to do some writing. Don't know how many I'll do but this was fun anyway. Here are three D6 Tables when scavenging ammunition.  D6 Scavenged Ammo Tables - Arrows - 1. Shafts of coral strung together by kelp and affixed with sea anemone tips. Poisoned. 2. Hollow sharpened metal tubes with hand carved fins on the sides. 3. Wooden stakes inscribed with whispering glyphs. Cease to glow when your alone. 4. Carved from animal bones ending in a curved claw rather than a point. 5. Long needles fletched with diaphanous insect wings. 6 . Unremarkable quiver of arrows. Every one is marked with a different person's name.  - Bolts - 1. Repurposed military style javelins meant for smallfolk. Bears the sigil of their general.  2. Blunted points affixed with small metal fists. 3. Delicate sharpened pillars of volcanic glass. Shatters on impact.  4. Fashioned from solid stone. Painted in b...

I'm working on an adventure using Best Left Buried (Or hacking it?) based in the home setting my brother and I have played for years. The gist is an industrial fantasy setting based on the American West where a theocracy run by dragons has fallen into ruin and caused a schism in the country where disparate factions and city states want to remake it in their own image. You are Damned, people who are buried in debt meaning that they cannot enter heaven and their only way out is to plunder the riches of the golden age within the technomagical hellscape known as the Perdition. Inspired by STALKER, Hunt Showdown, and the Myth (And Death) of the American Dream. Also Late Stage Capitalism. I've decided to begin by creating Bounty Targets; special monsters the Damned will be hunting in the Perdition. So first up, the Burrowing Railbird. Burrowing Railbird A terrestrial bird of prey the size of a large bear who makes its lair out of abandoned saloons and casinos using the remains to dec...

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...