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"Dice with a memory | … sort of [Markov dice?]", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/dice-with-a-memory-sort-of/", "published_at": "2024-03-18T18:17:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9407e68149", "title": "Artist Marcin s needs some help", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/artist-marcin-s-needs-some-help/", "published_at": "2024-03-02T10:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9408a85da6", "title": "Advent(ure) Calendar | 24 Days of Festive Dungeoneering :: 2023", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2023/12/01/adventure-calendar-24-days-of-festive-dungeoneering-2023/", "published_at": "2023-12-01T10:10:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94097f9062", "title": "NPC Personality Profiles – at a glance (also includes 2000 NPC names and 2000 traits)", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/npc-personality-profiles-at-a-glance-also-includes-2000-npc-names-and-2000-traits/", 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"2022-10-28T16:51:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94120e2866", "title": "Do you even OSR ? | Response to Oct-OSR", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/10/23/do-you-even-osr-response-to-oct-osr/", "published_at": "2022-10-23T21:29:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9412d65f47", "title": "Functional Entries in Random Tables | more scope but comes with more user load", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/10/19/functional-entries-in-random-tables-more-scope-but-comes-with-more-user-load/", "published_at": "2022-10-19T15:39:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941354b2a2", "title": "Solo RPG idea | Sticky labels with QR codes", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/solo-rpg-idea-sticky-labels-with-qr-codes/", "published_at": "2022-10-10T22:25:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9413f7a9d6", "title": "Collaboration: ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ (+) ‘When Sea Is Calling’", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/collaboration-in-the-heart-of-the-sea-when-sea-is-calling/", "published_at": "2022-09-07T10:52:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9414aced56", "title": "[FUNDED] Face Folio | for Zine Quest 4", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/08/09/funded-face-folio-for-zine-quest-4/", "published_at": "2022-08-09T07:01:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941568e7ae", "title": "Re-Kicking Face Folio | for Zine Quest 4", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/08/03/re-kicking-face-folio-for-zine-quest-4/", "published_at": "2022-08-03T20:15:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9415799b3f", "title": "Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGs | Video walk through", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/field-guide-to-random-table-design-in-rpgs-video-walk-through/", "published_at": "2022-06-28T17:13:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94159dd3b5", "title": "Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGs", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/field-guide-to-random-table-design-in-rpgs/", "published_at": "2022-06-03T21:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9416795684", "title": "Monster Doodles | 1988 Dungeon", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/monster-doodles-1988-dungeon/", "published_at": "2022-05-30T09:23:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9416c1aa31", "title": "Ramp, Flat Ramp, Hill & Lone Mountain Type Random Table Formats", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/05/26/ramp-flat-ramp-hill-lone-mountain-type-table-formats/", "published_at": "2022-05-26T00:05:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941747835e", "title": "Quantum Ogre meet Schrödinger’s Troglodyte | Chekhov’s Gun – adventure design vs play", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/quantum-ogre-meet-schrodingers-troglodyte-chekhovs-gun-adventure-design-vs-play/", "published_at": "2022-05-20T12:22:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94182fdd6f", "title": "DxDy dice mechanic | … e.g. D4D6", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/05/11/dxdy-mechanic-e-g-d4d6/", "published_at": "2022-05-11T23:11:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9418ee3ad6", "title": "Portuguese Translation – Hex Flower Cookbook", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/05/07/portuguese-translation-hex-flower-cookbook/", "published_at": "2022-05-07T08:45:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94197d6365", "title": "Two new Hex Flowers | Forest & Death Star attack", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/two-new-hex-flowers-forest-death-star-attack/", "published_at": "2022-04-29T16:42:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941a653f98", "title": "Face Folio | Ukraine Appeal", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/face-folio-ukraine-appeal/", "published_at": "2022-04-15T23:54:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941aedf779", "title": "Face Folio | PDF rollout to KS backers", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/face-folio-pdf-rollout-to-ks-backers/", "published_at": "2022-04-14T19:25:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941b5d3cce", "title": "G- day | … have we moved on?", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/04/02/g-day-have-we-moved-on/", "published_at": "2022-04-02T07:03:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941ba1c0a5", "title": "In the Heart of Oz | Ukraine Code", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/in-the-heart-of-oz-ukraine-code/", "published_at": "2022-03-14T20:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941bb15e0c", "title": "Wolfram’s 4 colour theorem | Relationship mapping?", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/wolframs-4-colour-theorem-relationship-mapping/", "published_at": "2022-03-05T22:34:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941be358bb", "title": "Thinking outside the Hex | ‘Hex Flower’ theory stuff", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/thinking-outside-the-hex-hex-flower-theory-stuff/", "published_at": "2022-02-14T17:56:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941cdf9ebc", "title": "Questing Beast review | Planar Compass 2", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/questing-beast-review-planar-compass-2/", "published_at": "2022-02-01T21:50:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941d46a4ba", "title": "Hex Ed | Hex Flower online talk", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2022/01/21/hex-ed-hex-flower-online-talk/", "published_at": "2022-01-21T20:38:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941decccc0", "title": "Analogue ‘Fog of War’ hack … | Jigsaw over map", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/analogue-fog-of-war-hack-jigsaw-over-map/", "published_at": "2021-12-30T23:17:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941e287b68", "title": "Grimbo Grotto | Christmas Farcical Horror Oneshot", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/grimbo-grotto-christmas-farcical-horror-oneshot/", "published_at": "2021-12-22T13:17:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941e798f9c", "title": "In the Heart of Oz | Hex Flower based system-neutral procedural sandbox setting", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/12/04/in-the-heart-of-oz-hex-flower-based-system-neutral-procedural-sandbox-setting/", "published_at": "2021-12-04T11:13:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941ed09e8e", "title": "Making Hex Flower Game Engines? Tell me about them?", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/making-hex-flower-game-engines-tell-me-about-them/", "published_at": "2021-10-07T08:40:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f941f7cbda4", "title": "D6(6)6 table | … D66 table with probability gradient", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/d666-table-d66-table-with-probability-gradient/", "published_at": "2021-09-14T23:12:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9420172f7c", "title": "100,000 views | I suppose it is a landmark of kinds", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/100000-views-i-suppose-it-is-a-landmark-of-kinds/", "published_at": "2021-09-06T23:59:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94201a605c", "title": "Story Synth | making online customizable Hex Flowers", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/story-synth-making-online-customizable-hex-flowers/", "published_at": "2021-08-31T15:09:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f942068b2c8", "title": "Hex Flower update | Weather Hex Flower -&- ItHotS goes Electrum", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/08/12/hex-flower-update-weather-hex-flower-ithots-goes-electrum/", "published_at": "2021-08-12T09:59:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9420a9bb5e", "title": "20 x Unexpected Rooms | Some puzzles and hopefully interesting room encounters", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/20-x-unexpected-rooms-some-puzzles-and-hopefully-interesting-room-encounters/", "published_at": "2021-08-04T12:16:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9420f1f199", "title": "I sense a puzzle trap in this … | ‘Missing Area Paradox’ puzzles", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/08/01/i-sense-a-puzzle-trap-in-this-missing-area-paradox-puzzles/", "published_at": "2021-08-01T23:27:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f942102f06e", "title": "Grimbo Grotto – 2021 One Page Dungeon Contest | a Christmas Farcical Horror Adventure", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/07/19/grimbo-grotto-2021-one-page-dungeon-contest-version-a-christmas-farcical-horror-adventure/", "published_at": "2021-07-19T00:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94213acdff", "title": "Hit Points replaced with ‘Usage Dice’ ?", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/hit-points-replaced-with-usage-dice/", "published_at": "2021-07-14T08:27:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9421fe171b", "title": "QR kidding me ( ’tish-boom’ ) | QR code random room encounter table (… add your own?)", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/qr-kidding-me-tish-boom-qr-code-random-room-encounter-table-add-your-own/", "published_at": "2021-07-11T14:16:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9422c610d4", "title": "QR Codes – Random (OSE) Monster Table | Another oddball idea for you …", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/07/06/qr-random-ose-monster-table-another-oddball-idea-for-you/", "published_at": "2021-07-06T01:20:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9423351f58", "title": "Hex Flower Demo | ‘Trial by Jury’ mini-game", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/06/22/hex-flower-demo-trial-by-jury-mini-game/", "published_at": "2021-06-22T08:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f94233bcf3f", "title": "Hex Flower Demos | YouTube Actual Plays", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/hex-flower-youtube-demo-play-throughs-actual-play/", "published_at": "2021-06-02T18:23:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877d-cb69-719a-9740-5f9423e653e1", "title": "Musedusa | a gorgon type related to Medusa", "url": "https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/musedusa-a-gorgon-type-related-to-medusa/", "published_at": "2021-05-18T12:54:07+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

D100 Medieval surnames that are now extinct or critically endangered for your (N)PCoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Flooding Dungeon Complex | Surprise Easter dungeon play reportoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
Write like the Minotaur is realoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
DIY Lego Solar System – kids / school projectoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
For those that observe, it’s that anniversary | G➕🪦 (2011-2019)original ↗
2 Apr 2026
Random Spell Name Spark Tableoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Sicherman Dice | 2D6 in the mixoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
Broken Monster Manual | Second Life in Colouroriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
Can we de-quantize D&D? | … did Heisenberg’s Hobgoblin just enter the chat?original ↗
20 Jan 2026
Podcast Taught Me What? | #6 Dungeons & Dreamboats (what else is a Dungeon?)original ↗
20 Jan 2026
Solo Analogue A I for Commanding Armies in Warhammer type Battles – Hex Floweroriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
Inversion of the standard 2d6 probability peak | “Why Mathematicians Hate This Simple Two-Dice Hack”original ↗
9 Jan 2026
Hac-Man Hex Flower| a homage to Pac-Manoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2026
Podcast Taught Me What? | #5 Make Drawings & Descriptions Additiveoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2026

2025

Podcast Taught Me What? | #4 Taking the Pith (keep it short)original ↗
23 Dec 2025
Podcast Taught Me What? | #3 Narrative Abhors a Vacuumoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
Podcast Taught Me What? | #2 Thoughtful Randomnessoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
Podcast Taught Me What? | #1 Fixed Random Encountersoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
Kids play AD&D 1e | Ever been chased through a maze by a Minotaur?original ↗
24 Nov 2025
Taking the Pith | Comment on keeping it shortoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2025
Pre-rolled Random Tables | so you don’t have tooriginal ↗
7 Oct 2025
YouTube – some actual plays | Mausritter & AD&D 1eoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2025
MatheMat-HEX | Hex Maze Runners – a Hex Flower mini-game for learning your Times Tablesoriginal ↗
27 May 2025
D&D like stats | a different way that no one will ever use …original ↗
21 Apr 2025
Forget polyhedrals – Cubism is in !!original ↗
13 Apr 2025
Did the Bloggies make me Blog more? | You?original ↗
19 Feb 2025
Permission to eat the PC’s horses?original ↗
12 Feb 2025
Can you Push it? | … are pushed rolls a thing in D&D?original ↗
11 Feb 2025
Dynamic Random Tables | Controlling Access with Rule “Windows”original ↗
7 Feb 2025
Faction Action – Burning the Candle towards both ends | An approach to Random Encounter Table designoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2025
Random Encounter Tables – When the Boss Monster comes out swingingoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2025
Usage Dice – there can be only one (left)original ↗
2 Feb 2025
D&D type Stats – all 1s are 2soriginal ↗
30 Jan 2025
Word Play – Old monster New monsteroriginal ↗
5 Jan 2025
Simple Monster Hack | Generic creature + PC spelloriginal ↗
2 Jan 2025

2024

Simple Card-Based Duo (and Solo) RPG -YES/NO- Oracleoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2024
Relationship Mind Map | visualizing NPC relationshipsoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2024
Lego block HP tracker | at the table widgetoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2024
Cards with a Memory (sort of) | Card Based Oracleoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2024
Mass Combat Victory Tracker – Hex Floweroriginal ↗
29 Aug 2024
In the Heart of the Unknown – Platinum metal best seller on DriveThruRPG original ↗
8 Jul 2024
Hex Flower – D&D Type STAT Generatororiginal ↗
17 Jun 2024
Dice with a memory | … sort of [Markov dice?]original ↗
18 Mar 2024
Artist Marcin s needs some helporiginal ↗
2 Mar 2024

2023

Advent(ure) Calendar | 24 Days of Festive Dungeoneering :: 2023original ↗
1 Dec 2023
NPC Personality Profiles – at a glance (also includes 2000 NPC names and 2000 traits)original ↗
18 Nov 2023
a MAZE ing | mazes in RPGs; cracking the code ?original ↗
13 Oct 2023
Who knew adding/subtracting dice does not change the probability profile (well not me I guess)original ↗
26 Jul 2023
Personality Profile Cards – NPCs at a glance?original ↗
2 Jun 2023
Metal badges + Community Copiesoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2023
6 Day Example | ‘In the Heart of the Unknown’ Hex Crawloriginal ↗
12 Apr 2023
(NEW) Print on Demand x 4 | .. add them to your physical library ?original ↗
22 Mar 2023
Perception-like checks too transparent? | add an ‘uncertainty/opacity die’ ?original ↗
7 Mar 2023
Kickstarter | Carapace -&- In the Heart of Ozoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2023

2022

2022 | endoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2022
Puzzle Design – is it possible to try to make a (semi) rigorous system?original ↗
22 Dec 2022
Did I invent the Depth Crawl (first)?original ↗
10 Dec 2022
” R ” is for Religion [[ OSR ]]original ↗
5 Dec 2022
Advent(ure) Calendar | 24 Days of Festive Dungeoneeringoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2022
Face Folio | Deck of Cardsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2022
Onion-, Zone-, Layer-, Shell-, Down-, Pancake, Gobstopper … Crawloriginal ↗
28 Oct 2022
Do you even OSR ? | Response to Oct-OSRoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2022
Functional Entries in Random Tables | more scope but comes with more user loadoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2022
Solo RPG idea | Sticky labels with QR codesoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2022
Collaboration: ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ (+) ‘When Sea Is Calling’original ↗
7 Sept 2022
[FUNDED] Face Folio | for Zine Quest 4original ↗
9 Aug 2022
Re-Kicking Face Folio | for Zine Quest 4original ↗
3 Aug 2022
Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGs | Video walk throughoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2022
Field Guide to Random Table Design in RPGsoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2022
Monster Doodles | 1988 Dungeonoriginal ↗
30 May 2022
Ramp, Flat Ramp, Hill & Lone Mountain Type Random Table Formatsoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
Quantum Ogre meet Schrödinger’s Troglodyte | Chekhov’s Gun – adventure design vs playoriginal ↗
20 May 2022
DxDy dice mechanic | … e.g. D4D6original ↗
11 May 2022
Portuguese Translation – Hex Flower Cookbookoriginal ↗
7 May 2022
Two new Hex Flowers | Forest & Death Star attackoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2022
Face Folio | Ukraine Appealoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2022
Face Folio | PDF rollout to KS backersoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2022
G- day | … have we moved on?original ↗
2 Apr 2022
In the Heart of Oz | Ukraine Codeoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
Wolfram’s 4 colour theorem | Relationship mapping?original ↗
5 Mar 2022
Thinking outside the Hex | ‘Hex Flower’ theory stufforiginal ↗
14 Feb 2022
Questing Beast review | Planar Compass 2original ↗
1 Feb 2022
Hex Ed | Hex Flower online talkoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2022

2021

Analogue ‘Fog of War’ hack … | Jigsaw over maporiginal ↗
30 Dec 2021
Grimbo Grotto | Christmas Farcical Horror Oneshotoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2021
In the Heart of Oz | Hex Flower based system-neutral procedural sandbox settingoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2021
Making Hex Flower Game Engines? Tell me about them?original ↗
7 Oct 2021
D6(6)6 table | … D66 table with probability gradientoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2021
100,000 views | I suppose it is a landmark of kindsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2021
Story Synth | making online customizable Hex Flowersoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2021
Hex Flower update | Weather Hex Flower -&- ItHotS goes Electrumoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2021
20 x Unexpected Rooms | Some puzzles and hopefully interesting room encountersoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2021
I sense a puzzle trap in this … | ‘Missing Area Paradox’ puzzlesoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2021
Grimbo Grotto – 2021 One Page Dungeon Contest | a Christmas Farcical Horror Adventureoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2021
Hit Points replaced with ‘Usage Dice’ ?original ↗
14 Jul 2021
QR kidding me ( ’tish-boom’ ) | QR code random room encounter table (… add your own?)original ↗
11 Jul 2021
QR Codes – Random (OSE) Monster Table | Another oddball idea for you …original ↗
6 Jul 2021
Hex Flower Demo | ‘Trial by Jury’ mini-gameoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2021
Hex Flower Demos | YouTube Actual Playsoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2021
Musedusa | a gorgon type related to Medusaoriginal ↗
18 May 2021
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