Norton Glover @ng76@tabletop.social
Joined Oct 2018
My next one-shot #RPG is gonna be the movie Yojimbo, but set in the post-apoc Poland of Twilight 2000
#ttrpg #twilight2000
Just ran Brutal Imperilment in the Bag of Infinite Holding, for Hypertellurians. It's a fun pointcrawl about descending into multiple levels of bags of holding.
#rpg #ttrpg #osr #hypertellurians
Working on a zine/setting for Cepheus Atom.
#rpg #ttrpg #cepheusatom #cepheusengine
Free fillable character sheet for the Terra Incognita RPG - the #FudgeRPG based game of science heroes at the turn-of-the-century.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2020/09/17/terra-incognita-fillable-character-sheet/
#ttrpg #terraincognita
The Setting Sun #gamejam for In the Light of a Setting Sun, the rules-light Old West #ttrpg is open for another 12 days. I've added my own supplement to add dinosaurs to the old west.
https://ng76.itch.io/thunder-lizards-of-the-lost-valley
#rpg #SettingSunJam
Here's a entertaining (perhaps not entirely useful) star system generator I found over on itch.io - the 'Realistic' Star System Generator. It made me laugh.
https://errantcanadian.itch.io/realistic-star-system-generator
#traveller #itchio #ttrpgs
If you want to run the adventure Operation Unfathomable by Jason Sholtis (you should - it's great) and you use the Black Hack rpg - I've converted all of the pregens from the adventure to the Black Hack.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2020/09/05/operation-unfathomable-black-hack-pregens/
#blackhack #osr #ttrpg #rpg
I ran my first one-shot of Cepheus Atom, the fun, light, post-apocalypse #RPG.
I've posted my pregens for anyone who wants them.
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2020/09/04/cepheus-atom-pregen-characters/
#ttrpg #cepheusatom #cepheusengine
Old book of fantasy maps from my library that's useful and inspirational for RPGs:
An Atlas of Fantasy by J.B. Post
https://polyhedralnonsense.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/weird-books-for-gamers-v-an-atlas-of-fantasy-by-j-b-post/
#rpg #ttrpg #books #maps
There's a game jam on itch.io called the HexDrive Zine Jam. It's ending tonight. It's a collection of articles for the D&D Spelljammer setting, but only by people who have never actually read the actual setting.
Just under the wire, I've added my own contribution - the Broken Shroud
https://itch.io/jam/hexdrive-zine-jam
#ttrpg #hexdrive-jam #itchio #spelljammer #gamejams
Just found out about the itch.io #BookmarkJam days before it ends.
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I've quickly thrown together Angry Fan vs. Genre Show. It's a two player RPG about a TV show and its increasingly angry fans
https://ng76.itch.io/angry-fan-vs-genre-show
#ttrpg #rpg #itchio #gamejams
I've made a LibreOffice file that I've been using to create custom class sheets for Black Hack that match the style in the 2nd Edition rulebook. I'm posting it for anyone else who might find it useful.
I've used it to create PDFs for a few custom classes, which are also available at the link.
https://polyhedralnonsense.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/the-black-hack-custom-template-for-classes/
#ttrpg #osr #blackhack #charactersheet
I've been playing with Cepheus Atom, the new post-apocalypse game based on the Cepheus Engine rules (basically Traveller).
It's light and fun, but doesn't have a character sheet, so I've made my own: https://polyhedralnonsense.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/cepheus-atom-fillable-character-sheet-for-new-post-apocalyptic-rpg/
#ttrpg #cepheusengine #cepheusatom #charactersheet
One day I'll run a 1970's sci-fi #ttrpg campaign based entirely on images from https://science70.tumblr.com/
I've made my first #itchio #ttrpg for the 2020 One-Page #gamejam
It's a basic dungeon crawler with special mechanics to discourage creativity and storytelling.
It's not entirely serious.
Dungeons Without Love or Imagination - https://ng76.itch.io/dungeons-without-love-or-imagination
Next in my series of capsule reviews of non-fiction books that would be useful in running RPGs:
Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origin from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes by Donna Kossy
A survey of every crank theory about the origin of Humanity - Aliens, Creationism, and some even weirdier stuff.
I've been going through my library and posting capsule reviews of non-gaming books that I've found useful as inspiration for RPGs.
Currently up - The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
by Kate Summerscale
D&D settings re-imagined as 1970s paperbacks:
http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2020/08/tsr-settings-as-70s-paperbacks.html
If you're going to run an Underdark/Underground style adventure, I'd suggest making a visit to the closest actual real-world cave system.
Pre-pandemic, I visited the Mammoth cave in Kentucky and took one of the basic tours. Three things came to mind:
1. It gets really, really dark down here.
2. There's no way in hell I could've taken a 10-foot pole down these twisty passages.
3. The Mammoth cave map is essentially a real-world dungeon map.
I've never played Star Frontiers. I'll probably never play Star Frontiers.
Inexplicably, I've created a fillable PDF character sheet for Star Frontiers, along with a table tent.
Joined Oct 2018
