Taking a Break

Going to be taking a break from posting for a while. New job, you know how it is.

Weapon Subtype Tables for Random Equipment Generation Part 2: The Two-Handers

When I started these posts, they came as a result of my adolescent fascination with the many varieties of polearms presented in certain editions of D&D. It is perhaps fitting, then, that the wall my enthusiasm has collided into is made of those same polearms. I had some idea going into this that names for polearms aren't exactly very specific, and that many of the differences are practically trivial. I did not anticipate just how bad it really is.

This is an incomplete chart of polearm head types.
Credit: Bashford Dean

Ashes to ashes, pikes to pikes, I suppose. With all that in mind, I have tried my best to list categories with mostly recognizable names and non-trivial differences in use, even if it has led to some incorrect titling of weapons. I've also had to class axe-bladed polearms, such as halberds, together with battleaxes to fill out both groups into a full table.

A Hex a Week: Week 8

This week, I've been focusing in on a stretch of countryside on the road to the more populated coast. For the next few weeks, I think I'll look North into the Pyrenees proper and leave these foothills and lowlands I've been detailing for next month.

A Hex a Week: Week 6/7

Lately, I've been a bit burnt out after rushing to finish a project, so I took a break from this blog for a week. As for the project, you may have noticed there's now an itch.io link in my sidebar, where you can find Pythion of the Mad Oracle, my submission to the Jennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam. It was a lot of fun to write, but combined with my weekly games it meant a lot of RPG time for a couple weeks there, so I've been resting since.

This week, I've focused in on the area around a fabled wizard's coveted tower, with some nearby Germans to pantomime through a language barrier at.