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.

A Hex a Week: Week 5

Another short one this week. I've been quite busy working on something that I'm not quite ready to put up yet, but that will see the light of day in due time. This week's hex lies along an old Roman road, and is home to plenty of desolate and forgotten landmarks. It's a lonely place, even as bandits remain a constant threat.

Pimp my Spider

Quick post today, just sharing a table I whipped up as I needed some variety in giant spiders for my game prep.

d20/d12	Spider Species	Cool Stuff
1	Black Widow	Enormous, dripping fangs
2	Brown Recluse	Winged
3	Wolf Spider	d12 extra eyes
4	Jumping Spider	Webs of gleaming silver
5	Orb Weaver	Camouflaged carapace
6	Harvestman	d6 extra legs
7	Tarantula	Human hands on pedipalps
8	Funnel-Web Spider	Intelligent
9	Trapdoor Spider	Huge, bulging egg sac
10	Ant-Mimicking Spider	Invisible Webs
11	Net-Casting Spider	Bladed legs
12	Bolas Spider	Scorpion tail
13	Camel Spider	-
14	Banana Spider	-
15	Triangular Spider	-
16	Crab Spider	-
17	Goblin Spider	-
18	Fishing Spider	-
19	Mouse Spider	-
20	Sac Spider	-

A Hex a Week: Week 4

This past week, I've focused in on an area deeply scarred by war. It'll probably be clear that I've been reading Don Rodriguez lately by the name of this hex and some of its contents. I've been trying to get a bit less sketchy with my doodles, still a long way to go on that, but progress is being made.