I just discovered that Maze Rats has been translated into Japanese by a player from that country, Toshiya Nakamura! I’m really flattered by all the attention the game has been getting.
Category: DIY DND (Page 2 of 2)
Sam Bosma
I’ve spent the last few months polishing Maze Rats, a minimalistic OSR-style dungeon crawler derived from Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd, and which should appear soon in a supplement for that game, Odditional Material. I may expand it later into something more complete, but it’s perfectly playable as is now. It also fits onto two double sided sheets, making it ideal for players new to RPGs. You can make characters in minutes, and explain the rules just as quickly. Download the whole thing below and let me know what you think!
Elliot Alfredius
I’m on a random table kick, a d100 table kick to be precise. They’re all still works in progress, but I figure I’ll start throwing them up here for others to use. First up, 100 character traits for NPCs. Roll a d100, or just choose ones you find amusing.
- Always bored
- Angry drunk
- Annoyingly Cryptic
- Avant-garde
- Bigoted
- Bloody-Minded
- Boastful
- Bookworm
- Bossy
- Bully
- Calculating
- Can-do attitude
- Chatterbox
- Chirpy
- Collects small animals
- Compulsive Liar
- Condescending
- Conniving
- Conspiracy theorist
- Creep
- Decadent
- Ditz
- Egomaniac
- Exquisite dresser
- Extravagant
- Fanatically loyal
- Fast-talker
- Femme Fatale
- Fiercely ambitious
- Fits of melancholy
- Flamboyant
- Folksy Wisdom
- Gossip
- Hard-boiled
- Hears voices
- Hillbilly
- Hothead
- Hypochondriac
- Iconoclast
- Idealistic
- Illiterate
- Incredibly persistent
- Insightful observer
- Into crystals
- Jack of all Trades
- Jerk
- Klutz
- Knows everybody
- Life of the party
- Love-struck
- Mad genius
- Magnetic Personality
- Manic
- Master Orator
- Militantly Vegan
- Misanthrope
- Miser
- Mopey
- Naïve
- Nerd
- No-nonsense
- Obsessive
- Old Fart
- Overeducated
- Paranoid
- Perfect Manners
- Pouty
- Power-hungry
- Prickly
- Proselytizer
- Ruthless
- Sadist
- Self-destructive
- Self-important
- Self-pitying
- Senile
- Serene
- Shameless Flirt
- Slacker
- Slimy
- Slovenly
- Snarky
- Snitch
- Snob
- Social butterfly
- Sophist
- Spacey
- Terrible memory
- Thick
- Toady
- Totally unreliable
- Twitchy
- Vain
- Vengeful
- Village idiot
- Well-Travelled
- Whiner
- Wild Child
- Wisecracking
- World-weary