
Acanthus’s Conundrums is a weekly post that gives you a puzzle and three riddles to use in your roleplaying game.
Continue reading Acanthus’s Conundrums #9: Puzzles and Riddles for RPGs
Acanthus’s Conundrums is a weekly post that gives you a puzzle and three riddles to use in your roleplaying game.
Continue reading Acanthus’s Conundrums #9: Puzzles and Riddles for RPGs
Neither plant nor animal, and with more in common genetically with humans than potatoes, fungi are mysterious creatures in our own landscape, let alone a gaming world. They cover vast areas known to be the size of towns and can expand even further. However, less than 10% of species have been identified and the features of many of the known varieties are not clear.
Acanthus’s Conundrums is a weekly post that gives you a puzzle and three riddles to use in your roleplaying game. Continue reading Acanthus’s Conundrums #6: Puzzles & Riddles for RPGs
As your players’ characters walk into the sights and smells of a mage’s study, the dust and silence of a sage’s library, or the forbidding cages of a demon’s infernal bookstore, they glance around and straightway ask what the books they can see look like.
But what if the only answer you have prepared is the description of the one you want them to find, plus perhaps a couple of decoys? What do you do if they start to drift along the shelves or walk around the tables stacked high with volumes? Are you ready answer their questions? Were you were rushed when setting up the adventure? Did the author add enough detail? If so, worry no more!
Below are descriptions of 100 types of books and tomes. Use them to grab the attention of your players’ characters and to help flesh out the atheneums, bibliothecas and literature repositories in your adventures. Some are obvious, some are uncommon, and some are outlandish! While most the books are not magical in themselves, some only exist thanks to the efforts of casters, and the contents themselves may just be information rather than magical as well. Unless, that is, you decide differently…
Acanthus’s Conundrums is a weekly post that gives you a puzzle and three riddles to use in your roleplaying game. Continue reading Acanthus’s Conundrums #5: Puzzles & Riddles for RPGs
There are many fates worse than death that you might suffer in the Underworld if you are incautious, but perhaps the very worst of them is to end up in a drow slave camp. Holoth’s camp is known and feared for hundreds of miles around the city, and with the dark elves now taking captives from the surface, rumors of the terrible existence one can expect if captured are spreading rapidly.
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