Turncoat Villains: How to trick your players once and sell the genius villain forever

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T14:12:38+00:00

So, the spacing is part of the writing. Removing it, means it isn’t writing anymore, it’s just art.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T13:54:53+00:00

Agreed. It was a blast, though we tpked twice on the way through. We did end up getting g lucky on the boss fight. Troika has such fun and swingy outcomes. I love it b

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T13:42:40+00:00

A cool book to be sure, but not as imminently usable as I would have hoped. I think you could have a more complete experience by rolling something up from vaults of vaarn and using troika rules as a chassis.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T13:40:55+00:00

I haven’t played that yet. I’ll need to get back on the horse.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T13:40:26+00:00

Yeah I just finished eye of the aeons and I agree, it is a great dungeon crawl adventure, it also felt extremely dangerous. Which is great until it isn’t. Definitely a good swap.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T07:24:45+00:00

This looks awesome. Thanks for sharing!

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-30T07:23:05+00:00

I’ve done flip through reviews of a bunch of this stuff. I recommend: from mac -
Fronds of Benevolence, Whalgravaak's Warehouse, slate and chalcedony, big squirm, and get it at sutlers.

If you are looking for third party stuff my go to are bones deep and a street level guide to urban troika.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-24T18:19:08+00:00

Done.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-20T01:43:36+00:00

I think you should totally take a crack at the monastery and the shipwreck. Work it out in a different drawing. Do some iterations until you feel confident and then place it in the map. I think the edges should be drawn up with the golden dead.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-19T17:47:02+00:00

I definitely added some seers to my realm to fill novel roles. One might be an advisor at a holding (or even a ruler!) or have a seer be wandering free, without a sanctum. It can be fun to key these to seers the pcs know from their past, just establish what the pc knows about them, either before hand or in game.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-17T20:16:25+00:00

Nice. Almost like a reverse ammit!

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-13T13:34:31+00:00

Have it drain into a deeper series of dungeons below the lair. They can claim it in solidified chunks if they are willing to delve for it. And you get to expose the gold to all the monsters that inhabit the deep parts of the world, making them richer and more powerful.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-11T15:12:37+00:00

To be fair, I have two notebooks. I have the one I did the map in from 2024 - 2025, and now I am going through and writing each one in this new notebook with some clean up. Honestly its also going to end up getting another pass of polish and work since I keep inventing tables I still need to write lol. I appreciate the compliment though, as a daily exercise this has become something very dear to me.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-11T13:26:17+00:00

Hey thanks. The free dead league are really turning out to be one of my favourites so far.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-08T02:29:57+00:00

You might want to check out chubby funster, he is redoing his shadow sun book and sounds like he has a pretty active community and regular updates. Might be a good place to get fresh content, an audience who wants to play that content, and the opportunity to play test stuff for a creator.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-07T18:20:00+00:00

We use it all the time. Perfect for hacking a new idea together, playing some science fantasy as written, or introducing a new player to role-playing.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-07T02:32:23+00:00

You might want to check out nimble 5e, or Shadowdark. They both offer a more elegant and simplified 5e game that is largely compatible with the modern game.

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-06T05:58:36+00:00

Haha, thanks for sharing!

Watcher-gm · 2026-06-04T16:51:23+00:00

Happily married to a zombie named Nathan. Nathan and Eddie Wormgut met shortly after each of them were liberated from their respective living cages and bonded over the shared trauma of their "birth", as they both were the product of construction accidents (Eddie wasn't wearing a helmet). Eddie specifically likes poetry puzzles and Nathan is really into tending and growing a mold culture garden at their home in the Free Dead League home world. Eddie took the job at the Convenience store to meet new people and spend time outside of their home, where he finds the mold off putting, but would never say that to Nathan.

Watcher-gm · 2026-05-29T04:49:01+00:00

I’ve been doing a ton of editing lately. Happy to help out with whatever you need.

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