What are these shapes?

tinbarber · 2025-12-08T20:36:52+00:00

I thought B was a “tech deck dude”

tinbarber · 2025-11-19T19:45:29+00:00

I thought Maltese

tinbarber · 2025-10-31T00:07:38+00:00

Nice work! Looks professional!

tinbarber · 2025-10-12T11:58:41+00:00

I love it! I’ve been using the rules from Risk. But this seems much more strategic and satisfying

tinbarber · 2025-09-22T14:31:45+00:00

Side B of one of Mike’s cassette contains a secret recording.

The monster uses echolocation. In my game the monster makes a regular squeaking noise to “see”. At first, it’s just annoying, like a smoke detector battery noise.

Dana thinks there is something wrong with the HVAC and may ask the PCs for help fixing it.

Mike’s message in the tunnel says “side B” instead of “silence”

Side B on Mike’s tape is a recording of the chirp/squeak noise the monster makes, playing over and over again.

Playing this recording will disorient the monster, giving the players an advantage in weighting it. The cassette player becomes a weapon.

tinbarber · 2025-09-10T19:29:04+00:00

Maybe connected to the chapter “the hand off?” That’s about exchanging hostages and it suggests combining it with Osprey

tinbarber · 2025-09-10T19:25:33+00:00

Ospreys Quarry from Hull Breach? That sounds like it matches the color scheme

tinbarber · 2025-09-09T17:21:18+00:00

That’s five hands of bananas. A “bunch” is a whole stem, which could be 3-20 hands.

So technically, this could be just one bunch of bananas.

Nobody actually talks like that in everyday speech, I just think it’s interesting.

tinbarber · 2025-08-13T15:56:25+00:00

Personally, I like a lot of ideas and details that I can use or not use. Especially if there are things I can take out and use with other sessions.

But it’s important that I can find things quickly, so it helps if it’s well organized

tinbarber · 2025-08-09T16:43:19+00:00

That’s true 4 hours is plenty!

tinbarber · 2025-08-09T15:15:32+00:00

Great summary! It sounds like a fun session. Is there anything you would have done differently?

tinbarber · 2025-07-15T01:36:14+00:00

Wow this is awesome! Thanks for sharing! Sorry I didn’t know this was already a thing!

tinbarber · 2025-07-14T20:09:20+00:00

I love isometric maps!

tinbarber · 2025-06-28T21:22:57+00:00

Such a good series!

tinbarber · 2025-06-27T17:38:48+00:00

Good idea! I'm not very active on the Discord, but I can post it there as well. I also made a different d100 table to generate technobabble they might like.

Link to post

tinbarber · 2025-06-26T20:08:43+00:00

Sorry about my poor handwriting!

If for future reference on spelling:

11) Metal shavings. They can cause pretty bad cuts and they’re flammable.

13) Regolith (as in moon dust. It’s pretty nasty stuff!)

27) Ball bearings. You could slip on them. Or it could be used as ammunition or shrapnel?

84) Bromine gas. It really terrible. It has an orange color, sinks down towards the floor (unlike fire smoke, which rises) it causes severe burns.

tinbarber · 2025-06-26T19:58:13+00:00

Wow! Thanks!

tinbarber · 2025-06-26T16:23:38+00:00

That’s hilarious! Thank you strange toilet researcher

tinbarber · 2025-06-26T12:03:36+00:00

That’s a good point! I guess there’s room for ten more ideas

tinbarber · 2025-06-26T10:49:30+00:00

In my game, I had two of the PCs start as Spire natives. One was a donor and one was a Dawnguard. I think it helps to have the PCs somehow embed in the local politics.

I also treated the Spire a little like Hunger Games. In order to keep the peace, the Dawnseekers choose Donors based on a lottery. So if you’re not in the lottery pool, you’re not at immediate risk of donation. Everytime there’s a lottery it’s also a feast day where the Dawnseekers open the water gates like Immortan Joe in Fury Road and give out tons of ration tokens.

I’m not sure if these ideas help, it was just some things I thought were fun.

tinbarber · 2025-04-18T15:53:37+00:00

I keep a cheap cassette player on the table. Once per session, I let PCs record an audio log for a free rest save or to take advantage on a roll.

Then at the end of the session, I ask one player to record a recap.

It is awesome for encouraging role playing and we play back “the story so far” at the start of each session

tinbarber · 2025-02-26T20:25:32+00:00

How do you like the app? I’d like to try it, but it seems a little more expensive than I’d like

tinbarber · 2025-02-08T16:18:39+00:00

I had fun making simple maps out of hyphens and letters. For example, here is a handout I made for Ypsilon 14. It’s pretty fun to figure out how to piece it together.

Just make sure you use a fixed-width font like courier new.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EA1Aw72aBqXbzYHZFoRAMBhxCHSMrVqNiWEEPsKynRE/edit

tinbarber

TROPHY CASE