Category Archives: RPG tables

d20 Spaceship hit location table

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Matt Wedel

I’m using this for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game first edition, but it’s really system neutral. Grab a d20 and rock out. This tells you where the hits landed, but it doesn’t dictate the consequences. For example, on a power … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur Island: Across the Ogroan Frontier

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Matt Wedel

Been a while since my last actual play update, and much has transpired. The PCs intercepted one of Malyar Ogroa’s emissaries, who bore a letter to Zelzennak Soth confirming that Ogroa’s army would meet up with Soth’s in two weeks … Continue reading →

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Denizens of Dinosaur Island: the Haunted Jungle

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Matt Wedel

The Haunted Jungle is basically tropical Mirkwood. The jungles have been corrupted by the dark magic of the Yuan-ti, who want to raise the Serpentine Continent – of which Dinosaur Island is the last exposed remnant – reestablish the Ophidian Dominion, … Continue reading →

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One possible Infernal Machine

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Matt Wedel

I participated in Scott Taylor’s Folio 1E relaunch Kickstarter, and got my hardcopy of the module in the mail a few weeks ago. It’s a nice piece of kit – you can read a more thorough review here. But it … Continue reading →

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The Battle for Minatou, Part 1 – Battle encounter table

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Matt Wedel

In the last Dinosaur Island post, I mentioned that the Neanderthal queen, Vrenn Larr, needed a Diplodocobra, but I didn’t say what she needed it for. As they travel around the archipelago, the party is getting closer to an inevitable … Continue reading →

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10 Sorcerous Plots

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Matt Wedel

Here are some grandiose and mostly evil plans stolen from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and loads of other pulp writers and comic book scribes. I haven’t sorted out this list to match plots with specific Dinosaur Island sorcerors – I … Continue reading →

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More Dinosaur Island tables: interesting hex features, and death and dismemberment

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Matt Wedel

In the last post I mentioned that the party had taken refuge in a randomly-generated necropolis. Here’s the table for that, in PNG (pictured) and PDF (link below). Dinosaur Island hex features I also tweaked Trollsmyth’s awesome death and dismemberment … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur Island monster tables

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Matt Wedel

London and I have been playing a lot of D&D 5e. I played 4e a few times and it just never took – everything was too complicated. When it takes an entire session just to level up, that’s too much … Continue reading →

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Chris Foss Hardware sci-fi adventure generator

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Matt Wedel

I finally got around to buying Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss. It’s a fantastic book, with tons of great art at an absurdly low price. Just flipping through it once gave me so many RPG-able ideas, I … Continue reading →

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d100 Miscellaneous Gear Table for Your Sci-Fi Game

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Matt Wedel

I have just blogged recently about the excellent tables for Star Wars roleplaying put together by Jeff of the Gameblog. One of the favorites at Casa Wedel is the d30 miscellaneous gear table from this post. I figured if it … Continue reading →

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