Welcome to Pie and Dragon, regular blog about roleplaying games, world-building, automated random generation and related subjects.
All of the trollspawn are subject to mutation, most pronounced amongst the swamp trolls. Any Spawn of Troll Mountain has a 20% chance of having a mutation, for which they roll on the Troll Mutation Table. This works equally well for standard Dungeons and Dragons trolls or other fantasy variants.…
During the GameDuring a game players will sometimes do unexpected things, and you may find having a random generator on hand a worthwhile investment. Any of the things for Preparing for the Next…
Following on from our introduction to Saurak trolls and 4 more hill trolls we have lore and stats for Swamp Trolls as well as Horrors, Cauldron-Bearers and Sentries!…
The next in our series started by Random Generation for GMs: Resources and Tips, we look at generators for Adventures, Settlements, Buildings and Dungeons you might need when you´ve got 10 minutes to prep for a 4 hour game.…
In our first article on trolls we presented the stats of the Hill Troll. Here we have lore and stats for hill troll Namers, Boulderers, Heavyweights and the Trollspawn.…
Following on from Random Generation for GMs: Resources and Tips we take the plunge into generators for all occasions!…
Following up from Randomisation for Players we take at look at what tools are most useful for Game Masters over 4 parts, leaving Adventure Writers and World Builders for another time.…
This post kicks off a series looking at an alternate take on Trolls for 5E Dungeons and Dragons, considering some influences and the stats for a 5E Hill Troll.…
Today we look at Rogukan, home of Legend of the Five Rings, following on from Discworld and Dark Sun and the Warhammer World.…
Journeys in RPGs are often glossed over, a 500 mile journey in-game taking a couple of sentences from the Games Master to resolve. But what if your campaign was about the whole journey, such as a quest to drop a ring into a volcano, the return home through dangerous seas or the exploration of the trail that leads to the eastern spice kingdoms. This is the Journey Campaign....…