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Originally I designed this as a solo game, but there's nothing stopping you playing with multiple people; either in "parallel play" or all together. Enjoy!

Personally, I like three player TTRPG tables the best. Realistically though, anything under six or seven should work, it just takes more juggling! I've run this with five people and we had a fun time.

Thanks so much, that means a lot!

I'm always slightly jealous of those who played before the GE. Seeing those old images of Falador park with each little "zone" for each type of good/service looks like it'd really heighten the social experience (for better or worse!). I do, vaguely, remember playing with the old quest guide forums and crappy 144p videos, alongside sketchy rumours of hidden locations or treasures, from back in the day however.

Your ideas here are brilliant; especially your points about Food and Culture (Gnome cooking comes to mind!) and reusing NPCs. Having familiar faces is really useful in a city or town setting especially, as it allows a sense of community and interconnectedness. When writing urban encounter tables I usually have "Familiar NPC, 1d3 chance they're in immediate trouble" and that always works well. Honing in on skills too, one thing that always impressed me was how interconnected they were.
Smithing is good to make armour for your Defence level, or Herblore to clean the herbs from Farming. 

Again, thanks for your input - you should blog this if you get a chance, I'd love to read more!

This is lovely! Thanks for sharing!

As I say on the page itself;
"This was (is?) going to be my entry to Hexcrawloween 2024! 

Tragically, some medical stuff got in the way of finishing this so the project is on hold for now. Most of the art (doodles) and dungeon maps are completed but unkeyed, and a lot of what I had otherwise planned is unwritten and undeveloped, let alone unplaytested.

I do have some big future plans for this project however, so keep your eyes peeled and watch this space."

Hopefully this isn't too much of an ashcan to be submitted here. Heaven knows when/if I'll ever get this done, but until I do enjoy some fleeting glimpses of this wild and unwieldy thing. 

Thanks as always,
-Ewen

Great! Will do :)

This is neat! Especially a fan of the anomalies; they feel new and interesting while also faithful to the original story.

Thanks so much. First time doing ASCII too; took me a while to get the hang of it! 

Haha I can only imagine!

Haha - I keep a pet snail with my partner; and we use the critters to clean the enclosure! I suspect that is why... 

But if I find any strange entomomantic scrolls or curses about the place I'll be sure to forward them on to you!!

Love this; brilliantly sinister tone for such an otherwise innocent concept!

Great stuff! I love the idea of a manticore legal scholar keeping a permanent collection of lawyers around for fun and games.

"Stuck upside down" is a great mien for this. Nice one; will definitely give my wizard NPCs one of these in tow now.

The concept of this thing slowly besting you at being, well, yourself is hilariously dark and I really like that!

Love the description of size here; very Troikan and yet easy to visualise. Nice one!

Amazing! I like that a lot. I'm from northern England and just remembered the tradition of Bluecaps here; a type of coal mining kobold who would push the wagons about with great strength and get paid for it. I could swear there were legends of floating lights in the mines here too, but can't find anything on that beyond will o' wisps.

Neat way of representing a swarm using Initiative, nice one! Like the idea of players being tasked with harvesting these into a berry pie without being told quite how sentient they are...

Great creature!! Love the plantlike nature, general ecological danger, and interaction with player inventory slots.

This was a neat read; brilliant miens; and "whose eyes burn like starlight" is a lovely phrase.

Amazing as always!! "Skybairns are the kiddos that have come to play in the sandbox of its cosmic dust" is such a great phrase - and the mein chart is brilliant too,

I adore the idea of the party demonologist summoning one of these and everyone just rolling with it. Great stuff!

The idea of an adventure wherein players shrink and travel through temporal rat tunnels is great!

The idea of civil service cargo cults, potentially feasting on lost hikers, is brilliant! I need to add some parks into my game now...

Thank you so much! I've been really tempted to do that; maybe adding a few extra tables too... I find my favourite table moments tend to happen from improvisation so wanted to lean into that.

Think I've seen this fella before, but never fails to make me smile! The snout is perfect!

Ah, lovely! Glad to hear they made it across the Atlantic okay!!

This one gives impeccable folklore vibes. Reminds me especially of the knockers of Cornwall and Wales! I think running this at the table, and knocking to spook the players, would be great fun.

Perhaps the best cat mien table I've ever seen!

Brilliant creature; I especially love the concept that a whole industry can form based on weird ancient magical laws - great stuff.

This is great!! Flaccid, floppy nails are a terrifying image - and the infectious aspect gives me the shivers. Will definitely throw one of these into my next game!

Love the hat determining mien; such a neat shorthand for several possible miens. 

Also love the "hat snatch" ability; I will definitely be using that against any wizards in the player party...

This is neat! Especially like the flames being described as "beacon crests". 

I also love the idea of an invisible creature feeding on its own reflection, and thus needing a mask to do so!

Neat creature! I love the phrase "swathed in onion-like layers of shadow" and the tactic of using light to weaken it. Nice one!

This is great! Love the convergent evolution from dragon to crab, and the phrase "regimented into eye-bleedingly unlikely shapes" is fantastic too. Great stuff!

Love the special; that's very neat! Also love the description; perfectly restrained and infinitely curious.

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"Screeching like a modem" is such an amazing mien; can really hear that viscerally! Can't wait to run this!!

Amazing creature! As someone who seems to generate a woodlouse infestation wherever I go, I thoroughly approve of these critters.

Great concept! Also love the mein being influenced by the genre shown, and the idea of the GM using .gifs or describing film scenes to communicate.

This will definitely be used in my next session!

Oooh... The idea of being press-ganged by a Silt Earl into squiredom would make a great opener or one-shot. Fantastic stuff; the right balance of weird and creepy I think!