February 2024

  • Appendix Nova: Paladin’s Grace

    Appendix Nova is me, reviewing stuff that isn’t games. I just thought it might be fun. But, I as with everything I do, I always use these things to give me game ideas, and so I’ll loop it back around to that eventually. So honestly, this is a little bit just me taking notes, so Continue reading

  • Rules Sketch: Treasure

    I had quickly adapted treasure simply to Advanced Fantasy Dungeons, back before it had a fairly comprehensive monster and spell list. It was really a conversion table, keeping things simple: To convert a monster’s “treasure type”, instead assign the appropriate treasure type (with their rough equivalencies):• Leavings for monsters who simply leave a pile of Continue reading

  • Bathtub Bonanza: Three Keeps on the Borderlands

    Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Continue reading

  • Dice Exploder Guest…me!

    Hey! Dice Exploder is a great podcast full of design interest and people being excited. It’s great stuff! I’m on there repping the DIY elf game scene this week! We talk about Lorn Song of the Bachelor, the Isle, Rumour Tables and random tables more generally! Check it out here! I can’t figure out how Continue reading

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  • The Curse of Mizzling Grove

    My kickstarter for Zinequest: the Curse of Mizzling Grove is now live! Check it out here! I’m really proud of this one! I’m holding myself back a little compared to all my other projects, and so this is a constrained, 20 room dungeon and its immediate surrounds, laid out clearly with a one location per Continue reading

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Threshold of Evil – Dungeon Regular

Dungeon Regular is a show about modules, adventures and dungeons. I’m Nova, also known as Idle Cartulary and I’m reading through Dungeon magazine, one module at a time, picking a few favourite things in that adventure module, and talking about them. On this episode I talk about Threshold of Evil, in Issue #10, March 1988! You can find my famous Bathtub Reviews at my blog, https://playfulvoid.game.blog/, you can buy my supplements for elfgames and Mothership at https://idlecartulary.itch.io/, check out my game Advanced Fantasy Dungeons at https://idlecartulary.itch.io/advanced-fantasy-dungeons and you can support Dungeon Regular on Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/idlecartulary.
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