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  • Five Not-Boring Elementals

    Elements are dead boring. Most of them, at least. The four elements I think are boring are earth, air, fire and water, and the passingly similar five phases known as fire, water, wood, air and metal. It’s worth noting, though, that there are some more interesting variations. There’s a fifth western element, aether, that is Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: Threshold of Evil

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Reviews, I Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: Secret of the Towers

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  • Dungeon Regular: Monsterquest

    Dungeon Regular: Monsterquest

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Reviews, I Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: They Also Serve

    Dungeon Regular: They Also Serve

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Reviews, I Continue reading

  • Gold! A Blog Friday Post

    It’s Blog Friday (Cyber Blogday?), so I thought I’d talk about gold and why I hate it. In the medieval period the main currency was the gold nomisma, about 5 grams of pure gold, and in the early modern period the sovereign was about 15 grams (this is all according to wikipedia, I ain’t no Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: The Artisan’s Tomb

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Reviews, I Continue reading

  • Dungeon Regular: The Shrine of Ilsidahur

    Dungeon Regular: The Shrine of Ilsidahur

    A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, or here, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of Idle Cartulary. If you liked this article, please consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to the Idle Digest Newsletter. If you want to support Idle Cartulary continuing to provide Bathtub Continue reading

  • Omens

    I am inspired by this post. A 2d6 table, wordpress just won’t let me start at 2. Best used in a game with a world that acts independently of the players. Omens directly affect the world for 1d6 + 1 days. The omen applies whether or not you detect it. Any chance who is superstitious Continue reading

  • House Rules for 5e from a House with No 5e

    There’s been a lot of talk about how 5e is bad lately (it isn’t) from public GMs and designers who want their players to switch to new or their games (they won’t), because GM and design centric perspectives misdiagnose that 5e is good, actually. This video’s first point illustrates the misdiagnosis well. Actually, players of 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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