I finally finished the first band of the sampler for the first Sprite Stitch stitch-a-long! And it only took me all four weeks to do it. I made a few changes to the base pattern: I made Yoshi blue (obvs), I changed the mirrored banana peel into a star, I made Toad’s outline black, and…
Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day 2013 happened just a couple of days after I finally decided to download the core rules and start perusing. (That’ll teach me to not check in at Tenkar’s Tavern more often.) I’ve read through the free version of most of the OSR rulesets out there, but Swords & Wizardry was…
Want to drop a few minor magic items which the players will really want to use, but which won’t screw up your short-term balance or wreck low-level fun? Wand of Impact. Sends a burst of force in a straight line which expends its energy on a single target within 30′, beyond which it merely ruffles…
JB of B/X Blackrazor fame has posted this series about variant / exceptional classes in D&D and its derivatives (that is, classes beyond the Main 4, like the paladin and ranger). He proposes that DMs who want to increase the rarity of variant-class PCs in their games should apply a filter – that is, a…
Sprite Stitch blogger and super-awesome person starrley posted this project on the Sprite Stitch blog today. 😀 I had a pair of pants with an enormous tear across the knee and a hole developing at the corner of the pocket where I keep my keys. I wanted to patch them, but I couldn’t find any…
The local queen, governor, mayor, or other liege is touring the area in secret. She’s dressed as a tradeswoman, tinker, peddler, or rag seller. She needs to sound out the locals about a problem – a diplomatic issue, or maybe the nature of a monster affecting the village on the eastern border. Adventurers who give…
Sprite Stitch is hosting our first stitch-a-long. It’s a band sampler. Individual bands were solicited from the community. Over 100 bands were submitted. We then voted on our favorites. From the top 8 results, three bands will be randomly selected and given out to the community, one per week. Each individual will select the fourth…
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