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Good morrow, .ioites,

Generate flavorful characters in 60 seconds or less, with adventure-specific objectives to give them direction while dungeon crawling in The Incandescent Grottoes and The Hole in The Oak!

https://elstoferino.itch.io/all-dice-mythic-underworld

Roll 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, 1d12, and 1d20, then consult tables to create and equip a character. Very fast, very simple.

You could be...

A chess master with a quarterstaff, a waterwalk ring, a silence-producing gong, pipe and pipeleaf, and chalk, seeking grandmaster Nolly’s fabled giant chess set.

A ranger with a flaming sword, a non-flaming sword, a 5-foot-long rubber band, and a hover wheelbarrow, seeking the remains of the ranger Jorg.

A mutagenicist with a chameleon familiar, an animal-charming fife, a candlestick, matches and candles, and pipe and pipeleaf, seeking new ways to mutate people.

Hey itchy friends,

I've published a new character generator - Roll 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, 1d12, and 1d20, then consult tables to create and equip a character. Very fast, very simple.

https://elstoferino.itch.io/all-dice-vampire-castle

You could be...

A Goblin courtier with an illusion wand, a punching dagger, a wolf form potion, a holy symbol and a bag of tribute blood!

An identity thief with a glaive, charming rouge, firecrackers, and an incompetent genie!

A scheming scribe with garlic, a hand crossbow, a body swap scroll, and a collection of irresistible marbles

https://elstoferino.itch.io/all-dice-fairy-tale-wood

Just published a new rules-light ttrpg character generator - well-suited to Cairn and Dolmenwood, or any woodsy fantasy game!

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Colour me interested! Looks like I’d be in good company - especially like the looks of Office of the Apocalypse :)

Hi itchy friends! I've just published a PWYW zine for tabletop adventure games. It's made to quickly generate, with a fistful of dice, space trucker style characters with interesting personalities and gear that invites creative problem solving. Great for Mothership games, or Alien-style adventures, or Firefly-esque jobs, etc., etc. 

Drop me a line ad let me know what you think!
https://elstoferino.itch.io/all-dice-space-truckers

https://elstoferino.itch.io/glitch-spire

It's a dense, dynamic 29-room tower dungeon with rumors, random encounters, competing NPCS, and surrealistic reality-bending magic items, set in the psychedelic dying earth of Ultraviolet Grasslands!

Thank you! Yeah, combining the "role and goal" and having a table of class-specific gear helps get the strengths of both a thematically cohesive pregen and an inspiringly random PC. In the first game of Braunstein, David Wesely gave role/goal combos like "you're the town mayor and you want to get your son out of prison after he got arrested rioting last night" and "you're a Napoleonic dissident and you want to spread leaflets around town" - and that was delightful enough that it spawned the whole RPG hobby!

I really appreciate the edit, too - I just uploaded a fixed/updated version.

I'm so glad you featured it - thank you!

https://elstoferino.itch.io/all-dice-ii



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQZsNsu-7us

Thank you for your kind reflections - especially your praise for Theo!

I'm loving the tiles. I look forward to flat top compatibility, as I have a big flat-top map I want to replicate with the Lil Classic tiles :)

I just released a revision of this project!



I changed the printout from its prior one-page, three-column layout with small font; now it's a proper, more legible two-columns booklet zine in the style of Adventure Hour!, Cairn, and Maze Rats. I rejiggered the spacing, bolding, and placement of the words so that each room feature has some space around it and begins with the main bit in bold, followed by unbolded details. And I added some details - the one intact statue in the temple is a statue of the elvish Queen of Tears and Vengeance, and it is streaming tears and audibly sobbing; the gemstone leaves of the tree clink in the breeze; the god riding a star in the bas-relief has stirrups and a saddle; etcetera.

This free system neutral character generator spawns whimsical fantasy weirdos with a random personality, purpose, and 5 pieces of random equipment well suited to tactical infinity, creative problem solving, and lateral thinking :)

https://elstoferino.itch.io/all-dice-character-generator-1

You're very welcome! Anyone who likes this should definitely check out your stuff, it was an inspiration in form and content :)

https://elstoferino.itch.io/undertree-temple-of-the-elf-gods

This module details an eight room dungeon beneath a massive tree, along with relevant random encounter and rumor tables. It is presented in a usable format with terse and evocative language.