Free PATHFINDER Beginner Box Character Sheets

Just some character sheets from the excellent Pathfinder Beginner Box I redesigned 5 years ago but figured I'd upload today. Just didn't really like the design of the original. Shoulda been landscape, shoulda been clearer to use. Hopefully they are.

Same front, but different back for each of the four classes.

Hope you like 'em!

Letter-sized version here.

A4-sized version here.

Secret Santicore 2011!

Here it is... in all its warty, unwashed, typo-riddled glory: Secret Santicore 2011! 

104 pages of generous creativity for your game, and it's all totally free. Not a cent.

BUT... if you do end up using some of the material herein, take the one minute out of your day to shoot an email over to the guy who wrote the article and let him know how it played out. He'll get a kick out of it, guaranteed.

I know I will. And that's worth something.

Click here to download (13mb)!

And click here if you wanna know what Secret Santicore is all about!

To all the Squid-hugging Ink-hoarders: yes, I know it's full color, and yes I know it will chew through your inks in no time. But fear not; in a couple of weeks, when I get back from holiday in the Land of Poison and Fire, I'll go through the doc and do a black and white version. Just for you. 

To all the Type-O Nazis: you're gonna have fun with this one; the turnaround was just far too tight to get proofreaders to go properly through it, but rest assured, once I'm back I'll get them all fixed up. If you do feel like proofreading, lemme know. 

Lastly special thanks is due to the following people for general asskickingness:

Zak for saying go for it, when I said I think I could.

The contributors: for being a great bunch a guys. It was a pleasure.

The artists: Cover artist Peter Seckler (where's your portfolio Pete?), Stuart Robertson and especially Jeremy Duncan, for producing such excellent art in such ridiculous timeframes.

S.John Ross for the generous use of his fonts.

The Emergency Elf support crew: Dylan Atkinson, Mike Evans, Erik Jensen, Iain Jones, Jeff Rients, Stuart Robertson, Peter Seckler, S.L. Shirley, and Telecanter for stepping in when help was needed. Seriously couldn't have done it without you.

And extra extra super special gratitude and love to Vanessa, for covering my ass and letting me run wild with the opportunity. I'm so glad I married you and not me. 

Well she's done, she's dusted. Sun's coming up. Time for a beer.

Bewdy

Jez

P.S. Lady-gamers, where the hell were you? 

Hollow Earth Expedition : Empire Flying Boat

The Empire Flying Boat was the mainstay of the Imperial Airways fleet from 1936-47, traversing the globe from London to Australia via India, and making the trans-Atlantic journey to New York and Bermuda. Their time was short but glorious, and I always wanted them in my Hollow Earth Expedition campaign, as the "Millenium Falcon" of the setting. In and out of anywhere, flying dangerous missions for Empire during the war, shuttling dilettantes and precious cargo around the world.

For my players I gave them a handout of the ship - photos and stats -  and gave them surveillance of the factory in Rochester, UK, where they were built. Their first mission in my HEX game? Steal one.

Click here to download the handout.

A different kinda hex crawl

Hollow Earth Expedition - or HEX for short - is an absolutely cracking RPG if you feel like punching Nazis in the face and feeding them to dinosaurs while defending your buddies with death rays at the center of the Earth.

The Ubiquity game system is a simple and clever binary dice system (evens=yes, odds=no, did you get enough yeses to succeed?) that runs very smoothly, and the core setting is supported with several beautiful sourcebooks — Secrets of the Surface World, Mysteries of the Hollow Earth, and the soon-to-be-released Revelations of Mars (c'mon dammit, publish it!?!) as well as some free adventures.

You can tell I like it, enough to go all out and design a Character Passport booklet. You can download it here.

The 10 page PDF is impaginated and will fit each spread on both A4 and US Letter sized paper, but will need a decent scalpel, metal edged ruler, stapler and quality printer to create. I found that printing it scaled down to 80% of the original size worked best. 

So yeah, go try HEX.

Your fists will thank you for it.

DungeonFu for Google+

So this is for anyone who's using Google+ Hangout to run dungeon crawls online: a map-making template that anyone in game can use. Industrious DMs can make their maps before hand; lazy ones can make it up as they go.

I've included a sample map of a crypt that took me a little over an hour to do (though I use graphic programs every day) and I found Google Documents to be pretty nifty. One quick tip: once you've created a room, group all the objects used. Makes it easier to handle.

First time I've done something like this so if it's got bugs, lemme know (gently).

Go have fun with it; if you make anything with it send me a JPG so I can chuck it in here. Plus if you go all out and make geomorphs for others to use lemme know so I can link'em.

Last thing, there's plenty of free icons out there, specifically for this kinda thing; so if you think my designs suck just go for a quick search.

Monday Map: Aurorica

Ever wondered what a Antarctica free from ice might look like? Want polar fantasy adventure? Need a map for your campaign setting but can't be arsed making your own?

Hope you like, go have fun. Send me a link of your results if you use it.

Bigger version.

Really big.