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Hey folks ... I'm looking to replace my gaming table set up. Currently I use two Ikea expandable tables that have end leaves that go from 3x3 to 3x5, so combined it's 6x4 or 6x5. What I'm looking for is a collapsing or foldable 4x6 ... anyone have any recommendations?

Hey everyone, It's been a while since I blogged, and I'm working on a potential DCC RPG Barrowmaze game when in-person gaming can resume. So I made another entry in my bestiary, the Boggard ... but not the one you are thinking of...

It's been a little while since I blogged, so as I sit here enjoying my New Year's Day tradition of watching the entire LOTR trilogy (expanded DVD set, of course) and eating Chinese food, I thought I would post our DCC group's expanded augury table. It also occurs to me this is usable for your...

New blog is up! Something I did in my home campaign is build some light faction rules for generic organizations, to hook players into not just doing a good deed for the Temple of Churcainn, or the Merchant Council of Goethe, but also motivate them to be hooked and immersed in the world's...

Got a creation myth for your world? How many years ago did the celestials fall to the Nine Hells? Why is sorcery different than wizardry? Why do people worship the gods? Here's my blog article explaining what I wrote for my campaign world ...

This week's blog, looking at the small changes I made to my 5E campaign to make it feel old school, without breaking the game ... http://archadestower.blogspot.com/2018/12/making-5e-feel-old-school.html

Hey folks, new article at my blog, this is a simplified encumbrance system for characters in Dungeon Crawl Classics, but easily ported to any other system ... https://archadestower.blogspot.com/2020/10/dcc-encumbrance-simplified.html

Hi guys, Just posted my latest blog article for the DCC RPG ruleset, my take on a less boring lizard man ... https://archadestower.blogspot.com/2020/05/dcc-bestiary-ashray.html

Hey all, Today's entry is a selection of feats I use in my campaign world to give different schools of magic flavour and a sense of mystery ... http://archadestower.blogspot.com/2020/04/5e-strange-magic.html

And since I'm sitting at home relaxing, with time on my hands, here's a second part to my 5E Economics article, talking about regional armor variants, and creating options for players after 1st level and before magic armor might find their way into their world ... and expanding on the rarity...

So, I'm going through all my old campaign notes, and I'm finding a lot of blog-worthy posts. And I have nothing but time on my hands, so here you are! How we handled our 5E economy of buying and selling items, be they magical or exotic .... Enjoy...

the DCC RPG book serves all needs for all people, and languages like 'Lizard Man' or 'Elf' are generic. Too generic. If monsters are supposed to be weird and wonderful, and our inspiration is Appendix N, would a backwards tribe in Michael Moorcock's world speak Elven, or would they speak...

Hey folks! Been a while since I've posted here, but I seem to have some time on my hands. Wrote a new blog article with a new Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG spell for necromancers out there, the Whispering Worms of Absalom ...

Hey guys, I was organizing my hard drive of all my RPG stuff, and came across some campaign notes and house rules that folks might find useful … I've just put up an injury/critical hit chart on my blog this morning. Enjoy! http://archadestower.blogspot.com/2018/12/5e-critical-wounds-chart.html

Well, still digging through my rpg files on my laptop, and found a Hero System combat tracker PDF that you might enjoy … https://archadestower.blogspot.com/2018/12/hero-system-combat-track.html

I was cleaning up my hard drive, and found some old notes from running a Hero System Star Wars game ... Here's my force power rules ... https://archadestower.blogspot.com

Hey folks, Latest blog is up, talking about how I tweaked crafting as a downtime activity to account for expensive or magical items without breaking the system ... http://archadestower.blogspot.ca/2017/12/5e-crafting-fixed.html Thanks!

I have a ton of stuff to post ... maybe I'll slow down to once a week after I get some of this out of my system. :) http://archadestower.blogspot.ca/2017/08/5e-fantasy-firearms.html

Hey folks, New article posted -- talking about the famous names out of the PHB and DMG and how I reskinned them to adapt them to my game. http://archadestower.blogspot.ca/2017/08/recycling-mordenkainen.html

Hey folks -- I was looking over all my gaming files on my computer, and I thought it might be worth sharing some of my house rules, ideas, articles and opinions. Starting off with a full divine write up of Churcainn, the Green Rider ... http://archadestower.blogspot.ca/ What do you think?