The 2025 Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest - THREE DAYS LEFT!

[CleverNickName]

Woah, an entry for Ten Candles?! Amazing! (For those who don't know, Ten Candles is a horror-themed RPG from Cavalry Games, and it's definitely worth your time.)

Best of luck to you, Snarf!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Woah, an entry for Ten Candles?! Amazing! (For those who don't know, Ten Candles is a horror-themed RPG from Cavalry Games, and it's definitely worth your time.)

Best of luck to you, Snarf!

Ten Candles?

 

[Vael]

I mean, it sounds like you hate free stuff.

You don't have to "get" the concept of seasonal coffee flavors, or their weird cult-like following. You just need to be able to nod in our general direction, maybe poke a little fun at us. Write up some rules for a magical pumpkin-themed weapon...write up a spice-themed encounter...house-rule something called a "Pumpkin Spiced Healing Potion"...whatever, just throw it at the wall and see if your fellow non-Yankee EN World members vote for it.

Or just run with the words "Pumpkin" "Spice" "Espresso" and see what comes up. My original plan (before I noticed the need to emphasize "Espresso" was to have five pumpkin heads ... Scary, Posh, Baby, Sporty and Ginger

Woah, an entry for Ten Candles?! Amazing! (For those who don't know, Ten Candles is a horror-themed RPG from Cavalry Games, and it's definitely worth your time.)

Best of luck to you, Snarf!

I played it once and it was one of the more memorable gaming one-shots I ever played. Very fun, very cool. Especially when I accidently blew out 3 candles instead of one ...

I'll confess, despite being in the age demographic for it, I missed the Grunge Rock scene. A lot of my friends wore Nirvana T-shirts and such, but I was still blissfully listening to my parent's music, so I was still stuck on the Beatles and Gilbert & Sullivan.

 

[RealAlHazred]

This feels cheap as I'm modifying something I made recently, but I liked what I had come up with and wanted to share.

 

[CleverNickName]

Excellent work, @RealAlHazred ! I noticed you're using some old-school stats (THAC0 being the biggest tell, but also save vs. wands and time being measured in turns)...could this be a 1E D&D entry?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Excellent work, @RealAlHazred ! I noticed you're using some old-school stats (THAC0 being the biggest tell, but also save vs. wands and time being measured in turns)...could this be a 1E D&D entry?

THAC0 means it's probably 2E.

 

[CleverNickName]

THAC0 means it's probably 2E.

Woops, correct you are! (Honest mistake; I gave 2E a miss and went straight from BECM to 3E.)

 

[RealAlHazred]

Well, you're both off! It's for Old School Essentials! (I mentioned in another thread I'll be running a session or two next week!) Believe it or not, 2E is one of the two versions of D&D that I've not played or run (the other is the original white box OD&D, although I have the reprint box from twenty years ago or so).

The way OSE does it, they provide options. So, the AC is listed as "9 [10]" meaning it's 9 if you're using descending AC, or 10 if you're using ascending AC; and the THAC0 is listed as "20 [-1]" meaning it requires a 20 for the creature to hit AC 0 if using descending AC, or if you're using ascending AC the creature gets a -1 attack bonus.

 

[CleverNickName]

Here's a quick breakdown of the contest so far.

• Time remaining: you have 3 days, 16 hours, and 32 minutes to get your entry in.
• Number of entries: there are six entries so far
• Odds of winning: the odds of a new entry winning a prize would be 5-in-7, or 71%.
• Types of entries:
  • three of the entries feature new monsters.
  • three of the entries feature new items or magic items.
  • two entries feature new settings or environments.
  • one entry features a new adventure module.
• RPGs represented this year:
  • 5E D&D
  • Pirate Borg
  • Daggerheart
  • Ten Candles
  • Old School Essentials
    • No love for Shadowdark? No Call of Cthulhu?

Let's keep this pumpkin rolling!

 

[RealAlHazred]

No love for Shadowdark? No Call of Cthulhu?

I'm not familiar with Shadowdark, and Call of Cthulhu requires some thought. I'm a purist, just throwing a tentacles monster into a pumpkin patch isn't really Lovecraftian...