Writer’s Block

50 Unpleasant Side Effects

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Straight from the cutting room floor! The following table was a submission for the book 50 Fantastic Functions for the D50 published by Goodman Games. My submission “50 Meaningful Motivations for NPCs” made it into that book, but sadly, this little gem did not. Hopefully this lonely table can find a loving home somewhere in your campaign. Grab the PDF one-sheet here! 50 Unpleasant Side Effects by Stephen Newton Your wizard mixing potions again? Your ranger brush up against an alien fungus? Need to spice up your spellburn? Grab...

Upcoming Children of the Fallen Sun playtest sessions

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Hey Thick Skullers! Just a reminder there’s a couple of upcoming playtest session of my forthcoming Mutant Crawl Classics RPG adventure Children of the Fallen Sun at some cons: Gam3rCon San Diego- Friday July 22, 6pm, Judge Bill Meyer (the Stinky One-Eyed Ogre himself) GenCon – Friday Aug 5, 2pm, Judge Michael Bolam In addition, I may run another playtest either via Google Hangouts soon, as I’ve made a fair amount of changes to the adventure based on previous playtests. Let me know if you’re...

Thick Skull Adventures turns 5 years old!

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Happy Birthday, Thick Skull Adventures! The date totally passed me by, but June 30 was the birthday to this creative outlet of mine, Thick Skull Adventures. On June 30, 2011 is when I first released The Haunting of Larvik Island for Dungeons and Dragons fourth edition. It would be another year or so before Dungeon Crawl Classics would be released and Attack of the Frawgs would hatch for that fabulous game system. I want to thank everyone for making these adventures so fun to work on, and being such a fabulous and supportive community. In the...

I won’t be at GenCon, but my writing will be

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Hello Thick Skullers! So sadly another year goes by where I will not be able to attend one of the Big 3 RPG Cons (neither GaryCon, North Texas RPG, nor GenCon), but I’m pleased to see that there are some fabulous judges running some stuff I’ve published: They Served Brandolyn Red – DCC – Judge Jim Dovey, Thursday 9AM They Served Brandolyn Red – DCC – Judge Michael Crane, Friday 2PM Children of the Fallen Sun – MCC – Mutant Judge Michael Bolam, Friday 2pm But that’s just my stuff. As you likely know (especailly if you’re...

MCC RPG Kickstarter and The Children of the Fallen Sun

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Hello Thickskullers! As you’re all probably aware, the long awaited Mutant Crawl Classics RPG Kickstarter campaign started last week and was fully funded within the first hour. It’s a testament to how much (well deserved) excitement has been built up for this game. Jim Wampler has done an amazing job creating a DCC RPG game/campaign. As you know, I’ve been fortunate enough to read the rules in beta, and I’ve written an adventure for this setting: Children of the Fallen Sun. Most notably, it will be run by Michael Bolam...

The Shambling Un-Dead released!

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Hello Thick Skullers! I’m pleased to say I once again had the opportunity to work with Jim Wampler and the rest of the DCC Cabal to contribute to Goodman Game’s third road crew tournament adventure, The Shambling Un-Dead. In this 0-level adventure, the PCs find themselves as common villagers trapped in midst of an un-dead apocalypse! As they scurry from location to location, they encounter different varieties of un-dead creatures and other challenges. The crew behind it: Jim Wampler, Concept, Design, Co-Author Bob Brinkman,...

Wood Giant Stats

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Hello Thick Skullers! A thread appeared on Google Plus asking about how to convert giants. In order to be a Good Community Citizen (and taking a cue from the generosity of community favorites like Daniel Bishop and Paul Wolfe), I thought I’d make available the one-page monster description for wood giants as taken from Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman. Here’s the short version: Wood Giant: Init -2; Atk club +10 melee (2d8+8) or hurled stone +6 missile fire (1d8+6, range 100’); AC 16; HD 6d10; MV 30’; Act 1d22; SP natural spell...

12 Days of OSR Christmas 2016

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Happy Christmas, Thick Skullers! Every year, Erik Tenkar does a wonderful community service of organizing the 12 Days of OSR Christmas, and this year is no exception. In the past I have donated PDFs of my products, but this year I’m upping the game and donating a set of print and PDFs to some lucky winner (or winners… not sure how Mr. Tenkar will be giving the loot away.) Sadly, I’ll only be mailing the print copies to US winners. I will be donating a print + PDF set of: Attack of the Frawgs (the updated 2015 digest edition)...

Black Friday Sale 2015

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Life in the DCC funnel is cheap, and on Black Friday, it’s 40% cheaper. As I do each year, from now through Cyber Monday (Nov 30, 2015… or whenever I get around to changing the prices back) the entire portfolio of Thick Skull Adventure PDF DCC RPG modules (all three of them) will be marked down to the price of a small sack of old iron rations. All titles have been reduced from $4.99 to $2.99 this weekend! So if you’ve just been hanging out in the tavern drinking mead, it’s time to grab your 10-foot pole and start exploring!...

Attack of the Frawgs: 2015 Edition

Posted by snake on 2:03 pm in Uncategorized | 2 comments

Hello Frawgs Fans, Wanted to let you know that I’ve updated Attack of the Frawgs to the “2015 Edition”. It includes the following changes: Digest sized format. This is not full-sized scrunched down into digest sized, but a complete re-layout of the content to optimize for digest sized printing and reading. Three new pieces of art from Reba Pyron. Now you can see imagery of the gicastor attack, a crab friend, and the frawg spawner in all their splendor. Rewrite of encounter area 1-12. That encounter has been replaced with a new totem erected...