MiniLOG & MiniDELVE : One Page Rules & Dungeon Generation

We're playing as these guys.

MiniLOG

Ages ago I wrote a One Page GLoG as a challenge to myself. I looked back on it recently and shuddered. While there were some good ideas there, I felt it lacked precision, beauty, and was still plagued with too much bulk.

I slimmed it down and painted it up into MiniLOG, which is everything a player really needs to know to enjoy a game of GLoG.

The basic rules are:

  • 3 Attributes (Might, Grace, and Will) that are the modifiers.
  • 3 Fixed DCs
  • Boons and Banes that stack, cancel each-other out, and boost the Crit/Fumble chance.
  • A simplified Death & Dismemberment table.
  • Simple and familiar gear, spells, and leveling.
  • Plus some other things.

All on one page.

You can take a peak here.

MiniDELVE

 
We're slaying these things.

To accompany such a small game, I needed an equally small but punch-packed GM toolkit. Enter MiniDELVE, a distillation of everything I know (or think I know) about dungeon crafting.

  • Dungeon overview prompts.
  • Layout guidelines.
  • Room generation
  • Encounter generation guidelines.
  • Randomized monster groupings (Solo Monsters to Minion Packs)
  • Randomized monster tactics.
  • Random traps
  • Treasure tables
  • Magic Item generation prompts.

Link

And maybe someday I'll make an overland page... MiniREALM.

Art from Final Fantasy Tactics.

Comments

  1. KyanaJanuary 8, 2024 at 7:15 AM

    I like the design on this and MiniRealm sounds interesting.

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    1. HilanderJanuary 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM

      It is almost done. Working on figuring out what is necessary / helpful / filler.

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  2. Arnold K.January 10, 2024 at 2:18 AM

    Very nice! I like the efficiency.

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