Welcome to Random Encounters, the blog where we take a popular internet meme, animal video, or the like and turn it into a game rule for Pathfinder or Starfinder.
Mark Woolcott and I sat down and chatted about Julakashti, the Vesk soldier he is playing in our Starfinder actual play podcast. Listen Now!(mp3)
Hello again! Welcome back! I’m kind of on a fun Pokémon kick, so I want to continue that trend. Last time, I took a look at the pink puffball, Jigglypuff. This week, I’m focusing on another cute little monster....
We sat down with Paizo Developer and freelance author Eleanor Ferron and talked about writing and Strawberry Machine Cake! Listen Now!(mp3)
Not long ago, I talked about using popular culture as inspiration for your campaigns. In that article, I focused on using tried and true concepts and designs as a starting point to make encounters memorable. However, a recent episode of...
David Wilson’s Pathbuilder 2e App for the Android OS (And Windows / MAC with an emulator) is the best character app for Pathfinder 2e, and best of all: It’s Completely Free! Perram sings its praises and walks through how...
Julakashti learns the hard way that a lot of creatures on the sun are fire immune, while Kaholo decides when she grows up she wants to be an earth elemental! Listen Now!(mp3)
Much of the lives of our PCs involves chewing bubble gum, kicking down doors, taking names, and running out of said bubble gum. Even the codified downtime system in 2e assumes that downtime is used either to recover from...
Many years ago, in the land of D&D 2nd Ed., our friends were playing a home brewed Planescape campaign. At some point in the game they split the party (yeah, I know, I wrote a whole blog about that...
These Things Are True… The world is dark. A couple weeks ago the light went away. Day was gone and night was forever. There was some immediate panic but more surprise and confusion. Social media brightened every face that...