The best part of any gaming book is the little ideas. Great NPCs. Intriguing locations. Small, elegant rules. Campaign or adventure ideas. It doesn't matter which game or genre it's originally for, we can throw those ideas into any game we want. Random Encounters is a series of gaming books consisting of just the ideas. 20 short essays about cool stuff to try in your games. Character stuff. Monster stuff. Campaign arcs. Adventure ideas. Encounters. Play at table. House rules. All kinds of little ideas for you to read, take, use and alter to make your game all it can be. Here are 20 more simple and inspiring notions to bring your game play to another level. Based on the widely shared "RPG Thought of the Day" series from G+, these ideas are vetted, refined and given to you for whatever nefarious purposes you can dream up. For one dollar, that's five cents per idea.
Jason Brick started wrestling just after his 11th birthday. He has studied and taught martial arts for the thirty-plus years between now and then. His fascination with Japanese mythology began while training in karate and magnified while living in Japan. When not writing or practicing, he cooks, plays table-top games and tries hard to spoil his wife, two sons and cats in the lush and rainy Pacific Northwest.
Another in a great series - I love how these uncomplicated ideas seed my imagination and get me thinking in different ways about how to make my game more real and thereby, more interesting
Get the Random Encounters series. Being a life long gamer, sometimes you need to take it back to square one. These books have been a reassuring source of comfort knowing I can continue my ideas by simply saying "it's not awesome enough..... Yet. "