Short and Sweet

Things have gotten a bit crazy here before the holidays and I haven't had a chance to post for a week or so, unfortunately. This post will be fairly limited, but I wanted to get something posted.

First up, we just had a hell of a first in my Dungeons and Dragons game. A fight between the party and a group of dessicators (undead water elementals) and salt mummies ended with both the first PC death, and the first suicide-by-fumble that I've ever seen. Adam managed to fumble, then hit a perfect 100 on the percentiles, resulting in self-evisceration. It was really funny at the time, and we spent the rest of the evening making bad puns and poor jokes about him being dead. Given that they're in the middle of a dungeon way off in the wilderness and a very long way from home, I'm going to have to come up with either a different character for Ethan to play temporarily (which could well work, the group does have two NPCs traveling with them), or a way for them to resurrect Adam. I have a group of people in my setting known as the Prime that consists of Q-esque characters, so perhaps one of them will pop in and make an offer to bring Adam back to life. It should be interesting either way.

Secondly, I follow another blog called Playing D&D with Porn Stars. Despite any possible connotations or implications, it's an extremely well-written blog and the guy who writes it (Zac something or other) is a really talented DM. In any case, the reason I bring it up is that he posted recently about a random generator that I think is a lot of fun, and my gaming group fully agreed.

It's a random metal album generator, giving you an album title, and the track names. The genius thing about it is that this works perfectly for generating the campaign name and chapter titles for a new game. For example, I just brought it up and ended up with the following:

Campaign - Wicked Spell: Master Zero
Chapter 1 - Become the Reaver
Chapter 2 - Between Solace and Suffering
Chapter 3 - Church of the Infernal Ghost
Chapter 4 - Hello Mister Doubt
Chapter 5 - Despoiled by Tranquility

Now, I don't know about you, but just looking at those in the context of campaign sections gets my brain running on overtime. Filling in a story around those names won't necessarily be easy, but it'll definitely be fun. Gives a campaign in the style of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths.

In any case, the link is here and I'd love to see what anyone else can come up with as well. Enjoy!