May 30, 2019

Cockatrice Nuggets #54 - Hexes, titans, and session zero


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Episode 54
Published on 5/30/2019
Where I talk about my groups and what I've been up to in Dungeons and Dragons and now Into the Odd

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May 24, 2019

Cockatrice Nuggets Episode 53 - Many prairie dogs died for this information


Cockatrice Nuggets #53 show notes
Published on 5/24/2019
Where I try to justify hitting my Dungeons and Dragons players with pot shots from a sling.



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What have I been up to?

Excel, Excel, Excel. I feel like I'm playing a video game, I look up and I spent 4 hours and my pot of coffee is cold! I feel like, aside from a few tweaks, I am done. I'm going to look into how I can release this, but I'm sure there is not a way. I used d30 sandbox, Tome of Adventure Design and Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Compiled and tweaked, made some tables and formulas, and finished a quick hex populator. I would like to eliminate duplicates and maybe add more lines, but it works pretty well. I connected the moster encounter table generator I made and I've got a quick hex at the press (or two) of F9. Wanna try it? Its ugly, but made to paste into my hex page in onenote. Let me know what you think.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/27108636

May 8, 2019

Cockatrice Nuggets #52 5E D&D what I hate and what I love show notes

Cockatrice Nuggets #52 5E D&D what I hate and what I love
Episode 52
Published on 5/8/2019
5th edition Dungeons and Dragons likes and dislikes and call ins!

https://anchor.fm/rich-fraser/episodes/Cockatrice-Nuggets-52-5E-DD-what-I-hate-and-what-I-love-e3u4h2


Aron from Keep It Simple

Colin Green from Spikepit
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=15429922

Frothsof from Thought Eater
frothsofdnd.blogspot.com
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May 2, 2019

Cockatrice Nuggets #51 Prep and Recap show notes


Episode 51 
Published on May 2, 2019
Where I talk recap and prep for my next Midgard Dungeons and Dragons session
https://anchor.fm/rich-fraser/episodes/Cockatrice-Nuggets-51-Prep-and-Recap-show-notes-e3tav7

Loopy planning
No article on my hex population, maybe in the future!

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May 1, 2019

one page dungeon

remember this?

https://www.slackernerds.com/2019/02/five-room-dungeon-tables.html

the monastery has been stewing around in my head. I had all but forgotten about the one page dungeon contest I wanted to enter this year. Three hours later... 


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Apr 26, 2019

New nuggets #49 call in episode for Avengers day!

https://anchor.fm/rich-fraser/episodes/49---Avengers-day--no-spoilers-DD-podcast-e3rvet
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Midgard map
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Apr 23, 2019

Cockatrice Nuggets #48 D&D midgard campaign prep show notes


Episode 48 
Published on April 23, 2019
Where I discuss preparing for my current Dungeons and Dragons midgard campaign


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Apr 15, 2019

Cockatrice Nuggets #47 show notes

Episode 47
Published on April 15, 2019
Something old, something new Dungeons and Dragons version
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Old - castle oldskull generators
New - courts of shadow Fey
Borrowed - encumbrance rules
Blue - The-Ultraviolet-Grasslands--Free-Introduction

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Apr 10, 2019

More on hexcrawling (part 2)

Part one here.

I got to use my traces/tracks/spoor/monster/lair table for encounters this week and found out it doesnt work for hex crawling. If you recall, I was rolling every four hours and cleared the encounter track every night. That means I need six (remember there are 2 traces) out of six dice to come up as successes. Why didn't I figure this out? Why didn't you tell me! Well, that's what playtesting is for, my players got off easy!
Ok, we have two options here, decrease the DC or shorten the encounter track. Either should work, but which is better? I want an encounter once every few days, let's say twenty five percent chance per day. If I were rolling one d20 I would set a DC 15, as each increment of a d20 is one twentieth of one hundred, or five percent. Looking at anydice 6d20 output, 72+ is about 25% so I'm guessing a DC of 12 without any fancy probability math. Is there a website that will do that for me? To google!
Lowering the DC means I still need 6 successes. Or I could use a range. Probably based off of the encounter DC. DC 19 encounter, 17-18 is track, 15-16 is spoor, natural 20 is lair.

So looking over this today, I came up with a solution I like and will try. Nat 20 is a lair, encounter DC-1 is spoor, -2 is tracks, -3 and -4 are traces. Now to make encounter tables!


I removed the graph side and pelaced it with a rocketbook page (not shown). Here is the revised tracker in google drive.