The Grizzly Rant

I was drafting the "starter session" for a city quest the other day I call "The Whispers of Madness." It's a mystery adventure. ICRPG is an inherently fast-paced game, and mystery-type adventures are notorious for grinding parties to a halt for HOURS as they attempt to solve what the Game Master thought a relatively simple mystery, what is wrong  with you idiots, make a damn Perception check already! This is mostly because mysteries tend to rely on the wits of the players, and not the player characters. And GM's are not always flawless story or mystery writers. This was something I sought to remedy. BEHOLD: GM Grizzly's Story CHUNKS I love CHUNKS . They are so versatile, and I wonder just how much so Runehammer thought they might be when he first devised them. Initially, I applied a modified version to travel , then applied the concept to buildings and towns . Through the course of developing this adventure and its story , however, I realized s...

Storage. The bane of craft GMs everywhere. I make 3D terrain for my table and all my kits are modular and reversible whenever possible to help alleviate this problem. ICRPG saved my proverbial bacon in a lot of ways when it came to miniatures, providing papercraft minis of heroes and monsters in a consistent style that can be fitted to removable bases. My storage problems for miniatures did not end quite here, however. In fact, I found myself with a new problem: I now had 100+ paper minis, each with a craft stick glued inside for stability and basing, and sorting and storing them was becoming a problem. I needed to come up with a system that was as simple as ICRPG itself and in the process, revolutionized the way I thought about monsters in game design entirely. Behold: GM Grizzly's Jars of EVIL. The Jars Of Evil What  is  a Jar of EVIL? Fundamentally, it is a jar, container, or in my case, an old Greek Yogurt or Cottage Cheese tub that keeps a specific "class...