Sage's Sanctum

08 Apr, 2026 Rebooting Reboot 2: Cyberpunk Weapons and Combat
A bunch of Cyberpunk guns and basic combat rules.
01 Apr, 2026 Rebooting Reboot 1: Resolution Mechanics
I'm going back to the drawing board on my Cyberpunk system, starting with the Core Resolution mechanic.
31 Mar, 2026 Adaora Free Clinics and Cyberthralls
Need a bullet wound patched up? Adaora Clinics will do it on the cheap. They'll even throw in a malicious backdoor to your brain for free!
25 Mar, 2026 Reboot Playtest Basic Rules
Basic playtest rules for a Cyberpunk TTRPG where we've moved to domed moon cities and put our minds inside of hard drives.
17 Mar, 2026 My Experience Working With an Editor
How my editor made my game better and the editing process
11 Mar, 2026 Rethinking 3.5 D&D Templates as GLOG Classes
Down with Dragonborn as a race, up with Dragonborn as a template!
10 Mar, 2026 Hex: The Bogbean Bandits
The bogbean bandits have become violent and ambitious lately, someone ought to take care of them...
05 Mar, 2026 Fuck Up Your Images With Databending
Why learn image editing software when you can edit your images as audio?
03 Mar, 2026 Folded Steel Random Encounter Table
Random Encounters for a Japan inspired hexcrawl.
03 Mar, 2026 Hex: The Weary Traveler Inn
Stay as long as you like...
26 Feb, 2026 Killing my Darlings, Revising Cambion, Berserker, and Assassin
A complete rework of the Cambion class devours the remains of the Berserker class, and Assassin gets a couple tweaks.
25 Feb, 2026 Mysteries, Cyberpunk, and Rolling Even Less
Thinking about cyberpunk and taking some cues from Gumshoe on how to run mysteries with even less rolling.
24 Feb, 2026 Hex: Ogama Lair
24 Feb, 2026 Folded Steel Session 4 - Claiming Katsutoyo Castle!
The Akamatsu clan claims Katsutoyo castle and faces off with a cursed spirit!
11 Feb, 2026 Folded Steel Session 3 - An Oni Hidden Beneath a Shrine
The Akamatsu clan deals with a salty priest, a giant slug, an umbrella that really wants to lick you, and an Oni!
11 Feb, 2026 The Walled City of Mera
Where everyone has their place and 9 foot long cats keep everything in line.
10 Feb, 2026 Hex: A Colony of Frogs
Can a Samurai girlie and a frog girlie really find true love? What if the salamanders get them?
05 Feb, 2026 Mech Pilots with GLOG Classes?
A first draft of some mecha rules in which two players drive a single mech together.
03 Feb, 2026 Folded Steel Session 2 - Duels en Route to Katsutoyo Castle
The Akamatsu clan's first venture into the wilderness of Gekkōshima, and their firsty encounter with the island's yokai.
28 Jan, 2026 Folded Steel Session 1 - The Akamatsu Girls Take Gerozato
The beginning of my campaign 2026. Character creation and the beginning of the Akamatsu clan's adventure's in Gekkōshima
28 Jan, 2026 Hex: Twin Heavens Dojo
A dojo hidden in the mountains with a depressed master.
27 Jan, 2026 Hex: The Plumpest Plum Tree
A magical plum tree hidden by a fox spirit and beset by bandits.
25 Jan, 2026 Gerozato: The Port town of Gekkōshima
The starting town in my island hexcrawl inspired by Japanese folklore.
07 Jan, 2026 Thinking About Death Mechanics
Hello darkness my old friend, I'll come to speak with you in 4-6 turns after my death saves.
15 Dec, 2025 Putting the "Magic" in Magic Weapons
Why I don't give out +1 swords anymore and a simple procedure for building better magic weapons.
08 Dec, 2025 Ruminating on Ronin's Random Tables
Ronin used random tables in some ways I haven't. Here's what I took away from the game.
02 Dec, 2025 3 Yokai for OSR Games
A demon beneath a bridge, a dead woman chasing you with sickles, and a... Grudge chicken?
18 Nov, 2025 Expand the Possibility Space
2000 words on my one sided beef with 5e's Actor feat.
17 Nov, 2025 Silver Hills Hexcrawl Factions
The major and minor factions for the Silver Hills Hexcrawl
16 Nov, 2025 Silver Hills: Mining, New Beginnings, and a Struggle for Power
At the end of the grand rail lies a town at the very edge of the angel's sphere of influence. Whether you're looking for honest work or running from the past, there's a place for you in Silver Hills.
11 Nov, 2025 Building a Better Town System
A modular, low upkeep system for players to manage and build a town.
05 Nov, 2025 Handling Factions in a Hexcrawl
A system for keeping track of what factions are up to that focuses on quick, gameable output.
30 Oct, 2025 A Calamitous Random Encounter Alternative
A system for replacing random encounters with a danger that gets closer and closer the longer a party stays in a dungeon.
28 Oct, 2025 Silver Hills Regional Hexcrawl Project
A Hexcrawl built for Revolver or other OSR games.
28 Oct, 2025 My Hole Theory of Interesting Combat
Want to make a room more interesting? Put a hole in it!
27 Oct, 2025 Revolver Random Encounter Table
Some random encounters and creature stat blocks for Revolver, including cowboys, aliens, and the Noble Mothman!
25 Oct, 2025 Roll Less, Do More
If it makes sense, sometimes things can just happen!
23 Oct, 2025 Building a Better Monk: Martial Arts in TTRPGs
My approach to including martial arts in OSR style games.
21 Oct, 2025 Ogres, Ninjas and Poison, a Hex and a Dungeon
A cavern full of stolen goods, poisonous mushrooms, ratling shinobi and an art loving ogre!
15 Oct, 2025 Rethinking my Firearm Classes
Changing Revolver's one gunslinging class into 3!
14 Oct, 2025 Building a Better Knowledge System (and an Archivist Class)
I don't like knowledge checks in D&D 5e. Here's what I do instead!
07 Oct, 2025 Three Monstrous Microorganisms
Turning Microorganisms into creepy critters for my game!