March 7, 2012 / Richard Pett / One comment
Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.
(So much more than just another bloke in a dress.)
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Twelve Types of Cider
1. Dabshaw’s Ratfest Scrumpy
2. Rumper’s Kill or Cure Cider
3. Poppritt’s Poisonous Perry
4. Samprord’s Sorry Sagardo
5. Mother Mebb’s Brown Deliverance
6. Fester
7. Old Jebs’ Painful Summer Cyser
8. Scobb’s Screaming Scumpy
9. Old No
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February 29, 2012 / Richard Pett / 8 comments
Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.
(So much more than just another bloke in a dress.)
[previously]
Twelve NPC Moods
Occasionally, it’s interesting to spice up some checks with the odd unusual modifier due to peculiar circumstances. The way an NPC feels is one option for you to consider using occasionally. The number in brackets indicated is the optional modifier to attempts made to use a Diplomacy check on that NPC. You might also consider that moods are a changeable thing to have, which might be changed by appealing to an NPC’s interest in music, giving a simple gift, or perhaps by even things such as weather.
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February 22, 2012 / Richard Pett / 5 comments
Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.
(So much more than just another bloke in a dress.)
[previously]
A Dozen Local Captains of the Watch
1. Strict Jak Kebble is the terror of his men. He’s suspicious of everyone and anyone he meets; he is initially unfriendly to everyone. With his neatly trimmed beard and chest of medals he is a strict military man of few words.
2. Sober Jabe, the drunk guard captain, is rarely seen outside the alehouses and taverns of the settlement. Jabe has a pet hedgehog called Grimtooth, and anyone who has an animal is his friend. He begins as friendly in attitude to any such character.
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February 15, 2012 / Richard Pett / 7 comments
Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.
(So much more than just another bloke in a dress.)
[previously]
“What’s this strange object, master? I’ve just found it beside the wainscoting lying in dust.”
“That, Licelet, is a d12.”
“Hmm, now I recall, the dice that is much unused and unloved.”
“Indeed it is, Licelet, but not by all of us . . .”
I know it’s very sad, but some of us feel sorry for the humble d12 and regard it as much neglected. As you might know with YWH, I’ve always tried to tie in tables to dice so that you can easily generate results from any of the tables you wish to use.
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January 18, 2012 / Richard Pett / 5 comments
Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.
(So much more than just another bloke in a dress.)
[previously]
“…fly into the marketplace, Titus, and listen. Simply listen. Or you will be punished for extreme naughtiness!”
“Snotling, are you talking to yourself again?”
“Yes, coming, master. I was just trying to decide how to undertake your latest mighty task.”
“Never mind about that now. Come and help me lance this boil.”
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Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere.
