Tuesday, September 2, 2025

BPPB Errata 1

As I find errors the Black Pudding Play Book or they are pointed out to me, I'll post about them here, as needed. Since this is just one item to discuss... would this be "erratum"?

Page 22, the Vulgar Grimoire:

Magic Missile says it has a duration of 1 turn. There are two ways to handle this.

1) You can cast MM and the missiles will hover or be on your person for 1 turn (about 10 minutes). You can loose them at will anytime during that duration, regardless of initiative. That could be handy since the spell never misses. But you might not need it in 10 minutes... so that's a risk.

2) Just ignore that and treat it as an instant cast, like every other iteration of the spell.

Monday, September 1, 2025

Midaka Maps

Everyone who became a DM in their youth created their own fantasy world. Mine was called Midaka. It grew out of the imaginings I had as a young teen alone in my room, creating characters, making up backstories for them, creating castles they lived in, and so forth. Eventually I drew these maps of the Old and New lands of the east and west.

I have a few binders of lore about this setting, old and musty and full of embarrassing content. I might scan a bunch of it eventually. I don't know. For now I have a few scans here and there and the material is safely stored away once again, probably to be found by my kids when I'm dead. Possibly tossed out, who knows? (I kid... I think they would keep this kind of personal stuff. But that's really their choice, not mine.)

Maybe I'll post these maps again later and talk more about them, unpacking some of the stuff you see here. Like what the hell is Curab's Anomaly? There's some deep lore about that, I think. A wizard, a betrayal, a rift in reality. Stuff like that.