Friday Grab Bag: Pigs in a Printer

We always like to use Fridays to look back and see what we couldn’t sneak in from earlier in the week. Let’s see what we missed! We got a Half-orc, Restoration Spells, and even some pigs to share!

First off, earlier this week, we flushed out the proprietor of the general goods store, “All by Shelf” a bit more. It’s run by an ex-military Half-orc named Brindle Spindle. DM Ben always likes to include a face card with the key shops in the capital city of his adventure. As time passes, all sorts of side missions and story hooks can transpire depending on which merchants the party gravitates toward.

The nifty card comes from Paizo’s GameMastery Friends & Foes Deck – one of their best releases and worth every penny of the $10.99 list price.

The game group just slips a small piece of paper with the NPC’s name on the front of the card and then they spread out the cards on the game table when they are deciding where to stop in Waterdeep. This speeds the game up a lot.

Next up, we needed to create the reward cards from the Huckle Riverstone/Rischardo Montalwand’s combined side quest. Huckle has asked the group to secure him some Pumpkins that Ain’t Pumpkins seeds. In return, he will grant them a vail of his prized and precious farm topsoil. The party can then take that dandy dirt to Rishardo Montalwand’s spell component shop (e.g. “Castco). He will then take a portion of that new topsoil and craft the party a couple of valuable Restoration potions (which will vary in amount based on how many mimic pumpkin seeds the party successfully harvested).

DM Ben has fallen in love with Felraider RPGs card templates and decided to whip up a few informational cards on the two necessary spells in just a matter of minutes using their Magic Spell Cards pack. You gain silly crafting speed the more you utilize his line of DnD PDF templates (hint, hint: use copy and paste a lot). Plus, cards always do the best job of reminding the player what they have available and how a particular ability, item, magic item, or spell specifically works. Felraider RPG does give you all the tools to make double-sided cards but we like to use Gamemastery cards for the front panel whenever there’s an easy match.

And lastly, we created the mechanics around Tink Urbelle’s Kinda, Sorta Portal but we hadn’t picked out the specific sow minis the party has to hunt inside The High Forest. These Wooly Mangalitza pigs provide a very unique lard that our cooky gnome tinkerer uses to grease the gears in his temperamental inventions.

These pig miniatures are from Ec3D Designs and their original Everyday Folk Kickstarter (as campaign freebies). They’ll work perfectly. Next week we’ll work out the specific encounter mechanics for this pork belly smackdown.