Justin Howe's Blog
August 25, 2024
Some Recent Things
Hello.
It’s been a bit, and I have every intention of finishing the game write-ups. But not right now. Right now, I’m just pointing you towards some recent things I’ve finished:
Arkham Elementary is a one-page roleplaying game where you play as substitute teachers at a horrible elementary school. It’s a tweak of John Harper’s Lasers & Feelings, except horrible. The children have eldritch powers at their command. You have a classroom.
Lock Mess Mobster: Lock Boss...
May 19, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack Session 09: A Real Man, At Last!
As mentioned last time, I came up with a death twist for each of the players at the start of the campaign. These have changed as the game has gone on, but for Don Hector I wanted to have a misguided fairy godmother turn him into a flesh and blood person, instead of a marionette made out of wood.
So, that’s what I did. Please let me know if you think this was a good or bad idea.
Night falls and Don Hector’s body is prepared for burial by the village priest. Ha’Des and Nicolo are stayin...
May 15, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack Session 08: Don Hector’s Deadly Dance Party
And here here we are�
To recap: the party, a trio of rogues (Don Hector a Marionette Matador, Ha’Des a demonic duelist, and Nicolo a tinker-smith musician), have learned the location of a vast treasure hoard. It’s located in a ruined village called San Basle on the other side of the map from where they are. In between the party and the treasure are two armies. The party, not wanting to get mixed up with either army and their war, detours far to the north hopin...
May 14, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack 07: Monte Luca and the Beasts Found There
The party gets presented to Countess Matilda who is coddling the harpy children. The children hiss and spit at the party, before getting taken away to their gilded cage. Don Hector introduces himself as the Clinician of Pain. Countess Mailda explains how her darling children found a cursed bauble in the old hedge maze and it woke the evil crows and transformed her kids into harpies. Won’t Don Hector, the Clinician of Pain, and his brave companions do something?
Don Hector says they will. ...
May 13, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack Session 06: The Road to Testaccio
The party flees San Spotello, fearing retaliation from crime boss Don Danny, after they, the party, destroyed Don Danny’s daughter’s wedding cake. They know they need to cross the river to reach San Basel, where the treasure’s located, but aren’t sure which route to take.
To the west is the city of San Uzzano. Unfortunately, the road between Spotello and Uzzano are crawling with mercenary forces, and one of these will...
May 11, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack Session 05: Bolli Bentpot’s Bistro
After the tollhouse battle�
The party spends the night with the mercenaries, and it’s a chance to divulge some regional lore. In this case it’s a mercenary singing a song about a witch who lives in the marshes to the south east and has a tendency to turn unpleasant trespassers into animals. Meanwhile, Toad-Faced Larry and his crew continue to give the stink-eye to the party.
Morning comes and people split up. The party joins the group heading to the nearby city of San Spotello. This in...
May 1, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack Session 04: Tollhouse Battle
And we’re back to it�
When last we left our knaves they had just learned the whereabouts of a great treasure and fled town ahead of a nobleman’s wrath. Their plan’s to find a chef who can tell them where the village with the treasure’s located. The party has the village name, but not it’s location. They also know the village was famous for its wine, hence a chef being the one likely to recognize the name.
I gave them three options of chefs and they headed towards the middlemost one. As...
Temple of the Rafter Wights
Check out my itch page for a new adventure, :
The Scour: a once fertile valley destroyed by the wrath of an angry god. The god’s anger was so great that even now, centuries after their ascension, their wrath remains. First, in a corrosive mist that blankets the floor of the valley. Second, in the rafter wights, the once worshiped eternal godbirds, now doomed to a cycle of death and resurrection for all eternity by their negligent creator. Â
Once a century, ...
March 19, 2024
Black Spaghetti Hack Session 03: Goodfellows Mount
Last adventure, the party climbed up a hill. This adventure, the party climbed down a hill. In between, they had lunch.
The party reached the house at the top of the hill and after some boot-quaking, Ha’Des called out a “hello� and received a “come on in� by way of reply. So the party did, and walked right into the goodfellows playing cards before lunch.
An experiment:
To make the goodfellows (thuggish fae pixies) somewhat weird I had them be the characters from the Under Hill, By ...
March 16, 2024
Crypt of the Muscle Mummy: Touch the Void, You Turkeynecks!
Granted immortality in the long-distant Primeval Eons, the Muscle Mummies have returned from the depths of time. Now, by using state-of-the-art isolation technology, meditative void techniques, and body-numbing repetitive exercises, along with the traditional twin engines of guilt and shame, they offer to cultivate the void mind within anyone!
Including you!
Only by honing the body as well as the mind in the void’s furnace can anyone hope to achieve immortality. A hard task. But don’t ...