Welcome back everyone! It has been a little while since I made a post here, but fear not I haven't forgotten about the blog or my readers! My morning blog time has been largely (completely) replaced with doing some more post secondary training!
A little while ago Matt Hayles, who I know through the local RPG community, was making posts about hex flowers. He in turn picked them up from Goblin's Henchman. Goblin's Henchman has an instruction cookbook on these things as a mechanic, which I haven't read, but you can grab a copy here!
Looking at the idea, I thought they looked fun and wanted to look into them deeper. At the same point I was working on a way to make torches more fun in my sword & sorcery games without it turning into a resource slog. At present I haven't actually attempted this as a mechanic, largely because I think it will work way better during an in person game.
The basic idea is when the players light a torch you place a marker in the middle of the hex flower, and as they progress through the dungeon they roll 2d6, each roll moves the marker through the flower. If the marker moves off the flower simply place it back on the other side of the flower.
The players get to watch and make the rolls seeing the torch staying lit or eventually going out. My hope is that it will make the torch a fun little mini game and add a little bit of tension to the torch.
Depending on the system you are playing you might even opt to let players re-roll if it is going badly for them. Perhaps in D&D 5e you could allow them to burn inspiration or an action to get a re-roll as they fight to keep the torch lit. In Conan 2d20 or other similar games you could use momentum or advantage to allow the players to influence the torch.
Either way I hope this idea will be useful or at least get those creative juices flowing!
Looking forward to getting back around the table with everyone!
Till next time, don't forget to Keep it Weird!
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