Sencha Wizard 🍵🧙♂️i've decided to open up my Aetheria #OpenD6 #TTRPG setting. it isn't elaborate, yet aetheria is the culmination of a couple decades of sessions. that being said, here is the initial release of the setting (i do plan more): https://senchawizard.neocities.org/aetheria/
S. LottThis is something no one needed. Maybe not even me. But I did it anyway.
https://slott56.github.io/2026-04-04_another_d6_mechanic.html
The original question was how to make a fair choice from 7 things using only D6.
It got out of hand. I have a "sort-of" solution that maps to the polyhedral dice (as well as lots of other prime numbers and stuff.)
Another D6 Dice Mechanic -- Equiprobable Choices
When playing a game using D6 -- and only D6 -- we're sometimes confronted with a need to make a selection from equiprobable items. For example, pick a random day of the week: 7 choices, but only 6 sides to a die. What can we do? How can we select fairly among …
Sencha Wizard 🍵🧙♂️https://slott56.github.io/2026-03-05_opend6_deep_dive.html
Maybe too deep a dive. I have fun. I can now fix my DSL so that it produces actual correct answers for spell difficulties in the very few cases where this matters.
OpenD6 Deep Dive -- Area Effect Aspect
I went deep into OpenD6, chasing an idea through a maze of strange shapes. See this extract from a Jupyter Notebook: Area Effect Aspect Volume Computations. It was a lot of fun to uncover two errors in the rules, and work out what could have been used instead. TL;DR …
See https://slott56.github.io/category/ttrpg.html
I've got a DSL that covers a number of bases. The corpus of almost 400 spells all seem to work.
The whole point was to let me unburden myself of the details of a TTRPG world. Now that I've got spells and creatures, I can move forward into magical items and other juicy details.
still floating around the idea in my headspace of starting a relatively small #TTRPG club in the #KansasCity area. there's plenty of spaces to meet up, most are noisy (looking at you Cardboard Corner Cafe) and prevent conversation. right now, i'm interested in mostly #OpenD6 and #Pathfinder2e play. difficult to find people, it seems, for either of those interests. it's all DnD here of which i have little to no interest atm.
whee! #TTRPG i have been working on with my son is out: https://senchawizard.itch.io/peopletown
i had been waffling between fudge and #OpenD6, but my son found Open D6 more engaging (he's nearly 8, so forgiveness is asked). probably will release a conversion between the two eventually for this setting.
🎲 Played around with some opinionated takes on #OpenD6
🧑💼 Did jack today at work as nobody was available
🎲 Made a word list for polyhedral die-based password generation