The Dragon’s Tower

Here’s a website that’s been out there awhile - Hero Machine. It has some serious limitations (the only sex selectable for human fantasy is female) but if you’re having some trouble coming up with a character portrait, consider it.

One fun thing to try is using the die button near the bottom of the options section, setting everything to “all random”. This is especially cool if you’re stumped for new character ideas. And who hasn’t been?

This can be a cute trick but use it carefully. It’s one thing to mislead players and challenge them and something else altogether to just frustrate them and piss everyone off.

The BBC has a small, quick quiz about the senses. Take it. Be surprised at the things you find out, it’s harder than it looks. Some of the questions, like missing the word “the” typed twice in a sentence, are ideas that have been around for quite awhile but the things on perceptions (man, I really screwed up on that circle) could be used to create interesting and challenging puzzles.