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HJfor4e #17

HJfor4e #17

Surprise Issue Contents include: – Races, Classes, & Skills: – > ADHOC Starting Equipment – > > Borrowed Weapons & Armor – > > Middle Class Humans – > ADHOC Character Creation – > > Social Class Dice Off Method – Multitudinous Magic – > 

HJfor4e #15

HJfor4e #15

Surprise Issue Contents include: – Races, Classes, & Skills: – > HM4e Surprise! revisited – Burg Building – > Castles: The Illustrated Glossary (Part1 – A few Towers) – Assayed Equipment – > Non-Combat Sighting, Hearing, & Surprise – > Helmets and Surprise – > 

Building Buildings – part 1

Building Buildings – part 1

So, the other day I started a project. I split green buckthorn into roughly rectangular "beams" from which to try making buildings out of. Did it as a test to see if they would crack as they dried. First stage in trying to make miniature buildings out of carved wood and buckthorn is a weed not that useful for much of anything else.

Tools used:

  • Vice to hold the wood while sawing & splitting
  • Hacksaw to make a starting cut for better precision splits (could saw both ends due to grain & thorns)
  • Hatchet to do the splitting
  • Piece of maple used as a mallet for precision splits

Pencil for scale

HJfor4e 2022 Aggregation

HJfor4e 2022 Aggregation

We have bundled issues 11-14 of HJfor4e (aka, 2022) into one easy-to-swallow package! (sorry, special holiday issue 15 was not finished in time) Includes: -HJfor4e issue 11 -HJfor4e issue 12 -HJfor4e issue 13 -HJfor4e issue 14 PDF $12.00

How NOT to carve a canoe!

How NOT to carve a canoe!

So, one of the trees I have in my backyard is a weed species known as Buckthorn. Given concerns about toxicity I decided to try carving it into a miniature dugout canoe for use in a tabletop RPG. I research dugout canoes, particularly period from 

Discord Server & WhIP Bin

Discord Server & WhIP Bin

With the ability to create private threads on Discord we have moved HJfor4e articles in progress to private threads on the ARGH discord server

HJfor4e #14

HJfor4e #14

Contents include: – Races, Classes, & Skills: – > Social Class & Funds Chart – Assayed Equipment – > Racial Weapons 3: Halfling Missile Weapons – > A Cornucopia of Rations: HM4e Table 9J Expounded – > Over A Barrel, part 2 – The Unexplained 

Stick & Lashed Backpack Frames – part 1

Stick & Lashed Backpack Frames – part 1

OK, around the 7th of November 2022 a friend of mine named Alex was helping me sort out and cut green branches for seasoning over the winter and we came across an oddly bent stick. So we finished the bend and lashed it to a 

HJfor4e #13

HJfor4e #13

Contents include:
- Races, Classes, & Skills:
- > Rolling Stats & Odds
- > Stats as Limiters
- > Skills Revisited, part 1: Craft & Construction Skills
- Inherited Deeds - part 4
- > Inherited Business Issues & Responsibilities
- GM Section:
- > Fumbles part 4: Equipment
- Manors & Manses:
- > Finding Settlements
- > Some Basic Notes on Laying Out Cities, Towns, & Villages
- Lairs Monstrous:
- > Treasure Tables Revisited, part 1: Magic Items on the Fly
- > A Troll Hunter's Notes: part 2 (by Luke German)

PDF $3.00

HJfor4e 2021 Aggregation

HJfor4e 2021 Aggregation

We have bundled issues 6-10 of HJfor4e (aka, 2021) into one easy-to-swallow package! Includes: -HJfor4e issue 6 -HJfor4e issue 7 -HJfor4e issue 8 -HJfor4e issue 9 -HJfor4e issue 10 PDF $15.00