Crooked Staff Publishing

09/10/2025

New video is up...

In this episode, I'll show you how to make falling block traps for your games of D&D or other tabletop RPGs.They're cheap, quick, and (relatively) easy to ma...

02/10/2025

I've released the prize draw video as a premier in around half an hour's time:

https://youtu.be/nItEtaSRglc?si=HIv5J9YdNkuYHAi1

(it's prerecorded - but I thought I'd use the 'premier' feature for a change :) ).

As the title says, this is the prize draw for everyone that entered the recent giveaway. Congrats to the winner!* * LINKS * *Merch: https://crooked-staff-ter...

29/09/2025

Next Saturday will be the first Saturday of the month - and that means it'll be time for another Hobby Hangout session (for Patreon supporters and YouTube members).

As usual, I'll jump online around 7pm (UK) time - and it will take place in the 'Patrons Lounge' private chat over on my discord. Here's a time converter for various places around the world:

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Hobby+Hangout+%2310&iso=20251004T19&p1=297

(note that these things are not recorded or streamed, they're just meant to be informal chats/hangouts while doing something hobby related :) )

Additional Note: if you are a paid member (on Patreon or on YouTube), and have joined Discord - but you don't have ‘patrons and members’ permissions (i.e. your user name hasn't turned red), then let me know in the comments below what your Discord name is, and I’ll fix that ASAP.

27/09/2025

Just a quick heads-up to say that #2 of the newsletter is out (feel free to subscribe if you'd like that kind of thing delivered to your e-mail each month).

https://crookedstaff.substack.com/p/crooked-staff-newsletter-2

18/09/2025

The channel has hit 25K subs!!!

So here's a thank you video... one that also includes a little give-away too :)

https://youtu.be/r6p-iI_p0Rs

16/09/2025

With the YouTube channel approaching 25,000 subs, I've been getting a few things ready for a celebratory video :)

One of those things, is getting the 'modifications & requests' pdf back online... so I've been tidying that up, and adding a few pages of new(ish) textures that some of you might not have seen before (see the images below for examples of some of these).

Right now the subscriber count is 24,965 - and, with any luck, it might hit 25,000 in the next week or two!

So, if you haven't subscribed already... you know what to do ;)

02/09/2025

New video is out!

Episode 109: In this video I'm sharing some cards and tokens that I've made - ones which can be used to generate dungeons on the fly (for use with solo and/o...

11/08/2025

I’ve been thinking of starting a (free) monthly newsletter… just as a kind of ‘monthly round-up’ sort of thing.

It shouldn’t be too much extra work for me, as I post a lot of WIP images anyway (mostly on discord) – but I thought this might be a good way to collect all that stuff together in one place (for folks who don’t follow along on social media that much).

It’s still all pretty new to me – but here’s the link if you’re interested in something like that:

https://crookedstaff.substack.com/

(there’s also a post over there where I go into a bit more detail)

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01/08/2025

New video is out!

Episode 108: In this video I'm adding some variety to the 2D dungeon tile set that I released a few years back (for use with like - or ...

25/07/2025

Did some more playtesting with the solo dungeon cards, tiles, and tokens again...

16/07/2025

A little while back I released a set of 2D modular dungeon tiles here on the channel (the video can be found here: https://youtu.be/3hrVeTVgVNg ), and I talked about using them as a means of generating random dungeon layouts for solo/co-op dungeon crawling.

I also posted an article (over on the blog) where I tested the rules out with some prototype cards, tokens, and charts (which you can find here: https://www.crookedstaff.co.uk/2023/03/random-dungeons-soloco-op-dungeon.html ).

Anyway, since I'm getting interested in that kind of thing again (i.e. solo/co-op dungeon crawling - in particular the old Advanced HeroQuest game), I thought I'd revisit the idea... and actually see if I can finish it (or at least get it to a state where it's usable).

So, with that in mind - here's a quick look at the cards after they'd had a bit of a makeover (to replace the prototype ones you can see in the aforementioned blog post).

They're designed in such a way as you don't need to worry about misalignment with back to back printing, and they fit inside regular 2.5" x 3.5" card sleeves.

Now I'm not sure how many people will be interested in this kinda thing - but I think I'll be making a video about it nevertheless :)

Anyway - hope you like 'em!

11/07/2025

New video is out!

Episode 107: In this episode I'll be making set of modular dungeon tiles (for games like or similar) - that also packs away inside its own s...