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Weekly Coil
Today
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Reskinning the BeholderThis is an attempt to reskin Dungeons & Dragons classic weird and terrifying monster the Beholder in a way that works for less generic fantasy settings…...
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My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.
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Been thinking a lot about Dungeon Crawl Classics recently and of course the thought of converting it to Troika! crossed my mind. So here is my attempt to model those amazing...
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Listen to this episode here. Austin Walker's new game Realis is on Kickstarter now, and it's been making splashes in the indie rpg scene since last year when the ashcan...
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I’ve been procrastinating on Resourciv because I couldn’t come up with a demographic or economic framework (or perhaps meta-framework, since I really want to support different...
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A few years ago, I played in a game of Vampire the Dark Ages that ran from 793 to about 1463. It was my first real introduction to the World of Darkness, and was a great way to...
Yesterday
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I was playing that very fun mtg counterspell guessing game and thought that a lot of counterspells aren't really counterspells if you take their names literally. So I decided...
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Links of great interest from the breadth of the interweb. Not sated? Try last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....