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and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked creatively. Playing games...
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I feel funny writing a wrap up/looking forward post but I'm doing it. First: thank you everyone for your support this year and for playing/reading my adventures. Here's how the...
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Spruce and pine line trails ne'er traveled Beneath the boughs, wolves stalk o'er gravel The Beorling growls and guards the brains Of humble travelers where Bumble reigns Used...
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This past weekend I attended PAX Unplugged for the third time, a con that I highly recommend as it is a very fun mix of board games and roleplaying games. My General Strategy...Linked by the ring
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Today is a grab bag. I am finishing up my next adventure and preparing to run a minimum viable version of it at PAX Unplugged. I am tempted to make my own Fishtown for my...
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Today is the release date for Orestruck, my next adventure in the Tannic Forest. ORESTRUCK INVITES YOU TO RETURN TO THE FORESTOrestruck is an adventure for Cairn and other...
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a very brief exploration of Tom Bombadil's role in Lord of the Rings and how it can be applied to adventure games.
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Amanda P. discusses dungeon design, specifically themes.
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Amanda P writes a brief drabble on the periodic table elements as petty gods
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Weird Wonder, the blog of Amanda P. reviews Mythic Bastionland
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The garlic press is a much maligned tool, often found cluttering the back of some drawer in a well-stocked kitchen. As the main cook in my household, I don’t use mine much. It...
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This post was made for Vampire Weekend 2024 On VampiresThe majority of vampires engage in fraught, passionate, and grasping lives, thralls to their desires. Only those who sire...
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I am running Mythic Bastionland with my home table. Here is what they knew when the campaign began. The LandThe Vale’s sorrow knows no succor. Wanderers in the wilderness...
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with special thanks to Nick L.S. Whelan. Writing adventure modules exercises two disparate skills: writing and design. When I studied design, the central thesis of our work was...
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On building complex social dynamics in adventuring locales using petty desires and the local social contract. I believe that an important component of developing an interesting...
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This week I ran Mythic Bastionland for my biweekly game group, Mausritter for my seven year old godson, and played in my weekly Pathfinder 2E game and Gus’s playtest using...
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Prismatic Wasteland proposed the idea of social interaction rules that are a 4e-style combat from a complexity perspective. These are my musings on that idea using a dice pool...
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This blog post is the first in a series where I will use a game’s random creation procedure (mostly dungeons) to do a quick map with denizens to see what it sparks for me and...
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I've been thinking a lot about the way the Appendix N can be treated as a prescriptive list of What is Good and Proper inspiration for one's OSR-influenced adventures rather...
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This year I'm doing two things for my own idiosyncratic interest and growth as a creative person. Reading more booksMore specifically: slowly reading through some things that...
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Prismatic Wasteland put out a call for alternate resolution mechanics so here I am. Driving in Cars with DragonsWhen I was a kid I spent a lot of time in the car driving hither...
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Last week, my three-year fantasy-space campaign came to an end. For the past three years I've been running four of my friends through a homebrew campaign world we built...
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Applying Landmark, Hidden, Secret Methodology to People-Centered Situations and Key Location Writing In Anne’s Landmark, Hidden, Secret, referees have a hierarchy of...
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I am fascinated by social dynamics and strategy. When I think about creating situations in roleplaying games, my focus is very people-first. From my point of view,...
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Scent: fermenting fruit, grapes rotting in the hot sun after heavy rain Taste: sickly sweet, the taste of artificial blueberry flavoring Touch: moist, leaves a brownish-red...
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Something I think about a lot when I'm writing is the logic that grounds the location and individuals' relationships with one another. I tend to employ fairy tale logic quite...
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Sometimes you get your roof repaired and it leaks afterward and your roofer is flakey and frustrating. To process your rage, you write a table. d6 reasons for the ceaseless...
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The party finds themselves in a cavernous chamber, holes in the ceiling beaming moonlight illumination on multiple muscular kobolds battering one another with fists,...