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• Solo All-Out Apocalypse: Vehicles Playtest 1
  published 2025-12-14 · 14 min
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  This post is a part of December's blog carnival: The End Times and After: December 2025 RPG Blog Carnival Recently I wrote new vehicle rules for my All-Out Apocalypse game...
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  • December 2025 RPG Carnival Round Up: The End Times And After · Advantage on Arcana
• GMing Tricks
  published 2025-09-30 · 4 min
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  I've had a busy summer and my autumn does not promise to be any different, so my blogging habit has fallen by the wayside. I'm not sure I had much to contribute to many of the...
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  • How I Plan Horror Games · Advantage on Arcana
• I pre-roll my random encounters
  published 2024-10-15 · 5 min
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  That's right, I pre-roll them, and I won't apologize for it. It gives me more time to think about how to make the results cool. I'm running a West Marches game (I've talked...
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  • Preparation, Interpretation, Improvisation · Advantage on Arcana
  • The Mysterious Appeal of Emergent Narrative · Advantage on Arcana
• All-Out Playtest 1
  published 2024-08-17 · 8 min
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  PlayersMy brother, playing two characters at once, Harry and Harriet Character CreationCharacter Creation went as smoothly as could be expected. My brother did not have time to...
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  • The End Times and After: December 2025 RPG Blog Carnival · Advantage on Arcana
• Capable, Friendly, Accessible: Pick Two
  published 2024-05-20 · 5 min
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  I posted before about my attempts to liven up my piratey West Marches game by encouraging PC-to-PC interactions. My players are very story-focused, and I want to find ways to...
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  • Two Kinds of NPC: Agroikoi and Bomolochoi · Advantage on Arcana
• West Marches: A Setting-Out Ritual
  published 2024-04-19 · 6 min
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  I posted before about how flavourless the opening of my piratey, 17th Century West Marches games have been. In that post I theorized ways to fix this. In this post: more...
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  • Reflections on Making up Genres for TTRPGs · Advantage on Arcana
• Games I Hope To Run Someday
  published 2024-01-13 · 5 min
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  As a grown-ass adult with a job and a family I consider myself wealthy by many measures. Unfortunately spare time is not counted among those metrics. I'm currently playing in a...
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  • Four Game Ideas · Advantage on Arcana
• All Stones Left Unturned: Ruminating on the death of my West Marches campaign
  published 2024-01-08 · 8 min
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  I prepared a West Marches style game for my game group and invited some other folks along. It didn't go well. I'll admit I'm a bit sore over it. I think it's fair to feel...
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #155 · Seed of Worlds
• The 5e Petrification Mechanic Rocks
  published 2024-01-01 · 6 min
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  I really like the Petrification mechanic from 5th edition D&D. A few creatures have this ability and while there are some slight variations, the gist of it goes something like...
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  • Magical Diseases for a Magical Setting, Part 1 · Advantage on Arcana
  • Shiny TTRPG links #174 · Seed of Worlds
• Navigating Complexity: Streamlining Mechanics in Falling Tides
  published 2024-01-01 · 5 min
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  I am running a West Marches game called Falling Tides. It's set in a 17th Century analogous world; not our world, but similar in terms of technology level, fashion, culture,...
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  • The Mysterious Appeal of Emergent Narrative · Advantage on Arcana