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rooted in blogs, linked in a ringNick Hendriks
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On the ring since 2026-04-02
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is - as you may learn from the linked Wikipedia article - a flawed concept. It may model the way some people operate, but people and their...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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This is another post migrated from my old Tumblr blog. A marble bust of a large-nosed woman A richly woven carpet with nautical patterns Soft, clean bedsheets sewn with golden...
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I used to maintain a D&D themed Tumblr blog. It had a variety of content, but far and away the most popular posts were just... lists of things. Here is one of those lists,...
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At the start of a few sessions in my longest-running campaign I tried out a few experimental storytelling techniques. Each one was about 20 minutes long, so not a huge...
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EDIT: I want to be clear about something from the outset: This blog post is about a couple of things: it's about me learning about myself and my friends. It's about setting...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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EDIT: I've learned that the Angry DM has apparently already come up with this idea and has even called it the exact same name. I'm gonna leave this up because it's not like I...
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The long and short of things: The shorter your campaign, the less investment your players will have in the story, but the more focused and experimental you can be. I've run...
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I'm running a West Marches style game. I've written about it before. Last night we had our first session in a while, and while it went well (streamlining my navigation rules...
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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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I am running a West Marches style game. I've written about it before. It features several factions of varying size and flavour and I needed a way to represent their actions in...
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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,...Linked by the ring
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The Scorpion King (2002) was a real mixed bag of a movie, but it was undeniably full of great action sequences. In one particularly excellent sequence, the protagonist Mathayus...