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• The Goldilocks Zone: Campaign Length
  2y ago · 5 min
  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...
• Problem: How to inject more roleplaying into your West Marches Hexcrawl?
  2y ago · 5 min
  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...
• The 5e Petrification Mechanic Rocks
  2y ago · 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
• A Simple Faction System
  2y ago · 3 min
  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...
• Navigating Complexity: Streamlining Mechanics in Falling Tides
  2y ago · 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
• Escape the Fortress!
  2y ago · 7 min
  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...