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• The many rolls of Mythras
  5w ago · 2 min
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  I'm not sure how much I have to say on this topic, but prompted by Seraphim Seraphina's Write More Short Blog Posts here I am.For the past few years I have not rolled to hit. I...
• Presenting mysteries like Uketsu
  5w ago · 5 min
  I recently read Strange Buildings by Uketsu. I'm used to mystery stories that writers try to embed in a realistic setting. They'll add some drama around the mystery - a family...
• Being online
  6w ago · 4 min
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  Among Cats and Books' Death of a Hobby (and the linked posts at the end of it) prompted me to think about my own relationship with creativity and being online.I first built a...
• Regicide and the travel campaign
  6w ago · 3 min
  As mentioned in the last Smiling Fox episode, I've been travelling this summer. The trip has been amazing but we're here to talk about games 🎲🎲I got into Regicide shortly...
• Keeping it real
  2mo ago · 2 min
  The Cairn principles for wardens says:"NPCs don’t want to die. Infuse their own self-interest and will to live into every personality."I saw two movies this summer that connect...
• Liberating a giant cannon
  4mo ago · 9 min
  This week we played session 45 of our Mythic Bastionland campaign. This was a rare occasion where I had a good idea of what the Company would be doing next. In session 44 they...
• TTRPG Cryptic Crossword
  4mo ago · 1 min
  I've been solving cryptic crossword clues recently on Parseword and Minute Cryptic so I've tried making my own one.Across5. Men or rats kneeling before old reliquary ghosts,...
• New podcast episodes and general rambling
  5mo ago · 3 min
  Here's a quick post with some rambling updates.I released episode 8 of my solo actual play of Mythic Bastionland today. (You can find the links for subscribing here.) As I said...
• Earth Resists: Site recipes
  6mo ago · 4 min
  “Craggy cave mouth” by Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0As a design goal for Earth Resists, I want to think of adventure sites as recipes. The written description is not a prepared meal,...
• There and Back Again
  6mo ago · 4 min
  There was a conversation recently in the Bastionland Discord about a Mythic Bastionland  session which the referee felt didn't go well. It sounded like they had fought a...