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• Refining Thoughts on Ablation, Damage, and Death
  3mo ago · 6 min
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  This post by subjunctive moods earlier in the year got me thinking about ablative mechanics in combat, and Phlox’s All Damage As 1d6 reignited some of those thoughts.. We all...
• What Kind of Drunk Are You?
  3mo ago · 3 min
  Back in the late 14th or early 15th century, poet, nobleman, and (one assumes) at least occasional drinker Oswald von Wolkenstein prepared a list of twelve types of drunk, as...
• Do Better
  7mo ago · 3 min
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  Honestly, RPG blogosphere. If there were a Bloggie for 'worst blog', I'd be a contender.I'm not trying to beat myself up here; it's just a reflection of fact that I've barely...
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #254 · Seed of Worlds
• Why adventure? Ask the CIA!
  8mo ago · 5 min
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  Adventuring is a poor career choice. It's invariably dirty, almost always difficult, and usually dangerous. To be honest, being left to die alone in some cold, dark hole in the...
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #248 · Seed of Worlds
• Magic Dealers
  13mo ago · 4 min
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  This month's Blog Carnival is about magic shops.I don't like magic shops. Having magic sufficiently commonplace that any town worthy of its walls has a dealer in ensorcelled...
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  • June 2025 RPG Carnival Round Up: Magic Shops and Their Alternatives · Advantage on Arcana
  • Shiny TTRPG links #230 · Seed of Worlds
• Dragons; the view from below
  17mo ago · 3 min
  Sea of Stars is hosting the Blog Carnival...
• A Fighty Pile Of Slush
  17mo ago · 3 min
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  Blech. I've been trying to come up with a variant Fighter class for B/X derivatives.Trouble is, so has everyone else, and all my ideas are either (a) ones that someone has...
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  • Shiny TTRPG links #212 · Seed of Worlds
• Game Report: Scurry, Session 1
  17mo ago · 7 min
  The Goblovna1 has always been a bit sceptical of the whole 'roleplaying game' thing. In part because being handed a 300-page technical manual to read isn't her idea of a fun...
• Blog Carnival: The Bridge Between Worlds
  18mo ago · 2 min
  The RPG Blog Carnival for this month takes The Worlds Between as its theme. Bridges always feel like a liminal space to me. You're neither on one bank nor the other, but...
• Hit Points as an ability score?
  18mo ago · 2 min
  I like thinking about alternative ability scores for D&D-like systems. Taking a bit of inspiration from Call of Cthulhu's Sanity score, here's an alternative take on character...