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On the ring since 2026-04-08
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I have been thinking a lot about what the second edition of Oswor could look like. I think one of the biggest mistakes I made with the current version is the choice of the...
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Or, at the very least, I don't think it solves the core problem.Late stage capitalism sucks. It sucks especially hard for folks who try to make a living through art. By "art" I...
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💡This is an in-progress adventure module for FIST RPG.IntroductionWhat is Zvezdochka?Zvezdochka (Russian for "little star") is a geo-artillery platform. It digs the lunar...
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This was my first time running an OSR dungeon. It was a lot of fun! I ran standard Shadowdark with pre-generated characters from the quickstart edition. For the dungeon itself...
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I don't particularly like the concept of stats in role-playing games. You play a person, not a mechanical robot with a bunch of technical characteristics that describe you.A...
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This is an entry to a Merry Hexmas blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. DM me on Bluesky if your hex links to mine and I will update the list below!A huge mechanical baboon visits...Linked by the ring
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I love fonts. There is something beautiful in how neatly organised lines form letters.I'm also in awe at how you can almost instantly tell if the font is easily readable or...
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Troika!'s initiative system is weird.The Referee assigns a number to each player. Two tokens with this number are put into the bag for each player. Then the Referee puts the...
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My upcoming RPG, Oswor, is based on Into the Odd (ItO) system by Chris McDowall. ItO gives out equipment during character creation using a Starter Package table. This table...
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© 2015 Dean Spencer, used with permission. All rights reserved.For the last couple of months, I have been working on a new campaign setting for an upcoming home game....
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I hate scarcity. It drives people to make decisions based on short-term outcomes and is a major source of anxiety in the modern world. It is also often artificial — if the...
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A while ago I was nerd–sniped by Dice Goblin's post, shortly followed by Dungeon Merlin's post. Both talk about the bane of my existence: PDFs.Reading PDFs from a desktop...
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For the last couple of months, I have been working on a new campaign setting for an upcoming home game. Accumulating the lore piece by piece, concept by concept, I grew quite...
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Andy Lever. Losthavenart.com, used with permission.Recently, I had a lot of fun writing an adventure for Fun with Fang Adventure Jam. I never worked with Fängelsehåla system...