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You walk the path to Vyeku Proxy Tekha, member of the nomenklatura, the contending-class. You walk it first in trepidation, then in terror, then in resolve - your tin...
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Part of the reason it's been so quiet around here is that I've spent the last few months at the helm of a "Ten Blade Demigod"-like - a Discord PbP domain game in the pattern of...
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Isotelus Complex is an in-progress bipartite colony on/over the Jovian moon Callisto, under the purview of the "Regional Authority" (RA), manager/holders of a variety of...
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Edit 2/20/23: You can purchase Orbiters 2e on itch.io here - my Zine Quest 2022 project, complete with derelict generator, GM's guide, and expanded classes, tools, and...
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Part 1: The DepthcrawlDepthcrawls are a new way to track space in RPGs, pioneered by Cavegirl's Gardens of Ynn. They are presented as a table, rolled on with an increasing...
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The GLOGoids are thinking about paladins, again (and again and again and again), and I like being contrary (and I've had these template names sitting around for...Linked by the ring
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Far in the south of Aclas, in the Yaladine archipelago, is an island, and a looming tower. Sailors call it the Lure - they say it glows at night, and is the home of misshapen...
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Ships hover in vacuum, bathed in smoke and coated in banners and medallions. Their pilots scrutinize the charts painted on the inside of their hollow world in glowing gold and...Linked by the ring
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This is a draft trade from Locheil, itself set in deus ex parabola's Unfinished World. As such, its format, layout, and general Vibe is deeply influenced by them both.The...Linked by the ring
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The Tech is a caster/skill character for my SF GLOG hack. It works using the spellcasting rules, with a heavy focus on utility rather than combat. Techs are all wired with a...
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DEGRADER is a weird little play-by-post wargame by the wonderful Louis, who is great. It is stealth-based - player characters assemble webs of interlocking sensors in order to...Linked by the ring
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A revived Navigator campaign (almost assuredly not a domain game - am i stupid? somewhere between the post about them being evil and the summer i spent pacing around town...Linked by the ring
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At the end of the Libra campaign and the start of summer, I'm planning to run something Normal™. Wizards and suchlike. In the pursuit of Normal™, I'm going to run...Linked by the ring
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This is both the least useful and most potentially divisive of my Navigator mechanic posts (intro, domain economy, island generator, troupe play, full document) - I am fully...Linked by the ring
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After a couple posts, my Libra game's on the road with a group of new-to-the-OSR players (which is fun, given my normal playerbase of obsessives from the various Discord...Linked by the ring
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My upcoming Libra game is built in the same way as my prior modern urban sandboxes. These games have usually included a patron - a mostly-neutral contact of the PCs who hands...Linked by the ring
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Part 2 of my four part series on fixing mistakes in my spaceship-hunter-gatherer domain game. See part 1 (on economy and domain actions), and later part 3 (troupe play and...Linked by the ring
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Before entering the agonizing labyrinth and struggling forever I ran Rota Fortunae, an 11-session superhero game in the Las Vegas suburb of Considerata. There isn't much...Linked by the ring
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A while ago I saw a post on the OSR Discord (I think it may have been Jenx's Zandan megadungeon retrospective) that talked about how useful it was to talk about failures....Linked by the ring
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Usually, I shift between genre with each campaign - but I'm now two failed Navigator sept campaigns deep and still haven't stopped thinking about them, probably because of the....Linked by the ring
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Player IntroA dozen unstable psychics, recovered from the ruins of the Center for Coordination [see archival documents SECOND HAND CLOCK/PIKES GATHER SUNFLOWERS/SYNTHETIC...Linked by the ring
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Navigators are a foraging society in the megastructure of Lanthanide Horizon - their sept-vessels, each holding an extended family, wander out from their holy sites in their...Linked by the ring
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I wrote it, and now you're stuck reading it. Sewer Rats EpithetsEvery two years I seem to doodle with another pick-up game to never use. Gateway this year, Orbiters Local 519...Linked by the ring
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From time to time, the gift economy appears in RPGs - but it’s a niche enough topic that I can probably drag some(?) uncommon advice out of it, after using it in one of my most...Linked by the ring
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Where//Who//Why In the open plains where yellow-bladed grass feeds off actinic blue light, and in the vast cistern-cenotes, and under rains of killing-sigils, the machinery of...Linked by the ring
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Essentially all of the dicéd gaming I've done in the last four years has been online, providing great opportunity for all manner of flaking. I've heard the reasonable solution...Linked by the ring
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A draft trade with Locheil of the Nothic's Eye - a class (and Gonne Rules) for his interwar setting, Aclas. And the product of me realizing that I stopped making Blog Posts™...Linked by the ring
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I was born with my siblings in the spring, when the frost left, and our seeds sprouted. The rest of us howled and shouted, and shook our thorns - but I was weak, and thus...Linked by the ring
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I love a good campaign retrospective, and since the orbits have aligned and the calendar has clicked over, there's been a bit of a tendency towards introspection in the blog...Linked by the ring
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A man is dead. Twice.The police found body "Alpha" under an overpass, beaten and covered in garbage bags. No identification, no clothes, no importance; the police decided he...Linked by the ring
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While my Lanthanide Horizon campaign grinds up to speed, I am haunted by entirely unrelated things - in particular, Skerples's Bosola, a 14th-century near-Italy that is...Linked by the ring
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In the style of Knot//Braid//Line - a war, a harvest, a crash, a christening, a telegram, and a fable.-*-*-*-*-On the first day of the first year of his travels, the wanderer...Linked by the ring
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Like every glog-type individual, I can't stop myself from making a new fighter every few months. Also like every glog-type individual, I can't stop myself from immediately...Linked by the ring
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Ashes to Ashes is a 30-something player play-by-post domain game run by the Unequaled, Inimitable, Et Cetera, Locheil - set in the City Qal Ashen, city of the deathless and the...Linked by the ring
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(another draft trade/theft, this time from EosOfDawn - any non-Archonful decisions in formatting or design are probably because of them) Maybe you deserved it - the bullet...Linked by the ring
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Why write posts that require effort and thought when you can propel your blog forwards on purely play reports and miscellaneous information soup? Half of this is stuff lost in...Linked by the ring
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While my blog itself has been mostly silent through 2022, I have spent an honestly unreasonable amount of time writing play reports for games I've played in or just spied on on...Linked by the ring
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See It Descend Into is a megadungeon campaign I am, in theory, going to write and run.Maybe.Perhaps.Eventually.The players are citizens of a nation undergoing colonization by...Linked by the ring
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As explained here. Hit the button, get a prompt, spend 15 minutes flailing wildly at a keyboard.While curses are common across folklore, modern eigentechnology has turned them...Linked by the ring
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Best Case Scenario is a combination RPG and skirmish wargame by Deus ex Parabola. It has a vaguely SCP/Delta Green/etc inspired setting, and a set of combat rules that I find...Linked by the ring
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This was a collaboration with chloe, creator of Buckets of Blood. It was really nice to work with them.What made you the way you are? Were you turned into something else as a...Linked by the ring
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Recently, I've been thinking about a new project - combining a minor blog fixation, Engine Heart, with a major blog fixation, the GLOG, along with bits of recent Zine Quest...Linked by the ring
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(if i wasn't such a coward i would've titled this post "earaboo")Flip Templates are a new piece of GLOG class design, where a single level gives you two template abilities, but...Linked by the ring
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This should be all the context you needA: GeologicalB: Very Leetle Birds, Very Leetle Landslide, Size IncreaseC: Very Leetle People, Size IncreaseD: Very Leetle Eruption, Size...Linked by the ring
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The old Cube Owner class may be the single worst thing I've ever written. It's a stupid uninteresting cliche combined with a... tungsten cube? So, I'm redoing it.Very Heavy...Linked by the ring
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this is not all there isThe world of the supernatural has layers & scales, just as the world of the natural. There are bacteria, and animals, and people, but none of these...Linked by the ring
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Fractal Meadows of Reality is a new blog, started last month. It's already excellent. Their second post, on the demiplane of the Glass Fields, has a few references to...Linked by the ring
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Note: this class is bad and i've remade it here. Don't read that, read this.Inspired partially by this video, but the blame should be placed on deus ex parabola on the OSR...Linked by the ring
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EDIT: updated versions of these classes can be found in Libra, my urban fantasy hack.While my urban fantasy setting's magic-users can be easily created with any of the many...Linked by the ring
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I can't believe anyone's still with me after a year of this nonsense. To celebrate, I give you Artificial Sky: a completed cyberpunk GLOG/Shadow of the Demon Lord hack. Artificial SkyLinked by the ring