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The central dungeon of Those Fragile Bridges, my funnel hexcrawl for Locheil's Aclas.The Panopticon is shaped like its namesake - a 3-floor tower of 30 foot high rooms, each...
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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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The "gunsmith's society" is an occult ritual organization within the clan-ship society of the Navigators, specializing in military leadership, mutual aid, and mediation across...
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The third in the set (one, two) - I'm making another attempt at a play-by-post Navigator domain game and realized I put half of the obligatory PC starting treasures on the map...
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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....
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Another city for deus ex parabola's superhero/cyberpunk GLOG. Considerata is an unincorporated community, welded inescapably to Las Vegas, the real city worth mentioning. At...
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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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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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Now that I'm headed down the road of "running" "a campaign" again, I returned to Gateway, my scheme for a pick-up game to play with the one or two people who are guaranteed to...
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Vibechete! is a Mothership adventure written by Joel Hines as part of Hull Breach. It's the 50th anniversary the accident that closed the orbital Hodder Forest Reserve - a...
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Player characters in the upcoming Navigator hexcrawl campaign start "grounded" - their sept-vessel shattered and their clan left to scrape out a life pinned to the earth. This...
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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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After reading a bit of Sofinho's plans to play through the Stygian Library solo earlier this year, I became interested in doing the same, with the (original, 2018 edition of)...
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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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My ZQ project from this year is out in PDF - a 28 page Mothership social adventure in Isotelus Complex, a Jovian colony-in-progress.Bug offices, forge rumors, assassinate...
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The river is gone. It didn't dry up over years, through overuse and changing weather. In a single day, the river deltas turned to cracking mud flats. It sprang, unbeknownst to...
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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...
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(for the month, i'm going to throw together a couple short, unedited posts. no scope-crept regional hexcrawls, no 1d20 character classes, no nothing. just sitting in front of...
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This post has taken me just about forever. It is, theoretically, a prologue to a regional hexcrawl - the drought-struck tunnels of Component Transit - but, given how this went,...
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Since posting about them I managed to start, turn to despise, and then end a play-by-post campaign among the sept-vessels of the Navigators. This is a bit of a slushpost -...
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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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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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Diminishing Returns is a 16 page Mothership 0e adventure by Josh Dixon, made as a stretch goal for their ZQ2 project Black Pyramid - and the fact that this was an afterthought...
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Mars is possessed by its namesake. First it bought its independence with blood, and now competing visions of the future prowl the algae fields bearing rifles and haloes -...
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A quick post, since I've spent far too long staring at Isotelus Complex and want to write something absolutely useless. So - three neat factoids, and three unwindings into the...
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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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Isotelus Complex, a blogpost written on a whim in response to a GLOGtober prompt, has lightly taken over my life. So, with Zine Quest here, I've decided to "do" "something"...
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Best Case Scenario is an RPG/skirmish wargame by deus ex parabola - an SCP sort of thing about getting into gunfights with greebly aliens and spider-sponges. Back in 2022 I...
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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