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On the ring since 2026-04-07
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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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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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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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Go Away was a short cyberpunk/super"hero" campaign, set in the technocratic city of I Re. In 5 weeks, the last ship offworld is leaving. A ticket for 6 people is...
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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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The first part is here - 30 player PbP, bronze age fleshapocalypse, run by Locheil, who is great, I write play reports, etc.ew ew ew ew ew, where a few domain lords descend...
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Within the megastructure, resources are scarce. Water must be tapped from lines, light and heat from stolen electricity, food slowly persuaded to grow in waste pits and...
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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...
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Locheil's City of Cities, Iskadar. Built of five lesser settlements bent and stacked atop each other. Temples built atop train tracks atop temples, the homes of the rich...
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No Other Options was a short Delta Green campaign I ran earlier this year, when I was suddenly struck with the realization I had run nothing since Orbiters playtesting. And,...
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City of Doors is/was an open table game run/ran by Locheil, in a setting close enough to Planescape's Sigil that it's Planescape's Sigil. An endless city curved over...
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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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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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I've just finished running a Delta Green campaign, and am a month deep into running See It Descend Into, so there has been little time for posting - so, I threw things...
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Despite the lack of work on it, Sunless Horizon (now and until later, "Lanthanide Horizon" for the purposes of people not talking about Fallen London anymore) remains my...
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In the last post of this sort I referenced an earlier superhero game that had derailed. Here is said game, complete with perhaps too much effort in writing addenda, sectioning...
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(another set of words in a sequence for/related to deus ex parabola's superhero GLOG. i don't even like superheroes but i keep writing this for accursed, unknowable reasons)A...
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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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Despite generally being uninterested by Superhero Content And Media™, I find myself pulled aggressively towards deus ex parabola's Bayport - a model for superhero campaigns in...
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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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Orbiters Local 519 is a sci-fi dungeoncrawler about disassembling derelict starships, made for open tables and one-shots. It has a focus on instability - as the players move...
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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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Orbiters Local 519, the sci-fi dungeoncrawler I released last April, is getting an updated release on Kickstarter.The new edition keeps the streamlined, Event Die-based...
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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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IntroductionDuet games are very interesting to me - I like the idea of something you can play with only 1 PC and a GM. They're easy to organize, they go quickly, and they're...
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On the GLOG discord and its close siblings, an idea for an archaeological campaign has been simmering - a megadungeon (which, for the purposes of this post, will be called the...