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I've spoken before about implied worldbuilding, how fun it can be to tease apart the world that the rules of Dungeons and Dragons build. This has been done before for the...Linked by the ring
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As part of my crawl through the history of Dragon Magazine, something I have noticed is that from an early age the Gaijin Gamer has always been particularly fascinated by the...Linked by the ring
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I recently joined Meet the RPG, a round-robin thing organized on the Paper Cult Club forums, and we just went through three-ish sessions (plus a Session Zero) of Sentinel...Linked by the ring
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I've started work on an RPG named Elfkisser, and while I was discussing it Elizabeth of Patchwork Paladin jokingly asked when I was working on Orcstabber. I now present,...
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One of my longer-running side projects has been going through the ENWorld Gary Gygax Q&A. It ran for several years, up to Gygax's passing, and is the source for a lot of...Linked by the ring
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One of the central maxims of the OSR is that the answer is not on your character sheet. "Builds" as such aren't really a thing, between games offering random stat...
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"You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to meet girls"-Shamus Young, DM of the...
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This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourSo, you've finally gotten yourself a group of players and are preparing your first session. So,...Linked by the ring
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Fellow RPG creator Snow posted BULLET POINTS LIKE DUST IN THE EYE OF GOD, a discussion of whether or not editing and layout in standards in tabletop roleplaying are strangling...
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This post is part of a series: Stranger Than FictionHello all, and welcome to the first installment of an ongoing series I've decided to call Stranger than Fiction! As I've...
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This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourSo you've gone ahead and sketched out a rough outline of where you want your campaign to go. Now...Linked by the ring
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This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourLast time on Prepping Plots, we discussed why the enterprising GM might consider a more linear...Linked by the ring
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I've been spending a lot of time playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. To sum the game up briefly, imagine if Skyrim or The Witcher 3 were made by the most annoying person...Linked by the ring
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Lots of digital ink has been spilled on the merits of hexcrawls and pointcrawls (though I think Dinkie Rizzle has the right of it), and something I've always noticed when...
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This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four"Don't prep plots" is a fairly common saying in RPG circles. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure...Linked by the ring
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If you spend a lot of time in the blogging circles I do, you'll notice the term "Gameable content" crop up a lot. I was first introduced to the term in Prismatic...Linked by the ring
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I have a distaste for a lot of terms bandied about in the OSR sphere. Gameable Content is one. Another, apparently is "Player Skill." During yet another roundabout discussion...
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Earlier tonight (11/22/25) there was a discussion in valor stealer Farmer Gadda's discord about this post from the Dododecahedron, specifically this passage:"Players...
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Definitely a lawyer and allegedly a blogger Prismatic Wasteland has issued a new Blog Bandwagon wherein everyone comes up with a hex and then connects it to other hexes that...Linked by the ring
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Very handsome man and much better blogger than me Forlorn Encystment recently put out Adventurers Long For The Dungeon, which features the idea that adventurers (NPC or...Linked by the ring
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Marcia of Traverse Fantasy thought it would be a cool idea for us all to post our own personal Appendix Ns, and we ended up choosing September 8th because its...Linked by the ring
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As I write this at the tail of end of August 2025, we're kind of in the last gasps of all those projects that came about when Wizards of the Coast decided to mess with the...Linked by the ring
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There are a few terms in OSR spaces that really grind my gears. One of them is the eternal mentioning of Combat as War vs. Combat as Sport. As far as I can tell, the term...Linked by the ring
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So, JD Vance killed the Pope, and to celebrate, award-winning JD Vance lookalike Prismatic Wasteland is putting on another Blog Bandwagon, this time about clerics. A lot of...
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Hey folks! Today is Periodic Table Day 2025, and as a result, a bunch of us in the Prismatic Wasteland server have decided to grace your table with some elemental-themed gaming...Linked by the ring
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Havoc over at Lonely Star made a post last month titled “No More Peasant Armies”, in which they argue two chief things:Think a lot about how people are fighting and why. This...Linked by the ring
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A while back, Idle Cartulary wrote about hyperdiegesis, the process by which unexplained stuff is brought up to heighten the sense of their being a broader setting. Its rad as...Linked by the ring
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What exactly is the point of money in dragon games? In each edition of Dungeons and Dragons, there are rules for money and they are always a little weird: carrying money,...Linked by the ring
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So, I've been calling this project The Liz Hack because I have a massive ego, and I couldn't really think of a fun way to encapsulate what made my elfgame different,...Linked by the ring