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I've been spending the past little while visiting my girlfriend, and on the plane ride back I started reading the book Conquistador, by S.M. Stirling. This isn't a book...Linked by the ring
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Last time, I went through all the actual serious problems with Deathbringer's marketing campaign: the racism, the misogyny, the one weird kinda homophobic potshot Professor...
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As I write this, Deathbringer, the self-proclaimed most anticipated RPG of 2026, is entering day two of its Backerkit campaign and has raised three-quarters of a million...Linked by the ring
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It's no secret I'm into Orcs. Lyme's Why Orcs? was my favorite post in last year's Lizzies, because it dug through the history of The Orc as a metaphor for industrialized...
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I mentioned in my Sentinel Comics Review that I should probably check out Spectaculars at some point. Well, I did, and let me tell you all, this game has the motherfucking...
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Autogynespolia was a game inspired by Darling Demon Eclipse's post on Faggot games. I was in a really dark place when I started working on it-I was working my shitty security...
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As part of the ongoing Prismatic Wasteland Randomness Blogwagon, I'm writing exactly 2,000 (so long as you don't count) words on random character creation in roleplaying...Linked by the ring
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I am so fucking tired of discourse. I am so tired of people posting inflammatory things on their blogs and social media, and deciphering through secondhand accounts just what...
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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...
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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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This post is part of a series: Stranger Than FictionIn the second area of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the city of Kutna Hora has a fountain in it that most first-time visitors...
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I'm a big fan of taking notes when playing video games, I'm the kind of pervert The Painscreek Killings was made for. Writing stuff down on a piece of paper helps make...
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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...
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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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I did not grow up in the Call of Duty lobbies. As a child, I wasn't really allowed to play shooters, and the closest thing I ever got to a proper multiplayer match was...
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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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Last night I saw Dracula: A Love Tale (the French one, not to be confused with the American one), and I realized partway through the screening that I've now seen three Dracula...
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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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I'd like to talk to you today about my favorite dungeon. It's not some sprawling multi-layered thing like Arden Vul, or the old 3.X era delves like Rappan Athuk or Slumbering...
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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...
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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...
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My mom is a big fan of the Paul Mitchell haircare company, and has been my entire life. Their flagship product, the one she still uses to this day, is the Awapuhi line....
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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...