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It is a well known truism in games media that the more colons there are in a game's title the more likely it is to be ass. Usually this kind of thing smacks of Suit...
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Welcome one and all to the first annual Lizzies, a celebration of all things Liz (that's me)! 2025 has been...a fucking year to be trans in America, so we're going to end this...
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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...Linked by the ring
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I am not exactly a connoisseur of first dates, but I feel like "Watch someone else play Huniepop" is probably among the lower echelons of what one would consider a...
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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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Fans of Magnolia Keep may have noticed I've been quiet the last few weeks, and the simple reason for that is that Ghost of Yotei came out. Setting aside the shitty conduct of...
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A few days ago in somehow actually a Farmer Gadda's discord we discussed the idea of humans in your typical fantasy games, especially seeing as it is, largely a D&Dism. I can't...
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I don't watch a lot of Dungeons and Dragons YouTube. Lots of it is advice I've already learned from forums and mates on discord, other parts are engaging with the game in...
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Session 3 of Scarlet Sunrise started off with our heroes in two places, thus violating the most sacred rule of DnD. Mercy was trussed up Hannibal Lector style in a Tok...
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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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Session 2 of Scarlet Sunset happened this past week, as our heroes made their way to the docks of Tok-namely, the great shipmaking artifact known as the Star Forge, a...
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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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Part One: The Session Our heroes began their adventure on the icy prison-world of Straya, imprisoned for...some sort of crime. Idk. They probably deserved it. After a brief...
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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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- Object-Oriented Conversations To Be Resolved
- Combat as Art - Boss Design and Reflections on Violence Fail Forward
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Session 0 of Scarlet Sunset has come and gone, and I'd say it went pretty well. There were some hiccups (I feel like my writer's room style of running games might be a bit...
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Elizabeth of Patchwork Paladin ran a one-shot of Daggerheart for me and some other people, and I got Into It enough that I actually bought a copy from my local...
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While I was watching Eddington last month, I went to the bathroom during the trailers. When I came back the trailer for Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire was...
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When Conan talked about what was best in life, he neglected to mention truly bad television. I was first introduced to Doctor Odyssey (2024) after it had already been soft...
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My dad is a fan of horror movies. From the cerebral horror of something like The VVitch to low-budget trash like Mourning Wood or Zombeavers (which he insists is the Citizen...
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There’s a bit in Joe Abercrombie’s The Heroes (a book I’ve written about before) that always stuck with me. About fifty pages in, we’re introduced to the character Stranger...
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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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In the words of Josh Josiah Joseph Josie “Worm Guy” McCroo, "Fixing the Thief" is like an initiate punching bowls of water in the Shaolin temple - an universally undertaken...
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This past weekend, I went to MidSouthCon, the most premiere fandom convention that's a short drive from where I live. This is sorta just a stream of thought thing where I...
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I watched The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. I don't think its a very good movie. To paraphrase my friend Veronica, its emotional beats rely on you having fond...
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A little under a year ago, in the summer of 2023, my friend Marshall asked me for advice on picking a tabletop game for him to run. I threw Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition...
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The debate over natural language in rpgs has been around longer than I've been playing them, some like it, some don't. One of the chief points in this is that most people's...
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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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Going short and sweet on this one cuz I stayed up too late editing. For Playful Void's Zungeon Manifesto, I have made Bloodmoon Crypt, for Black Sword Hack. Go check it out, it's free!