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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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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!
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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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I've had fraud on the brain recently. Folding Ideas recently put a video out on Mantracks, fake fossils and the creationist cranks who try to profit off of them, building...
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While I’m not nearly as much of an OSR head as most of my contemporaries (colleagues? Something less pretentious?), something that I do greatly appreciate is the DIY...
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As I write this, the year is almost ending, and like most of us I am cursed to have so many games and so little time. With that in mind, I'd like to take a look back and...
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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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Part of me worries I was too harsh in my review of Unsung, because that’s not entirely their fault. I'd been thinking a lot about simulations and the lessons they can give in...
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First and foremost, Unsung by Kirt A. Dankmeyer is a game of its time. Rapidly approaching its 20th anniversary, the game proudly bears the influences of 2005 RPG culture and,...
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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