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On the ring since 2026-04-17
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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
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Don't have much to say at the moment, other than it's out in an early access form! I'll be going through some of my design decisions and stuff in the coming weeks, but for now...
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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
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One of the central ideas of The Liz Hack is that there is a core identifiable loop to each session, making it so you always feel like you accomplished something. Blades in the...
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Like my forefathers before me, I’m putting together my own tabletop game. Since chronicling its rough development is gonna be one of the primary attractions of this blog, I...
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On October 1, 2024, I saw Megalopolis for the first time. Nine days later, I saw it again, this time with a friend. I don't remember much of our conversation, beyond me...