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A bestiary of 56 or so monsters, written initially for Dungeon World but useful for any fantasy game, reviewed.Linked by the ring
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In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!
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There is a contrarian hot take chestnut that gets bandied about occasionally against the prevalence of randomness in roleplaying games. I articulate a simple...
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When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random...Linked by the ring
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Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.Linked by the ring
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- Breaking a GM star pattern: d20 more ways A shrike for my dreams
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- Rand0m Bl0gwagon - Erm, That Just Happened To Be Resolved
- The Explorateur: Issue #20 Explorers Design
- Pondering about input and output randomness in ttrpgs anb's logs
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Six spells all involving the magic word “fuck”.Linked by the ring
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A review of an Electric Bastionland one-shot. Is Chris McDowall one of the funniest writers in TTRPGs?Linked by the ring
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A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).Linked by the ring
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- The 46er - May 2026 Table 46
- The Explorateur: Issue #19 Explorers Design
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A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.
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What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in...