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So have I heard and do in part believe it. —Horatio, Hamlet Here is Level ETA, The Tomb of Krathyguiar’lkjjin Mirethought, housing the remains and treasures the deified ruler...Linked by the ring
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Dear reader, I am not someone who believes the be all end all of tabletop games is player agency. I subscribe to a different idea, that games are social and material processes...Linked by the ring
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Here’s an adventure I wrote for my Extremely Byzantine 5-room Dungeon Jam Adventure PDF: gggg.pdf PNG of Map: gggg_map.png
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For some reason I’m having a tremendous amount of writer’s block for analytical writing, so for this report I’ll stick to the facts. Perhaps I’ll add a retrospective later....
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“Prep scenarios, not plots” is a big ole’ touchstone for playing dungeon or field games in my circles. The idea is that it’s not the referee’s job to plan out players’...
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Here is a further map of my Redux dungeon–This is Level Zeta III (-1,0), a continuation of level Zeta III. It is located directly north of Zeta III (0,0); here is them bolted...
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Watching E.R. has fried my brain, so here’s a Realm of Yolmi creature: Medical Doctors These professionals will insist on treating anyone who has been hurt, by force if...
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This post is a summary of one unusual mechanic in Avalon Hill’s Starship Troopers (1976), which addresses noncombatant deaths. Starship Troopers presents seven scenarios, with...
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I put this up about 2 weeks ago and took it down after a couple of hours. I wasn’t embarrassed about the product–this is a good and funny table and I stand by it–but I worried...
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A PDF of this session report is available here: escape-from-special-operations-complex-903.pdf Players: Shy Owl (Ref), Jenx, xaoseed, Oldhawkeyes, Jay_zer0 5/31/2026 7:00 AM -...Linked by the ring
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Here are more illustrations, following my first post. Taekic Small flying creatures armed with micro-lasers. Dalek Giant creatures that open their mouths and let food walk in....
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Frankly I’m a pretty shy and sex-negative kinda guy, but recent discourse about the topic has caused inspiration. Very few of these entries are sexual, and none of them feature...
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Here is a new class for The Realm of Yolmi. Usually I like my games to have very few classes, but this was fun to make and I think it fits with the vibe. Like Soldiers and...
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When simulations fail, we lay our hopes at the feet of metaphor. And metaphor is no thing at all, only an illusion peddled by foolish people lacking the stamina to see things...
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When you no longer believe in metaphor, all that’s left is simulation. What happens when the sparkles of clever allusion grow dim, when resonance tends shallow, and the waters...
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Anyone who talks to me about games hears about Nomic sooner or later. I bring it up all over the place, in any conversation having to do with rules as such. My excitement over...Linked by the ring
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Furthering Yolmiposting, here are some illustrations based on the monster descriptions in The Realm of Yolmi. These drawings are frankly not at all what I first envisioned when...
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“Our first assignment—“ “Our, that’d be… me and you.” “—will be to locate and restore to its owner a somewhat tasteless lamp, indeed among lamp collectors considered the crown...Linked by the ring
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The aim of D&D -1 is to never quite get around to playing D&D. Rather than eschewing Session 0, D&D -1 is composed entirely of Session 0s. Here’s how to play: The first few...
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Each session of Redux begins with 45 minutes of paperwork. Here’s a rough list of things which have to be worked out before the party can leave town. The week in which the...Linked by the ring
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Abandoned missile silos and bunkers are particularly dungeon-like places. Beyond just being big underground complexes with lots of empty space, they are places into which vast...