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And other related thoughts about this game Some comparisons to other games First of all, I don't exactly know what people mean by wargaming. I've never done traditional...
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I wrote this blog post around the time there was Ennies discourse, and then life got busy, so I'm posting it now. One problem with awards like the Ennies is that it takes a...
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My Appendix N (Appendix S?) I am very late for the trend, but also I have been working on this blog post for at least a year now, so I might as well finish anyway. This is hard...
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NSR Camp 4, and thoughts on 4E D&D Previous NSR camp writeup I managed to get 4 games in: Stygian library, Cairn (run by me) Sussurating tower, GLAIVE (run by the creator of...
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Grounded Fantasy Thanks to J Alan Henning for pointing out I forgot about low fantasy! Images are public domain. Within the NSR community, there are aspects that I find more...
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On Religion (Belated Conclave Blog Edition) Here are some miscellaneous ideas that were supposed to be for the the conclave blog thing. The problem is I tried to just polish up...Linked by the ring
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I am way late on writing this up; I meant to write stuff after NSR camp 2, and write some stuff about playtesting, and now I largely have forgotten what I was going to say. I...
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Haxen This is I guess the third of my not-review reviews, in combination with a play report. Haxen is an interesting solo game. Most solo games tend to follow a handful of...
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What's a zine? And why? I'm going to ramble self-indulgently for a bit, feel free to skip to the next part. Last week, I went back home and was looking through some of my stuff...
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A game taxonomy, part 1 "All models are wrong, some models are useful." A million people have already done this - I'm kind of assuming you have vaguely absorbed the existing...
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This was originally supposed to be for Vampire Week which was like a month ago. I wrote most of this then but never actually published it. Also, as you can see, I got way off...
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Big bad con now feels like about a million years ago, though it was almost exactly a month since writing this. It's the only game convention I go to - largely because it's...
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The Most Important Two Pages of Procedures to Discover the Path Ahead I've decided to publish a blog version of the main idea in Procedures to Discover the Path Ahead because I...
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Tarnation and God's Going To Cut You DownIntro I recently playtested Tarnation, although unfortunately I never finished the game because I lost the index card I was using....
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20 Virtues And/Or Vices Recently, I wrote a different blog post that gave some background context behind me writing this, here. I've been working on my own quasi-alignment...
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Hopefully I remain sufficiently obscure that this post doesn't break containment and make a lot of people angry. If it does I only accept replies on Mastodon, or as blog posts...
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The idea basically is to have there be mechanical incentives to retire a character before they die. I think my main initial inspiration was Blades in the Dark. A character got...
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Note: backfilling old posts in RSS. Hopefully this doesn't show up. I kind of stumbled into the term by accident. I was looking for a discord server that was focused on making...
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I've had these thoughts floating around for a few months, and then every week or so the Discourse brings one of them up. Fantasy Heartbreakers As I posted about on Twitter a...
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Ths is not the first time I itchfunded a game (you can see my blog post about that first time here, nor is it the first time I posted about the financials of making a game (you...
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Printed Game The summer of 2021, I made a one-page dungeon called Murky Bog, and I thought it looked cool, so maybe I'd try getting it printed. Takeways: Pamphlets are tough. I...