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i have made too many good posts recently, time for a bad oneLinked by the ring
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I've been periodically playing on The Bad Doctor's Orc Spike Dungeon game, which uses her much-hallowed & ballyhooed Strong Kung Fu rules (as far as I know only I call them...Linked by the ring
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I have this impulse sometimes, I think you might too: whenever a player can get away with something having rolled not one dice, a part of me thinks "this is too easy, we need...Linked by the ring
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In my position as a community member of the purple OSR RPG server these past years I've seen many good and bad discussions. I have compiled here a guide and an FAQ both for the...Linked by the ring
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Long title: How the OSR's... base assumptions and attempting those made me unlearn how to prep in the way I've always done, thus resulting in a worse experience overall....
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This is a humble submission to the February 2026 Blog Carnival. In a previous post I made a random generator for polytheistic deities, the intent of which was to make something...Linked by the ring
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This is the masterpost for my campaign called And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. It starts with a group of young characters, 14 year olds, enrolling in Gabadona Academy to...Linked by the ring
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This is a post borne out of my frustration with running Pendragon campaigns where the characters are low ranking rather than commanders, wanting to put them in the battlefield,...Linked by the ring
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I've waited until Nathan had put his thoughts out because I knew I would echo many of his sentiments, as it's something we've talked about at length. This was a thirty session...Linked by the ring
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My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead. I loved him more than any other comrade. I loved him like my head, my life, myself. Don the mask, the strip of silicon that covers...Linked by the ring
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The spotted lion of the forest is a strange and misunderstood creature. Little is known of his thought processes, as he rarely stops to talk to men, but it is known that he...Linked by the ring
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I am preparing to run a game, as of yet unnamed, but it got me thinking about a few different concepts: true names, cursing, and emotions that come to the character as if from...Linked by the ring
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I'm a big fan of skill-based resolution. I was raised on them, so they're a lot more intuitive for me than "the only relevant info on your sheet is regarding your capacity for...Linked by the ring
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This started out with a thought experiment: how do I make the fact that a character is simply more fierce than another be one of the key determinants for settling a fight...Linked by the ring
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This is something I had been fiddling with earlier in the year. I tried running it as a PBP and it honestly didn't go very well, so consider this more a proof of concept: a...Linked by the ring
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I come to this bandwagon mostly as an outsider for a few different reasons that those who know me already expect: I was never much into fantasy as a concept. I watched...Linked by the ring
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This is a double post of two brief thoughts I had at the same time, roughly connected but mostly unrelated. I was discussing with Mr. Mann, who's also been playing in...Linked by the ring
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Here's a notion I wish would die already: Medieval armies were made up of dirty and scared peasants armed with shitty spears, ready to be mowed down by the nearest knight for...Linked by the ring
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Tribe. When you read that word, what do you imagine? Chances are, probably something in Africa or indigenous peoples from somewhere, either the Australian Aboriginals, the...Linked by the ring
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This was inspired by this post by Mothman Explodecorpse. I have a problem with "secular wizards", which is to say the modern archetype of Wizard-as-Scientist such as the ones...Linked by the ring
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I've been thinking about social rolls recently, and wondering why they bother me so much sometimes. I've arrived at the conclusion that it boils down to NPC Attitude and DMs -...Linked by the ring