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On the ring since 2026-05-23
Latest activity 8mo ago
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Read part 1 here. This is the continuation of our last adventure. It was remarkably shorter for reasons which will become apparent. We backtracked from the room with a turtle...
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Meg Cowfrog wanted to playtest her adventure, a dungeon for her Mesopotamian-inspired River Kingdoms setting, so the Sunsetters decided embark upon it. We did about half of it...
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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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Earlier this month, Nathan posted what he called a Perfect Spell System, so I went and decided to make my own. Now what I was going for here are "spell as techniques". There's...
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This was my Delta Green campaign, which ran from July to November 2025. It was intended as a low effort campaign for me to develop my skills and build confidence before the...
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In April 5th of this year, a Saturday, I posted the LFG for the Glorantha game I had been considering for at least 3 weeks until then. We have been playing on and off for 7...
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Here I'll post my - very slow in the making - retrospective of my entire gaming career. Part 1 focuses on the very beginning, the years of 2012 and 2013, which is when I was...
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For many, the daily bus commute at the end of an intense day of work is just another part of the daily labour. To others, this is a moment of catharsis and meditation; but...
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This is a small location / brief adventure or situation I made for my own game. I haven't tested it out yet, so check it at your own peril. There are 3 basic locations in this...
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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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An old short story I was asked to post. You can read the original in Portuguese here. This was made a day before I turned 17 so keep your expectations nice and low. It is...
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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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Everyone likes to think about merchants in their medieval-ish worlds transporting goods we today associate with wealth - jewels, precious stones and metals, fine things, etc....
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Read the original in Portuguese here. I dreamed of red skies tonight. In my dream, the streets were flooded with salt water. Tiny waves covered my feet and they reflected the...
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Have you ever wanted to run a game entirely out of spite? Has a player ever showed up to your Vampire the Masquerade game with a fully statted level 3 Elf Fighter and you felt...
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This was my Pendragon campaign which lasted from September 2024 to February 2025. Year 1, 510: Sessions 1 and 2, where we played through the Tournament of the Sword and the...
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Here are some knights inspired by Round Table ones. See if you can figure out which is which. 1. The Ladies' KnightThis is the best of all knights for one reason alone: he...
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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
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It's more interesting if Medusa, when portrayed as a victim, is also monstrous instead of beautiful. The Greeks used Medusa in shields and other objects as a form of apotropaic...
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The Sunrise Generation was a three-game campaign I tried making in Autumn 2024. The idea was for a fantasy game of Mythras using Brasil as a setting, mixed up with Feudal...
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This game was played in June 15, 2024, from around 14:00 (2 PM) BST to roughly 17:00 (5 PM) with Kirko (Computer Scientist Kurtz) and NBateman (FBI Special Agent Cornwell) on...
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I have a post about Brazilian names and thought it would be funny to make that, but translate it to generate weird and 'off' English names. Yeah I don't see the point either....
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My previous contribution to the Recalled to Action challenge was made with a game I had already played for about a month, Pyrrhic Weaselry, and felt relatively confident that I...
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This is part of the Recalled to Action challenge, started by Sahh inspired on something I was rambling about while rereading Berserk on Discord. She explains what the challenge...
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BREAK!! is this upcoming anime-inspired RPG with a ton of OSR pedigree. You can just feel that it drank deeply from the G+ days, and I found some pretty unique ideas in there...