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No adventure survives contact with the players. And that’s a good thing! I discuss You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge and Canal of Horrors.Linked by the ring
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Don’t let character death slow down your games. If you want to run a deadly game, you do not need to make it easier to die. To run a deadly game, make it easier to live.
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Why do magic-users pick spells like they are ordering from a menu? An evaluation for alternate systems of picking spells to evoke the awe and wonder befitting magic.
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An unused rule that got cut from my Big Rock Candy Hexcrawl, with some suggestions for a Minecraft TTRPG.
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A diegetic method for increasing ability scores, stolen gleefully from another system.
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When a magic-user flubs a spell, they mix up a few letters but the magic remains. Thus does a Charm Person spell become a Harm Person spell. Oops.
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I discuss the TTRPG projects I am working on: Big Rock Candy Hexcrawl, Barkeep on the Borderlands, Unaccredited Magic User Boarding School, and Prismatic Wasteland.
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A new monster for use in post-apocalyptic settings: the motorcyclops!
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I take Errant’s excellent rules for lockpicking and hack them to make rules for hacking into computer terminals in modern or sci-fi games.
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Advice for sparking ideas for building megadungeons, from mall maps to a collaborative dungeon design procedure.
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In which I express dissatisfaction with the standard counting-gold-coins mechanic and suggest an alternative in the form of abstracted Wealth, Reputation and Supply.
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A twist on the overloaded encounter die mechanic that makes the dungeon more dynamic, and provides risk vs reward tradeoffs for players as they explore a dungeon.
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A definitive guide to splitting the party or running PvP while keeping all the players at the table engaged with the action.
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Druids can be evil too. Some advice on eschewing tropes and adding druidic antagonists into your next game.Linked by the ring
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A simple trap and ways to remix it to fit nearly any campaign.
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A review of Mausritter, a sword-and-whiskers TTRPG based on Into the Odd. Also musings on the Mausritter campaign I want to run.Linked by the ring
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3d6-in-order is a somewhat maligned method for generating stats, but there is a place for it. Beware: very unscientific survey contained herein!
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Goblins from outer space invade the Prismatic Wasteland!
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How Prismatic Wastelands handles “race.” A character’s ancestry doesn’t define them. Instead, the player helps define the world through their character’s ancestry.
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Advise on running mysteries and reflections on capital-T Truth in TTRPGs. By speaking a fact at the table, you reify that as a Truth. All clues unuttered are merely potential...Linked by the ring
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How to fit 3,200 random items on a single page.
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The way Dungeons & Dragons handles language is lacking in either realism or fun. In this post, I offer a system that is at least fun, if not particularly realistic.Linked by the ring
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In which our heroes find a child, create a child, make those children fight, then negotiate with pseudo-liches to save the children. Won’t somebody please think of the children?
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A review of the Seinfeld-based Troika! supplement and a starting adventure for it.
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In which our heroes are introduces and their exploits thus far summarized.