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Six spells all involving the magic word “fuck”.Linked by the ring
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A review of an Electric Bastionland one-shot. Is Chris McDowall one of the funniest writers in TTRPGs?Linked by the ring
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A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).
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A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.
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What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in...Linked by the ring
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I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing for your dungeons and...
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Into the Odd famously jettisoned the “roll to hit” aspect of D&D derived combat. How can accuracy, specifically reducing an opponent’s accuracy by means of sand in the eyes or...
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I elucidate the ways that the Pokémon games embody several principles of the OSR playstyle, which is maybe unsurprising when you consider the history of JRPGs.Linked by the ring
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Pre-Order Into the Oddish, a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd, and Vileplume Mountain, a parody of the classic funhouse dungeon that is compatible with...Linked by the ring
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Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed...Linked by the ring
- CATMAIL #4 AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Hex Maps Need Empty Rooms Table 46
- Mapping Noise - A Simple System for Informed Fog of War (Map Blogwagon) Fail Forward
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- Amber-Powered Dinosaurs in the Time-Displaced Observatory Artifactotum
- Against Maps AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
- Freeform Pointcrawls Wandering Diejack
- Don’t prep hexcrawls, prep hexframes A shrike for my dreams
- Use Tracing Paper Root Devil
- My Favorite Map mindstorm
- Anti-colonial TTRPG Map Afraid of Encounters
- The Map Speaks: Communicating Via Maps Personable Thoughts
- Tracking the Storm Cats Have No Lord
- Blue Prince is a Depth Crawl The Play Reports
- Mapwork in campaigns (Maps Blogwagon) Seed of Worlds
- The Explorateur: Issue #18 Explorers Design
- Circuit Crawls To Be Resolved
- Earth Resists: Skirmish map Luck Roll
- Stranger Than Fiction: Fun With Maps Magnolia Keep
- Yellow Spiderhend Cliff (Prismatic Wasteland's Map Bandwagon) Ye Olde Revivalist
- Choose Your Own Direction Cats Have No Lord
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Are you using overloaded encounter dice to track time? Clocks like from Blades in the Dark? Here is a more tangible, toyetic alternative method for tracking progress of...
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To design a game, you have to break a few eggs and discard some rules or completely rewrite them. But you won’t know what to discard and what to rewrite until you feed those...
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A Christmas-themed hexcrawl setting with 60 hexes written from bloggers across the blogosphere.Linked by the ring
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A Merry Hexmas location: dungeoncrawl through Santa Claus’ castle. Whether you lead an elf and reindeer uprising is up to you!Linked by the ring
- What I Like About Orc Babies Blog of Forlorn Encystment
- Bloggies Breakdown: Round 1 Explorers Design
- The Bloggies' 2026 Nominees Explorers Design
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- Hexmas 2025 - Hexmas Train Depot The Play Reports
- Merry Hexmas 101 - Coal Mountain DIY & dragons
- Hexmas 0202: Conifer Mountain Weird Wonder - Amanda P.'s Blog
- 'Tis the Season (for a Sandbox): Into the Jinglebell Barrens Blog of Forlorn Encystment
- The Peppermint Wood The Dododecahedron
- Containment Site Sierra-Papa-Foxtrot - Hexmas Hex 0301 Viridian Void Productions
- Poison Swamp Fail Forward
- Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 1, Issue 2) Patchwork Paladin
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I played Seven Party Pact, Paranoia, Planet of the Apes RPG, Monty Python RPG, Break!!, Barkeep on the Borderlands, and Escape from Atlantis and am reporting those experiences...Linked by the ring
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A short and sweet review of a starter adventure for Mausritter.Linked by the ring
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I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword at my side.
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A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has...Linked by the ring
- Hexmas 2025 - Hexmas Train Depot The Play Reports
- Merry Hexmas 101 - Coal Mountain DIY & dragons
- 'Tis the Season (for a Sandbox): Into the Jinglebell Barrens Blog of Forlorn Encystment
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- Barnyard Voltron Bommyknocker Press
- The Peppermint Wood The Dododecahedron
- Containment Site Sierra-Papa-Foxtrot - Hexmas Hex 0301 Viridian Void Productions
- Poison Swamp Fail Forward
- Hexmas 2025 - Hearth The Play Reports
- Merry Hexmas: The Autumn Valley Tree Climber
- Merry Hexmas: Babbling Baboon Copper Shaman
- blogwagon: broken bronco on the silver steppe Fluorite Guillotine
- Merry Hexmas! Blog Bandwagon - Snow Miser's Houseboat To Be Resolved
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Embracing the silly origins of skeletons and why it makes them one of the more refreshing undead horrors to use in your games.Linked by the ring
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Lycanthropy is played out. Instead of using another werewolf in your game, try some weregilt.
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Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.Linked by the ring
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I present a cheat code for breaking through writer’s block and coming up with a gameable idea from all the cultural detritus that has built up inside your brain.
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An example for our I prepared to run a (great) published adventure.
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On the perils of artificial intelligence when it comes to the tabletop gaming medium.Linked by the ring
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You are stranded on a hostile planet, but fortunately its subterranean tunnels are rich with the fuel you need to get back home. Less fortunately the tunnels are also home to...
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Your intrepid reporter in the field presents the latest on-the-ground news from the first day of GenCon.
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Rules for your character’s starting age and natural death.
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Musings on removing the damage roll and replacing it with the to-hit roll for use in games that are heavy on looting enemies.Linked by the ring
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A all-in-one roll for random encounters, reaction, surprise, and distance.Linked by the ring
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What Akira Toriyama can teach you about creativity and worldbuilding.