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Editing the Antarctic Adventure Anthology has precipitated many ideas about how to steer the future of the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a mild polemic against overly...
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In my ongoing Murdicog's Manse Antarctic Hexcrawl campaign, I decided to try resolving combat using a derivative of the Chainmail "Man-to-man" combat matrix, which supplies a...Linked by the ring
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This weekend, I ran Super Adventure 6: D-Day 2 -- You Can (Not) Redo for the Gay Beholder OSR Discord. "Super Adventures" are a quasi-monthly server event where someone runs a...Linked by the ring
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Players Tulip Driblette, sponsored by Krongu Inc (EvilTables) Dana Zargle, sponsored by Coca-cola (Epistellar) Amelia Birkenstock, sponsored by Myishi Corp (Oldhawkeyes)...Linked by the ring
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The spaceport bar on the industrial world of El Zocalo adjoins a zero-gravity arena that hosts regular fights. The players in my Odradek's Drift Traveller game have decided to...Linked by the ring
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Below are a few additional experiments using my Classic Traveller character generation script. More Optimized Service SelectionIn the discussion following the previous post, it...Linked by the ring
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A follow-up to One Million Worlds. One million characters took too long to generate so I went down an order of magnitude. The median planet population has 100,000 people, after...Linked by the ring
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During some downtime at work I wrote up a little R script to generate Classic Traveller1 planet UPPs and then made a dataset with one million worlds.2 The StatsIn this set of 1...Linked by the ring
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This past weekend I got to run Tom Mecredy's He Ain't Gonna Jump No More for a group of friends. HAGJNM is "tournament module" (or "capsule game") in which players control...Linked by the ring
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This post on reddit asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running forest growth and wildfire simulations. I got into it via GIS & R...Linked by the ring
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Today's interview is with xtinak, (who also uses the handle msquixotic). She blogs at Ms. Quixotic Talks About Games and has an itch page at xtinak.itch.io/ Her WIP region, the...Linked by the ring
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Ever since playing Chants of Sennaar I've thought it would be cool to write logograms for dungeon languages that players could use for clues and to communicate with otherwise...Linked by the ring
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I've been running Murdicog's Manse with the Underworld & Wilderness Adventures dungeon encounter tables. These provide nothing aside from the type of monster encountered...Linked by the ring
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In this post, I argue that hexcrawls don't need to have a key for every hex, and might even be better if they don't.1 My perspective on this is influenced by my experience...Linked by the ring
- The Explorateur: October '26 Explorers Design
- Posting Ls: Dolmenwood 2026 Unturned Hovel
- The 46er - May 2026 Table 46
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The following system is in use in my Murdicog's Manse game. A couple people had asked for details, so I'm making it a separate post. Instead of rolling the usual six ability...Linked by the ring
- The 46er - May 2026 Table 46
- The Weedian (An ODnD Class) The Black Citadel
- Sacred Numbers: Alternative Birth-Signs Hags
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The countdown on itch.io for the Antarctic Adventure Jam has run down. The jam is thus "over". Participants in the jam keyed areas covering nearly 5,000 hexes, an area roughly...
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An encounter with the tarot should, therefore, complicate matters. In other words, we benefit most by approaching a tarot reading that amplifies the already intertwined...Linked by the ring
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In the conversation that led to The Mapping Game -- Conventional Dungeon Paradigm, Scribble & I imagined a few additional paradigms that could support a game focused primarily...Linked by the ring
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I have been tagged by Jay_zer0 to write a magic mask for Stella's mask relay. Mistuh has requested to go next. The Mask of Yngta PéDun-hued & nondescript, with a crinkly...Linked by the ring
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I have always found creative writing daunting (thus all my circuitous efforts over 2024 to do anything at all except buckle down & write). But for my Antarctic Adventure Jam...Linked by the ring
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The proposition: session reports are worth writing even if nobody reads them.1 1.Writing a session report is part of prepping for your next session. Whether or not the reports...Linked by the ring
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My reaction to this year's Bloggie Nominees is a sense that the 'median culture of play' represented in the list has drifted further from that which I participate in (relative...Linked by the ring
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In Scribbles' REDUX campaign, we've been using character rosters, where each player has a list of (currently) 2-5 characters.1 An ingenious downtime system frequently imposes...Linked by the ring
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Last year I ran eight sessions of Castle Mordengard, my first time refereeing an OD&D campaign. It is currently on indefinite hiatus (for reasons given below), so I wanted to...Linked by the ring
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The following is a very, very basic introduction to incorporating randomization into a Typst document. Basic random number generationTypst is a functional language -- I am not...Linked by the ring
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Jenx of Gorgon Bones started a bandwagon, so here are some things I enjoyed as a youngster that still bounce around my head when I'm running &/or making stuff for games. Will...Linked by the ring
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Please forgive me for indulging in a bit of pedantry. I've been brewing up this post for a while -- a recent discussion on the Purple OSR server reminded me of it, but I'm...Linked by the ring
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I claim that footnotes1 are an under-utilized typographical tool for TTRPG texts, one that I have increasingly adopted2 for my forays into DIY elfgaming. I find it strange &...Linked by the ring
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Just a dungeon dressing table; there are many like it but this one's mine. It's arranged so that a 1 on the first die is always some kind of empty room (shout out to this post...Linked by the ring
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Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked about nearly as often:...Linked by the ring
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BackgroundPrismatic Wasteland recently posted Slush Magic, describing a WIP magic-word system grouped into five 'schools': I never liked D&D’s schools of magic. It just felt a...Linked by the ring
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I've been re-reading the Hobbit & Lord of The Rings this year, so naturally my latest cartographic hyperfixation was to make a map of Tolkien's paracosm. I had initially...Linked by the ring
- The Angle - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: Two Dungeons of the Trollshaws Rise Up Comus
- Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: The Shire (Complete) Rise Up Comus
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- Eastfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- The Green Fields - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- A Tour of the Southfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- The Marish - Middle-earth Hexmap Rise Up Comus
- On the Road from the Three-farthing Stone to the Bridge of Stonebows - Middle-earth Hexmap Rise Up Comus
- Took Country - Middle-earth Hexmap Project Rise Up Comus
- The North Moors - Middle-earth Hexmap Project Rise Up Comus
- Troubles in the Northfarthing Rise Up Comus
- From Little Delving to Nobottle to Long Cleeve Rise Up Comus
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Jumping on a blog bandwagon pitched by Weird Writer of Roll to Doubt. Before a CampaignI always start with maps, usually one of the campaign overworld and one of the main...
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I recently ran across a neat thread from 2008 on the Dragonsfoot forums where Geoffrey McKinney of Carcosa & Mike's Dungeon/World fame pitched the idea of treating the Holmes...
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I made a collection of over 100 6-mile hex maps covering most of the Earth's surface. 6-mile Hex Atlas of Earth by idraluna-archives I'm aware of a couple defunct attempts at...Linked by the ring
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For the Antarctic Adventure Jam I'm working on keying ~950 hexes. I've been hand-stocking (a departure from my usual approach) and have taken this as an opportunity to test...Linked by the ring
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There's lots to love & hate about Geoffrey Mckinney's Carcosa, but one feature that never fails to ignite my imagination is the bizarre naming convention used for high-level...Linked by the ring
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This is one of my few pieces of tried & true GM advice, developed during my one good 5e campaign but very useful for the OSR games I'm running now. I'm sure I'm not the first...Linked by the ring
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I like the idea of using dungeon stocking procedures but usually find them fiddly & time-consuming. I also find it hard to limit myself to procedural generation when I spend so...Linked by the ring
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One of the first things players usually notice about OD&D is the way abilities are de-emphasized relative to later editions. STR, INT, & WIS have no mechanical effect other...Linked by the ring
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There are great resources for public domain ttrpg art out there (Jalopy Design, Yochai Gal's) but so far I haven't seen anyone mention Project Gutenberg as a source of visual...
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Though it's been over a month since I posted an update on my Antarctic hexcrawl, the work continues. I've mostly been making piecemeal improvements to my stocking tables. This...Linked by the ring
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Earlier this year, I sorted the spell list for my campaign into 14 themed grimoires. I've found this to be a nice middle ground between 'mages get free spells from the ether...
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This post is a submission to the January 2024 blog carnival and, after a fashion, the start of my own version of lore24. A while ago I used real-world data (with some...Linked by the ring
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This post was initially written for Prismatic Wasteland's January 2023 resolution mechanic blog challenge. It definitely doesn't meet the challenge's desired originality --...Linked by the ring
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Note from 10-2-2025: Parts of this tutorial are a bit outdated, due both to QGIS updates and an improve understanding of what people want out of their hexmaps. While there's...Linked by the ring