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I channeled my momentary Mars obsession into a Troika! hack, despite not having nearly enough experience with Troika! to justify it. Thanks to my beloved Typst, I was able to...
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I was on vacation last week, during which I devoured Gods of Mars, the second of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars books, plus part of Warlord of Mars, the third. A Princess of Mars,...
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Players: Peanut, veteran (Shy Owl), Osric III of Shophalbelath, swordsman (EvilTables), Grappadora Hamaqes, hero (Jay_zer0), Xaldun of Portage Town, warrior (roguewithwhimsy)....
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Players: Bekhtar Ziphar, Hero (Shy Owl), Osric III of Shophalbelath (EvilTables), Grappadora Hamaques (Jay_zer0), Xaldun of Portage Town (roguewithwhimsy), Prole Beanfeast...
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The fastest way to cross Antarctica is to Teleport. The second fastest way is to take the Trans-tundra Express, a pitchblend-powered high-speed train that hurtles over the...
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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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Players: Bekhtar Ziphar (Shy Owl), Grappadora Hamaqes (Jay_zer0), Pinion Zugzwang (Kwall) SummaryAfter nine weeks spent leveling up, three adventurers gathered to venture back...
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I sometimes imagine Weirdness as a form of radiation. It can be emitted, reflected, and absorbed. Many works going under the label "weird" are reflectors. China Mieville, for...
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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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One of my backburner ideas is an OD&D campaign where all player characters can fly, thus making the aerial combat rules the "default" combat system. Mothmen would serve to...
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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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I recently returned from GaryCon, my first game convention. I had a really wonderful time & got to play some interesting & thought-provoking games. Aside from one game of...
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Of all the splendid commodities that have graced our humble hobby, few are more exemplary than the recently announced OSR Pokemon game Into The Oddish. It occurred to me,...
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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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Players: Simon Vanade (Jake), Bekhtar Ziphar (Shy Owl), Talvthus Alyval (Oldhawkeyes), Grappadora Hamaqes (Jay_zer0), Osric of Shophalbelath (EvilTables), Buster Diamantis...
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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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Players: Osric III of Shophalbelah (EvilTables), Xaldun of Portage Town (roguewithwhimsy), Simon Vanade (Jake), Bekhtar Ziphar (Shy Owl), Buster Jortsman Diamantis (mustuh),...
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I recently finished a game of Verdun: Dagger at the Heart of France by Marc Miller (who also wrote Traveller). I played as the German Empire, and my opponent was Scribble of...
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Players: Bekhtar Kothar (Jay_Zer0), Talvthus Alyval (oldhawkeyes), Osric of Sophalbelath (EvilTables), Simon Vanade (Klaus Mondo), Xaldun of Portage Town (roguewithwhimsy),...
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I've been having some fun using the rules in 1977 Traveller to make a big sector map in QGIS. Credit/blame goes to Unturned Hovel getting me interested in Classic Traveller....
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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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Date: Jan 7, 2026 (A.D.M. 26) Players: Bekhtar Kothar (Jay_Zer0), Talvthus Alyval (oldhawkeyes), Osric of Sophalbelath (EvilTables), Buster Diamantis (Black Citadel Games)...