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The sun: rises at 8 AM, sets around 4 PM. Nobody in the city thinks this is uncommon. Take Derek. He is someone to whom urban myths and whispers of the occult underground are...
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The Arden Vul Weasels return, with Lykourga this time! Havoc’s take. The Players: We examined the clearly evil box, its details and the fact that it seems to attract undead,...
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So, Giovanna! How’s it going? anguish screams Great, let’s dive in. This is a sequel to this play report and discussion of how I approach player character interiority and...
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I have thoughts on how music operates in Saint Tenebrae, but this isn’t a post about that. This is in many ways a Guest Post, so we are still at Glaugust 2026 (although, like a...
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I don’t want to write anything anymore. It is exhaustive to pretend anything can be meaningfully said by someone like me. The eyes that follow me around, all of your eyes...
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Glaugust 2026 Prompt: “Books as treasure. No spellbooks.” All below recycles and occasionally simplifies the Sage procedures in AD&D 1e and a few of my own touches to support...
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None of these animal girls is considered lost because they don’t operate with gangs, but they make for decent contacts. Easy to tell the Puppy Girl apart: tall and fit, sports...
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I have been at your couch for more days than I had available to make things right. I looked at you years ago and said, stopped, because I couldn’t say it looking at your eyes,...
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Discussions around TTRPGs and theater/improv are marred by the fact most hobbyists seem to know fuck all about theater. I won’t go into detail why comparisons between TTRPG...Linked by the ring
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A city as vast as Saint Tenebrae has many men, boiling from the concrete and bistros, claiming construction work even if their hands never held a substance more rough than...
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Giovanna Pomaronte is a player character in the Hearts Aglow campaign. She’s a teenage girl who is studying to be a knight. Giovanna does not like herself. This is a collection...
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The Weasels keep digging Arden Vul! The Players: We returned to our investigation of the bat room. Leofwin and Eofor checked the doors, first by listening and then looking in....
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We weren’t sure whether the short campaign was going to require a third part in order to close it off or if it was going to be a two-shot. By halfway through this session, I...Linked by the ring
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Two Lost Girls contacts. Rick has quit drinking, and two weeks before the campaign he flushed the “constant test of will” once in his drawer down the gutter. He always just...
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Advancement occurs in Mary’s room. Sketches of black anatomy, crumbled and manic, replace the fading wallpaper. She apologizes for the mess, but you know from her stoic tone...
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The Arden Vul Weasels return. We have a new player and ally! The Players: We arrived at the general territory of the town of Gosterwick. A huge imperial gate stood before us,...
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Hearts Aglow went on a two week hiatus, which gives me time to do a very short Lost Girls test-drive. I will first discuss the session itself and then how I went to prepare for...Linked by the ring
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A lost girl type and some duet rules. The girl lost her compass when it skipped from the pocket, right as she jumped out of the freight train. None of the other girls respects...
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This is Lykourga, the Glamorous Threadspinner. In other news, FUCK ARDEN VUL MAPPING JESUS CHRIST. The Players: Note that spuk was absent from the session, and I was...
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There are only two meaningful functions for TTRPG rules. I laid the bait above to see who would click ready to take up arms based on it. Lots of discourse-addicted,...
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Morg did a post tonight after having a conversation with me. Since I’m quoted, might as well answer. I answered this once before, but it was an oblique answer, influenced by my...
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The Weird is a category of Western epistemology. For something to be Weird, it must be intruder, it must refuse the easy categories of its eye, and for that it must be a...Linked by the ring
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I will start with my notes, because I have a small point to make even if you aren’t interested in the session: I hate big tools. I have never used a VTT for online gaming, and...
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This post is dedicated to Xenophon of Athens, whose literary taste I trust, and who loves Audre Lorde as much as I do. There’s no written down Appendix N for Lost Girls. There...Linked by the ring
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It bears repeating. It bears repeating. It bears repeating. There is only one true sort of dungeon: a vampire/witch castle. All others are pretenders. A hexcrawl should have...Linked by the ring
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War games are practiced by every society in every fantasy world. War games compose society itself. It is remarkably costly to enact war, even if it costlier still to keep one’s...
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Magic is a time abyss. It stretches so wide that the passage of clocks cannot reach the whole of its tapestry: there’s more darkness in the night sky than the remnants of stars...Linked by the ring
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Dedicated to Cosmic, my darling contact. A Lost Girl gang dreams of cutting themselves off from all the world, and to make each girl depend on no one but their sisters, yet...
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“Feel free to retract your post” was said to me this morning. And people get mad if I say hobbyists are bad at reading. Look at the frame from Alice I picked for the other...
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TTRPGs are a primarily literary hobby. This statement has many implications. Foremost that it is communicated through text. “Weird Writer, you would surely think so, since you...Linked by the ring
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