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Down the street… Some say you can’t buy charm, but you can buy a spray can and unleash its breath onto a forgotten street corner. If you harbor a crush on a woman, and if it’s...
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It wasn’t unusual for me to get carsick. Looking at any car, misshapen as they inevitably are, and feeling their irregular body roar makes it surprising everyone doesn’t get...Linked by the ring
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I dislike the beach. Laugh all you want about how I feel sand is coarse, rough and gets everywhere. I also thought I disliked being out and around others, but was proven wrong...Linked by the ring
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Performance anxiety in sex is well-documented, and brief experience with different partners showcases its myriad origins. It might be as simple as uncertainty about how...Linked by the ring
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Havoc, our Handler for a Delta Green campaign (my first play report of it is here), is a passive-aggressive little bitch about the lack of play reports. Hence, I’m writing a...Linked by the ring
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(Written in some 15 minutes to preserve the names that first come, otherwise I’d feel the need to constantly add.) I was intending an Appendix N bandwagon for some time, so...Linked by the ring
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica A psychoanalyst in touch with the esoteric. A too dedicated nurse. A budding geneticist or biologist with uncanny vision. A mutant whose cells only...
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Take your fantasy world draft. Cut two zeroes from the timeline. If something happened 3000 years ago, it happened 30 years ago. If it was 300 years, it was actually 3. If it...
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Be confident. If your prep or ideas feel incomplete or uninteresting, run it anyway and let play complete them. Let them speculate, then use their speculations with your twist....
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(Old notes I’ve found of years prior, back when running a freeform thing. Typed up unaltered for Glaugust HPless combat prompt) Damage takes two forms: Wound and Doom. Assume:
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Desde un rincón el viejo gaucho estático, en el que Dahlmann vio una cifra del Sur (del Sur que era suyo), le tiró una daga desnuda que vino a caer a sus pies. Era como si el...
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Nothing complex here, just an observation. Adventure games of D&D ilk assume a wild west social organization, which means a capitalist social organization. The average D&D...Linked by the ring
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Helen Vaughan from The Great God Pan. Art by mgkellermeyer. The dwelling of Count Midnight is so full of color, of exotic dyes and vivid furniture, that all grayness befell his...
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So I’m a player in Havoc’s Delta Green campaign, until either my schedule makes it impossible, the campaign fizzles out as it goes or his showcase as a Handler sucks so hard I...
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The Journal of Elena Welling M.D., a Woman of the FBI and of God August 1st, 1995 Car travel with Royce is rather pleasant. An older, wiser man is always good company, and...
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I talk quite often on the blog about horror gaming, and I want to summarize some general notes on how I often choose to run it. For brief retrospective, I think the purpose of...Linked by the ring
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This is part of a “blog challenge” I decided to kickstart after discussion on Discord. It would be interesting to hear about how referees prep their games. Prep is the material...Linked by the ring
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The Necropolis of Nuromen is a Blueholme module of vernacular TTRPG fantasy (aesthetically medievalist fantasy) that I selected to run as a campaign – or better, several – from...
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(I feel like I can’t be bothered with naming post drafts as anything but “Notes on…” recently) I’m currently moderator for a Discord server until they decide to depose me due...Linked by the ring
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Filmic rendition of Planescape’s Sigil. This is a late-night thought following my last post. I proposed Anchors as thematic elements of the campaign that would serve as...
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Illustration by Mervyn Peake. This is a skeleton for rules that can more easily support, provoke and suggest some of my main interests in TTRPGs: the occult, the horrific, the...Linked by the ring
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The above meme is, at the time of writing, pinned to a channel in a DIY Adventure Games Discord I participate in. It came about because people there, often newbies, time and...Linked by the ring
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Poetry is for the childrenWhose light turns the empty stagesInto solar fields for magesWhose hands transform dejectsInto carved and tailored affectsWhose laughter turns the...Linked by the ring
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In the city, whether its wonders and horrors are in full display or dwell in back-alley shadows, there is law to be violently upheld. Yet it isn’t enough to have a standard...
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Peter Cushing on a promotional still where he plays the most famous of secular wizards. CW: brief mention of sexual extortion. It has been said that the secularization of...Linked by the ring
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The city may have gone through industrialization, through the seizing of the lighting by humanity, through the shadow of nuclear disaster and even the dislocation of self and...
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No one is born a man, says the Carnival; he becomes a man by developing the proper taste for well-tailored three pieces and the adrenaline high of a heist well pulled, the...
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The 8th edition of Tunnels & Trolls (T&T) was announced. While skeptical at first, seeing Chris Bisette and Scott Malthouse as lead writers gave me some interest. The...Linked by the ring
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Organizing my Conduct of Play section on a campaign document, I realized I’ve never talked here about it. Players are often advised to Ask Questions, Play Their Characters...Linked by the ring
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I’m a puppetry fan, and considered more than once taking up the art. The key quality of the puppet, much like the doll, is its vital, tactile consciousness. It carries an anima...Linked by the ring