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IntroductionAt last! The first session of my Campaign26 game, a Wolves Upon the Coast open table with some of my best and most beloved IRLs. I have long wanted to get a game...
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The lawful petty goddess of doors, permission, and trepidation. Depicted as a small woman made of wood in Byzantine garb, with empty brass eye sockets shaped like keyholes and...
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The lawful petty god of torches, quartermastery, and the keeping of strict time records. It appears as a songbird-faced beetle with a flaming abdomen and an endless pattern of...Linked by the ring
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Inspired by Orbital Crypt's Small Gods, inspired by Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Which I'm a little addicted to at the moment, though I myself only seem to worship Gozag, Trog, or...
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IntroductionIt's wild what a couple of random encounters and a weeks-old plot hook will get you when the table is right! Our third player death, and at the hands of another...
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IntroductionToday’s session was a lot of fun, as it was mostly my own keyed hexes and random encounter filling out the game. I had long had up my sleeve an homage to Algernon...
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Inspired by Press the Beast's martial arts posting! The pastoralists of the hills and mountains learn stick fighting with their crooks to ward off animals and men. It's said...
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IntroductionThe last session of 2025! I felt this session was a fitting end to the year. A bunch of old hooks from prior sessions came back around, and we had some good old...
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IntroductionCatching up on the old backlog of reports following the maelstrom of the winter holidays. I am very pleased with my notetaking of late—I was able to reconstruct...
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This year, I'm doing Campaign 2026 by NBateman woo hoo let’s GO. The past few years I've become a huge proponent of Just Getting To The God Damn Table. It's exciting to have...Linked by the ring
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My Secret Santicorn gift is for Errant Thinking, who asked for: “Game mechanics for experiential or diegetic character advancement. Bonus points for some emphasis on social...
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IntroductionSome crazy stuff past few sessions! Pressure is rising, as the band becomes ever more concerned with containing the Caves of Chaos. I'm glad I directly tied...
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Arkto Stats as bear (arkto), cave bear (greater arkto), or cave bear +2 HD and attacks twice (elder arkto). Cast spells as a magic user of its HD. Knows 2 magic-user spells...
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IntroductionHoliday game night is always a treat! Spent the day off preparing and even had time to get kebab on the way to the store. Life’s pretty good. I began rolling for...
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Crow’s noteI struggle a lot with kobolds, in the same way I always have with gnomes, and in certain contemporary editions of the world’s greatest roleplaying game, dragonborn....Linked by the ring
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IntroductionA player at my open table recently hired some scouts to get a better idea of the current status of the Caves of Chaos. Originally I had planned to just figure it...
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IntroductionI have been gradually ironing out some additional ways of gaining XP and advancing characters old and new for my Dungeon Crawl Classics open table. I wanted to...Linked by the ring
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IntroductionShifted gears a bit due to a few absences this week. The session wound up being a hot mess within the fiction–the dice seemed hell bent on throwing a wrench into...
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IntroductionAnd so ends Doom of the Savage Kings! The battle took most of the session, but the crew had a good amount of strategy, prep, and improvisation to take care of....
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IntroductionDoom of the Savage Kings part two! The module has been a huge hit at the table. The loot has been spot on, oohs and aahs every time, and the drama of the Jarl and...
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IntroductionSome say that the first orcs were a gift from a bellicose Chaos Lord to a mortal conqueror, given in the time before Man could work iron himself. Stronger and...
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IntroductionOnce upon a time in the north, when the wind blew cold and biting, a certain lodge of hunters donned the skins of beasts to absolve themselves of hunting their...
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IntroductionI recently picked up Tome of Adventure vol. 1 with some Barnes and Noble gift cards I’d forgotten about, and was thinking about how I had run very few DCC...
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IntroductionEnded up saving this play report for later as I experimented with no real time passing between sessions. Hoping to not do this too often, as I fear it can dilute...
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IntroductionHad a few faces old and new this session, with Bohl’s player returning and bringing his wife, and another walk-in joining up. The vibe around the table was truly...
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IntroductionSince I have been doing these play reports the night before the next game, I'm coming to see them as a form of prep unto themselves. It's been super helpful to...
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Luke Gearing’s post laying out a system of divine magic based on reaction rolls has been tumbling in my mind for awhile now, and I thought I’d take a stab at my own. In a past...
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IntroductionUnforeseen events led to a much smaller table today! The gang was reluctant to delve into Quasqueton without our stalwarts Rudy and Birdy, so I had to pivot into...
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IntroductionMy largest table yet, but a more low-key session of exploration and trickery. Two new players showed up this session, one of whom was overjoyed to have found an...
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Jumping on the bandwagon a day late and a dollar short, as is my usual workflow. Below is a quick Big Three of my RPG influences. The Exile Series, Spiderweb Software (1995,...