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My house rules for death and dying in D&D are buried in a post about my house rules for my Carcosa campaign. That was the first time I used them, but they continue to be what I...
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My friend Warren messaged me a few days ago. “Ram,” he said, “reminder to write the Rammies, Ennies are in 2 days.” Wait, what? The year zooms by and I’m always caught on the...
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The Kickstarter for Wandering Blades is coming to a close. Wandering Blades is a new game from Daniel Kwan—who is notable for Ross Rifles, the Asians Represent Podcast, and...
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I finally managed to play a game of Xenos Rampant—two games in fact, it proved to be quick and easy to play. Xenos Rampant is written by Daniel Mersey and Richard Cowen, a...
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The Fantastic is Fact has a great post about getting started playing OD&D, my favourite version of Dungeons and Dragons! This post has a good overview of all the various...
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Ben is interested in getting people blogging about Mothership. People are good, so of course it wasn’t long before someone shared something: Hazards In Space! Adapting the...
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Thomas M, who writes one of my favourite RPG newsletters, asked for suggestions about people producing games in “the NSR, post-OSR, and generally the experimental side of the...
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Gus, Mr. Dungeon Crawling himself, asks the hard questions: why do most adventures suck? He suggests ways to improve the adventures you are writing (to sell for cash-money)....
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I met up with Emiel and Ava shortly after they arrived in Toronto for Breakout Con. I love to see my D&D friends in real life: that’s what it’s all about. (Our meetup also...
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Nirvana on Fire: Expanded Edition is a 36 page module for Mothership written by David Kenny, featuring art by Jéromê Berthier and top-tier graphic design by Eric Hill. As the...
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I love this post from Yochai about running a sandbox style game using his game Cairn and the advice and tools from its Dungeon Masters guide. I’m a big fan of people writing...
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I picked up Constant Downpour Remastered when I spotted it for sale over on Ratti Incantatti1. Constant Downpour is a survival hex-crawl for Mothership. The players crash land...
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The Bloggies have me thinking about blogging. As you well know, I am pro-blogging. I think everyone should write and share their thoughts. My personal blog has been chugging...
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The 2024 Bloggies are just about wrapped up. As usual there are a ton of great blogs that were nominated to fight for the top spots. Over on the RPG Cauldron Sly Flourish asked...
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There is an expanded edition of Skorne, which came out some time ago, but I only noticed recently. Skorne is a very simple OSR/FKR game, available as a PDF, which I printed out...
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G+ died in slow motion. There were redesigns people hated. Tweaks and changes throughout its life, as Google tried to make it work the way they wanted. The site was shuttered...
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One of my goals for 2024 was to buy fewer minis, and paint more of the minis I already owned. I made a big spreadsheet of all the warhammer that litters my house: some real “if...
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Once again my friend Paul T. drops a blog post as comments in the discord server we use to organize our #TorontOSR meetups. As you are no doubt aware, I hate when interesting...
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BlueSky feels like it’s having a moment. I’m on the site using my domain as my username, @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca. When Google+ was a thing, I would just link my posts there,...
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This is an update to an earlier blog post I wrote on rules and OSR games, which was published in the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out. Playing four sessions...Linked by the ring
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Patrick’s launched his latest Kickstarter, Queen Mabs Palace. In a real plot twist, the book isn’t a D&D module, but a novel. I suppose novels were the first adventures. I’m...
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Work was mind numbingly busy, and then I hopped on a plane to the East Coast. I saw people posting about the Ennies and realized those assholes hosted their awards before I...
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Clayton takes a look at what elements make for a compelling cover, highlighting some of my own favourite books in the process. This post was likely sparked by Wizards of the...
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I enjoyed this post from Ty over on Mindstorm, where he takes Jason Cordova’s Paint the Scene idea and tries to jam it into OSR gaming. Collaborative Worldbuilding: Glimpses is...
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Alone in the Labyrinth talk about their solo campaging of Gangs of Titan City. I’ve had the game city on my bookshelf for some time now. I still hope to get it to the table one...
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I’ve started running another Mothership campaign to hopefully play through all of Another Bug Hunt. I’ve made a new mini-site over here to catalog what’s happened so far, and...
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My copy of the Mothership Starter set arrived on the weekend. I love it. The box is dense, packed with all sorts of good stuff. What I was excited about was the new adventure,...
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Some friends were discussing how one might approach making RPGs play a bit more like skirmish war games. From my perspective, playing with minis and measuring distances are the...
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I recently attended a Horus Heresy tournament organized by local gaming group Hogtown 40K. This was a full day of gaming, the most warhammer I have played in quite some time....
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I’m enjoying the latest iteration of Warhammer 40,000. With the release of its 10th Edition, the designers created a smaller scale game mode they dubbed Combat Patrol. The...