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Goonhammer writes about the history of GorkaMorka, which proves to be far more interesting than you might expect. This is a look back at Games Workshop, and how it grew into...
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This winter the Sword & Board is running a Mordheim campaign. Mordheim is a beloved skirmish game made by Games Workshop many years ago. Players each control a warband...
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Sean shared a pretty cool project on Twitter, which has really blown up: #dungeon23. The idea is simple: grab a day planner and write a dungeon room a day. At the end of the...
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I have been reading the Mothership Warden’s Manual over the last week, the “DMG” for Mothership. I find a lot of dungeon master’s guides fall short. People manage to run D&D in...Linked by the ring
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I’ve been looking forward to Marcia’s tidied up version of OD&D. It’s a straight up retroclone: she hasn’t tried to fix the gaps in the game, the gaps are the best part. Enjoy....
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I met up with Alex, Brendan and Paul last night from the #torontOSR posse. We tried to play through James’s The Cursed Chateau, but spent much of our time together drinking...
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Man, Twitter really does feel like a hot mess right now. And if we are all being honest with one another, it already felt like a hot mess, right? Warren from I Cast Light...
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In a project that seems like pure madness, Patrick is compiling the entirety (give or take) of his blog False Machine into a book. It’s over 650 pages! Over half a million...
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Josh from Rise Up Comus almost lost 6 years of notes about his D&D campaign! This moment encouraged him to blog about how he went about building up the trove of writing and...
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I suspect the death of Twitter is greatly exaggerated. No one pays 44 billion dollars for something only to drive it into the sun, though that’s honestly the best outcome one...
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Sean has shared some interesting thoughts on player safety tools in RPGs, something that’s been on his mind as he writes the dungeon master’s guide for his game Mothership:...
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The first part of the infamous follow up to Deep Carbon Observatory is finally out, Demon Bone Sarcophagus. Time to buy while the Tories are demolishing the value of the...
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I had been not so patiently for my copy of Into the Odd to arrive. Chris teamed up with Johan Nohr of Mörk Borg fame to produce this new edition of the game. They have made a...
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The Ennies are today? Well, this year has certainly zoomed by. I should say what I have to say before the Teen Choice Awards of the RPG scene monopolize the conversation. When...
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I recently shared my Gygax 75 draft and was complimented on putting a Dragon as the last entry on the example encounter table for the region. I stole this idea from my friend...Linked by the ring
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Over at Prismatic Wasteland Warren discusses how to make sure your D&D encounters are their most impactful. I am a big fan of practical DM’ing advice like this. You could write...
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Mateo over at Hex Culture has written a great post about how to make the lore of your setting more interesting and actionable for your players. He discusses an idea called...
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There are three books that make up Original Dungeons & Dragons. Book 2: Monsters and Treasure, as the name implies, is all about monsters and treasure. OD&D isn’t a...
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I was visiting my local game store and saw an art book featuring the work of Ana Polanšćak, the woman behind the incredible blog Gardens of Hecate. As part of the Inq28 scene,...
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These notes and Arneson’s would ultimately become Dungeons & Dragons, but only by being codified could the game really be propagated and begin to gather a following. This same...
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An idea I read on James’s blog Grognardia long ago, which I quite liked, was what he called “D&D is always right”. Rather than assume the idiot choices the designer of some old...
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Jason Tochi of 24XX fame wrote a great post a little while ago about what he calls the three layers of rules: social, fictional, and abstract. If you’re interested in game...
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Thanks to Sean McCoy we can enjoy this interview with James Maliszewski about Empire of the Petal Throne. They cover a wide range of topics. “I wanted to talk to James about...
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As I have discussed in the past, I got started with D&D playing with the Rules Cyclopedia. When I went to buy my own D&D books I ended up grabbing the AD&D 2nd Edition Players...
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My friend Alex discusses Fuck You Design, an interesting response of sorts to my post about negative space in RPGs. His post in turn has me wanting to write more myself. I love...
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I updated this blog post for the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out. The essay published in the zine is now republished on this blog as Negative Space Reprise...Linked by the ring
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You should check out this name generator from Elijah Mills which I discovered on the NSR discord server. This is pretty fantastic. As he describes it: “I made a...
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This is a little bit of an experiment. This post is what some might call micro blogging. If you’re reading this in an RSS reader it’ll look the same, but on my website this...
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Jahtima, a new book in my mail via FourRogues. (Between them and Ratti Incantati my RPG spending has become … well more, anyway. No regrets!) I saw book and was intrigued: an...
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In a plot twist of sorts, the #TorontOSR has been playing more narrative games of late. (You can call us #StorYYZ, of course.) We recently wrapped up a 4 session arc of Cartel,...