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The Joesky tax pisses me off more than it should. But it only pisses me off more than it should. It should piss me off, and it should piss you off, too.
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I'm pleased to be host of the June 2026 RPG Blog Carnival. This month I'm inviting you to consider the following subject: Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres. I've chosen...
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"Of what is he singing?" said a queen to a queen. "He is singing of everlasting Zaccarath." — Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, "In...
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This June I have been the host of the RPG Blog Carnival and my chosen topic was "Cyclopes, Ettins, Hill Giants, and Ogres." My intention was that we could collectively make...Linked by the ring
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I've decided that in 2026, as something of a new year's resolution, I will work to have better locations in my tabletop games. For the month of January 2026, Duncan S. Rhodes...Linked by the ring
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There is no such thing as a magic shop. A few brewers or alchemists may sell signature potions here and there, and it's not impossible to find a crafter to enchant a sword or a...Linked by the ring
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Magic shops, that staple of high fantasy campaigns, can be controversial in the hobby. On the one hand, in all but the most magi-tech of settings, magic shops do not seem...
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A write-up of the prep I did for a session of a ghost game.Linked by the ring
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For my weird post-apocalyptic setting, for now called the Lakelands, there's a needle I want to thread between giving GMs ways to make the setting their own and giving them...Linked by the ring
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Even more little stonepunk gods as one of my entries in this month's RPG Blog Carnival.Linked by the ring
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Some little stonepunk gods as one of my entries in this month's RPG Blog Carnival.Linked by the ring
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In a dreamzone, anything can become more than what it is, so long as some sapient mind nearby attaches unconscious significance to it. Those objects that are more symbolically...Linked by the ring
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Most of the Unbound crave human worship, attention, or service, but not all of them do. While the Howling Rustic decided to make its own version of a terrestrial hominid, the...Linked by the ring
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If you're a player in my Fortunes of Ewistar game, please don't read this post. This month, Vulcan Stev at Vulcan Stev's Database hosts the RPG Blog Carnival with the post,...Linked by the ring
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Back in February a handful of ttrpg bloggers, starting with Grace at 200 independent bathrooms, wrote posts describing what their games look like. This is mine.Linked by the ring
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A companion post to John Machnee's episode about autism and tabletop games on his podcast Christianity on the Spectrum, on which I was a guest.Linked by the ring
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I. I want to take another run at what I was trying to figure out in "The Mysterious Appeal of Emergent Narrative." I'm going to use Matthew A Olson's "July 2025’s RPG Blog...Linked by the ring
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What is the Weird? Theories abound: it is miracle, or witchcraft, or emergent phenomena as the physics of one world collides with the physics of another. In practice, the Weird...Linked by the ring
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At the start of the month I introduced the 2025 RPG Blog Carnival topic for June, Magic Shops and Their Alternatives. As a brief reminder, I asked participants to consider the...Linked by the ring
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I want to share with you some rules I developed for my main campaign, which abstract a month's worth of sabotage and counterintelligence into a few sessions. These rules were...Linked by the ring
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I have written so far from the GM's point of view, but I'm also a player and I have been trying to improve my skills in that role as well. To that end, I'm refining my approach...Linked by the ring
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Over on his blog my brother Nick wrote a post (link) about designing NPCs in his West Marches campaign, providing a threefold typology of NPCs based on whether and how well...Linked by the ring