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On the ring since 2026-05-29
Latest activity 19mo ago
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Last week I said that, before I could move on to general lessons about using the literary works of your campaign setting in your games, I needed to describe the storytelling...
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If you play in my Ewistar campaign, please do not read the following post while this warning is still at the top. Thanks! I was preparing a sequence of set-piece fights in a...
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What do the drow read? This was a question posed to me on Reddit, in response to my post about the literary works I made up for my D&D campaign (see the series index for more...
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How do you expect to see a play? Probably indoors, in a building designed specifically for plays, or at least in an auditorium, a room designed for performances and...
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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...
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Last week I shared a bit about how I approach character creation based on successes I've had in the past. Not all of my PCs have been perfectly successful, however. Keeping...
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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
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In my main 5e campaign, I had a problem. We have three players, excluding myself, and those three players all have complications in their real lives that means they sometimes...
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There’s a technique I use in my main 5e campaign that I want to share with you. While I’m sure I’m not the first GM to use it, I haven’t seen anyone else discuss doing quite...
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In my last post (link) I described the booksellers’ stalls that the party visited in my main Dungeons & Dragons campaign and some of the books they found there. Because my...
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Last week I mentioned that one of my players asked if his character could buy a book in the campaign; this started me on the road to creating texts and genres for my setting...
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An idea that’s taken hold of me is using a setting’s literary or storytelling genres to communicate ideas about culture, character, place, and history. I want to share what...
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Although this is the first substantive post for my 2024 Worldbuilder’s Book Club series, I hope it’s not a representative one; my choices this month turned out to be less...
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I was talking to my brother Nick about my main 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign, hashing out a cloud giant villain’s actions, and he said, “You tend to stick very close...
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On 1 January 2024, Bluesky user @quartzen.bsky.social posted a worldbuilding reading challenge with the following image: Getting through your to-be-read pile is specifically...