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Note: this is a repost. The original article somehow had lost all the pictures that were kind of the point of it all. Which was a pity, because I specifically liked the art in...
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When playing or writing for old school rules like Labyrinth Lord, Iron Falcon, or my own as of yet unnamed rule set I assume, in line with old school sentiments that somehow...
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We have moved into 1985 with today’s offering. This adventure is bizarre. And I don’t mean bizarre as in subject matter (although some parts are), but mostly in how it...
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I have been worldbuilding the last few months instead of actually gaming. The Glimmermark still does not feel ready to actually play in, I am still trying to figure out how to...
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This morning I received the message that WordPress.com blogs now can activate themselves to be available via ActivityPub. Which means they can be followed and commented...
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The last few weeks I started getting interested in using VTTs for my next few games. I seem to have slept through the rise of those for the last few years, mostly because my...Linked by the ring
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Have you ever looked at how the matrix worked in old Shadowrun? I mean really old, first edition Shadowrun? Because it’s fascinating in the most awkward 80s kind of pre-www way...
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I decided to start sharing much more blog posts again. Especially with the ongoing… thing… that is happening with twitter it seems that more people are posting again even on...
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I am prepping to run Silver Angel this weekend. One of my players and her wife asked if we wanted to do some Shadowrun again. Over online, which is a trend that largely has...
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OK, so I published the first day on August 2. For some reason it didn’t want to publish my article the day before and I had to do it over the mobile app. And the same thing...
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So #RPGaDay2023 comes around. I tried following along last year, but after a few weeks of it the questions became more and more unsuited and I lost interest halfway through....
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I already talked about Black Boar in in the first entry of this series. Since then I have gone through 10 or so adventures for DSA and it turns out my view on this module has...
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B9 was the first DSA module published in 1985. This is a year into the publishing history of the game. The Ausbau rules extension was around the corner, and so was the A-series...
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Hunter S. Thompson had this great quote at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: “…once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as...
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Ah. The infamous one with the Science Fiction stuff. I wish I could properly thrash it and make fun of it, or conversely just tell you that it’s one of the most amazing obscure...
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You are standing at the edge of a frozen lake, in the middle of snowdrifts, and you are freezing to death. Your badger sleds were lost to wolves, and the rest of your equipment...
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Hans Joachim Alpers sucked as a scenario author, and the reason I say this at the very beginning is because level 1 room 1 of the adventure has the following riddle: Q: what do...
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One of remarkable bits of exposition this adventure starts with is that a few guards were chasing some thieves over half the continent, from Notmark to H’Rabaal, just to get...
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“like Nostria and Andergast” has been a saying among DSA-fans for decades now. It’s the equivalent to “fighting like cats and dogs”.I think the rivalry between the two...
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Here are a few interesting things I just noticed (yes, I am slow, this is news from May): 1. The Nebula Awards have a category for Best Game Writing, and have had since 2018 2....
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This is an interesting purchase I made on Amazon lately. It’s available on there as a POD title.It’s a late 70s/early 80s Age of Sail RPG/wargame. Basically a Hornblower RPG,...
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Here’s a thing I wanted to see for a while: I have this pet theory that German-language roleplaying and roleplaying in English-speaking countries have different characteristics...
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I sometimes have opinions about ttrpg stuff that don’t quite gel with the consensus. But that’s ok, lots of people have that, that’s how we are getting a vibrant hobby going...
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I was always fascinated by the possibility to create and run a world, or the part of a world, together with other people. I think this is the real core of why I am so...
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Oh Gods. I remember one of my players during my teenage years openly hope for a Cyberpunk future like in Shadowrun, because it would be so cool to live in a world of giant...
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When didn’t I? I actually didn’t play that many times all together. When I was younger I was the one who got the rulebooks, the only one who read the rulebooks, and the one who...
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Macross II: The Role-Playing Game came out in 1993. Palladium tried to cash in on the surefire success of Macross II. What the hell is Macross II? you might ask even as a...
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Me. I’m a country kid. I grew up between farms and woods and castles. Well, I did, but I spent a lot of my childhood cooped up in my little basement room. And I would watch TV...
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Reaction rolls were a revelation when I first realized what they are and how they work. People always think Dungeons and Dragons is only about fighting, and then you have...
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Right now we are in a bit of a golden age. There’s TV shows and actual play videos that get worldwide recognition and brand visibility. Mostly for DnD 5e though. And I don’t...