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Not even half an idea. I may elaborate later but probably not. Feel free to steal. Thanks as usual to Ram for the idea of just putting half ideas in blog posts for later. Dice...
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Caverns of Thracia Session 2 Recap and NotesLinked by the ring
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Some house rules I'm implementing for Shadowdark are a confluence of my dissatisfaction with the RAW morale rules, and a conversation with Evangeline about her post on...Linked by the ring
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IntroductionIf you're not familiar, the post title is a reference to Chris P. Wolf's classic play report series Thursdays in Thracia. That series of posts had a significant...Linked by the ring
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DomainA. Darkness 2. Light 3. Fire 4. Earth 5. Water 6. Air 7. Plant 8. Animal 9. People 10. Daemons J. Emotion Q. Patterns K. Reason ExpressionClubs: Conjuring Spades: Seeing...Linked by the ring
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Discussion on Discord about just writing your ideas down has prompted me to get back to this post. I started writing it before in browser, got logged out and lost my progress,...Linked by the ring
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My DelightI bought Sherwood by R.Rook Studio about a month ago, and the only thing that got it off my mind was Pax Unplugged. I had intended to blog about Sherwood, and run it...
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Ram has been making a bunch of fun microposts lately, in an attempt to normalize the practice, which I love! That's about the scope of this idea and my ability right now...Linked by the ring
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This week Jay Dragon dropped yet another thought bomb on the RPG internet with her Expressionist Games Manifesto. If you haven't read it, you really should, in my opinion it...
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Fantasy Adventure!I have a deep and abiding love for roleplaying games in general, they have been my chief hobby for at least a decade, and I have been playing them since I...
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In Praise of Pit TrapsThere are many holes in fantasy adventure games. Holes to go die in (dungeons), holes that spew fire (dragons mouths), holes to climb out of (enormous...
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The Toad Priestesses feed the creature they keep in the vault on a porridge of moon groats and their own blood. The creature tells them secrets of the past, the future, and the...
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Really I mean writing in generalThe other day I told Farmer Gadda that I’m not a good writer, by which I meant that I’m not good at the practice of writing. I’m a decent...
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Today I wrote a blogpost.
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As a companion to my last post on cities, here are some spark tables for your anachronistic medieval (but actually probably renaissance) fantasy city. If you're not familiar...Linked by the ring
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This post came about for a couple reasons. My man Kirhon and I have been discussing methods for prompting setting creation with some emphasis on cities. Derek B was talking...
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In my last post I discussed character creation in Orbital Blues (OB), as well as Stat Checks and Blues Checks. This post is about why I want to play OB, Spaceships! Spaceships...
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I'm gearing up to run Orbital Blues in just over a week, so I'm writing this post as a reference for potential players. This is how character creation works in Orbital Blues...
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There's a blog bandwagon with topic of "elements" that I wasn't planning on participating in because I didn't have any posts planned that fit the theme. In the interest of just...
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Note: there are many screen-shots in this post that do not have alt-text, I have provided links to the original posts in the hopes that will be helpful. One day in December,...
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I made a little jig out of index cards to make a hex map, and I figured other people might benefit from the experience. Maybe you don’t have hex paper, maybe you want lines you...