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At the start of the year I talked a bit about Taking Yourself the Right Amount of Serious, and this is something of an off-shoot of that ~If you ask me what my favorite...
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So I'm back to working on Inheritors (among a myriad of other projects, health issues and personal drama) and as I assemble the lists of Heritages a character can start with,...Linked by the ring
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INTRO In the late 2000s and early 2010s there was a small obsession in video games with "fully destructible terrain." Wooden cover would splinter in Mafia II, the sides of...
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Last night I read through all the material that Stone Paper Scissors provides for the Megagame Watch the Skies. It was... rough. The packet cost roughly 50 USD and was...
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For those unfamiliar, The Chorus is an idea from Greek Dramas[*1] where a small collective detached from the narrative gives commentary and supplemental insight to the...
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For various reasons I've been looking back on my old Stranding the Wilderness post and decided to finally give it the Part 2 treatment! This time we're talking about gameable...
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This is going to be (kind of) a short one, but I wanted to share something I've been chipping away at recently. Friend of the blog (and housemate) Duff once ran a very cool...
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A buddy made me aware of yet another game that'll be hard for me to be normal about: The Forever Winter. In brief, it's an extraction shooter where you play as scavengers in a...
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Among starting too many new projects, getting involved with people and battling the the demiurge that is the black mold in my house, a recurring theme has cropped up in games...
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It's the second year of the Blades in the Dark campaign I'm playing in, and once again I find my mind drifting towards how it handles money. A "Coin" is actually a...
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Of all the ways in which one hones their craft, there is one method which I've found to be equal parts rewarding, enriching and just downright fun. It's something that I'm...
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If you've read my Gobins post (or know me at all), you'll know I really don't fuck with Fantasy Races all that much. I'll play the Warhammers and I enjoy the OSE game I'm in...
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TL;DR - Stocks are a fun mini-game that's easy to run and teach, here have a free Stock Market Tracker you can easily upload to Google Sheets to run in your own campaigns...
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If you haven't read Rise Up Comus' latest post on creating better social encounters go give that a read! It was incredibly validating and helped me better articulate how I...
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OK OK - We're really trying to hit the 3 paragraph microblog this time I promise! Been thinking a lot about the game book as an artifact, and I think (personally) both for...
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Trying to get back in the swing of writing more and figured I'd do a microblog on something that feels a bit like basic advice, but might be helpful to some: When a Player (not...
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If you haven't already read Prismatic Wasteland's Overloading the Random Encounter Table then you should absolutely go do that. It's a very neat system and an excellent example...
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(( Some spectacular Monster Hunter art by Valki Uniguri ))I promised myself this'd be a short one and failed, but bear with me for a moment...So first off, I can't sing the...
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It's no secret that I'm not the biggest fan of taxonomy. I think it's interesting when trying to identify play cultures/movements posthumously, fickle when trying to use in...
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TW: Child Abuse / Child Death / Generally bad things happening to kidsWarhammer 40k art of a Gretchin which is pretty much an even sillier Goblin. Unfortunately I wasn't able...
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You'd probably never guess my favorite era of history is between the end of the Civil War into the First World War (both internationally and in the US specifically)....
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There was this TikTok meme that broke containment a while ago. It rubbed me the wrong way, but honestly made a great point: 99% of the time when someone says they "can't cook"...
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TW: Torture, Domestic Abuse ((Surprised neither of these have ever come up on this blog before??))There are few arguments that get my eyes to roll into the back of my head...
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So this image has been living rent free in my head sine I saw it (I mean who doesn't love a good rat scenario?) - True to their name, Ratking makes the pertinent observation...
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I generally don't really vibe with EXP. It's fun in JRPGs to watch number go up and stroll around the field farming for EXP, but at a table with friends playing in our limited...
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If I had a dollar for every draft I had of a blog post regarding dice and resolution mechanics, I'd have like 3 maybe 4 dollars...Unless you've been living under a very large...
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So I finally beat Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins and it may be one of my all-time favorite games? The loot system is the only thing keeping me from screaming to...
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I keep hearing we're in a "loneliness epidemic" and I quite like that. A lot better than "technology has ripped us apart more than brought us together" cause that doesn't quite...
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Today was a long shift at work and I'm a bit eepy, so bear with me if this is a bit more stilted and rambly than usual: Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins may actually...
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Fellow Eastern-Time-Zoner and master of all things emergently adventure-oriented Nova recently linked me to this this post on the Alexanderian on Standoffs and Surprise. Now I...