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So I just got back from a busy work week of extra shifts, scarfed down a bowl of fries, a can of sardines and a bag of popcorn for dinner, and am listening to a LOT of MJ. Why...
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Blorb (noun) - as in "This hex crawl is a full Blorb" - Popularized by The Blorb PrinciplesA bespoke highly prepped world that lacks a direct, mandatory narrative players are...
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Someone recently brought to my attention that Twitter X is just a turn-based PvP game, and it helped me understand why I absolutely love Starting Shit on there. This isn't...
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I've been on record that I really don't like roll to hit. Something about the idea that a turn can end with "We spent 2 minutes to realize you do nothing" is a very bad feel....
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So I've been playing a lot of Yakuza 7 recently. That's only partially relevant. The big point is that after Steel Hearts my noggin needed a big ol' break to recharge, then my...
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Wait, wait, wait, hear me out. I know that something being "The Dark Souls of XYZ" is literally the Citizen Kane of dead memes, but I'm serious about this. Cerebral,...
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In Death Stranding, you take on the roll of Sam Porter Bridges who is American, a Porter and builds Bridges (both physically and metaphorically)... Look Death Stranding isn't a...
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You may be asking "What is DePiglio?". OK first, 4 minutes of your time for context: Here's DePiglio. DePiglio can be described as a lot of things: Enigmatic, creepy, silly,...
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We hear lots of talk about how tabletop intersects with arts like video games, theater and even film. Yet surprisingly sparse is discussion about how it intersects with the...
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You know what I hate? Labels.You know what I'm about to do? Label all my games.Despite the excessive backlog of other posts I could've made, this particularly self-indulgent...
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I've never done a play report and frankly this isn't quite that. But inspired by recent rumblings of cool mecha blog posts and inspired by this fantastic pseudo campaign...
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There's about a million other posts I can or should be working on right now (from Princess Play, to an ARES recap, to Kaiju Environmentalism, to all the juicy stuff I've been...
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Hey all! If you haven't already heard, my heartbreaker Kinetic Mecha Tactics TTRPG Mobile Engagement Chassis: Steel Hearts is now available on itch.io! It's been a long...
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There's a lot to a name. Names have meanings, names beget fun alliterative nick-names, true names even have a level of power to them. In my 15+ some odd years as a GM I've had...
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Action Economy is a weird thing. If you're not familiar with the idea, Action Economy refers to how many actions players get in a given Turn or Round or Cycle or w/e. The...Linked by the ring
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Imagine if you will...So first off if you haven't read Paolino's amazing blog post on ATB and adapting it into TTRPGs [GO READ IT NOW] - Not only is the piece really good (and...
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*** I don't usually do trigger warnings on this blog - But it goes without saying we're going to be talking about Mental Health (everything from anxiety to psychosis) and...
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I've always felt art is a bit like exorcism. All these ideas, ambitions, and joys just bubble up inside me and unless I let them out they'll just keep zooming around in my...
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If you (like me) play games like Genshin Impact, subscribe to Square Enix Newsletters or have participated in a game's beta, you've probably encountered The Player Survey. If...
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This is going to be a short one written in a spur of inspiration after reading Marcia's recent post on the Pre-Greyhawk Thief & Exception Based Design so go give that a quick...
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These days I find myself in circles that focus on mastering the art of the elf-game. Games about adventurers going on adventures, resolved through rolling and talking. How many...
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What is art? A miserable pile of secrets. A week ago I woke up to this Tweet about the Mausritter boxed set[[*4]] restock, and I thought "Oh neat, Snow wrote a Mausritter...
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Well I just made the mistake of consuming an entire Reese's Fast Break bar at midnight, so let's talk about the Thief Class! Now full disclosure, I am by no means an expert on...
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It's snowing out, my partner is gently snoozing beside me, and I frankly do not want to get out of bed to write this blog post properly on a computer. So welcome to my first...
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I'm going to try to keep this one pretty short~ So if you haven't read Ty's rad post "Tension Cheatsheet" go do that now! Not because it's particularly relevant, but because...
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Lore! It's been a hot topic lately (see: In search of a better gazetteer and Lore! What is it good for?) and I have some opinions. Mostly that I think lore is great! Lore is...
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Let me paint you a picture of a person:Every day they wake up, a prisoner of their own meat body. Maybe they feel isolated from those around them. They may struggle to find...
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So as many of you know #dungeon23 has begun! For the uninitiated, the idea is that you write (or key ((or sketch?))) one room every day of 2023, and by the end you'll have a...
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I'm trying to get better at documenting my creative process, especially for side projects that may never get finished. My current self indulgent TTRPG project started when I...
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tl;dr: More traditional GMs need to start giving themselves designer credits if y'all are doing this much work on someone else's system. Also don't put in that design effort if...