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This is a shortish post about a moment that happened today in my ongoing Veins of the Earth campaign (set in 1980s Thailand, using Liminal Horror) and a principle I'm beginning...Linked by the ring
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This post is the result of two post ideas I had around the same time and thought would be better as one interesting post than two mediocre posts. I've been thinking about...
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This is an outline of a solo dungeon game (game, not necessarily TTRPG) inspired by this Tumblr post by Carlos, a.k.a. imsobadatnicknames about turning the Escape from Terminus...
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Thinking about putting my pitches for campaigns I won't get around to for a while here, both to hopefully inspire others and just as a sort of archive. Pitch: The Society for...
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This is a kind of chaser to my post describing the Rainlands subregion of the Woland collaborative Mythic Bastionland realm. In the MB campaign I'm in, our knights have just...
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IntroductionI love Mythic Bastionland. It's one of the only games I've played but not GMed, and I'm currently in an awesome long-running campaign. I've actually gone to great...Linked by the ring
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I find the ubiquity of the sentiment that "rules elide" genuinely puzzling for a couple of reasons. This argument comes from a blogpost by Jared Sinclair, but similar...Linked by the ring
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This is an archive of sorts for all my random monster ideas I'm not able to put anywhere else. Many of them are dumb, but that's what I like about them. Last Updated: July 11,...
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Thinking about how I would incorporate more beastfolk into my games, I was thinking about how I would turn the main demihuman races (dwarves, elves, halflings) into beastfolk....
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A while back, I released a game called Plunderer!, and one of my design principles with that game was to only use d6s. Now I'm working on a game called Plebeian, which I've...
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I've always been fascinated by Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa, in part because despite the tremendous amount of imagination on display, a lot of the entries in the hexcrawl are...Linked by the ring
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I just finished the game Control, and I think it's a solid 6 or 7/10 game,1 but there's one aspect of the game that really fascinates me, which is the way that the game...
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I'm working on some meatier projects, but while those are still cooking, I wanted to get out some shorter posts. I've been seeing a lot of stuff lately that seems like it might...
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IntroductionI've been playing in a regular Mythic Bastionland game for over a year (about a year and a half) and so far, it has been one of the most intense and rewarding TTRPG...