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Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the deadline hits. This is a small...
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Below is a small lightweight procedure to use when your players have found themselves in a complex and tense situation. Multiple threats and vectors threaten the group, and...Linked by the ring
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What if I told you that you could map every single element in your adventure to one of two states? You heard it here first friends and enemies: I’m back in the writing mines,...
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The crew arrives in Fort Deauvilly. They meet a half-giant seer and take on jobs. Ratboy communes with a mysterious entity. Play Report The crew of the Last Chance arrived in...
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Among the OSR blogosphere, there’s a lot of advice about how to make a sandbox. A whole lot of them involve breaking out a hexmap and populating it, creating a world for...Linked by the ring
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The scoundrels board their new ship. Introductions to their crew go over well. A group of glublins attack the ship, demanding their cannons and a fight ensues. Play Report The...
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I’m going to be blogging about the current game I’m running, called The Shimmernight Sea. It is a nautical / pirate open-ended seabox. When I started planning this game, I knew...
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Location-based adventures have a lot going for them. They’re naturally quite atomic in scale, in that each “room” exists mostly on its own, and the GM running the game can zero...Linked by the ring
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The weekend Return of the King came out, the sun was just peaking above the horizon when my friend Mike and I piled into my dad’s truck and made the forty minute pilgrimage...
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I tend to oscillate rapidly between projects I’m interested in, like some kind of misfiring neuron in an RPG-soaked braincell. Right now, I’m working on a science-fantasy...Linked by the ring