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Welcome back to my monthly newsletter, the first of spring! Now that it's been a going concern for four months, I'm curious what people find useful, what they'd like to see...
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Last weekend I (officially) attended my third Gary Con. My first was in 2020, which was unfortunately moved online for obvious reasons, and I also attended in 2024. In 2022 and...Linked by the ring
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A month has passed yet again and I have continued to track my favorite blog posts from across the RPG blogosphere this month. There's a lot of great writing to read, think...
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The Bloggies wrapped up this week. Congratulations to the winners! Now I'm here to tell you which posts I thought should have won in each category. We are all very fortunate...Linked by the ring
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I was reading Pikliz Dungeon's most recent post and thinking about one of the contradictions of the Jewelsea that I haven't yet resolved - why does a world full of states and...Linked by the ring
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Written for the February 2026 Blog Carnival. Giants only enter the Jewelsea rarely. The low latitudes are unpleasant at best for these relics of a bygone era, bitter paranoiacs...
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Last week, there was some discussion on the Prismatic Waystation Discord of how high danger or lethality in OSR-inflected play combined with the ease with which a character can...
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It's been a great month for blogging! The Bloggies are in full swing, with voting about to begin. There's been many great posts - I've curated a selection of my favorites...
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I've been thinking about knowledge this week, prompted by Elmcat's Common, Recalled, Obscure. It's a great framework for thinking about how to provide characters with knowledge...
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I thought it would be a fun idea to regularly call attention to the great posts that the writers of the RPG blogging communities gift to us. I am not the first to have this...Linked by the ring
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It's the most wonderful time of year, the Bloggies! The RPG Blogosphere all gathers around, has a contest in which we pit the year's best blog posts against each other, and...
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It's the start of a new year and a lot of folks have been posting their yearly wrap-ups, so I thought I'd get in on the show and talk a bit about what I've been up to this...
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I've been working with the friction pool (my answer to the random encounter check, overloaded encounter die, and underclock) since I first posted about it back in April. I've...Linked by the ring
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I've been mulling over how I want to handle injuries for quite some time. Critical damage and mortal wounds are both good systems for knocking people out of combat, but I'd...
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It's been a hot minute, but I've still been working on the Jewelsea RPG despite not posting about it much here. I've gone through a few iterations since the playtests back in...Linked by the ring
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It's time for another Blog Bandwagon - this time we're talking about our own personal Appendix N. For those who might not be aware, Appendix N was the 14th appendix of the 1979...Linked by the ring
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This week, I dive further into developing questions. As always, the prompts are here. Day 190 - Create a variety of positive y/n questions IPA Meaning Structure ʒɛx.tas ða...
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I've crossed the halfway point on this thing, and only six weeks late! This week I am working on imperatives. As always, the prompts are here. Day 183 - Consider options for...
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I'm shooting for a quick turnaround this week! As always, the prompts are here. I added a bit more vocabulary yesterday while thinking about names: IPA Meaning ɛɪʒ.aɪ spear...
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I'm back to the language farm after a wonderful weekend at Gencon, where I was able to meet up with friends I don't get to see very often, including some fellow conlangers....
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I'm back for one more round before Gen Con! This is a week I've been looking forward to as I start to dive into naming. The entire reason I came to be interested in conlangs in...
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This week, I dive deeper into my adverb quandary. As always, prompts are here. Day 155 - Create forms of “non-basic” adverbsAs I previously established, the way Thekkish makes...
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Combat systems are something that feature in the vast majority of mainstream RPGs and in the OSR space as well. I've had great fun over the years using many of them, but only...Linked by the ring
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Recorded history in the Jewelsea only goes back six, seven, maybe eight centuries if you're lucky. People know there had to be something before that—the ruins dot the land,...
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I survived Europe (and US CBP)! It's time to get back to work on the language farm and slowly work to get back to my desired progress here. Once again, prompts are here Day 148...
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I've made it back for another week of language fabrication! It will likely be the last for a few weeks as I'll be traveling for most of the month without access to a device...
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I'm back for another week in the language mines! This one went by quickly compared to the last few outings. Once again, prompts are here. Day 134 - Expand your adjective...
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This one sat in my drafts for a while as I recovered from Forge and caught up on Conlang Year. I haven't forgotten that I still owe the blog the last three days of the April...
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I'm taking advantage of the holiday weekend to catch up on conlanging! At this rate, I might dig out of the hole to get back on track just in time to be derailed by my upcoming...
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Another week in the language mines! Prompts are here. Day 120 - Review and clean up dictionary entries I took this day and copied my verb conjugation rules over from my...