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Listening to Between Two Cairns about Caverns of Thracia, and I was thinking about Greek-mythological elements in the hodgepodge mélange of D&D. I realized: Greek gods are just...
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(Hey look, I can make posts that aren't just His Majesty the Worm shilling. I still am playing games and thinking about them!)For my current Dolmenwood game, my players said...Linked by the ring
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His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small...
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His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small...
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Despite the fact I GMed for an AP podcast, I've never really liked podcasts. I've found them difficult to listen to. However, luckily, local millennial with beard has gotten...
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His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small...
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Here is a party game for Halloween. And when I say party game, I mean party game. This is designed to be played by folks walking around at a party, giving this maybe 10% of...
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Every time I make an announcement about His Majesty the Worm, I declare we are getting close. Then a year goes by. Then I make another announcement. Then another year.But this...Linked by the ring
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The blog that brought you hexflower character creation now brings you....POINTCRAWLING CHARACTER CREATION. You have been invited to the Counsel at Aben Garan. You must travel...Linked by the ring
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While between tasks for launching His Majesty the Worm, I found myself with something I haven't had in the last few years: free time. I found being idle uncomfortable, so I...
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Despite the inappropriateness of the format, I've made several long threads about Tolkien on Twitter.As Twitter crashes and burns, I wanted to pull this one out. It's pretty...Linked by the ring
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As I mentioned, I started a Dolmenwood game using the His Majesty the Worm ruleset recently.Dolmenwood is a fantasy setting inspired by British folklore and fairy tales with a...Linked by the ring
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What is Closure?In Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, McCloud discusses various aspects of comics, including panel transitions, the use of gutters,...Linked by the ring
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A new video game title came out recently and a few other bloggists did Zelda posts, so I felt left out and jealous. When you level up in a pen and paper RPG, you sometimes grow...
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Here are some discussions of different aspects of playstyle. In my RPG career, I have definitely sat at the table for all of these situations. And as of today, I have some...Linked by the ring
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I've been a big fan of Dolmenwood for a long time now. I bought almost all of the Wormskins back in the day (losing out on some of the first and the last one). Gavin's house...
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Spinning up a Dolmenwood campaign for my weekly His Majesty the Worm game. It's fun to prep a new campaign. Here is a procedure to find herbs in Dolmenwood, originally inspired...Linked by the ring
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There's been a lot of ink spilled about social encounters in RPGs. This is not a big theory post. This is not a "This is how I run it at my table and it works" post (I already...
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Choosing bonus languages in standard D&D games is the worst. Either your choice matters a lot ("Oh, we're playing Keep on the Borderlands? Great! I chose Goblin as one of my...
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+1 swords are boring. I talked about that here. Can we apply the principle of "active, fantastic magic" to other common magic items? Flaming swordI think the flaming sword is...Linked by the ring
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I had a disagreement with my colleague Tom Kilian recently. I said that +1 swords were boring. In almost all of my previous D&D games, the little scribbled +1 would fade into...
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This blog post is about an alternate magic system for the Lord of the Rings Adventure Game. The magic system is derived from the Rogue-like game Sil.The Lord of the Rings...
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Cats give you a brainworm that makes you love them. How else do you explain letting a little yelling claw monster into your house?Just look at her. The little terror.Here are...Linked by the ring
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These two books are the best RPG gazetteers that I know of. Example 1: Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle(Here's my attempt to gameify this a bit.)(My colleague Dwiz also...
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My favorite RPG rules are written in naturalistic language. What do I mean by this? Well, the easier it is to speak in-character about an effect, status, or ability, the more...Linked by the ring
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On January 1st, 2022, I tweeted this twit:This proved to be somewhat ambitious. So let's talk about what happened in 2022 and what's happening now!What is His Majesty the...
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For Christmas this year, Sean McCoy has given me a community project to be excited about: dungeon23. There are a lot of people compiling resources for this project and all of...
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Here are five fantasy taverns for you to use in your games inspired by real-world RPG blogs. You can find my first post, here. Tavern sign assets by Sophie...
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With Twitter in its apparent death throes, a lot of people are thinking about alternatives. My favorite alternative is the humble blog. If Twitter is the "public square" (where...
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It's a beautiful day in the village and you are a terrible halfling.I have good news for Francophones (and eventually for English speakers). My cozy game about halflings not...