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On the ring since 2026-03-17
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CONTENT WARNING: If you are a GM, this story will make you cry and scream and throw up. Clickbaity title and stupid Youtube joke image aside, I experienced a scary moment today...
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As a side project, I have been helping Hodag with one of his games. The game is called Ringless. Ringless - Coming "Soon"I think I've been clear about the sort of things that...
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This post brought to you by insomnia. Yes, insomnia! With insomnia, you can feel bad all day! Try it whether you want to or not!If you've ever gone camping, you know how...
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As I said in my previous post, I've been watching a lot of kung fu movies. A core feature of these movies is a training scene. The hero goes from nursing their bruised knuckles...
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Sometimes I make kung fu posts. I've started using the `kung-fu` label to aggregate them. Click on this label to read my other mutterings on this subject.I've been watching...
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There have been many posts on this subject. This is mine.(Because of His Majesty the Worm, I find myself in the position where I need to explain concepts in a worse way than...
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Sometimes I have thoughts and I have to put them on paper to get them out of my head and get back to the practice of living. This is one of them.Here, make yourself a BEYOND!...
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There’s been a lot of good, actionable advice for Referees to telegraph traps, create Jayquays loops, and keep accurate time records. I have seen less advice on how to play a...
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When I was a kid, I checked out The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time from the library over and over and pored over it. I loved it. I wanted to get deep in the lore,...Linked by the ring
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If you want to play a gnome illusionist or a bard whose songs take shape or a hard-light construct who crash landed into your fantasy setting, you can use this...
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One of my fave GLoG blogs - Whose Measure God Could Not Take - did a fun meme about listing cheap tricks that GMs can use to make their game better. You can see the original...
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Warren at I Cast Light said this and got my brain going this weekend:"Related: I would love to see the OD&D Outdoor Survival map become more a defacto map that everyone...Linked by the ring
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A small storyWhen I was 12, I was introduced to RPGs. I said "Oh I will make one for Lord of the Rings." I went home and wrote it in a notebook. It was terrible. For the last...
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Tony Vasinda was kind enough to invite me on his RPG show PlusOneExp. I had a very fun time talking to him about:Making travel funAlchemical subsystemsDungeon MeshiWhat IS the...
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[Voiceover] You're just a GM who wants to run a hexcrawl! But has THIS happened to YOU?!...You have the module open!...And the map!...And the random encounter tables!...And a...Linked by the ring
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I'm a big fan of random tables. Assuming I curate the table correctly, a random table brings a feeling of exciting realness to the flow of a game - they ensure I'm not just...
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I have made a toy.The equipment cards from Mausritter/Last Gasp Grimoire are so fun. The gimmick is that you print out your equipment cards on card stock and use blue tack to...
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I have just released Walking Holiday. Walking Holiday is an Under Hill, By Water supplement that contains procedures for traveling from one place to another, as well as some...
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The following rules were drafted and playtested for the forthcoming game HIS MAJESTY THE WORM, currently Itchfunding. I ultimately cut them from the main text. Both I and my...Linked by the ring
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At the time of this writing, my cozy game Under Hill, By Water is part of DriveThruRPG's "Cozy Game Indie Gallery." I'm extremely flattered to be listed among many notable...
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Preamble: I found these rules buried in an early, early, early His Majesty the Worm draft. I pulled them out and cleaned them up. I think they fit nicely in my...
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I had said in a previous post I wasn't going to bark up this tree. Well, here I am, yapping away.This post was inspired by this Tweet that said that tracking minute pieces of...
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Wherein I discuss...Next steps for the tabletop roleplaying game HIS MAJESTY THE WORMReflections of the game designerItchfunding, its successes and failuresKickstarter...
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I've been thinking about incompatible and non-comparable classes. I had wanted to invert the paradigm of "complicated wizard, easy fighter." What if magic was freeform but...Linked by the ring
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Continuing my series about incomparable classes. As before, I've framed the rules here into a GLoG milieu but you can steal the basic concepts pretty easily. If it's not, like,...
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"The difference between the male and female gadabout designs in Dragon Quest 3 make me sad that we were deprived of an Akira Toriyama-designed sexy clown"...
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The idea that wizards are somehow wise or learned is pro-wizard propaganda in the worst way. Wizards can throw fireballs but have no idea how they do it or why or if they...
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The quadratic wizard and the linear fighter is an old "problem." I also see RPG forum posts at least once a month asking for recommendations for freeform magic use, and Mage...
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This is fucking boring:"If a Magic-User wishes to add a spell to a spellbook without a prior reference to the spell (from a scroll or another spellbook), there is more...
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Recently got my grubby paws on Tenarlian - The Dying of the Light, a 5E module from Crumbling Keep. This module is grounded in the homegrown campaign setting of Samsarras....