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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...Linked by the ring
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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....
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For reasons I recently wondered what a hex crawl procedure for Middle-earth should look like. Of course, I was familiar with the classic post on hex size - but I've always...
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I have just released one, true book of alchemy. This arcane text provides a framework to steal the powers of monsters and craft fabulous potions, feasts, and elixirs. I will...
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Extremely happy to announce the Under Hill, By Water Yuletide Jam!In Under Hill, By Water, the Winter Phase is a time to share a pint with friends, tell stories, trade gifts,...
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Uh, yeah so I just watched Dune so...The WyrdingSaves and levels as a Magic-userA scion of an ancient breeding program to produce an heir to the line of wizard kings. However,...
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I have a weird relationship with safety tools. On the one hand, I absolutely see their usefulness and think they are important for a certain type of game. On the other hand, I...Linked by the ring
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The advice here was written for a side project I struck up work on this week called The Manse of Bad Memories. After chewing on what "horror OSR" looks like, I think this...
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Humphrey Carpenter's biography of the Inklings recounts one of my favorite anecdotes about those old dudes. It goes something like this:C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams liked to...Linked by the ring
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Games are an exchange of questions and answers. "Can I do this?" "How are you trying to do that?" The GM adjudicates the reality of the world based on this exchange. "Sure, you...Linked by the ring
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My next project for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM is the alchemical system. It will be a product roughly equivalent to the Sorcery is a Sword Without a Hilt.I have not and will not name...