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(or CCCC for short)Do you remember Stephen Biesty's Cross-sections books? I had them as a kid. I think there's something very compelling about pictures you can get lost in -...
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Oh hey. I did a thing. Clicka on da pic to see it.In His Majesty the Worm, characters adventure through a mythic underworld underneath the city at the center of the Wide...
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One of the facts about reality that I find weirdest is that 1) homo sapiens sapiens are the only members of the homo genus, and 2) this has only been true for a relatively...
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The Manse is one of the most prolific posters in the blogosphere. They churn out content at a pace that leaves me in gap-mouthed awe. I wish I could be half as...
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Pursuant to my last post, I have released Sorcery is a Sword Without a Hilt, the magic system from my forthcoming game HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. It's PWYW, with all proceeds going...
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The magic system in His Majesty the Worm is probably the subsystem that underwent the most dramatic changes during playtesting. Four completely different systems were...
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A dwarf adventurer considers his packArt by Gobert for His Majesty the WormY'all, on March 13th, there's an online event for indie RPGs. At 1 pm EST (6 pm UTC) I'm running my...
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As a guy who does marketing as a day job, I know I need to do a better job championing myself and my projects. I am currently writing an RPG called HIS MAJESTY THE WORM.His...
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One of the people I've been lucky enough to meet on Twitter is Taylor Lane. They've been putting out a series of OSR compatible classes that are both interesting and usable (a...
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This is a continuation of my review of Gradient Descent, the horror sci-fi megadungeon for Mothership. Part 1 can be found here. This review covers my experiences running...
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My post about the 1937 Hobbit as a campaign setting is my most read post. I only learned today that someone put their money where their mouth was and published a micro-RPG...
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Sean McCoy was generous enough to provide me a reviewer’s copy of Gradient Descent, the new megadungeon for the sci-fi horror game Mothership. I’ll be reviewing it on this blog...
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The following is a result of Gygaxian Democracy threads on both Reddit and Twitter. Many thanks to all the contributions. Y'all have the big brains. --- Pick up whatever...
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Do you like "town" sessions? Limping home from a dungeon, counting your filthy lucre, finding an inn, feasting and drinking? Do you like to plan your downtime actions—things...
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One day I should stop making tiny systems and focus the precious free time I have on polishing and publishing. (But not today)Ain't No GraveCard-based Combat in the Wild Wild...
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Cavegirl introduced me to the term diegesis last year. In this past year, I’ve seen amazing content come out of the indie/OSR space, aligning tons of rules to the fictional...
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I had an idea for a combat system while out for a jog. I've also been rereading Kill 6 Billion Demons. I sat down and barfed this out.REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCEThis is...
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I made up this little d66 table for a tiny project I'm making about kung fu. If battle breaks out and you need to know quickly what sort of epic location you’re in, roll twice...
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In June of 1958, Tolkien wrote a detailed response to a screenplay of a potential film treatment of The Lord of the Rings (Letter 210, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien). He begins...
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Everybody has been very kind about Under Hill, By Water. Thanks so much! I made form-fillable sheets for the character sheet and the village map. Download them or save them to...
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Adventures? No thank you.The OSR is pretty metal. And metal rules. But it’s fairly far away from the source material of Tolkien and the eclectic, rustic, anachronistic little...
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One of my friends had never played RPGs. We finally convinced him to play, but he had a (bizarre but true) caveat: he wanted to leverage his hobby of sound design and playing...
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I was writing the chapter on GMing my homebrew game, His Majesty the Worm, and I got to a section where I felt conflicted. The thing I wanted to say ("Jesus, just be fucking...Linked by the ring
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I'm sure all three of my followers will be riveted by this topic... I'm not yet at the layout stage of His Majesty the Worm, but I am editing and clarifying the appendices....
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My friends and I have been playing Edge of the Empire recently. I complained about the game's writing on Twitter, but my buddy running it is a really good GM so I'm still...
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There was something very diagetic about the MERP critical tables. Sometimes they did something lame like, "Blow to the leg, +5 hits," but sometimes they were like "Solid blow...
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I'm a goddamn sucker for classic fantasy and this post is for my basic bitch predilections. One of the things I like so much about the GLoG is its class system. It has a nice...Linked by the ring
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Ostensibly this is still an "OSR"y blog so here's some OSRish content. Some people have problems with the thief. a) Wait, so, what do I need to roll if I'm a fighter and I'm...
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Another in my series of posts about my Zelda-esque campaign. I've been playtesting my heartbreaker using an amalgamation of blogs I like, Instagram artists that inspire me, and...
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Whatever you call a Tolkien weeb, I guess that's what I am. I read the books every year. I wrote my thesis about the "magic system" of the trilogy. I'm a big Tolkien nerd. As...