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On the ring since 2026-03-17
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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I love the Brothers Hildebrandt "You cannot have a meaningful campaign if strict time records are not kept." - Gary Gygax, Dungeon Master's Guide This little bit of wisdom is...Linked by the ring
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Because I've been quarantined for ??? days, I'm attempting to get an online West Marches game started with my broader friend group because I'd rather talk to friends than...
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I hang out in a few game design communities. None of them are any good except the ones specifically targeted for OSR content (which is why even though my game His Majesty the...Linked by the ring
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I know that many RPG players think that restricting character choices is somehow the fantasy equivalent of joining ISIS, but I really have gotten a lot of mileage from...
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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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The Sword-Breaker King Arts Manse made a post a while ago about special martial techniques and they tickled me. I had an (unusually awesome) kung fu dream concerning a shadowy...
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RPGs are a conversational game. The GM describes a scene, the players ask questions, the GM answers them; the players take actions, the GM asks questions, the players answer...Linked by the ring
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Goblin Laws of Gaming Rat-Kebab Edition Sources Cited: The Goblin Laws of Gaming, Original Flavor - Arnold K, goblinpunch Overloaded Encounter Dice - Necropraxis Dungeon Menu...
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I was rereading Art & Arcana over the Christmas holiday, and noticed an interesting caption for a small image, calling out an unpopular edition of a Dragonlance game played...
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The basis of this system was stolen borrowed from P Stu over at False Machine. I adapted it for my own system, His Majesty the Worm, and my players just got their first scar....
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The Cursed City This is part of my "Maidens and Moon" series. Read that first to make sense of it. For years, the Sun King ruled Gafferdy fair and well, but he passed away,...
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First, a story The handmaidens of Princess Sun are sitting around the hearth of the Plague Inn in the heart of the Necropolis of Ot, speaking to Mistress Anthrax--a disease...
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This is just a small post to gush about my players. I love them. They are good. For our current campaign, two of my players put together a character sheet booklet. It holds...
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Per my last post, I've been playtesting my heartbreaker using an amalgamation of blogs I like, Instagram artists that inspire me, and some A+ OSR modules. Read the big...
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For the past three years, I've been play testing my fantasy heartbreaker His Majesty the Worm with my friends. It's been fun! Recently, we stopped playing a campaign in the...
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I had a shower revelation the other day: the diaspora of D&D is like running a piece of text through Google Translate a bunch of times. For example, the Australian national...
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...apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement,...
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With eight-hundred years of history and practice throughout a continent, it's really hard to talk about jousting in general terms. Some SCA nerd is going to yell at me, God...
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As I said in my very first (?) post on this blog, I'm into out-of-character challenges. The "you wouldn't make the fighter's player do push ups so you shouldn't make the...
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Have you ever had a player at a table try and convince you whether something is "realistic"? I have. One of my good friends and an amazing role-player is (for good or ill)...
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This is a post in my Wilderlands setting series. Skerples's recent post called out how helpful birds can be in folklore. In Die Nibelungen, a bird tattles about someone coming...