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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...
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The following is how I deal with random encounters, spoor and signs, wandering monsters, and time tracking in my homebrew game. Please note that I use the major arcana deck...
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From Darkest Dungeon DIY & Dragons recently had a post wherein they said, quote: "I have also literally never heard of a game session where the characters actually ended up...
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Brian Froud, How to See Faeries What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of...
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TOOT GRIMALKIN- Levels as halfling- Thief skills- -2 to stats on Mondays- Can eat extra ration of lasagna during short rests to heal 1d6 HP RAISIN GOLEM- Levels as dwarf- Dwarf...
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I'm two faced. My favorite campaign settings are Tolkien analogues--the closer to the mythological source material, the better. My favorite class is the monk. If you make the...
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One of the most important jobs a game master has is managing expectations. This is a hard won lesson because I'm actually pretty bad at it--both personally and professionally....
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Like most fucking RPG nerds, I've done my fair share of worldbuilding. Most of it never sees the light of day and that's okay. It's usually a fun thing to do for its own sake....
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This is a light follow up to my Battles in Wilderland post, but it doesn't have anything specifically about to do with The Hobbit. It's just house rules about fighting I'd use...
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Battles in Wilderland From Pinterest. Artist unknown. “That would be no good,” said the wizard, “not without a mighty Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors...