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The Commonwealth The Commonwealth is the home of the halflings. Visiting the Commonwealth is like visiting a human fairy tale. It consists of many hills with homes carved into...
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Professions They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools. When...
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No Adventures, Thank You The flow of a Under Hill, By Water game is a little different than a standard dungeon-crawling game. You're not some stupid burglar going into troll...
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Under Hill, By Water In a hole in the ground there lived... (Psst. I actually published this game in a fuller form. Check it out here!) Under Hill, By Water by Rise Up Comus...
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I know I've all but abandoned this blog, but I've been focusing most of my creative writey time on chewing on my fantasy heartbreaker project. Stupid, I know. Today, in...Linked by the ring
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Out in the Far Realms, thoughtforms and concepts are active with intention and purpose. We call them "spirits" in a generic sort of way. The least of these spirits are spells:...
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One thing that I liked about Dungeon World was that each class had a different damage dice. It made sense to me--a fighter is so skilled and so well-trained that no matter what...
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I discussed in my previous post how I want religion to be relatable (yet weird) and meaningful. I'm still trying to articulate to myself why I think the Greyhawk-esque deity...
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I've been playing RPGs since I was 12, but I sat still and watched all twenty-four minutes of this last night: https://youtu.be/Eo_oR7YO-Bw I think this video rules. Because...
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In almost every D&D game I've ever played, I don't love the religions. I don't think this is an uncommon sentiment--at least in my own RPG echo chamber. A lot of them are sort...
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"The Dark and Middle Ages! The Nineteenth Century had an impudent way with its labels." - T.H. White, The Candle in the Wind, Chapter 3 I've been rereading The Once and Future...
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For my stupid little fantasy heartbreaker project, I smashed up these rules to cover activities that players could do during rest downtime. The flow of the game is separated,...
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Nostalgia is potent. It makes sitting down for an afternoon and playing a frustrating NES game into a fun experience. It lets you rewatch petty, derivative films and have a...
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Right now I'm playtesting a stupid fantasy heartbreaker with some friends who are nice to humor me. We started the playtest before I had even started writing a traditional...
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Last Gasp Grimoire's Mystic Rules are just amazing and I can't say enough nice things about them. I love the idea of a distant god with a dim understand of human physiology...
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This is apparently a contentious topic, and I don't quiteeeee understand why. I mean, I do, but I also don't (more on that in a bit). There are apparently two camps on the...
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I'm sure many of you are familiar with the excellent Five Room Dungeon. If you haven't read it, I'll summarize it quickly for the purposes of this post. A basic dungeon need...