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Today
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tl;dr: its great, if you are in any way generating your own games, get it. If you are in any way generating your own games, don't even bother reading this review. Go get the...
This Week
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tl;dr: get a broad coarse view of your world; there are easy tools to use & you will not regret it when your players head for the horizons. This is for the Maps Blogwagon from...
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Links of great interest from the breadth of the interweb. Not sated? Try last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
Last Week
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I was geas'ed to run D&D for one of my colleagues. They ambushed me at the office Christmas party and asked could I do it. This was a fair bit into the party so I filed it away...
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tl;dr: a draft system with a setting soaked into its bones; PC's as "meddlers". Light-weight and stuffed with gorgeous art. I saw Centaur Games launched their webstore so I...
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Shiny links for this Easter Monday - a free day I forgot I had off! Still need more? See last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival....
Earlier
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The blog rattles along, last such milestone in the 3-digit posts. I hit a tough patch in the immediate post-Xmas lull; finding it hard to get things back up and running which...
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I was recently at the Vienna Fantasy Gaming & Roleplay Con - spritual successor to what used to be known as 'Harry-con'. I did not have vast amounts of time alas so wandered...Linked by the ring
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More shiny links from about the interweb. Still need more? See last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally...
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On the principle of 'stack up the gunpowder' I wanted to set up a couple of fault lines within this city to have it in a high energy unstable equilibrium, liable to go...
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I was futzing about with the smallest householder using up cardboard that had come with furniture and stumbled upon correctly scaled dinosaurs standees. Needless to say, this...
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The most fascinating links from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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Errant Thinking proposes Tiny Epics: Small Souls in a Big World! for this months prompt for the RPG Blog Carnival. Thinking about the "Dungeons in miniscule" point, I was...Linked by the ring
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Rise Up Comus makes an excellent point in Unblocking Yourself: Dungeonize your Home look to draw inspiration for your hexes and dungeon rooms from what you see about you. They...
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Only the most interesting links from about the web. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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I have long been a big fan of the Semiotic Standard developed for Alien (1979) by Ronn Cobb for "all commercial trans-stellar & heavy element transport craft" - in particular...
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This is being written as we cruise up on the second child-related campaign hiatus - it is a good sign that the campaign has survived one so far and that interest exists to...
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Only the most interesting links from about the web. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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One of my original 90s gaming group graciously hosted a get together for that old table over a weekend and one of the things we did was a round-robin D&D mini-campaign. The...
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tl;dr: card-draw based storyteller, potential for great pre-campaign party cohesion or post-campaign epilogues. I cannot recall where/when I first heard of this - probably the...
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Only the most interesting links from about the web. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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I have been hammering away at the City '26 challenge; running it faster and shallower than originally envisaged I would imagine. I have about ~37% of the wards done with ~16%...
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With an upcoming campaign end in sight, I am looking at how to wrap things up for my Hexcrawl25 campaign. The fact that it is still going into 2026 is a nice fillip but with a...Linked by the ring
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Further links from about the interwebs! For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired...
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Following up on Grace of Choir of Fire's idea of laying out how elf-games are played at specific tables so people can see the multitudes that throng beneath the umbrella of...Linked by the ring
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Sea of Stars proposes Dragons, Gods and other Powerful Beings for this months prompt for the RPG Blog Carnival. Inspiration for one big idea did not strike so I am going to do...
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Your Bloggie-nominated collation of links from about the interwebs! For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally...
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tl;dr: tried out a top-recommended Dungeon magazine adventure; good times with some interesting stylistic change revealed. An adventure to "provide comic relief in an otherwise...
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tl;dr: a good general primer on the details of medieval society; helps a DM better portray the ordinary folk of a game world. "Fief - A Look at Medieval Society from its Lower...Linked by the ring
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Links from about the interwebs! For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...