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tl;dr: complex randomisers like depth-crawls, chaos-clocks, etc. need high frequency use to be appreciated by players; otherwise stick to simpler, flatter tables. This is for...Linked by the ring
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tl;dr: no need to be afraid of early-modern fire-arms in your campaign longstanding question about guns in D&D - my experiences no need to worry too much. I have had gunpowder...Linked by the ring
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Vulcan Stev's Database gives us this months prompt Inspiration! Where Does Yours Come From? for the RPG Blog Carnival. This post is mostly about turning the inspiration you...Linked by the ring
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Troy Press published a piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a survey they did - and I am fascinated by the 'mentioned in passing' implication of a huge amount...Linked by the ring
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tl;dr: a tale of recovering a piece of blogging community infrastructure from bad decisions and technology failure. Regular readers will have noted I flag the r/OSR blogroll as...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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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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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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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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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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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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Challenged by Trick the Giant to commemorate the founding and server-activation of the Vienna DM Supergroup with a post on the theme of Community - I was brainstorming what I...
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tl;dr: finalising my hexcrawl25 run; I enjoyed it a lot, this more structured full-year challenge suited me. For Hexcrawl25, taking the challenge on I settled on the whole...Linked by the ring
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This month the RPG blog carnival is hosted by Advantage on Arcana and has the topic of The End Times And After - which is an interesting one. The End Times for a given world...Linked by the ring
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tl;dr: an eco-restoration-themed map-crawler pamphlet game with some interesting resouce balancing mechanics. I looked at this as a part of Capsule Reviews #9: HELLO//GOODBYE...Linked by the ring
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For Hexcrawl25, taking the challenge on I settled on the whole super-hex = 40-mile, hexes are 10-mile, sub-hexes 2.5 mile as my working scale. Where I started Hexmap was at 77%...Linked by the ring
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Friends of the blog Swan and Raven Studio are hosting the HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid - I grabbed my copy and am facing the same challenge as with every itch.io...Linked by the ring
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Bearer of the RPG Blog Carnival torch Scott Newbury themselves gives us this months prompt Good Morning, Dave on ways that you’re using AI in your gaming. Below my view on AI...Linked by the ring
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tl:dr; an arty zine with a range of articles, likely something inspirational for any gamer. The founder of the local DM Supergroup, also founder of Swan and Raven Studio, a...Linked by the ring
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Advantage on Arcana gives us this months prompt Magic Shops and Their Alternatives for the RPG Blog Carnival. For this I wrote up how it works in my campaigns. For my menagerie...
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Observing the Beholder Bandwagon I was suddenly struck by inspiration - the bandwagon so far has Lantern Heads by Garamondia, Three "Beholders" from The Nothic's Eye or A New...Linked by the ring
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A brief background to insectfolk elementalism, d12 typical elementalists and a 'Conclave encounter' for the emergency 'Conclave' bandwagon called by Prismatic Wasteland. What...Linked by the ring
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tl;dr: populate sub-hexes with things linking to neighbouring hexes I am working through HexCrawl25 but this could work for any hexmap set up with hexes and sub-hexes. The...Linked by the ring
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At this tail end of black-friday-sales, we link some OSR staples. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games...Linked by the ring
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Welcome to the new month for the RPG Blog Carnival - our topic for August 2024 is "It Came From Beyond Time" - on my mind is the stramge effects of long life and magic can have...
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/The RPG Blog Carnival prompt from Beneath Foreign Planets of WORDS! Etymology, Onomatology and Linguistics sparked some other thoughts for me - on the stability of language...
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This months RPG Blog Carnival comes from Beneath Foreign Planets with the prompt WORDS! Etymology, Onomatology and Linguistics. I have shied away from using language too...
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An entry for the Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam created by DIY & Dragons. If you want to have a go - here are the curated helpful links we were given. I was too slow with my...
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Taking on Glass Candles GLoGtober '23, challenge #6 is from a list by metalsnail - "Puzzle boxes." Taking a puzzle box as a thing that requires certain actions to unlock it...Linked by the ring
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Double-dipping this months RPG Blog Carnival because the prompt on Anthropology and Archaeology from Beneath Foreign Planets was in fact a huge selection of prompts. This time...Linked by the ring
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Once more unto the RPG Blog Carnival with a prompt on Anthropology and Archaeology from Beneath Foreign Planets. A huge selection of prompts was generously provided - and so...Linked by the ring
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I took the 3 lists of traits from Out of the Weaving Secrets 638 Primary Personality Traits article in 2014 and set up a trio of random selector functions in my big excel...Linked by the ring
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From this post on Githyanki Diaspora - tipped off by Throne of Salt, who was set upon the path (just now) by Anne (of DIY & Dragons) And so the challenge: 1) Take your three...Linked by the ring