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• Childhood inspirations from a time of shared references
  2mo ago · 5 min
  For the 'childhood inspirations' blogwagon that Havoc kicked off - I wrote mine last September - because I cheated by starting at 12 so my Appendix N conformed already. More...
• Secret Information In Domain Games - Handle With Care
  2mo ago · 4 min
  tl;dr: espionage and information warfare in domain games needs to be handled with care to avoid slowing the game and diminishing player agency. A point raised in Infernal Pacts...
• Shiny TTRPG links #262
  2mo ago · 2 min
  Shiny links this week are wholly from a series of conversations on discord pulling up links from the past - see if you can guess the themes. For more, see last weeks collection...
• Incentivising challenges with tactility (City26)
  2mo ago · 3 min
  Like any 'creation project' the tactility of it is important for me; I find myself picking some slightly novel approach to note taking each time to keep things interesting and...
• A port on the deep astral - Gaus Tschaltis (RPG Blog Carnival )
  2mo ago · 7 min
  Hipsters & Dragons gives us this months prompt of fantasy locations and from the long list of prompts they suggest I am going with a "homebrew location that fellow GMs can drop...
• Shiny TTRPG links #261
  2mo ago · 3 min
  links to 12
  A punchy set of links to start the week. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
• Community creation - getting that second DM, trying that other system.
  2mo ago · 9 min
  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...
• Your Sector, Your Problem - a setting told in saves
  2mo ago · 3 min
  Considering how to express the setting of "Your Sector, Your Problem" (SHIELD/Stargate Command but responsible for a sector of inhabited alien worlds) through saving throws as...