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Shiny links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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tl:dr; a game of dwarves delving the dark to restablish outposts; tight old-school style with some nice mechanical twists. Where did this come from? Zinequest 2024. I had it on...
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Inspired by a discussion elsewhere I ran session #20 of my hexcrawl recently and it provided a nice illustration of pure map based play over an in-game day and a bit. Written...
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Shiny links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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tl:dr; self-contained RPG of world-hopping fantasy, old-school system, great, concise setting. My 'support your local gaming houses' campaign - this is from d101 games in the...
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Pondering on how to run "Your Sector, Your Problem" - "SHIELD or Stargate Command but you are responsible for a sector of inhabited alien worlds" - it lurks in my mind like a...
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Fresh links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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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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In My Campaign gives us this months prompt Other Worlds for the RPG Blog Carnival. Portraying Other Worlds Considering how to make worlds that are different but feel coherent...
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Fresh links from around the web. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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tl;dr: lessons learned from bringing a good adventure to a bad open table. I did a capsule review of Waking of Willoughby Hall a while back, noting I got good use out of this...
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Setting up Yaksha's hexfill as the 'regional encounter table' for the collapsing lizardfolk imperium of the Scaled Lands - it is the same just making the reference space...
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TTRPG goodness from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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I am a few sessions into running my Lizard Kings campaign - below are my notes on trying to get up the learning curve of running 2d20 by tapping the wisdom of those who have...
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Inspired by @prokopetz making the point that "hospitality was a major part of a wealthy household’s basic social obligations" and "at any given time, a large household might be...
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Things I found interesting over this last week online. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally...
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tl:dr; a city sandbox with a grounded feel, packed full of hooks, sites and factions to sustain a good chunk of play. I grabbed this in the last days of Planet Harry's,...
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Murkmail had a cool idea for hex/sub-hex encounter tables - Mixing hexcrawl encounter tables and I gave it a spin as part of Hexcrawl25. I used it in a case where I had three...
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Shiny links from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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I wrote about "rebooting a campaign with 2d20 Conan" - spinning up a new campaign in the Scaled Lands. In the grand tradition of getting going by making promises and getting...
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tl;dr: roughing out your local crystal sphere can pay dividends in keeping campaigns consistent. This is an extension of the 'high-mobility magic' discussion about handling...
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Shiny links from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum" - Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera) Signature of the...
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Wobble Rocket gives us this months prompt Magic Rocks for the RPG Blog Carnival. This is a build-out of an ideas-bouncing conversation with Robyn Proffer on a shared discord...
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Fresh links from about the internet! For more, see last weeks deep-time trawl found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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tl;dr: continues the stable trend since 2023 - 5e still 2/3 of campaigns, very little sign of change anywhere. So on the one hand, this is a 'nothing to report' report - on the...
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On the theme of 'how I prep' - sometimes you hit inflection points or changes to the campaign that require some unusual prep. My home campaign has been running a while, I have...
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Some more deep-time blog-trawlings while I am away. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally...
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In response to the Appendicitis N Blogwagon and Prismatic Wastelands request for "a list of inspirational media (books, movies, comics, video games, what have you) that impact...
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tl:dr; fun old school dungeon with a romance-story core, solid recommend. Attronarch was selling off some adventures and I seized the opportunity - got a bunch of the OSE...