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More links for a round number report! For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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I saw this on Brian Yaksha of Goatman's Goblet's bluesky feed - and have been looking for an opportunity to test it. Interestingly, on a first attempt it flared out and did not...
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Having seen the inception of this challenge, I am going to take the same format as Weird Writers 'How I Prep' masterpost for my own. To start, I am a 'never let them see you...
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Fresh TTRPG links from around the web. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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From a recent wander up a local high point, it was a clear day and I got a photo with a number of readily identifiable local landmarks. It serves as a nice illustration of how...
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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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The shiniest of TTRPG links from around the web - a day delayed by bank holiday driven loss of routine. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR...
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This is my reworking my approach to dungeons and labyrinths - for fixed rooms with uncertain contents. This is an evolution of the approach I previously used which was more...
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In my ongoing quest to lighten my load, Monster Manuals have been a bane of my life with open table games - players can go anywhere, encounter all sorts of things - or at the...
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Interesting links from around the internet. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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Some suggestions based on my experiences with domain games. - a light weight resolution system that spares a DM bookkeeping is probably a mercy - structuring how you accept...
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Attronarch was selling off some adventures and I seized the opportunity - got a bunch of the OSE classic and thought I would run them against my Friday night open tables on the...
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Choice links from about the internet. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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Digging through ancient emails I stumbled across this ancient idea for a forum campaign and since I have not seen anything quite as convoluted around I present it for...
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A daft name for the process I have been following of zooming back out to super-hexes pick up broader threads and presences about the map before zooming back in to populate...
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Shiny links from about the web. For more, see the previous list 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 cool system for running old school modules with not many players, with useful mechanics worth stealing for any game of yours. I was vaguely aware of Scarlet Heroes for...
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This month Tabletop Curiosity Cabinet gives us the prompt On my word - Making and breaking promises, vows and oaths for the RPG Blog Carnival. Assume every deity and powerful...
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Shiny links from about the web. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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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...
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Links of interest from about the internet. For more, see the previous list found here or on the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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I dropped into Serious Business in Sligo over the holidays. I try to stop in each time I pass - support your local business, etc. It is becoming a tradition now that every time...
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To encourage the squandering of gold for XP accrual I came up with the following carousing table for my Hexcrawl25 campaign. Given that most of the players are veterans of my...
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Links of interest from about the internet. For more, see the previous list found here or on the irregular r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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This months blog carnival from Codex Anathema has the topic of Magic in the City. For this I want to riff off Grumpy Wizards 'how many wizards' post to talk about how many I...
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Or: on spontaneously generating DMs. tl:dr; trying to backtrack the 'origins of the scene' that I started playing in finds we were apparently a collective of spontaneously...
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Fascinating links from about the depths of the internet. For more, see the previous list found here or on the irregular r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival....
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Timing of this round-number blog and anniversary of this site getting activated coincide so let us take a look back at the mission statement; it was brief enough I can...
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With the players having wandered around a bit and the 'shape' of the play space having come a little more into focus I cycled back around to the greater hex map because their...