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More links from about the internet. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup. Originally...
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Running the hex-crawl I realised I needed an encounter table for the general region and cooked up the below for 'folks likely to be wandering around with purpose'. This will be...
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tl:dr; a creativity boosting tool for the long-haul DM. Tome of Adventure Design arrived over the Christmas, something that had been on my radar for quite a bit. I had been...
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The blog fields are rich and provide a fine harvest of links! For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news...
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Returning to the challenge of juggling between scales of hexes and sub-hexes while bringing my Hexcrawl25 map to table, I switched to Hex Kit. I used the Classic, Fantasyland...
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This months blog carnival from VDonnut Valley has the topic of Other, Between, and Under – The Worlds Beyond - which matches to some ruminations I have been having on minor...
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Delightful links for our shared enlightenment! For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup....
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tl:dr; Azgaars Fantasy Map Generator is a good tool to get your broad strokes regions - your hexes - for you to then fill in your sub-hexes. I set out to do Hexcrawl25 and made...
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Launched a new campaign, trying to bring hex-crawling to my open tables; I thought I would write it up from a deployment of actual hexcrawling mechanics to see how/if this type...
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More links from the depths of the interwebs! For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup....
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Slowly grinding through the Elusive Shift - a worthy book that I am not finding gripping; having it laid out in detail that we as a hobby have been hashing over the same...
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We ran a DM clinic at one of our Saturday Daytime sessions. We have been kicking around the idea of more experienced DMs within the society coaching newer ones. There have been...
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Launch into 2025 with a wealth of shiny links! For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup....
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We just kicked off the 6th year of our home campaign, Ducal House, and the players asked me how I was finding it, how it compared to previous campaigns I've done and so on. I...
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For Hexcrawl25, taking the challenge on, I decided to make a couple of modifications out of the gate. First off being that instead of it being a 24 mile hexes/6 mile sub-hexes,...
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Thundering towards the end of the year, lots of shiny links to round out 2024! For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third...
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2024 was a great year for gaming - down from last years banner year but I do not feel in any way short-changed. On running games Ducal House (3.5e) - got in another 22...
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Strange concidence has post 700 coming in right before the traditional 'last slot of the year' so this one will be blogging and stats, the next one will be the year in gaming....
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Shiny links for this festive season. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup. Originally...
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Our shapeshifting wormlike friends the psurlons. Telepathic, carrion-eaters, worshippers of the cthonic gods of the far-realm. Friends of the mindflayers, since they want...
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I have been pondering the encounter table for travel on the Astral Sea and comparing it to the old encounter tables for the phlogiston from back in the day. The 5e one is all...
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A short set of links as I was on the road last week. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup....
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Since a campaign finished, let us do a retrospective Against the Wicked City style as is now traditional. What it was: * "Welcome wagon" for friday night open table D&D - catch...
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This months blog carnival from Elemental Reductions has the topic of Beyond Vancian Magic - so I was inspired to write about Spellburn. Key point here is that while the Vancian...
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Yet more links from about the interweb; people got creative over last holiday weekend. For more, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on...
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So I saw a post on Reddit that was positing that there are lots of powers kicking around on the astral that are pretty much keeping their heads down and being quiet because of...
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Looking back at thoughts and speculations four years ago on what would be in '6e' in this the age of 5.5e and one of the first lines held true - 5e indeed had road ahead of it....
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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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tl;dr: some pretty good adventures, standard 5e structures better for a tour-the-world than plane-hopping. I got to put a handful of these adventures to the test so I feel fit...
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This months blog carnival from Forsaken Garden has the topic of Haves & Have Nots - so I was inspired to write about the dragonblooded noble houses of my home campaign -...