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Some links from the depths of the hinterweb this week. More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog...
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We ran another of our open table events recently and got a bunch of folk in for it. We use Meetup as the 'on-ramp' and can reliably fill a 50 place event with a waitlist. One...
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tl:dr; a focussed mountains and caverns setting with great exploration mechanics, world invoked via bestiary and old-school style Picked this up on kickstarter, part of my...
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Only the most curious links, stumbled over in a week of browsing. More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the...
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tl;dr: tempo of booking, prepping and running open table games Take on Rules wrote My Procedure for Facilitating Open Table Gaming and cast a light on a very different gaming...
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tl:dr; a dense module of mechanic, lore and adventure sites for nomadic adventure. This is a 'Fantasy Setting and Adventure Module' that I got print on demand from Lulu grace...
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A handful of links from a travelling week. More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog Carnival or...
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tl;dr: at the limit of venue capacity, how to spin out another venue to avoid turning people away? We had to do our first turn-aways from our regular Friday night sessions...
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tl:dr; a book you bring to table to run a sword and sorcery game where noone has prepped, a toolkit for DMs who understand the basics, should work with any edition or...
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Lots of interesting links this week - thrown up against the backdrop of the Bloggies! More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks...
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Continuing to clear shelves and poke in attics, this time with the aid of a stepladder, I found another treasure - my old Heroquest box, probably from 1989-91. This was my on...
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tl;dr: frustrated salt post. Why publish spoiled data? DndBeyond published an article "2023 Unrolled: A Look Back at a Year of Adventure" and I thought "Cool, stats!" - until I...
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Interesting throughts this week abroad on the net. More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog...
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I got to recently test Alexandrians Law of the Conservation of NPCs - advice to make equivalent NPCs a repeat appearance of an old NPC - and the results came out well. I'm...
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Travelling home for Christmas I read old notes and fished out a thoughts we had at a rare non-gaming gathering of our local games soc - one theme was we need to help people...
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A chonky list as people get busy in the new year. More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog...
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For this months blog carnival we are back to the host Of Dice And Dragons for the topic of World Building which is also happening concurrently with the kick-off of the Lore24...
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I have been enjoying Baldurs Gate 3 and in particular the complexity of the terrain in many of the fights. I have written before on adding scale and verticality to make fights...
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A short set of links this week as I return from travelling. More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG...
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I have had a thought rolling about in my head for a bit to work up some sort of steppes campaign - built around a moving base that is either a nomadic tribe or a silk road...
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tl;dr: a bestiary customised to the Eana setting, a strong setting book with some interesting design choices. I have been backing Studio Agates Fateforge series for a while and...
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First shiny links for 2024! More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom...
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2023 was a great year for gaming - a recent, if not all time high On running things Ducal House (3.5e) - ran 24 sessions to take us up to 102 during the year, covering mostly...
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For this months blog carnival - hosted by Plastic Polyhedra on the topic of Endings I have some thoughts on 'sticking the landing for one-shots'. Also, Sign-ups for 2024 Blog...
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A mix for this Christmas day! More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third...
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We hit sessions 100 in my home campaign, 3.5e noble house adventures and I thought it worth marking. My players did too - they made a pie, picture below. I will use the usual...
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tl;dr: The other half of the d100 trinkets table for a Brancalonia game. There is a table of Memorabilia (p69 Brancalonia Spaghetti Fantasy) which are both interesting things...Linked by the ring
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More can be found on the previous list found here. You can find more links on this weeks r/OSR blogroll or the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup....
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Larian Studios, makers of Baldurs Gate 3, released an update to their player stats after four months of play including class and race choices of the players. They let us see...
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tl:dr; surprisingly good return to the planes, anchored around what looks like a fun campaign. So I threw in my order for this back in the late spring and I've been paying...