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Things scraped together this past week. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links....
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tl;dr: some 'I roll perception' is fine when open gaming with mixed cultures and generations where the shared references might be fewer than in beforetimes. A thing I like to...
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tl:dr; talking Planescape, the 800lb gorilla of planar settings on the eve of its re-issue. Factions are pitched hard but there is so much more in here. Planescape is coming...
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Once more a round up of things I that caught my eye tromping about the internet this past week. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original...
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Double-dipping this months RPG Blog Carnival because the prompt on Anthropology and Archaeology from Beneath Foreign Planets was in fact a huge selection of prompts. This time...Linked by the ring
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I was directed to this by friend of the blog C. Kinch some while back. The tag across the front cover is "Hard core, fast-paced, historical combat. New options that won't bog...
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Once more a round up of things I that caught my eye tromping about the internet this past week. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original...
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tl;dr: but for a slight growth in Pathfinder 2e, system popularity seems to be very similar to last year. As Roll20 has just stopped publishing the handy Orr Reports, we have...
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Been a chunk of time since we looked at this but a good time - close enough to the end of year for stats to be interesting but not the end of year itself. On Traffic Overall...
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Links found before our ISP randomly cancelled our contract so short-ish. Hope to be back up later this week. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The...
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Once more unto the RPG Blog Carnival with a prompt on Anthropology and Archaeology from Beneath Foreign Planets. A huge selection of prompts was generously provided - and so...Linked by the ring
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As mentioned on a previous post - I have been running Light of Xaryxis adapted to the wild randomness and sometimes paranoid tactical noses of my players. Just running them...
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A bunch of notable links this week. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You...
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tl;dr: a dense setting book for 19th century Istanbul by a local team celebrating their own myth and legend, combined with an interesting free-form adventure and delivered in a...
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Answering the RPG Blog Carnival prompt on Clubs and Congregations from Codex Anathema I decided to pull out a faction that I had run against my PCs for the first 'season' of my...
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Some themes of play-by-post and starting campaigns this week. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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Larian Studios, makers of Baldurs Gate 3, released stats from the first weekend of the game being live including class and race choices of the players. Given that it is a...
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tl:dr; a creepy cult and lots of great sites fill this (final) underground expansion for A Thousand Thousand Islands, arriving with bitter news. This was the juggernaut...
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Concentrated goodness as I work down the post-holiday backlog. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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After spending a bunch of time thinking about illithid worlds due to Spelljammer, some general thoughts about things they will have lying around beyond the usual, recognisable...
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tl;dr: comments and upvotes are dropping on the r/OSR blogroll - time to de-automate or un-pin? Every week I flag the r/OSR blogroll as a place to look for interesting...
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Late & messy today due to working off mobile on holidays. More links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch...
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tl:dr; a neat, curated set of modular hex-crawl rules for a more faction-oriented game with a focus on securing resources. I backed the zine 'Home - A light in the Darkness'...
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tl;dr: I ran Spelljammer Academy and then... just sort of kept going. This is about how I cooked up the additional episodes for the mini-campaign. I have unexpectedly run a...
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More links from across the web, some interesting stuff from the archives! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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tl;dr: giant dataset from D&DBeyond shows us that over half of characters created are the same few (30) race/class combos. dice-scroller.com pulled over a million character...
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tl;dr: tested out a 'what-if' terrain set up, adding scale and verticality and it worked quite well Having just listened to Hida-O-Win's lament about the lost opportunity in...
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Some fascinating stirrings among the blogs this week. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of...
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Answering the RPG Blog Carnival prompt on Terrain, Seasons, Weather (oh my) from Plastic Polyhedra I wanted to think about how they interact with weird terrains like we...
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I swept up the past six months of activity for our local games soc (January-June 2023) to try and give us a sense of how many of us there are at present. Thanks to one of our...