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Huh, have been doing this for 2.5 years. Have some links to celebrate! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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Just ahead of moving location I thought I would share my shelfies as they currently sit (stand?) with an eye to what of all this stuff am I actually using? Start with my...
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Since a mini-campaign actually finished, let us do a retrospective Against the Wicked City style as we have previously. Spelljammer Academy, 12 Sessions (Feb-June 2023) What it...
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A short stack of links as I was afk at the seaside. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch End of Week...
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I mentioned a while back that I think there is a trick missing in approaches to the lower planes and another idea has been scratching at my mind. Following Grumpy Wizards steer...
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Regular readers will know I do love a good D&D Dataset and Dice-Scroller gives us a good one! Through some Python wizardry they scrapped ~1.2 *million* character sheets off...
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A minor archive dive while I am on vacation. More 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; a zines of planes, full of interesting variety from the many contributors. Add a few to any game or form a feywild/shadowfell campaign from all of them Backed this one...
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tl;dr: refreshing the hooks for a quasi west-march open table where multiple groups leave a lot of open items I wrote about doing this exercise of sweeping up hooks and...
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More links as we crest the year and start into the second half! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is weaver.skepti.ch...
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And so we conclude the June 2023 RPG Blog Carnival - our topic was "Travels, by Wave, Cloud or Portal" - on my mind was the lots of fun I have wrung from travelling campaigns -...
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Sparked by a discussion on the limits of what mindflayers can turn into themselves on the Piazza with my thought at the time being: I think the most interesting of these are...
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Another week of interesting links! More 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 can...
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tl:dr; ware ye, some good ideas in here but mostly one for the collectors only. I grabbed this as a pdf with great excitement back when they started republishing these things...
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We have a couple of examples of mindflayer dominated worlds starting with the 'obvious' Glyth in Realmspace but with other examples of Falx, Ssirik Akuar the Sunset World, and...
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I spent the week crawling my blog-feeds, found many interesting things! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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A fascinating thing crossed my radar - reached out directly in fact - the website www.alexandria.dk is gathering convention-history and are adding all the convention scenarios...
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My home campaign players are venturing back into courts and politics after a big block quest on the frontiers with major implications and I need a quick way to work out court...
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A chunky list of links from trawling the web 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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tl:dr; the GUMSHOE investigative system for fantasy, with a swords-and-sorcery setting and lots of helpful onboarding and running assistance to get you going. I got in my...
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I find myself in an unfamiliar position - with access to a huge pool of players and I do not know what to do with them. I talked a little about this in Feast or Famine gaming -...
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Another short set this week as have been off desk more than usual. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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Welcome to the new month for the RPG Blog Carnival - our topic for June 2023 is "Travels, by Wave, Cloud or Portal" - on my mind was the lots of fun I have wrung from...
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We got a few insights into player demographics through Geekwire reporting from the WotC Media summit and I wanted to run through these few numbers from Wizards to see how they...
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A light list this week as I got occupied organising an event. More 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 jam packed 40 pages of seafaring fun, monsters, mechanics and an campaign to showcase them all, all topped off with nice art. Arcadia Magazine #27 - Sharkadia (April...
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Sparking off Creatures of the Netherworld from Studio Agate with their take on the duergar and their subsea cities - glass domes supported by their "sciencraft" - I got to...
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More 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 can find even more links on the...
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To participate in this months blog carnival - hosted by Lair of Secrets on the topic of Shifting Gears I want to write on how a campaign changes over time and keeping things...
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Edit 8/12/23 - Plagiarism in Unconquered recently came out and casts a new light on things. I looked at Ultraviolet Grasslands myself seperately and failed to catch this. As of...