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Some interesting deep archive dives 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 Week...
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Returning to this hidden gem by Graphite Prime - Mazes: The Monotony or How to Run an Actual Maze and how it actually played out at table. Recently wrapped up...
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tl;dr: Schedule games with the knowledge that some of them will mostly likely fail and drop off - so that after that happens, you still have roughly the amount of gaming you...
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Weekly links from about the web - final Feb '23 edition. 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; gorgeous art decorate a surprisingly cunning DM's toolkit Supported the kickstarter - Rackham Vale: Paintbox Edition - for this "award-winning, fey-filled TTRPG setting"...
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To participate in this months blog carnival - hosted by Plastic Polyhedra on the topic of Procedures I want to share the procedure for exploration I have bolted together. A...
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Links from a week where the value of blogrolls has been hotly debated! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this is...
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Coming from a couple of angles, the question of who can eat who has become a live one in building the world of a new campaign. I have long been poking around in a maximalist...
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In a deep, deep cut to the first days of this blog - how do the NPC groups generated by the DMG compare to what see at actual tables of players? My first number-crunching post...
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Most fascinating of this weeks web-wanderings. 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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Springing from this take on how we get more elves - "An elf who wishes to produce offspring selects an ordinary animal and begins teaching it" from David J. Prokopetz - and...
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Sparked by this post on Monsters and Manuals I find it hard to directly pin down when I started playing, mostly because the 'glare' of the good times once I finally got some...
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Links from wanderings about the web. 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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I saw Throne of Salts check-list for 'building more diverse worlds' - I already had all the layers from generating with Azgaars, so I wanted to see how much more I could wring...
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Springing from a nice layout on Developing A World Through Encounter Tables by Welcome to the Deathtrap on how they make encounter tables I wanted to walk through how I made...
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Links from wanderings about the web. 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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After the hoax '$30/month for the new D&D' screenshots went around I dug around to see if we have any indication of what the market might bear as a price point and I think it...
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Have kind of tread close to this recently with the end of year but hey, 400 is a milestone. Overall its been a decent year - views punched up from ~3000 a month to ~4400 a...
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More links I found interesting from the past week or from archive dives. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this -...
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From the Brancalonia book there is an alternative, non-lethal Brawling combat system and it suits the lower-stakes Southern Reaches game I am spinning up. I wanted to do a...
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Listening to some of the chatter around the OGL fuss and attempted tea-leaf readings about what could be the thinking behind it, one theory I heard was that WotC is attempting...
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Filtering out most of the OGL relating content, this is a palate-cleanser selection and reminder of the kind of content we want to see encouraged. More can be found on the...
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Spinning up the Southern Reaches campaign, one of the things I did to get my new players on the same page was collage a bunch of art together off the internets to explain what...
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Digging through a set of games in storage in my parents shed I found my old Battlemasters set from MB games. This was a somewhat weird artefact of the ~90s in that I believe it...
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A round up of all I found over the tail end of the holidays. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End...
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While back home for the holidays mention was made that "there are some black sacks in the shed with some boardgames" and I went out to see what was there. Short answer;...
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Taking the challenge of Beginnings for the January 2023 RPG Blog Carnival from Of Dice and Dragons I want to talk about stacking gunpowder in the corners of a setting. For more...
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First links round-up of 2023! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find...
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We come to the end of the year and looking back 2022 was a pretty good year for gaming - faded a little off 2021 in pure hours but got almost the same number of sessions (59 vs...
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In the back of the Downtime in Zyan zine, after the downtime actions, we get 10 prompts for prepping your campaign to help "develop your setting, create your starting...