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Ever more shiny links found while wandering the web. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of Week...
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Taking a prompt from the list on GLoGtober '22: Under New Management we discuss "Prehistory (no dinosaurs)" from a promptlist by The First Gokun Prehistory being the time...
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Taking a prompt from the list on GLoGtober '22: Under New Management we discuss "Cycles of violence" from a promptlist by Phlox I was thinking about the 'father fights the war,...
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On time this week - shiny links from around the internet! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of...
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Taking a prompt from the list on GLoGtober '22: Under New Management we discuss "Moving Dungeons" 1. The dungeon worm; is actually a type of extra-planar fungus, the tunnels...
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I took the 3 lists of traits from Out of the Weaving Secrets 638 Primary Personality Traits article in 2014 and set up a trio of random selector functions in my big excel...Linked by the ring
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A day late, but hopefully worth the wait! 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...
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Lost my original source but when I went looking for 'how to do labyrinths' either OSR discord or the blogosphere tipped me off to this hidden gem by Graphite Prime - Mazes: The...
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tl;dr: a chunky theater of the mind system that gives a party lots of options to fight spelljamming duels. Our previous effort tested two magazine-published sets of rules for...
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The plague has caught up with me, so not much this week. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of...
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tl:dr; a Dungeon World wilderness supplement that has good advice and toolkits for anyone running overland exploration. Another strong recommendation from the 'best books of...
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With my house 3.5e campaign venturing up onto the mythic plateau of the giants, an interstitial realm in the roof of the world, I thought it fitting to throw in some of the...
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Another block of links from this weeks wanderings of the web. 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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Purchased when a chunky discount for Lulu floated, this is one that was often flagged as a 'greatest of the Lulu OSR' that I had passed over a few times because the old-school...
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Third of the one-shots visiting the planes (see Great Planar Scavenger Hunt) and trying to improve my one-shots from feedback on the Mechanus jaunt and the Beastlands hunt....
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Back at base with links! 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 even...
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"The fifteenth issue of the Mystara Magazine, piercing into the black void to explore the planets of Mystaraspace and beyond." Of all the many Threshold magazines to take a...
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Revisiting the AideDD app stats to take a look at race and location data. We saw before that the app is showing the 'generalist' profile same as D&D Beyond or other online...
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Less than usual this week as I pack up for travel. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of Week...
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Since the new Spelljammer dropped there has been an explosion of new rulesets or new spotlight cast on existing ones. Below are the ones I have found worthy of the name: 1....
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Some friends gave me a hard nudge when Spelljammer Confirmed to run a game for them once it landed. Now that it is out, that time has come and I have confirmed that indeed it...
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Fine links from about the internet, the shiniest things that caught my magpie eye. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this -...
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Looking back on this challenge as a whole - the intention was to see if it worked as a set up for a Spelljamming campaign, short answer, yes if a little inefficiently. It was...
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Comparing the most popular non-D&D systems on VTTs to see what the trends are. A while back we looked at the latest (end 2020) Fantasy Grounds vs Roll20 data and saw a...
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Survived a local heatwave, gathered more links! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of Week...
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The brief for this final week of campaign-building is to pick at least three of many prompts to flesh out the wider world beyond the hex-map of Week 2. Of the multiple...
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tl;dr: ~1/4 to 1/6 of the population is currently playing TTRPGs and they are not talking about it online. Some intriguing indications of how many TTRPG players there are in a...
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Shiny links from about the internet, fetched here for you to sample! More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this -...
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In the boles of four massive trees linked by bridges is found the town of Rendezvous. Dwellings and businesses are built along the centre of the great tree limbs, with walkways...
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This entire post got overtaken by events - it was written prior to the Spelljammer 5e review copies getting all over the internet, before we knew what the ship combat system...