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Welcome to this, the 80th weekly link set - find below the nuggets of TTRPG gold from about the net. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration...
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For the challenge, the dungeon is supposed to be the place where real adventure begins. The prompts reflect a quite specific vision for setting things up but are helpful to get...
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tl:dr; a great fun, evocative sphaghetti fantasy D&D setting with some neat mechanics to capture the rollicking band of knaves style of play. I picked up Brancalonia in another...
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Links from about the slow summer internet. 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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In principle, this is to set up the area around the dungeon that is to be the campaign start point. In our particular run through of the exercise, first we must choose a world....
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Nothing like a good workflow to get the juices flowing and Dungeonfruit's "Making Good Factions (For Your Dungeon)" is a good one. Dungeonfruit gives us 5 steps for setting up...
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Links I have found since returning from the lake. I watched a murderous wasp stuff grasshoppers into a hole to be eaten; the lesson is nature is plenty strange before we get in...
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Having seen many people do Gygax75 - or more specifically having seen a bunch of people start and stall-out I took this as a challenge to see just how hard a world-building...
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Second 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. The pre-game brief was:...
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A short set of links as I have fled to a place without internet for the week. Still more can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this...
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Inspired by a line at the bottom of a wiki, tangentially related to the main subject - peoples were known to others by their main mode of transportation. A 'canoe people' and a...
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tl:dr; lots of mechanics to fire the imagination and give good reasons for players to build Strongholds. I have had my eye on Strongholds & Followers for a while now, but...
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More links from about the web. Still 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...
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Reading the tea-leaves of the last Roll20 Orr report and why it points to the 50th anniversary edition of D&D being no radical change. Looking at Roll20 numbers - after a drop...
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Some of the old D&D settings have very impressive fanzines with large back catalogues - lots of content for the great price of free. Oerth Journal - for Greyhawk Online - 36...
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Links for this 4th of July. 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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Noodling around trying to figure out what would be a reasonable density of giants for a giant civilization, I found some papers trying to estimate the same for dinosaurs which...
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tl:dr; a solid GMs guide to an interesting mod of 5e to deliver the flavour of the Symbaroum setting. Very flavoursome with neat mechanics for where Symbaroum differs from...
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Links from the crossing of the Solstice. 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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Digging into trends in campaign data from Obsidian Portal to see how retro-clones were doing; some clear favourites emerge. To figure out what exactly to count as a retro-clone...
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For tis the Solstice let us talk about the sun. In honour of the Baleful Glare of the Hateful Day-star we have d6 Solar Cults of Sholtipec. 1. Children of the Solar Queen -...
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Another collection of links to start your week. 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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tl;dr stats for the Spelljamming saddle - which I figure ought to exist. Interpolated from 3.5e Spelljamming stats. I have figured (since back in my mid '00s Hikuru game) that...
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tl;dr: another dense zine packed with ideas, a great resource for running parties through mass combat events Burgs & Bailiffs: Warfare Too is only about warfare: from...
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Another collection of links to start your week. 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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tl;dr: since space is enormous, keep journeys interesting with overloaded travel encounter dice and a speed-boost from using planetary gravity wells. One of the things with...
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Troy Press tipped me off to this with their article in 2019 looking at RPG campaigns played by system where they looked at the top 10 games. When I first looked at this I...
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Interesting links from about the blog-o-sphere and beyond! Slightly late, it being a bank holiday today. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original...
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tl:dr - views up ~ 44% since post #201, tags in Glatisant suggest some find this place useful. Requests can be made in the comments. On traffic Comparing to October last year,...
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Troy Press wrote an interesting article in 2019 looking at RPG campaigns played by system where they looked at the top 10 games. I thought it might be interested to rerun that...