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Back at base and noting more shiny links from across the blogosphere. More can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this -...
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1. 'Our people' - you are recognised by someone from your home location and invited to dance when a traditional song is played. Check to see how well you dance, gain a contact...
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I see cyberpunk pieces written where the talent has to be extracted and its just a case of getting in, finding the guy or gal sitting quietly in their room and bundling them...
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A short set as this week I travelled. 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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A delightful zine from Dan Sumption that Kickstarted in Dec 2021 - pitched as "A zine full of whimsical random encounters set in the countryside, suitable for most TTRPGs" it...
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tl;dr: things you can run into on the move in Mechanus. Tends more towards chaotic than the sites because they keep on the move. Inspired by the old Monstrous Compendium II,...
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Another handful of links from about the internet. 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; there is a *lot* of adventuring in a single 10k hex, this post is a round up of many wise sources. This - Scale & Sublimation - was the jolt I needed to get going on...
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tl:dr; emergent world-building by pushing your fantasy world onto Map-to-Globe and giving it a spin to get a new perspective After rediscovering the Map to Globe tool I have,...
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Links for this last day of February. 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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tl;dr: bitter lessons learned of switching between hex-scales on two awesome online tools Working with different hex-scale maps has turned out to be something of a surprising...
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Responding to Grumpy Wizards piece 'where do I start'- on how to get rolling on various projects, I thought I would share my own recipe for cranking stuff out for this blog....
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Interesting links from across the TTRPG blogosphere. 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; a book for playing heroes with miraculous, world-bending powers and running tables that can challenge them. A secret Santa gift from 2020 that I am shamefully late in...
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tl;dr - the Big Reveal is better than the Surprise Twist because it adds to rather than invalidates player knowledge. I saw this post on Reddit "As GMs, I think we overvalue...
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Link from the start of February. 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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The great central locations of Mechanus are well known - Regulus of the Modrons, the Guvnors Fortress of Disciplined Enlightenment, Delon-Estin Oti the symmetrical town. But...
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tl;dr: how to differentiate inhabitants of the plane of Neutral Law. From prep for the first of the Splinters of Hope planar scavenger hunt campaign one-shots these thoughts on...
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Link from the start of February. 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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To follow our Cosmic Defence Brigade piece, a setting, leaning heavily on Dream by Wombo. Inspired by events of the Empyrean Dynasty game.
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Calling back again to the Do It Ourselves prod by the Grumpy Wizard I wanted to sketch out the sci-fi campaign I would love to either play in or run. High concept for this...
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Links of the past week. 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 more...
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I wanted to build a new 'leveled characters curve' from the D&DBeyond and other datasets of the players we have and see how it compares to other approaches. Riffing off Grumpy...
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tl:dr; Fabled City of Brass is a beautiful, atmospheric high level site for adventure. Something I stumbled over trawling Lulu, Anthony Huso's The Fabled City of Brass is an...
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Links of the past week. 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 more...
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Inspired by Xeno's Ramblings and Throne of Salt's book reviews - I had a bumper year for reading in 2021. Combination of no travel and the need to sit still an be a cushion for...
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tl;dr: campaigns that fail are part of getting good at DM'ing. My big point here is that folk who joined before the 5e era joined younger and got in a lot more practice before...
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Links from the link mines! 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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tl:dr; an evocative setting for swashbuckling sky adventures in this first Calidar book. I came across the Calidar supplements come from Bruce Heard, creator of the magnificent...
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With another year past we can update the trend in editions of D&D as played on Roll20. What we are looking at here is the share of D&D players for the various editions only...