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The gold hebdomadariversary of these weekly 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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tl:dr; a great source of detail for medieval warfare that can enrich your TTRPG games. "A Practical Guide to Medieval Warfare: Exploring History through Wargaming" by Richard...
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AideDD published their Character Builder stats and there are some really interesting trends in those 27k users. I recorded the same data reported in 2020 so let us look at what...
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First links of 2022! 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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Rewritten and expanded from a response I wrote to someone asking 'how do you start in D&D' after a buddy of mine pointed them my way. Starting from the baseline of 'I've heard...
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So 2021 has been a year with a bunch of milestones in it. I turned 40, got this very neat sketch to commemorate the occasion by the bard in my home campaign. I got a fair block...
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Links for the last week of 2021! 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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This is a repeat of a piece I wrote in ~ 2007 for Irish gaming blog Direweasel, now lost to bit-rot. I am putting it up here as a good round up of what I look for in a game,...
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tl:dr; three light-weight free kriegspiel systems, a setting and lots of useful content generation tools in this compilation of tabletop goodness. This is "a variety of...
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As we thunder towards the end of the year - more links! 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; pulling apart a theme of 'taking over unoccupied castles' and managing realms above a parties level. Working through my old campaigns I realise a strong motif that crops...Linked by the ring
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tl:dr; 195 pages of d12 random tables to spice up any aspect of your fantasy RPG, stuffed with entertaining art and inspiration sparks. I have been on a Lulu.com kick - the...
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Shiny TTRPG links gathered from across the internets. 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: testing online tools for generating world maps then simulating the climate. I stumbled across a piece of paper, scribbled with notes that make up a hard-core...
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tl;dr: amazing world building tools packaged with a simplified D&D style system in a gorgeous chunky hardback. I picked up Worlds Without Number after backing the kickstarter....
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Shiny TTRPG links gathered from across the internets - a rich crop this week (because people had Thanksgiving to write?). More can be found on the previous list found here. The...
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tl;dr: NPC party generation tables to match what people are actually playing as PCs Inspired by Appendix P of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide - for “Creating a Party on the Spur...
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Knight at the Opera wrote an interesting post on how DM's and Players appear to him to be two communities, purchasing different products and consuming different media. I think...
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A collection of interesting TTRPG pickings from across the internet - as recommended by the Grumpy Wizard. More Shiny TTRPG links can be found on the previous list found here....
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What kind of desperate, ruthless mercenaries sign on for the Blood War? It is known throughout the lower planes that the yugoloths make up the lions share of mercenaries -...
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Setting up for a new Planescape campaign I was putting some thought into how to make the inhabitants of the Lower Planes feel different one from the other. There is already a...
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A collection of interesting TTRPG pickings from across the internet. More Shiny TTRPG links can be found on the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of...
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Dwarves are famous as iron workers but bronze is arguably the superior metal, iron is just more abundant and easier to work. Brazen dwarves are a convergent evolutionary...
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tl:dr; a great guide to modding D&D with GUMSHOE investigation systems to beef up non-combat. Written for Pathfinder, easy to mod for other editions. I have heard good things...
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The links that are the answer to life, the universe and everything. For more Shiny TTRPG links see the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this -...
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tl;dr: a campaign set up for touring the planes with a drop-in, drop-out table Starting from a place where: - opportunities to travel the stranger corners of the planes are...
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Matt Colville got a monstrous 12k response to "Which was the first edition of D&D you played?" so I swept up some comparable surveys to see if things had changed over time....
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More links for the link-god - and if this is not enough Shiny TTRPG links see the previous list found here. The original inspiration for all of this - weaver.skepti.ch End of...
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tl;dr: large open tables have their own rules, needing more viking-hat* DM-ing and a focus on pace to keep the show moving. On request from friends of the blog The Adventuring...
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tl:dr; I tried to verify/disprove the graph of campaign levels from D&D Beyond against other surveys - looks like there is more high level play than implied by D&D Beyond and...