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Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find more links on the weekly blogroll on r/OSR. Instant and Meanders on weaver.skepti.ch on...
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tl;dr: fantasy flying ship combat where the wind direction matters - surprisingly easy to pick up, lots of fun and some great old school damage tables detail that makes ship...
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tl;dr: how I crushed the time to spin up a campaign setting by bulking out a skeleton of inspiration with the best of OSR random generation tables. After a significant hiatus,...
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More nuggets of TTRPG gold. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find more links on the weekly blogroll on r/OSR. Wandering Gamist...
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Birdfolk and other avians are an interesting bunch to look at from a culture perspective since they have a completely different experience of the same geographies everyone else...
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tl;dr: few tables (1/3) are getting ~10 levels done in a campaign; once you get a tier done, contingency plan your wrap-up if you want one. A twitter poll by rahab_akatriel...
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More great links from the link-mines below. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find more links on the weekly blogroll on r/OSR....
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To set the context of the games that I tried to run that failed to launch or blew up before hitting their stride we need to list the games I played in (as opposed to ran) as...
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I saw a retrospective on a persons gaming (Failing Better on Against the Wicked City) and decided to tot up all the gaming I have been involved in over the years. The big thing...
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More great links from the link-mines below. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. You can find more links on the weekly blogroll on r/OSR....
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We wrap up with the Kobolds Art Exhibition zine by Evlyn Moreau. Links to the review and part I of play using it, Part II - Adventures in Paintings, Part III - the Rescue, Part...
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I have reviewed Aces High in 'set piece test' format before for flying-ship-on-flying-ship combat but I had the great good fortune to be able to test them as they were intended...
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A little light on links this week because I have been getting more actual gaming in; Thursday-Saturday playing, Wednesday prepping for Saturday which I ran. Good problems to...
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For upcoming Gehenna hex-crawl piece, I am snapping off this mercenary band generator. In particular I had in mind the volcanic slopes of Khalas, known as 'the Gentle Land',...
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These encounter ideas are bulked out using repeated firings of the Bellard tool with some minor sense-checking and clean up: What are these prideful, domineering arcano-technic...
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Links of interest from the past week. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. This week I collated the lions share from the Weekly OSR...
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tl;dr: a book so good, I bought the fancy dice needed to use this handy DM's miscellany. I probably open it more often than the DMG when prepping sessions. If the measure of a...
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Flipping & Turning: The Annals of the Grog Empire is the official gaming magazine of the GrogTalk podcast - I was pointed to it when it was pushed on twitter and asked for my...
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More treasures from about the TTRPG internet - previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Further excellnet thoughts on dying heroically on...
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After testing two magazine-published sets of rules for fighting magical flying ships - the 3e adaptation Shadow of the Spider Moon and the 5e Aces High aerial combat rules from...
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Based on another piece of the perceptions survey done by u/zonination I thought to take a look at what people meant when they use certain common descriptions of amounts....
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Completing our second dozen of 'things of interest to TTRPG players' - previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Another set of collected links...
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My traditional approach is to just let a campaign follow its nose, let the players run down whatever alleys they want, but I recently found my home campaign had a clock put on...
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tl;dr: another fascinating location and drawings to introduce your seaborne Thousand Thousand Islands campaign. The missing boxes of materials turned up and these last zines...
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Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links who has a particularly delicious collection this week and I have knocked out the duplicates. "If you...
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As an additional tool for city building, cuisine is a nice one - certainly nothing makes a city memorable like the entire food economy being based around an odd local crop or...
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Prompted by an expression of surprise that a twitter poll was showing ~1/4 players choose human, I want to revisit the question at it and share the datasets. This is partly in...
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More links for the link-god. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. I liked this - proposing the inspiration for Mystara as Earth of 135...
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Continuing testing of fantasy space combat systems following our first go with Shadow of the Spider Moon, we come to our second test: Aces High, the 5e aerial combat rules from...
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Kobolds may be tiny dragons but their appetites for glory and recognition of their magnificence are of a similar size. But there are many, many kobolds so what happens on a...