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Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links - who has found a bunch more link curators as well. I am continuously amazed that I can spend the week...
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Grace of the vaccine roll-out here my home campaign managed to get a face to face game in for the first time in months and my players presented me with a Christmas birthday...
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tl;dr: players like to be chaotic good, in neutral or lawful settings. A few recently gathered polls had preferred alignment data, including the survey Mia Gojak did on 5e...
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More links for the link-god. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. A great treasure and hoard generator - worked up on weaver.skepti.ch for...
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After my Calidar books arrived in the mail, I thought the time was ripe for testing the D&D space combat systems against one another to see which was most fun. Current...
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A deep cut into gaming history - graphing up the results of the 1987 White Dwarf survey of gamers - from back when White Dwarf covered general TTRPGs. I was tipped off from...
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A jumbo feast of links for this bank holiday weekend. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Interesting thoughts on magical flux in...
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tl;dr: a gorgeous DM screen and a region-building card deck that is a fantastic tool for generating wilderness locations and encounters. I reviewed Izirions Enchiridion of the...
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With Mass Effect Legendary edition out, and seeing how Once More Into The Void is Kickstarting, I got to thinking about how I would re-wire the Mass Effect main plot if I was...
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A short set of links this week. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. An overview and list of participants of the Gygax 75 worldbuilding...
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The latest update released from WotC had a bunch of interesting data so I threw it together with the 2020 data to see what we see. Short answer - another clear sign of this big...
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Seen asked on the Giants in the Playground forums with some debate over how reliable VTT numbers could be since it won't capture the old guard who shun the online. My...
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More links of interesting inspiration for your table. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. The Battle for The Colossal Wastes of Zhaar...
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tl;dr: more great zines from A Thousand Thousand Islands - grab them while you can! The postal block caused by the plague has been lifted and I have finally gotten my hands on...
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Following up to this post on what do DC should certain descriptions have, I found the original posts I was thinking of and so revisit this and convert to the 5e bounded...
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A further gathering of shiny things from the far corners of the internet. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Design diary for Them Deeper...
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This is a test of using the very neat set up by Liches Libram to delve into the amazing settings of Magic the Gathering to create interesting locations. This is something very...
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tl;dr - a packed box of all you need to run Lankhmar in the gritty DCC feeling - lots to like if you are doing anything with cities. A friend got me Dungeon Crawl Classics...
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More links for the link throne! Also, a site operating note that I have stepped down frequency of posting to this weekly round-up and two more a week while work has picked up...
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The kobolds of the Kobolds Art Exhibition zine by Evlyn Moreau return once more. Links to the review and part I of play using it, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V and Part...
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1. Vaulting - massive and elaborate fortifications; the archetype of this is huge reinforced doors. The message of this is to imply the fabulous wealth of the dragons hoard...
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Another bumper crop of interesting TTRPG links. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Great, meaty collection of advice on how to run games...
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One of the more useful phrases I heard in the last couple of years was 'catastrophic success' - where things go well beyond your wildest imaginings and suddenly you have a...
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I had a recollection of seeing an exercise someone had done that assigned all our common words to state a likelihood of something happen to a percentage value - I did not find...
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Another bumper crop of interesting TTRPG links. Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Also this week from weaver.skepti.ch a good look at...
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tl;dr: second in the series on using side events in 4X and other games for inspiration at your table A second in a series about drawing inspiration from 4x games. We return to...
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The kobolds of the Kobolds Art Exhibition zine by Evlyn Moreau return once more. Links to the review and part I of play using it, Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V. The...
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I saw a post to a group asking 'was it normal to game 6-7 hours sessions twice a week' for 12-14 hours of table time per week. Short answer - that is a lot of gaming, well over...
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Twelve weeks! Twelve weeks we have been doing this and still there are more interesting TTRPG things on the internet! Previous list found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End...
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In conversation on the tweet-machine about the desired properties of RPG supplements I framed it up as: "I want more art, lore and random tables in books; help me run the same...