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tl:rd: a squirmy art explosion of a 0-level funnel with a great tension ratchet to have the players running to forestall the Age of the Doombringer Moth I backed the...
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tl:dr; RPGGeek helps to figure out what to look at first when dealing with massive humble bundles - wisdom of crowds says Paizo's best work is in there At time of writing...
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tl:dr; a solid planar guide in two parts, clear and readable with some good bits even for old planar hands. I found out about this "sourcebook of planar adventure for...
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There is an interesting view on Deathtrap Games on how "The Critters are the Future of D&D" - I think there is some meat here, worth looking into but if you want to skip the...
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tl:dr; review of a hell-crawl and finding lots to use in place or inspire other campaigns. A batch of NOD magazines came fresh from Lulu.com (praise be the discount code)...
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tl:dr; UVG is great; run it as it is, steal its concepts for the betterment of other games, use it to get those odd books to the table. Tabletop duct tape. Some time back I...
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Continuing on the vein of 'what do I actually use at my table' I want to go through what seeds grew into the last three campaigns I ran - Hikuru (May-07 to Mar-09), Lizard...
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After connecting with the team at Quickphix.ch who ran this TTRPH personality survey earlier this year I had a look at some of the outputs. tl;dr: survey results comparing Big...
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Following up on the previous post about playing the Kobolds Art Exhibition zine. Our party - children of the rulers of the realm - found the Kobolds in the sealed up basements...
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Given the upcoming Dolmenwood kickstarter and the neat thematic fit with my menagerie world campaign I thought it would make sense to talk about the Wormskin zines. tl:dr;...
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A "small game, previously playtested by some at Warpcon" to quote the author Donogh McCarthy, this is a GM-less story game for 3-6 players. With art by Wayne O’Connor of whom I...
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A CHALLENGE from Sundered Shillings off the the OSR Discord server: Hunt down the blog posts that have forever changed how you have run your games, prepped your games, done...
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tl;dr - a great urban module to drop in with some nice on-ramps and trailing hooks; add it to any city you run. I ran Wolpertinger, Wererat - Well! as an urban encounter within...
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I backed the Kickstarter for Creatures which billed itself as "Designed by the creators of Shadows of Esteren and Fateforge, Creatures is a love letter to fantasy bestiaries."...
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tl:dr - for games as for books, plots spring from characters running about under their own impetus I completed National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) again this year which...
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This was done as a check on survey responses for D&D Research Wizards to see which of two survey blocks was more representative. Gathered in September and November 2020, it...
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I went on a jag almost exactly a year ago, looking for RPG sources I would not normally pick up and followed the whisperings of something truly remarkable until I found the...
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To quote the site "Pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy OSR RPG about miserable bastards doing their best/worst in a bleak, dying world." Its arrival has made such a seismic clang...
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The Tabletop RPG Research Survey 2020 - 2021 Results Update #1 shows a first pass on results from their surveys - some interesting outputs and some verifications of things we...
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tl:dr - popularity of RP suggest more easy NPC motivator/goal generators would be handy. The various polls that say that for ~50% of people, their favourite pillar of TTRPGS is...
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Have deliberately left using my '7-step single page prep' late to drive urgency: Step 0 - open the toolkit - Excel sheet with all my tables and models, powerpoint with realm...
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There was a twitter thread mentioning the passing of tribal knowledge within D&D players. The key point was that many assumptions are not made explicit in the guides as it is...
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I have been buying RPG products for 30 years now. A friend called me out recently by identifying me as a big-spender among what I had thought was a pretty hard core group. I...
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I have been thinking about the difference between Spelljammer and Planescape and to me Spelljammer is about having a mobile base for your road adventures while in Planescape...
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tl,dr: typical session length remains stable at ~ 4-5 hours in polls over time. Attempting a wisom of crowds, crude longitudinal survey I compiled a bunch of different player...
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tl:dr; awesome stuff, go get it. I had the great good fortune in a recent break between local lockdowns here in Vienna to walk into my Friendly Local Games Store and spot Veins...
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Long, long ago (fado, fado in Eireann) myself and 3 of my primary school buddies cooked up our own story game and I wanted to talk about this as I think it roots my play style...
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Some thoughts I pulled together on a private discord: 1. Recognise what elements of world-building actually give you bang for buck. My first game I have designs for the coins...
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Following up on class preferences in D&D 5e players with a few new data sources, it underlines that all online fora seem to respond in a similar manner - Facebook, Twitter,...
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Strangers come to Sholtipec to seek many things. The abandoned parts of the city have been un-evenly gleaned and the active core still produces crafts and answers that can be...