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Workbook Now Available On Itch! Bite-Sized Dungeons by Traverse Fantasy Edit: This whole time, I said that a first level dungeon hoard had 100 times d6 gold pieces when it...Linked by the ring
- Libra, Session 12 - The Finale Archon's Court
- Machine Space Exploration - Navigator Domain Procedures Part 2 Archon's Court
- Rota Fortunae Retrospective (Handling Active Faction Sandboxes) Archon's Court
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- zungeon toolset breakdown Fluorite Guillotine
- dungeons (where do i start?) Fluorite Guillotine
- Microblog: Zodiac Constellations in Bite-Sized Dungeons Rise Up Comus
- Generating Jaquaysed Dungeons (1) Wandering Diejack
- Bathtub Review: Beyond Corny Groń Playful Void
- The Great Antarctic Hexcrawl Pt. 4 - Experimenting with Random Pointcrawl Dungeons Idraluna Archives
- Year of the Dungeon TRAIPSE
- Spell FRIEND and Enter mindstorm
- Dungeon23: Day 14 reflection and pivot Playful Void
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You can quit playing your pretend games wholesale and go back to living an undisturbed life not worrying about what a lyric game is or whether indie creators are more or less...Linked by the ring
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This is Part 1 because I didn't want to be late to my own party but I also don't like blogging for a topic in advance even if it's my idea. Feels like homework. And I like...Linked by the ring
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So, here’s the thing: originally I wrote this like a fucking research article with a hypothesis, a methodology, and all that stuff. I’m not even a scientific research person....
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Basically: I was inspired by Dwiz’s post about how ‘the maze game’ of charting sites was central to early D&D in contrast to later approaches which abstract or give knowledge...
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Okay so basically last Friday I was going to post about play procedures—the basic bitch shit for travel, exploration, and combat—but then I was like busy with nice real life...
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https://www.tumblr.com/hashtagloveloses/709450126123466753/it-seems-people-dont-understand-a-glup-shitto-is This is a friendly response to my friend Sandro's post about blorb...
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I have been sort of doing some soul-searching with regards to my participation in this whole thing. I've said before, when I was in a pissy mood, that I'm only really here for...
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I’ve mentioned in passing my haven rules for my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! but never took the time to describe it in much detail. Remember that I don’t really fuck with...
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Occasionally, I check Reddit to see if I missed anything interested in this sphere of things. Not usually, but today—yeah! Reddit user Kubular reported a misunderstanding of...
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A long time ago, I talked about how the board game Pandemic designed its different player roles around posing exceptions to the rules. If a city overflows with disease cubes,...
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Before you get mad at me, I didn't come up with the title; Zedeck did! I have him to thank for that and also for inspiring me to revisit this topic by revising and expanding...
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Gee, it sure is boring around here— DISCLAIMER The author wrote this article out of her interest in this hobby, and also to synthesize this with her other interests in...Linked by the ring
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The vocabularies of certain Indo-European languages encode a memory of a social taboo against speaking the name of the bear. Germanic languages famously (although not quite...Linked by the ring
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Dear Reddit: am I the asshole? I jumped into a conversation on the OSR discord about how people often write TTRPG adventures (or texts more broadly, I think) with such a...Linked by the ring
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The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognizability, is the past to be held fast. “The truth will...Linked by the ring
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I left my Switch at home so I've been borrowing my partner's to play her copy of Shadows Over Loathing, a silly quirky goofy point-and-click RPG in the lineage of the...Linked by the ring
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I'm working on aggregating the posts on this blog into a big book so I can eventually delete it for my personal safety, considering the state of our world. There were some...Linked by the ring
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Hashtag OSRisOverParty, Hashtag RIPBozo, etc etc. The initial… “edition” of Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition tried to present itself as a reactionary return to some ideal past...Linked by the ring
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I have been writing and printing one-page leaflets. Above is a template; basically you fold the page into eighths, and cut along the dotted line; then you can re-fold and...Linked by the ring
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Remixing pieces from "Genders Without Number" in a non-game context. This is a blog, not a published work; don't expect it to be perfect or for it to cover every conceivable...
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Need to write something to stay in the habit. Story's going well, just trying to avoid burnout.There are three separate "problems" I have: making attack and damage rolls...Linked by the ring
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W.F. Smith at Prismatic Wasteland challenged bloggers to invent and name a new resolution mechanic for a TTRPG to commemorate the new year. In my typical fashion, I'm going to...
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Ultimately [UVG2E], like UVG1E, are books [sic] that long to be cut to pieces, chopped & screwed and re-arranged and re-organized and repurposed into the collected loose-leaf...Linked by the ring
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The cleave rule is pretty common for fighters: after defeating an enemy, you get to attempt a free attack against another. How effective is this rule, especially when compared...Linked by the ring
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Expanding upon a comment I posted in reply to hdp on my post about modes of play! The original thing I said: … I think we would benefit from thinking less about strict/specific...Linked by the ring
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Above is a WIP background for a referee screen, drawn by Emiel Boven for Errant by Ava Islam!Okay, whatever, I keep mentioning this in private conversations and meant to write...Linked by the ring
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One of the most common misconceptions I’ve seen about the original Dungeons & Dragons is that it tells players to use the Avalon Hill board game Outdoor Survival to handle...
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I wanted Fantastic Medieval Campaigns to serve, first and foremost, as a reference for the original 1974 ruleset that is easier to browse and parse. For me, the original...Linked by the ring
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It is not uncommon for a rulebook to introduce itself by its universal resolution procedure. It's become a cliche at this point, so let's say it together: "When your character...
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This is something I wanted to isolate from my post about mosaic worlds [1] because I thought it was worth drawing out and expanding upon. In that post, I talk about organizing...
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Click Here for 'Basic Edition'Is the OSR dead yet? If you asked a couple of my friends, they would say yes: there was a body of cultural knowledge which has been rendered...
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I don’t know how much I’ve ever spent on TTRPG materials in total. I’d probably put it under $200 [1], with the most expensive (yet worthwhile) being physical copies of Old...
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In most campaigns I've played, the passage of time on a larger scale is handled liberally. We tend to see the value in handling smaller scale time via procedure, thinking of...Linked by the ring
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I’ve used a bracket system for combat opponents in my home campaign for a while now. It’s been useful to pull stats and moves out of my butt without having to design monsters...Linked by the ring
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I don’t know who the target audience is for this. As much as I do preach the virtues of the play culture surrounding D&D Fifth Edition, it’s with no thanks to the actual...Linked by the ring
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This almost certainly has already been figured out by someone else, but here goes: D66 is really handy to index a radial hexmap, so long as it has a radius of 3 from the...Linked by the ring
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I’m somewhat a connoisseur of cozy slop games. Ever since I played Harvest Moon (since renamed to Story of Seasons—don’t play games with me, kid) and Rune Factory via emulator...Linked by the ring
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I drafted an (unused) rule that players can sacrifice their characters to let the rest of the crew escape whatever situation they’re in. It was requested by friends online and...Linked by the ring
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A specter is haunting elf-games… the specter of WORKER PLACEMENT! (Please, God, don't let people read this as if I was suggesting this was actually a manifesto and am not just...Linked by the ring
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I've finally posted an updated version of my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! having accepted that it is a living document and that there will always be gaps whether because I'm...Linked by the ring
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I got new rules, I count 'em.I liked my existing rules for conversations, being basically the same as in D&D Fifth Edition, but I felt like they lacked structure up to the...Linked by the ring
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I mentioned earlier I was using Gus L. and I’s dungeon from Fantastic Medieval Campaigns so I could be lazy and not have to prep much for my home campaign’s alien arc—isn’t...Linked by the ring
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Okay. They slapped me on the wrist at work for saying in an email thread which CC’d my boss’ boss’ boss that I hadn’t (past tense!) used AI on a project. They apparently spent...Linked by the ring
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Alex from To Distant Lands had been considering Cinco! to play his Gran Carcosium setting (which I had played in a little bit ago!), and he asked me where I was at with feats...Linked by the ring
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I really like Eldritch Fields’ table for encounter activities, but I wanted to simplify it so that I don’t need an entirely different set of indices for sentient vs...Linked by the ring
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I wanted to have a pseudo-lifepath thing in the appendices for Cinco! to help players conceptualize characters if they’re at a loss with where to get started. Below is what...Linked by the ring
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The Lord of the Rings is strange. This is not going to be particularly insightful or thoughtful. I hadn’t seen the movies since over a decade ago, and I think my mom was...Linked by the ring
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Sorry, I just need to exorcise a thought real quick to convince myself why it’s a bad idea. The impulse is I realized that Cinco! doesn’t have swords +1 and I was like, oh, how...Linked by the ring
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Swear to Gxd I was working on this before the previous post. I just waited to post until it seemed less topically timely because it was a genuine effort and something I had...Linked by the ring