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Prismatic Wasteland has announced a new Blog Bandwagon. This time, it's adding hexes to a hexcrawl based on the Christmas movies of Rankin & Bass. For my entry, I thought about...
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Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adventures, and...Linked by the ring
- 2025: how it’s going Fluorite Guillotine
- Minifigure This Vorpal Coil
- war in the toybox Fluorite Guillotine
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Everything people make builds on what came before. The original edition of Dungeons & Dragons built on miniature wargaming rules as well as other recent attempts to repurpose...Linked by the ring
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This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous pubcrawl location. Among other things,...Linked by the ring
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The Summer Lego RPG Setting Jam has officially ended. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated! Nineteen people submitted entries between May 8th and July...Linked by the ring
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Hi everyone! I have two announcements about the ongoing Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam, still open until July 8th. First, several people have reached out to me with links that...
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I want to officially announce the start of the Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam! The goal of this game jam is to design a small roleplaying game setting based on the Lego sets we...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Since I wrote this post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a...
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The last time I talked about the book Future Evolution, I mentioned that author Peter Ward and illustrator Alexis Rockman mostly did not engage in the kind of biological...Linked by the ring
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Over at From the Sorcerer's Skull, Trey has an idea for a spooky season campaign setting that really intrigues me. Trey wrote: "the world that the players' would know and...Linked by the ring
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The last time I wrote about Barkeep on the Borderlands, it was but a young Kickstarter with dreams of fully funding, and my own involvement was merely the future promise of an...
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My first introduction to the world of Dune happened years before I read the book, when I saw Wayne Barlowe's illustration of a navigator who was mutated by consuming Spice in...Linked by the ring
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I recently read Jennifer Lena's Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music, and although Lena is writing solely about music, it's not hard to think that...Linked by the ring
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My vision for the world of CRAWL-thulhu, is that it resembles our world in the 1920s and 30s, though obviously with some more menacing elements.I imagine a world that never had...Linked by the ring
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Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a series of conversations between me and Trey Causey from From the Sorcerer's Skull about dungeon crawling science fiction. Our...Linked by the ring
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Suppose one of the Sentinel robots kills, idk, Iceman. Punisher sees this and is like, "Iceman, I shall avenge you!"So then Punisher goes to the guy who built the Sentinels,...Linked by the ring
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I don't know about you, but the idea of trying to write an entire novel, or design a complete game, in a single month (especially a month that's already filled with additional...Linked by the ring
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From the Sorcerer's Skull's recent posts about Dark Sun have gotten me musing about the relationship between the world of Dark Sun and other fantasy worlds within the WOTC...
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Nick LS Whelan has started the fourth season of his Blogs on Tape podcast, and I'm honored to have one of my posts included as the first episode of the new season!You can...Linked by the ring
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There's a worldbuilding challenge called Gygax 75 that's been making the rounds on the blogosphere. I decided to try to look its origins and follow the people who undertook it,...Linked by the ring
- Prepping Should Be Fun, Too Magnolia Keep
- [Gygax 75] 20 FromSoft-y Treasures Spiceomancy
- [Gygax 75] The People Who Live in the Crucible Spiceomancy
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- [Gygax 75] Closing Up The Cadaver Spiceomancy
- [Gygax 75] Divide and Conquer Spiceomancy
- [Gygax 75] Hitting a Wall Spiceomancy
- Gygax 75: wrap-up & suggestions Seed of Worlds
- [Gygax 75] Into the Mines Spiceomancy
- [Gygax 75] Carving out the Valley Spiceomancy
- [Gygax 75] The Setting Spiceomancy
- Gygax 75: Intro, Index & Setting Seed of Worlds
- CRYSTAL FRONTIER - GYGAX '75 PART 1 All Dead Generation
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The other day, I was talking with some friends about our childhood fantasy inspirations. It occurred to me that everyone's knowledge of fantasy (or any other genre) is very...Linked by the ring
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So, last year, I started what I hope will become a tradition for myself by posting about my favorite links from the previous year. I built this collection of links as I saw...
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Recently, Trey of From the Sorcerer's Skull proposed a worldbuilding concept that interested me. How would it change the game to replace the species available to the player...
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Last year, I wrote the first post of what I hoped would be a series, where I kept up with what other roleplaying bloggers are writing about resource management in their games....Linked by the ring
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My Friday night group recently started playing Ryuutama, which got me thinking about the kinds of things you can do on a long journey. Which, in turn, got me thinking about the...Linked by the ring
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One of my goals for my blog this year is to do a bit more sharing of other people's work that I find interesting or enjoyable. You may have gathered from my post collecting...Linked by the ring
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M is also for MAPSRoll 1d12! Random Maps of the Underworld 1 Architectural schematic of local 9th level NPC's stronghold, signed by original builder. Shows network of secret...Linked by the ring
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John Harris of the @Play blog and @Play column writes about "rougelike" videogames. Since I am somewhat interested in procedural generation in tabletop gaming, there are a few...
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Darkvision is fairly common among the character races in D&D 5e. Dwarves have it, elves have it, gnomes have it, half-elves and half-orcs have it, and so do tieflings. Only...
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Price" would make a pretty good set-up for a campaign. I feel confident saying that because apparently the makers of Star Trek...Linked by the ring
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There are three ways I think about information in roleplaying games. Information can be landmark, or hidden, or it can be secret. This division can apply to locations on an...Linked by the ring
- The Keys to My Heart newschoolrevolution.com
- Historical Reconstruction as Play To Be Resolved
- System Considerations for The Donkey Kong Island Hexcrawl Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft
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- Let Players Generate Your NPCs Bommyknocker Press
- Quick Character Leverage Billhook
- Silly & Strange Magic Items Orkish Odyssey
- Patchwork Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 36) Patchwork Paladin
- Structures and Procedures Ladino's Rogue Thoughts
- Why Didn't Silent Titans Change the World? Valeria Loves
- People Walk Too Fast Valeria Loves
- Dissecting Carcosa, and Levels of Gameability Orkish Odyssey
- Investigation as Exploration - Designing an OSR Style Scenario for Call of Cthulhu Atmospheric Underworld
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Cacklecharm from The Manse wrote a series of random tables to generate islands on an Underdark ocean. These tables work together quickly, and I had little trouble assembling...Linked by the ring
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I was thinking about Diogo Noguiera's now-famous post "How to Never Describe a Dungeon!" If you haven't read it, you might like to. He makes a persuasive argument. I'll...Linked by the ring
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The purpose of this post is to try to enumerate all the different resources people try to manage in D&D (or at least the most common ones). One reason for doing this is to take...
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Several times on here, I've referred to a "GLOG-o-sphere" - a sub-scene of RPG bloggers who use the Goblin Laws of Gaming, aka, the GLOG. So just who is this GLOGosphere? Who...Linked by the ring
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D&D-style games traditionally have 6 ability scores, but those 6 scores actually represent 8 different abilities. Those 8 abilities, in turn, are simply the combination of...Linked by the ring
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I'm not the only one with resource mobilization on her mind. In his book Art Worlds, Howard Becker proposes that individual genius isn't what creates art, art is created by...
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In my first post about resource management, I argued that the original rules for resource management in D&D are too difficult, that they're rarely used, that they nevertheless...Linked by the ring
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I previously wrote about devising some experimental procedures for generating a dwarven undercity. As I explained, I have a friend who plans to write an undercity generator,...Linked by the ring
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Recently I've found myself thinking (and commenting on G+) about resource management in D&D. The series of posts I'm starting here is mostly an attempt to gather my thoughts in...
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This post is a continuation of an earlier look at how to explore inside wilderness hexes. You can read the first two posts in the series here and here, and you can read Tales...Linked by the ring
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Beyond Formalhaut recently wrote about wilderness exploration, and it got me thinking about a pair of posts I've been wanting to write for awhile now, comparing the two major...Linked by the ring
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I have no immediate plans to run it, but I rather like the idea of a campaign where the characters are not particularly out to find ordinary, interchangeable gold, but where,...Linked by the ring