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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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Over the last 6 months or so, I've been playing on-and-off in a campaign using Candlekeep Mysteries, run by Jack Shear from Tales of the Grotesque & Dungeonesque. I made it to...
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In fall 2019, Magpie Games ran a successful Kickstarter for a roleplaying game based on the Root board game published by Leder Games. In support of the Kickstarter, Magpie...
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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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My ongoing Tolkienian Science Fantasy project is all about creating an easy-to-understand "french vanilla" setting by replacing the common character and monster species of...
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A few years ago, I was running a weird west Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign where I went searching for mine-themed adventures to reskin and convert to DCC. I used...
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Darkseid left his suit at the cleaners, and all the other DC villains mistake him for Cinderblock, who got stuck working overtime at, you guessed it, the dry cleaners, trying...
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After recently reviewing In the Light of a Ghost Star, it seems my antennae were up for other games inspired by William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. So I was pleasantly...
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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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Doodle Champion Island Games This review is a bit of a departure, since the Doodle Champion Island Games is a video game, rather than a tabletop RPG. It's a free-to-play...
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Mausritter Both WFS and I have written favorably about Isaac Williams' Mausritter in the past, especially its mechanics, so this will be a brief review of Mausritter's...
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In the Light of a Ghost Star is an ultralight ruleset that includes a mini campaign setting, sample hexcrawl, and sample dungeon. It's written and illustrated by Nate Treme...
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I recently joined the Skeleton Crew of a new blogging enterprise - Bones of Contention. The overall goal of the blog is to serve as a repository of reviews written by a group...
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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
- GYGAX 75: Week 1 CONCEPT I CAST LIGHT!
- Shiny TTRPG links collection #18 Seed of Worlds
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On Discord, From the Sorcerer's Skull posed a question about people's earliest memories of owning comic books. I believe his questions were about the first comic you ever read,...
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The Class Alphabet for DCC In spring 2016, David Coppoletti reached out to me and a couple dozen other DCC fans on Google+. He had an ambitious idea - a sourcebook of 26...
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The Forgotten Rites of the Moldering Dead Donn Stroud invited me to contribute to a sourcebook of tables for generating undead monsters for DCC, The Forgotten Rites of the...
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How much damage does a hit point represent?For some time now, the official standard in D&D and Pathfinder has been that starting characters get the maximum hit points at 1st...
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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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The Symphonies of the PlanetsNASA Voyager Recordingsvia The Internet Archive"Soaring to the depths of our universe, gallant spacecraft roam the cosmos, snapping images of...
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So, you may have heard the rumor that there's this Zine Quest going on right now over at Kickstarter. This time around, there are a few projects out by people I'm friends with,...
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In my post about Tolkienian science fantasy, I suggested creating a "french vanilla" setting by replacing elves, dwarves, and hobbits with famous science fiction species.Today...
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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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."Ohio" by Over the Rhine, Ohio ."Carry Me Ohio" by Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts of the Great Highway ."Ohio" by Modest Mouse, This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think...
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In early November, my father caught the novel coronavirus. This week, he died of COVID 19.My father probably caught coronavirus while volunteering at a food pantry. The...
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The Key to Crystal-Clear Cocktails? MilkCamper EnglishCook's Illustrated "After a 150-year absence, milk punch is back. The base recipe for milk punch includes citrus juice...
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I like seeing what sorts of interesting world-building other bloggers get up to. I also like a good map. (For that matter, I'm fairly fond of bad maps!) Recently I've noticed...
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, obviously one of Jack's inspirations I recently had the opportunity to playtest a new ruleset written by Jack from Tales of the Grotesque...