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Current events have really depleted my attention span and my ability to focus. One solution, for me, has been to read books, not just of short stories, but of SHORT shorts,...
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When keeping records and posting the results of an ongoing campaign, the last report is the hardest to write.The earlier play reports have a certain momentum to them. Writing...
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Alpine anticipates the passionate beginning of a new relationship "There's gasoline in your eyes, there's fire in mine" While Sunset Rubdown reflects on its devastating...
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Blogger recently updated their user interface. In the process, a few default settings changed in ways that are worth being aware of.Let's take a look at a few of these...
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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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In part 1 of my review of the game Barbarian Prince, I looked at the map and the rules layout. In part 2, I looked at the main actions that the player can take. In this current...
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Recently I've noticed a few people announcing big, bold campaign ideas. They're in various stages of progress - some have been used in play, some have mechanics, some are still...
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I think one of the major appeals of the GLOG is the rules for spellcasting. Spellcasters know a certain number of spells and possess a certain number of Magic Dice, or MD....
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In part 1 of my Barbarian Prince review, I looked at the map and the overall presentation of information within the rulebooks. This time I want to look at what I'm calling the...
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Over the course of my GLOG Wizard City game, Josh Burnett has done several sketches of his character, Jimbo Chirrup, the grasshopperfolk garden-wizard. Here's Jimbo before our...
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Wizard Grad School 3rd Year Dungeon Exams This is the final leg of my GLOG campaign in Goodberry Monthly's ever-increasing Wizard City campaign setting. After the events of the...
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I recently read a really glowing review of the boardgame Barbarian Prince that got me curious about the game - both what it's like to play it, and also at a more basic level,...
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A Picture of Change for a World in Constant Motion Jason Farago New York Times "During Hokusai’s lifetime, Japanese were barred from leaving the country, on pain of death. But...
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Steven Moore's history of the novel opens with a defense of difficult literature. The type of books he praises, books with stylized prose and experimental plot structures, are...
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A recent comment on my post about the trend of naming books for "the occuaptionist's female relative" gave me the idea that it might be fun to use these as 0th-level...
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In a game about traveling, it makes sense that experience might primarily come from travel itself rather than from finding treasures or defeating monsters. In Ryuutama, players...
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. The Crown asks us to believe the impossible . "Porchie's father is also Porchie" . . But Orphan Black knows the truth . "There are not two Pouchies, darling" . .
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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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When Mesmerism Came to America Max Nelson New York Review of Books "Control is a coveted possession. The mesmerists and skeptics all seem to want it; at any rate, they want to...
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Session 7 Raku Chihuly - dragonborn guid artisan, 4th level battlesmith artificer - played by Emily Willibald Honrblower - halfling noble, 4th level college of lore bard -...
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In Dungeon Crawl Classics, an attack roll of natural 20 is always a critical hit. An attack roll of natural 1 is always a fumble. As they level up, characters gain an extra...
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In a class I took on museum studies, we read Tangible Things, a companion volume to a Harvard University museum exposition of the same name. The purpose of the both the book...
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Enormous Scale Models of Cities are Mind-Blowing and Gorgeous Vincze Miklos Gizmodo "Sometimes the only thing more awe-inspiring than a city is a massive model of the city,...
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Kitsune - 1st level - played by Emily Courtesan - 1st level - played by me Session 1 Somewhere in the hinterlands of feudal Edo-period Japan, a meteorite made of mysterious...
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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque recently posted a critique of "powers checks" in Ravenloft. Jack describes the premise of a powers check, then listed his two key...
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Note: I thought about these books as I thought about the pandemic over the course of a few months, then wrote them up in a few weeks. And because those few weeks coincided with...
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After defeating the goblin bandits in the Cragmaw caverns, the group decided to pursue the bandit leader by following the map they found, leading to Castle Cragmaw! Session 5...
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Nick LS Whelan continues to convert a curated selection of rpg blog posts into audio files for the Blogs on Tape project. I'm a fan! Admittedly, my opinion here is biased by...
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Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle Museum of Science + Industry "One of the most popular film actresses of her time, Colleen Moore assembled a legion of her industry colleagues to...
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A little while back, Trey from From the Sorcerer's Skull wrote about how he builds mysteries into his campaign settings, in response to a question I asked him. Ever since, I've...