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I mentioned before that I'm going to be taking over as the head writer for Discerning Dhole's CRAWL-thulhu zine. I haven't made many decisions about the future direction of the...
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Lately I find myself wishing my campaigns were set someplace a little better defined. For awhile now I've been running a very episodic campaign that started in one town, then...
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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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My friends John Potts and Todd McGowan have just published the second issue of their DCC zine - CRAWL-thulhu! Zine by John Potts, Art by Todd McGowan I was a playtester and a...
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I wanted to share some quotes from Empire in Black and Gold, both to show a little what Adrian Tchaikovsky's writing looks like, and to illustrate a few ideas from the text....
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If Adrian Tchaikovsky's Empire in Black and Gold isn't the GLOGosphere's favorite novel, it probably should be. In the first place, all the characters are technically human,...
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In my recent post about types of resources, I had an especial bone to pick with light sources and darkness. Even more recently, Rise Up Comus followed up on my complaint. The...
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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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Piteous Cloak - The Piteous Cloak is an ebon-dark garment made from countless strips of black fabric, hung like a cape around the shoulders, fastened with an tarnished silver...
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The Vainglorious Proboscid Armor Class: As unarmored Hit Dice: 4 Move: As human Attacks: 1 abducting grasp (special) or 2 claws (d4) or 1 diseased bite (d8 + special) No...
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Consider this the start of an "Appendix N" of inspirational materials for inter-planetary (but not inter-stellar) adventures. The Solar System is much cozier than here. The...
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Characters Chaus Hussar (cavalryman, 2nd level Wizard) - played by Peter Tomas Antonio de Carlos Ortega (shoemaker, 1st level Knave of Diamonds) - played by Todd Milton J...
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Session 8 Characters Sweet Nell (innkeeper, 2nd level Warrior) - played by Todd Stella (trapper) Dagmar (lawyer) Hellen (porter) Tess (draughtswoman) - played by Cheryl...
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I'm not happy that Google Plus is ending, and that the RPG scene that meets there is going to be scattered across a dozen new diasporic footholds, but I have mostly made my...
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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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My very last entry in the 2018 Gongfarmer's Almanac was a reprint and update of something I wrote earlier that's fallen out of print now. One nice thing about putting this up...
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Over the winter holidays, Joshua Burnett from the Bernie the Flumph! blog ran an Into the Odd adventure, and I had the opportunity to play in it. I thought at first it might be...
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A couple years ago, at this point, there was a meme going around Google Plus of people posting screenshots of a randomly generated Traveller character made using the Devil...
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I like random character generation. Rather than coming up with a robust concept for my character and then trying to generate her, I usually prefer to let the dice make a lot of...
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I previously noted that 5e's character backgrounds often call for discreet bits of co-creative worldbuilding, where the player adds something to the campaign setting in...
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Character backgrounds are a cool enough concept that they probably deserve their own post, but I've been thinking about D&D 5e recently, so I want to jump ahead and look at...
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Alex Chalk from To Distant Lands managed to get me thinking about how Phoebe from the Magic School Bus cartoon always brought up her old school, and how things were different...
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Kyle Marquis is a game designers who tweets at @HexADay. His ongoing project is tweeting out hexmaps at a rate of, well, you can probably guess. Anyway, he's completely...
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I have no idea who Imminent Church Engine is, and I can't remember how I initially found a link to their website, but I'm glad I saved a copy. They've created two...
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On February 10th, Mandy Morbid spoke out publicly about how her ex-boyfriend abused her, and how he tried to manipulate her into helping him abuse other women. Her statement...
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I'd eventually like to try running a D&D 5e game, although in the mean time, I'm somewhat torn about what campaign I'd like to use 5e for. I have three main campaign ideas, so...
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I really want this bag. Design by Bielke & Yang I can't have it, because I wasn't in Oslo between October 2015 and February 2016, and so I didn't go to the Norwegian National...
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Just before it was released, I had the chance to playtest The Sanctum of the Snail, a DCC adventure by Josh Burnett from the Bernie the Flumph! blog. The following play report...
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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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... actually, wait, please DO tell me the odds! Let me back up. Chris McDowall of Bastionland is writing a combined rules / setting book for running Into the Odd (I2TO) in...