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This is going to be a kind of strange fragment. Nothing helpful by itself. It's one of those "Towards a Theory of X" posts. You're welcome! Figure it out!When playing Iron...
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Well, woman, the way the time cold I wanna be keeping you warm I got the right temperature for shelter you from the storm Oh Lord, girl, I got the right tactics to turn you on,...
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More old DM binder stuff! Also dating to March 2020. Unedited. Uncompromised. Factions These factions exist outside of simple human ideology, though some human factions claim...
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Posting random tidbits from my old DM stuff! This dates to March 2020, early Covid-era. Towers & HutsWizard towers are the loci of arcane experiments, which usually take place...
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Haters will say you can’t 0e-post and 5e-post at the same time. I’ve talked before about the relationship between Outdoor Survival and the original Dungeons & Dragons as...Linked by the ring
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Vodka Gobalsky / Gin Bradbury gave me a much better idea for a name for FIVEY / FMCNEXT / D&DEEEEE that meets my very strict aesthetic requirements. Going with Cinco now!...
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I don’t know anything about the Forgotten Realms, but what’s nice is that I don’t even have to. The setting is one big set of plot conveniences to put everyone’s favorite...
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I've had three general tendencies lately: (1) desire more freeform role-play that relies more upon fictional positioning than mechanical optimization; (2) play more interesting...
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Obviously I'm not the only person to have decided 50-50 resolution felt just right, but I didn't realize how much good thinking has already been done on the topic! Check these...
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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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New year, new me? Sorta kinda. I've found myself recounting the same origin story to multiple people multiple times, so I thought that I would put it on record so there's no...
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Happy Holidays! Tomorrow, the next year will begin and we'll get the chance to reflect upon and renovate different aspects of our lives. I wanted to take the opportunity to do...
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After play-testing, I want to combine titles and skills into one category called aspects. The difference between titles and skills was kind of confusing, especially when skills...
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User The-Magic-Sword on EN World published a fantastic post about neo-traditional (OC) role-playing games and the role that mechanics play in facilitating this play-style, as...
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Every Christmas season, and in July if I’m feeling nasty, I watch Neo Yokio. It’s an animated show from 2017 about a young demon hunter trying to find the balance between...
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JWMillwright left this really cool comment on my previous post about fighters: I’ve more or less adopted these rules but allow Fighters to use this bonus as one of the...
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I’m not a gamer. I had friends in high school that were, and sometimes I would play with them, but I’m not very literate about video games in general. Minecraft is fun! Pokémon...
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For a while, I’ve had a big theoretical post about art in my drafts—not that I think my own thoughts are that important, but that it was something I wanted to explore for...
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Have posted math similar to this, but now it's (1) specifically in the context of Odd-like rulesets and (2) comparable to stats that would be generated using 3d6.Suppose three...
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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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Niosis and I were talking about the expert class in FMC Basic, as well as the one that appears in Lamentations of the Flame Princess or the more general (yet specific, lol)...
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Answering some questions about my last post! But first, I wanted to say that I've confirmed that Jarrett Crader and Fiona Geist were not involved with Unconquered in a...
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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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Someone shared with me Chaos Reigns, a hack of OD&D combat. It’s not to my own taste (check it out still!), but it got me thinking about something I wish it had done:...Linked by the ring
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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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You're a regular 1d figure. How many tries does it take to defeat another figure like you? Maybe 1 if you can land a hit, or 2 if you account for your chance to do that.Nope,...
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Behold my woes:LBB or FMC: Lots of dice-rolling.AD&D: Stupid and bad; multi-attack hell.B/X or OSE: Plain boring. Boooooo.DCC: No multi-attacks.D&D4: Too many choices.D&D5: The...
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You will look at my Spotify Wrapped.
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I'm thinking that I want to start collecting DVDs of movies and shows that I like. On one hand, it's because streaming is annoying and increasingly expensive. On the other...
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Kaique pointed out in the comments of my last (actual) post, "5e Campaign Structure", that there is actually some variation in level duration between the beginning and end of a...