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12 is always a wizard, because all of our games could use more wizards in them. Because wizards are the coolest, fuck you wizard haters. Nick LS Whelan, “Structuring Encounter...
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Here's the pitch:Select a damage die from {d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20}.Hit points equals maximum damage.Select a subtractive armor from {-0, -1, -2, -3}.Throw it into whatever....Linked by the ring
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I've been getting really into baking cookies as a way to regulate my own sweet-eating proclivities and also surprise my partner. Going to keep this updated as I experiment...
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I was at a party and a friend and I were jokingly arguing about whether our solo cups were purple or pink, and drunkenly asking around others what they thought. A guy friend...
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Been thinking about procedural generation lately, especially in a paper-and-pencil context. What are some good attempts at procedurally generating game stuff? What do they do...Linked by the ring
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A long time ago, I talked about how the board game Pandemic designed its different player roles around posing exceptions to the rules. If a city overflows with disease cubes,...
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Content Warning: Violence, racism, transphobiaI remember January 6 because it was Three Kings' Day. I was home for Winter break. Although I'd usually spend time off visiting my...
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Just a thought, while thinking about how assisted checks work in Fifth Edition: gaining advantage from assistance should take the lowest of the two characters’ bonuses, not the...
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I think there’s a tendency that once people get into the blog sphere, which is predominantly OSR in its practices and conventions, they all of a sudden become Gygaxian...Linked by the ring
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Was rereading The Communist Manifesto because it had been a couple of years, and I wanted to distract myself from a barrage of awful news in my corner of the world. Afterwards,...
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This is a cross between two recipes. One of them required more ingredients that I don't usually have in my apartment [1], and the other one was like super plain and also locked...
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I posted a review of Frontier Scum on Bones of Contention just over a week ago! Well, sort of a review. I'm not really that interested in the game itself which, as I say in the...
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Just thinking about dice. I remember seeing advice, like six years ago at this point, that you can use d6 (with modifiers) to replace other dice as far as like weapons go since...
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I heard that Spotify is switching to an annoying interface and I didn't want to keep paying $10 a month for it, so I'm switching back to VLC and downloading MP3s like I used to...
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I wanted Fantastic Medieval Campaigns to serve, first and foremost, as a reference for the original 1974 ruleset that is easier to browse and parse. For me, the original...Linked by the ring
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On the Itch page for Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, LtPinback asked if I would consider including metric conversions for the game. Here is my attempt at converting the 1974...
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Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, Version Beta is now available and free to download! FMC is a faithful, one-to-one retroclone of the original 1974 fantasy adventure campaign...
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So. Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition has a really intuitive procedure for handling character dialogues. Like, never mind that it's not really supported by most adventure...Linked by the ring
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I wanted to feature some new art in the upcoming beta version of Fantastic Medieval Campaigns on February 22 (2/22)! Some more artists have graciously contributed their work:...
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Combat in OD&D is different than from subsequent editions of D&D. Characters make one attack per hit die they have, against “man-sized” opponents (though some have argued there...Linked by the ring
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Above is an OD&D character record template from 1975. It looks a bit different than what we expect from character sheets now. We are used to dedicating the whole sheet to the...
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I’m putting this out there. You might have heard of Joseph Stalin. I read his essay, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, from 1951. I also read two responses to that...
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Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, Version Beta is on the horizon! My hope is to publish it on February 22 (2/22). There's quite a few additions, changes, and corrections not only...
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Hi all! This is kind of a general update post. I've reuploaded the dataset of OSR rulesets (link)! This comes after some changes and corrections I made to make sure that the...
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I wanted to talk about a certain quirky algorithm for using two (or more?) dice to index a table. You’re probably familiar with d66, where you roll two six-sided dice: one...
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YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, "Your average human in a flat area without any obstructions in view (think a becalmed sea) can see up to 3 miles" [1]. This...
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This is a followup to a homebrew rules system I’ve used and talked about here a couple times [1] [2]. It was basically a version of Knave with a certain semi-common house rule...
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Good afternoon (at least, to those of you in the CST)!I've just coded and published a random generator for Animal Crossing villagers. Click here to check it out!My partner drew...
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Thank all y’all so much for the kind words and feedback on my big math problem! Let’s just get into it: in this post, I’m going to answer some frequently asked questions and...Linked by the ring