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My friend Ava Islam and I were talking about how thieves could possibly be integrated into OD&D without compromising the integrity of its simple system with little mechanical...Linked by the ring
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This is something I wanted to isolate from my post about mosaic worlds [1] because I thought it was worth drawing out and expanding upon. In that post, I talk about organizing...
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Since making my Classic Traveller world generator (link), I've also made a world generator for Chris P.'s Night Tripper. Come check it out! (Click here)
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This weekend, I made a Classic Traveller world generator to practice programming websites (since I don't know very much HTML, CSS, or JavaScript). The project was inspired by...
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Note: I started writing this in March 2022. I procrastinated.This post was originally inspired by one of my experimental (and defunct!) pamphlets Blockcrawl, where the referee...
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We were chatting on Discord about resurrection across different editions of D&D. I said that instead of there being any major consequences in Fourth Edition, you should just be...
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I think that blogs are great for facilitating discourse [1]. However, when it comes to practical functionality at the table or even on a video call, it can be difficult to rely...
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Combat is a key concern of playing a D&D because that's part of what we expect the game to entail. It's whatever. I do feel like if you're focusing on a lethal sneaking-around...
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Good morning! I've taken the list of blog posts from my post last week, "The OSR Should Die" [1], and expanded it to include posts from 2006 to 2021. I've explained my...
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Please read the original post (link!) if you haven't! I also updated the conclusion a couple hours after I published it, so you might want to read that to better understand my...Linked by the ring
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Click Here for 'Basic Edition'Is the OSR dead yet? If you asked a couple of my friends, they would say yes: there was a body of cultural knowledge which has been rendered...
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Last time, on wizards hating me... (link) I expect this to be a somewhat shorter entry in this series. After all, inventory and encumbrance (whichever aspect you focus on) are...
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Did you miss the last post? (link)Player InterfaceI don’t think it’s unfair to say that the overwhelming majority of content published for playing games (that aren’t...
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I don’t know how much I’ve ever spent on TTRPG materials in total. I’d probably put it under $200 [1], with the most expensive (yet worthwhile) being physical copies of Old...
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Proceduralism is, first, a method of reading rules texts to understand the structures of play activity that they prescribe, rather than according to any particular rules or...Linked by the ring
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I released TURN last week, on April 20 [1]. TURN is a trifold pamphlet that offers a generic (i.e., system-neutral or whatever) dungeon crawl procedure. It takes inspiration...
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So, this one is going to be short. I pinkie promise!I was exploring a framework for a Pokemon campaign and thought it would be fun to make use of percentile dice (i.e. d% or...
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Marx in Capital, Volume I defines the commodity form as a dyad of use-value and exchange-value. This means that a commodity on one hand is a thing that can be used, that fills...
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I've had a post on the back burner for a while about reading rulebooks and other materials procedurally, and I wish it were finished prior to this post just as an easy...
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The word “abstraction” has many applications in the realm of computer science and software engineering. One immediate sort of abstraction you might think of is the graphical...
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A while ago, I had written about the pseudo-medieval economy of Dungeons & Dragons by treating it as a pre-industrial capitalist economy emerging out of a feudal society. I had...
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I wrote this in response to LS's comment [1], but it ended up being super long!Hope y'all find it useful still. :)Hi, thank you so much for your reply!! So I’ve actually...
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I feel like whenever I preface a post with, “I don’t expect this to be a long one,” it ends up being a long one. I’m going to avoid jinxing myself and get to the point. Here is...
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How’s it go, again? “Same song, different chorus”? My friend mv of hypertext corner wrote a great article about introducing novel uses and consequences to light sources in...
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After writing the blog post on the weird fantasy capitalist economy suggested by Dungeons & Dragons, I had been thinking about ways to apply that sort of thinking to something...
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In this article, I’m going to take a closer look at some of the presuppositions underlying movement and perception in early or early-inspired D&D rulebooks. Originally, I was...
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A not-uncommon complaint about the usual Dungeons & Dragons fare is that combat is a slog, or if it is not a slog then it is repetitive. The usual wisdom is that without a...
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You can quit playing your pretend games wholesale and go back to living an undisturbed life not worrying about what a lyric game is or whether indie creators are more or less...Linked by the ring
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Edit: I removed the photos from this post because they are too large and slowing down the blog for everyone. Apologies on all accounts!I had the pleasure of playing Wanderhome...
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After months of writing and rewriting and analyzing and formatting, the body text of Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, my retroclone of the original 1974 edition of Dungeons &...