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This post is also a shameless plug that Cadastre and RAID Array Mischief are available at my itch page, feel free to pay what you want and let me know what you think! My new...Linked by the ring
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Land surveying is one of my favorite frames for a true-to-life adventure. It requires skill, dedication, time, and logistics. This is why it is a concept I've wanted to explore...Linked by the ring
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A few weeks ago, Lyme at Brackish Draught made an observation that really stuck with me: The "in times of crisis you revert to your training" thing isn't just for gunfights. It...
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Last year I wrote a couple of essays wrestling with the concept of Narrative in tabletop RPGs. In the first, I waddled through the delineation of diegetic and non-diegetic...Linked by the ring
- The Explorateur: Issue #22 Explorers Design
- Rules Don't (Necessarily) Elide Orkish Odyssey
- The 46er - July 2026 Table 46
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This past weekend I was listening to the Queens of the Stone Age 2013 album ...Like Clockwork while I was choring around the house. I love this album but I hadn't chewed on it...Linked by the ring
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I jumped the gun and posted an entry to Prismatic Wasteland's Random Blogwagon about four months early, before he had even set rules and a topic for it. I very much enjoyed...Linked by the ring
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Another design journal, another sequel. About a week ago I was 7 or 8 days into working on the Community family of Queen Bee Ambitions. I'd been reading about Drone...Linked by the ring
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Last winter I put together a draft of rules for swimming and drowning in His Majesty the Worm because I was running Michael Madsen's Caves of Cowardice module, which heavily...Linked by the ring
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One of my most-visited web pages in the last two years is d4 Caltrops's Dungeon Stocking - Expanded table. I could not have finished and stocked my megadungeon for my year-long...
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Meta Image from Michael Q Powell's Photography Blog I've spent the last few days going back through the notes and feedback from last week's playtests. In The Wax Marches I...Linked by the ring
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My friends David and Sandro AD were kind enough to join me on a maiden voyage of my Honeybee RPG tonight and we had a rip-roaring good time. This past weekend I decided to...Linked by the ring
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WF over at Prismatic Wasteland called for a blog bandwagon back in February to discuss the topic of maps. I perseverated for a while about whether I had anything interesting to...
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Hello! Long time no blog. The last month has been busy as all get-out and I haven't been trapped inside by a snowstorm in a little while, so I've been occupied with my day job...Linked by the ring
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Meta image for this post courtesy of DUNGEON WEED at bandcamp Over on the His Majesty the Worm Discord, one of the perennial pairs of questions is: How the hell do I restock...Linked by the ring
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This morning Liz over at Magnolia Keep offhandedly made a joke about a tactical RPG for concealing your affair at a Coldplay concert (it made sense in context of the...Linked by the ring
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My friend over at A Shrike for my Dreams made a very fun post last week about the Overloaded Reaction Roll. It's an awesome post, so this is a pretty paltry contribution to the...
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Last time we took a step back from the playtested mechanics and meditated on the first principles of this survey game project. We arrived at three major themes for future...Linked by the ring
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I've been thinking about loot for the past two days, ever since Sandro wrote The Loot Sicko's Dilemma. I think Sandro's interests and touchpoints vary from mine, so it was a...
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There has been some discussion in the ether over the past month about the function and utility of randomness in adventure modules. This discussion probably goes back to the...Linked by the ring
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I have been deep in the development mines this month. I've made good progress on a roughly testable version of the Mad Biographers, but I've been recently seized by one of my...Linked by the ring
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Last month I wrote about narrative in TTRPGs as a historiographical process. In that, I argued that what we usually call the "story" of our games, especially adventure games,...
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How resilient is your prep when your players zig instead of zag? For the most part these days I mainly aim to run blorb-style prep that is, by nature, pretty ruggedized against...Linked by the ring
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Rowan's excellent post from this past week on the OSR Onion has reignited some useful commentary on Objectivity in Game Design and the historical term-as-ammunition of the...Linked by the ring
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11/22/2025 Updated Blogwagon participants: Random Ape Encounter's assessment of GURPS Fluorite Guillotine's assessment of Cortex Prime lootlootlore's assessment of Savage...
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In a hypomanic continuation of my Honeybee game thought experiment, I'd like to synthesize two texts: one foundational and one that hit me like a bolt from the blue this week....Linked by the ring
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Well, both Hellbenders and Random Access Memory are in playtest states and I'm still feeling a nervous creative energy, so I spent the last couple of days ruminating on a few...Linked by the ring
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I haven't even put out my decorative turkey deep frier and yet here I am, starting to celebrate Hexmas with Prismatic Wasteland. Details on the Hexmas Bandwagon here Edit:...
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Update 11/7/25 - This idea has really been stuck in my head, so if you're interested, I have a cleaner writeup posted here! This afternoon I was working on some Christmas gifts...Linked by the ring
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This discussion is going to center a couple of concepts that are useful to understand when talking shop about TRPGs. Diegesis. This is the cornerstone of what I want to...
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I've had the task of capital W Worldbuilding on my backburner since the beginning of this project. I'm a fan of anti-canon; I really struggle with the idea of running a game in...Linked by the ring
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The good news is that running RPGs for buddies is basically always fun. I've got a group of friends through work who get together every other week or so to play some tabletop....Linked by the ring
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If you have played a tabletop RPG or just about any video game, you are probably familiar with the concept of Hit Points, or HP. HP as a concept comes from tabletop war gaming,...
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I finished up "U0" of the RPG playtest rules this past week! Very excited, I think I can run a baseline or first-level adventure with what is now down on paper. The process of...Linked by the ring