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A Familiar Story A tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, is an interactive storytelling experience where players take on the roles of characters within a shared world and...
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Preamble RambleI’m glad I wrote my original post on stats because sometimes you need to have the wrong idea before the right idea presents itself. Josh and I were chatting...
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You could probably tell, but I’ve been sort of nervously procrastinating on coming back to combat mechanics since our second post. I think the round structure is a fine...
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Why this blog should just be called "Games I like"This time I’m just going to get my praise for Chris McDowall and Rise Up Comus out of the way in the first paragraph. Both of...
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Earlier this year, Kobayashi of The Merry Mushmen kickstarted a great lightweight NSR game called Golem Parade. Mechanically, Golem Parade runs on a familiar D20+mod system;...
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Last post we talked about your Past Life/failed job that serves as a character archetype. If the Past Life represents some overarching approach to how you solve problems, today...
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Today marks the first round of posts fleshing out character generation/delineation for this game. Characters are Lost Souls, people who wagered their souls to some supernatural...
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DoofusmaxxingI did a lot of writing yesterday in preparation for my next post - between the last two days I came up with a decent draft outline of what character generation may...
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A Little Bit of FollowthroughI threatened promised the other day to start diving into some poker stats, but I had put off any actual Wikipedia scrolling research until this...
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I said this post was going to be about numbers, statistics, turn structure, lots of things, but I pivoted. I still will probably spend some time marinating in that, so expect a...
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This Sheet of Notepaper was Dated 7/28/2025I had a design review in-office this past week, which meant I had a lot of time to myself with a pen and paper to chew on basic ideas...
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For the last year, I've been playing Rise Up Comus's excellent tabletop RPG His Majesty The Worm. Up until then I had been splitting my gaming between 5e DnD and different...