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On the ring since 2026-03-20
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There are quite a few puns I could make to introduce this topic, so I’ll save us both some time and let you imagine your favorite one. There, feeling better? Now you’re ready...
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The Bloggies, the premiere awards for tabletop roleplaying game blogs, was on a month ago, and This Vorpal Coil was nominated for Best Debut Blog! However, it did not win, with...
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Classic Megaman (AKA Rockman) games maintained a nonlinear structure: they presented the player with a stage select screen showing the set of bosses they could fight, and...Linked by the ring
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Comedy: not a standard topic of TTRPG discussions, but a highly pertinent one all the same: if you haven’t laughed at your table, then you need to find a new group. In this...
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Early in the history of the hobby, a number of factors (including primordial Gygaxian authoritarianism) led to the perception/practice of game masters as petty tyrants who...
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It’s been close to three months since I updated Protoplastic officially, but believe me, I never stopped working on it. In spite of a variety of other projects and things going...
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The Bloggies, the premiere awards for tabletop roleplaying game blogs, is currently on, and This Vorpal Coil has been nominated for Best Debut Blog! If you’ve enjoyed reading,...
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If you can believe it, it’s an episode of Rose Playing Games once again! Watch it here! Today we’re talking about crafting systems in RPGs: gathering materials, assembling...
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Mausritter is a fantastic game – very few get as close as it does to the Platonic ideal of a post-OSR ruleset, covering so much ground yet remaining so brief. While most of it...Linked by the ring
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Welcome back to Rose Playing Games, the Rose-only (count: 2) tabletop RPG show! This episode we’re talking about the history of mechanics like Call of Cthulhu sanity and other...
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Today I was catching up on a recent Dice Exploder episode about the chit-based inventory mechanic in Mausritter – which is a great system, which the hosts come up with some...
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Hello, and welcome to episode two of the only tabletop roleplaying game video podcast featuring two simultaneous Roses! This time our topic is economies in RPGs: gold pieces,...
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So I got the chance to run another playtest session of Protoplastic, this time with an entirely different group of players. I ran essentially the same scenario as the last...