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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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Whenever I enter a new campaign and start thinking about what kind of character to make, I ask the same question: “what characters are other people playing?”. Not only does the...
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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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Every time the topic of bleed in roleplaying games comes up, people polarize into one of two spectral ends: A Bleed is thrilling but dangerous, something games should be built...
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I have a confession to make: I like rolling knowledge checks. It’s bad game design, I know! The general arc of the hobby for the last 15 years or so has aimed towards removing...Linked by the ring
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Dice and I have never gotten along particularly well in the context of roleplaying games. I appreciate them as fun Platonic solids (other than the black sheep d10), they feel...Linked by the ring
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The cardinals have been summoned and the conclave has commenced: therefore, we interrupt your regularly scheduled Bionicle-adjacent RPG series to bring you a theoludological...Linked by the ring
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In the 1920s, the French paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky elaborated on something they called the “noosphere”. Just as the...Linked by the ring
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The ancient alchemist sought many things: chrysopoeia, panacea, and elixir vitae among them. They believed that, through the application of the right sequence of chemical...Linked by the ring
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[This is the second half of the hidden backstory of ‘Til Death. The first half can be found here.] A thousand years ago, the woman who came to be called the Ashen Empress...Linked by the ring
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It will come as no surprise that my game of space necromancer romance, ‘Til Death, came about as a reaction to reading the Locked Tomb novels. I liked the science-fantasy...Linked by the ring
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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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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...Linked by the ring
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This post was written for the Appendicitis N blog bandwagon, encouraging people to list the books, movies, and other media that influenced them creatively. My name happens to...Linked by the ring
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When I was growing up I had several toys from the Lego line called “Throwbots” in North America, or “Slizers” outside of it1. They were elementally themed robot warriors with...Linked by the ring