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I forgot to post about this sooner, but I wrote another article for HLG! This one is about rethinking "The Crawl" in tabletop RPGs, and how that design goal in the abstract can...
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With Mike Evans' (of DIY RPG Productions) blessing, I have created auto-generators for the entire GM section back content of the Hubris RPG! In some cases I may have flattened...
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There are horrifying things in this otherwise peaceful place... Before I get into this post, you're probably seeing a widget for this on the blog anyway (or as the featured...
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Pixels & Platforms is live! It's my tabletop RPG that I submitted for DREAMJAM, and I think it's really cool. It's PWYW and all eyeballs appreciated. From the game description:...
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This is inspired by the 10 Monster Setting Challenge, except instead of building a setting out of 10 monsters, they're settings built out of 10 randomly-selected entries of my...
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I read this article on Chocolate Hammer about the TTRPG En Garde! and found it fascinating. It seems really crunchy and not a game I'd want to play directly, but I think a more...
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r/d100 is consistently one of my favorite reddit communities; I believe it's where I met semiurge, and where I've received probably the largest and most reliable positive...
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The Whitemare is kinda-sorta the equivalent of Mordor for Aquarian Dawn, the realm of the Dark Lord, by way of Beetlejuice, Vampire Hunter D, and the Cancerverse. It also...
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One of my "All My Fantasy Children"-style prompts was the prompt for this week's episode! It's episode 109. Sor Velfast: The Baseless Crest (after this week it won't be on the...
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All My Fantasy Children is currently one of my favorite podcasts. They focus primarily on their Fantasy setting, but they've taken a novel and interesting approach to how they...
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In addition to the Mystic Type, which is mechanically very unique, I thought it might be cool to introduce some Subtypes. These are just slight tweaks to the normal three...
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This is the second post for my Mechs & Monstrosities Hack for Tunnels & Trolls. The first post was solely for Massive Combat. This second post is about how to add mechs to your...
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Fey and fairies in myths and fantasy are generally loaded with symbolism, usually about nature, both in its majesty and in its danger. Older stories, in a world where nature...
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I know I'm hardly the first person to do this, but anyway now there's another one out there! I wrote a neural network using Max Woolf's textgenrnn, which trains on a corpus of...
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For reasons that may or may not have to do with things you might find on the internet right now, I would like to throw some attention to this ko-fi page for Mandy Morbid. Buy...
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EDIT 6/11/19: I've been going through and changing a bunch of my labels to coincide with my OSR blog roll search engine, but for some reason this one got re-posted which is...
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Have you ever tried to find some specific article, but couldn't remember when it was written, or what it was called, or which blog you found it on? Isn't it maddening!? If this...
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Tunnels & Trolls (TNT) is a really simple game that I like quite a bit. I don't want to over complicate the game because it doesn't need it, but I do think it lends itself well...
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I wrote another HLG article! In line why my recent interest in SWORDDREAM (check out the subreddit!), this article is about defying our preconceived notions of what...
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So my friend Saker Tarsos from tarsos theorem made me aware of this interesting new RPG movement on twitter called #SWORDDREAM. You can learn more about it on the graverobbers...
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NOTE: Fixed the bug that was causing the buttons not to work if run from the main page. Working on the superheroes and villains as fantasy species table reminded me how much I...
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I really liked the idea of this challenge by 3toadstools and decided I'd take a go at this! #tenmonstersetting TL;DR Setting 2 and setting 4 are my favorites, but let me know...
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Intro The intro to the M&M Hack is significantly longer than the hack itself, if you just want the mechanics, skip to the M&M Hack Section. As I discuss in my TNT cheatsheet /...
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If elves in Aquarian Dawn are a little different, dwarves are a lot different. Maybe even more different than the titular Aquarians themselves. If you'd like to learn more...
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This post was inspired by one of my 5 minute challenges, and consists of 100 superheroes or supervillains, re-imagined as fantasy species. I tried to impose a "soft rule" on...
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Elves in Aquarian Dawn are a little... different. Not quite as different as Aquarians, nor dwarves (forthcoming), but still not quite the traditional fantasy thing. If you like...
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I finally wrote another article for High Level Games! They're great and I hope people give the article a read. I've been thinking a lot about settlement building, and how to...
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There was a glorious coastal city during the High Age of humanity, where the people lived lives of luxury and magic, trading in peace with their elven neighbors in the forest...
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I've recently started a campaign in my Aquarian Dawn setting using Tunnels & Trolls. I may post a session report (or more likely a partial-module of my GM notes) at some point,...
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This is an appreciation post for Michael Kennedy at Sheep and Sorcery. Mike is an old G+ friend, and I believe one of the first and also the longest-running member of my...