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When she comes, first you hear a deep and rhythmic rumbling of thunder. Then, you hear a tinny wail that sends a tingle down your spine. A little closer and you see flashes of...
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I still don't have as much time or energy as I would like for tabletop or blogging right now, but one thing I've wanted to do is a series of posts where I take some of the...
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I debated whether to post about the Zak Sabbath is an abusive piece of shit situation for several reasons. Others have written about it much more elegantly. Others have dealt...
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So I'd be lying if I said I'm not extremely stressed out right now with my data engineering fellowship. After the first couple weeks in New York I basically stopped going to...
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This is the first post about my World of Wonders campaign setting. It's a speculative fiction setting with superheroes, a significantly alternate history, and science fiction...
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Before I get into this post, just a life update. I'm super crazy busy between adjusting to life in New York and this fellowship, and I think it will be really hard for me to...
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This is my second book review for the Yellow Dawn setting, the first being Black Lake. Yellow Dawn is a really cool setting that's sort of post-apocalypse, post-cyberpunk, and...
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2019! It's January 1st, and tomorrow morning I'm leaving Colorado, leaving grad school, moving to New York (my dream city!) and starting a new career and living a whole new...
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As part of my continuing series of content for the awesome, OSR-esque, rules-light tabletop RPG Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, here is an automatic character generator! If...
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Image Source I'm breaking my "posting only every other week" rule to share that high level games has posted my next article! In the article, I discuss, in very broad strokes, a...
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It's crazy that it's been two weeks since my last post! I've got several posts queued up (look out in two weeks for my SS&SS full character generator!), but I also have...
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NOTE: Given by big update, I think I'm going to move to a bi-weekly (every other week, not twice weekly!) schedule. Hopefully this way I can queue up enough posts before the...
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This is not a content post, just an update. Without giving my whole life story, basically I was just offered a major opportunity that will involve me moving from Colorado to...
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This post includes a table for Mythological Characteristics for my Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Automatic Monster Generator, which is an automated version of the monster...
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Picture Reference: https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/10/19/19/08/medieval-1753740_960_720.jpg Two posts in one day! Whoops! Well, the awesome HLG blog posted my new article...
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I'm currently playing in a science fantasy game run by z_bill and we're using this cool, OSR-like system called Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells (hereafter referred to as SS&SS)....
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This is a list of 100 (!) superpowers / mutations. There are already amazing tools out there like the metamorphica revised, so I wanted to keep these superpowers in the spirit...
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I'm running another survey, and would appreciate all of your inputs! I want to make this blog the best it can be, figure out where I can go with it, and in general better...
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I've been trying to move away from writing tables, because I've gotten so comfortable with doing them, but also because I feel so comfortable doing them, I want to keep doing...Linked by the ring
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This is a set of example weapons built using my Weapon Hack 2.0. As with how I use most tables, this isn't about following the table exactly, but using it as a point of...
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This is my second article for high level games, 5 steps to Make Monsters that Mater (A Halloween Special). It's partially a play report / loose module for a "Halloween"...
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Jim-Thing: A collage/digital edit created by our very own z_bill! Click here for the Session 1 Play Report! Click here for the Session 2 Play Report! Click here for the Session...
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Given the positive reception towards my Weird & Wonderful Weapon Hack, I've decided to make a new version! This version contains new Qualities unique to the Phantasmos...
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Yellow Dawn is a Lovecraftian post-apocalyptic near future scifi tabletop RPG campaign setting. Black Lake is one of several novels David J Rodger wrote within his Yellow...
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This is the fourth (and probably penultimate) session of the SHIELDBREAKER campaign, although it's seeming increasingly likely that we're going to keep going after...
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Image Source This is my first attempt to create an OSR class. It uses the LotFP magic-user class and spell-list as the base. Note1: This has only just begun being playtested!...
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I think I'm past the point of being depressed about how people weren't willing to take my GNS survey* despite it taking less than a minute and having no negative outcome case,...
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Picture Reference This hack is intended as a simple tool to generate simple but interesting weapons/loot for OSR games (although it's so simple that it could probably be...
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This is the third and final post in my series of micro-setting posts about my Antikythera Nova scifi setting. Part 1 is about the premise and history, and part 2 about the...
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Finally my schedule allowed that I could play again in Dan's Danscape Campaign! I don't need to provide a full account because I'm sure Dan will at some point, I'll just say a...