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The Black-Blood God promised Senator Johnson that, in exchange for extracting more fossils fuels from the Tennessee hills, it would save Senator Johnson's wife from lung...
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One of my players, Dave, plays Smokestacks: a Hound who also works for a large paper. We named it The Doskvol Times last session, so I wrote it up as a faction so we could use...
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a theory post, written with apologies to those who have actually read The Rule Book. When I chat with my mother on my way to work, I usually only hear the news of the house,...Linked by the ring
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Writing a book is awesome. Writing a book is terrible. My current main creative project is Triangle U, a campaign guide and mission collection for Triangle Agency. It is an...Linked by the ring
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Everyone who says how they know your RPG notes should be organized is wrong. Except for me. In this post, I am going to outline a theory of bottom-up organization for RPG...Linked by the ring
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I've been taken with perusing random GLoG stuff, so without any prior experience, I am choosing to make a GLoG class inspired by the Deep Apiarist. I chose this class because I...Linked by the ring
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One of the great challenges with writing good NPCs is to present them in such a way that the GM can easily portray them in a scene. I am experimenting with punchy descriptors...
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I'm in beginning-of-year cleaning mode, and as part of that project, I reorganized my PDF archive. Here's how I did it. Maybe you'll find it useful. The key element of this is...
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My contribution to the Christmas 2025 blogwagon, written with apologies to Max Gladstone. Bonus points if you know why he deserves said apology. NeighborsNorth, Northeast,...
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"The more of the following a campaign has, the more old school it is." - Principia Apocrypha. 1. Concrete SpacesIn Die Hard, Nakatomi Plaza is a fabulous dungeon. It is...
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Yesterday, I ran some Blades in the Dark and I thought the scenario was a lot of fun, so I'm posting it here! It includes a custom starting situation - my group was playing as...
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One of my greatest challenges when running Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games is the underspecified 7-9 result. A few examples follow, all from games I enjoy and admire:...