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I have been running Triangle Agency1 for the past year. This game requires Mission-focused prep: the players receive Missions from the Agency and then they perform those...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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. North, Northeast, Northwest:...
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"The more of the following a campaign has, the more old school it is." - Principia Apocrypha. In Die Hard, Nakatomi Plaza is a fabulous dungeon. It is jacquaysed to all hell -...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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:...
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In Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy,1 the author makes the argument that every bad behavior caused by a child has an underlying cause, and the best way to prevent the behavior...
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I've just started up running Stonetop again, this time as a duet game; my friend Sam Kabo Ashwell is playing as a Ranger and a Would-Be Hero at the same time. However, unlike...
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Three things have occurred in my life recently: I've been working on Triangle U, particularly editing our first Mission, Senioritis, to figure out what Missions should look...Linked by the ring
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I don't have much time this week, but in response to Pris's Appendicitis N bandwagon, here are three games that have shaped me with a brief blurb on why. My original foray into...Linked by the ring
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Title credit to Caleb Zane Huett I have been collecting blog posts on writing good NPCs for quite some time, like a post goblin, and yet, something still nags at me when I sit...
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I write this post as an answer to Prismatic Wasteland's call for holes-themed blog posts. I've decided to run with the theme as inspiration for a Triangle Agency scenario -...
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I was rereading Chris McDowall's Mythic Bastionland1 the other day, and I love the Action Procedure as a concrete way to engage with the world. Here, McDowall provides a clear...
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I was reading through the archive of Chris McDowall's Bastionland blog this evening, and I stumbled across three great articles about using an ordered set of dice to quickly...
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It was brought to my attention that I have posted twice about Triangle Agency this week, and that is an Unstable Number. Accordingly, let's get it up to a proper three! I'm...
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Triangle Agency, a fabulous corporate horror game, has two ways to roll the dice: using an Anomalous Ability, the supernatural powers all Agents have, or Asking the Agency to...
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In this blog post, I'm going to recommend a loosely-ordered process for preparing a great Mission for Triangle Agency. This is based on my experience of creating about ten...
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One of the most important components of a great dungeon crawl is the random encounter table. Per every blog post and game I've read on the subject, the random encounter table...
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I have recently switched systems for my ongoing Dagger in the Heart (DitH in this doc) campaign1 from HEART itself to His Majesty the Worm2 (HMtW). My reasons for doing so are...
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I have been running a fabulous game of Triangle Agency for three Agents1 over the past several months, and it's rocketed to the top of my list of favorite games2 in the mean...
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I realize it's a little strange for this to be my second post on this blog, but that's just how the world works sometimes. Accordingly, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Noel,...