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• General player advice
  2w ago · 3 min
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  Time to try to be a part of the blogging community again, this time regarding Prismatic Wasteland's blogwagon around good player advice, which I'm going to contribute to by...
• Heart campaign post-mortem
  3w ago · 4 min
  While it would be flavorful to say that this was a Heart: the City Beneath campaign I am playing after my demise - and I therefore am reporting it in Machadian fashion - it is...
• You could be rolling more dice
  5w ago · 2 min
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  Yeah, don't think I haven't stumbled upon all the wisdom regarding when to roll dice around the internet and I'm not saying it's all wrong, but... rolling the little polyhedron...
• Brindlewood Bay is a mystery game
  7w ago · 2 min
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  So, played a one-shot of Brindlewood Bay yesterday, which will now turn into a campaign. I'm not the most grandma-coded person, but it was a lot of fun! Having never played BB,...
• Consumption, collection and inertia
  2mo ago · 3 min
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  This has been an interesting week for me, so I'm gonna try to get a post out before I catch a long-ass flight that will make me blogless for the next two weeks. I feel like...
• The Ironclad, a Mörk Borg optional class
  2mo ago · 4 min
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  Slay The Spire gets a lot of well-deserved credit for its fun deckbuilding mechanics, but I don't see a lot of people talking about the weird fantasy world the game is set in....
• Distancing yourself from GM-centrism, one step at a time
  3mo ago · 4 min
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  I recently read the statement that "not having turns on combat puts a burden on the GM"1 and I had to squint at the screen for a little while. Like, I get not liking combat...
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• Difficulty Spikes, a silly mechanic
  3mo ago · 4 min
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  A Difficulty Spike is a d4 that gets subtracted from a die roll. I had this idea a long time ago but I didn't have a blog back then and didn't care enough to write it down. I...
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• Simulation is the antithesis of play
  4mo ago · 4 min
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  This is a weird one. I think even though simulation and play can be used as synonyms, there is something immensely antagonistic within these words... Semantics is always the...
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• My Hellboy ttrpg conundrum
  4mo ago · 4 min
  There is a platonic ideal of a Hellboy rpg which I will never play because it hides within the human factors that are intertwined with any ttrpg ruleset. For me, it's a lot...