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• Crown of Salt - A mini - campaign postmortem
  2w ago · 10 min
  Here are some of my fresh thoughts after wrapping up a mini-campaign running Crown of Salt in Mörk Borg. This took a total of 5 2hr-ish sessions with a group consisting of 3-6...
• Enter the Matrix (by way of the OSR/NSR)
  4mo ago · 8 min
  I’m gonna be honest, when I first heard the term 'matrix game' (uttered by Tim B during an NSR camp hangout) I fully thought he was talking about TTRPGs based on the popular...
• Rules & Tools
  4mo ago · 9 min
  A thought I’ve been coming back to a lot recently is product utility in TTRPGs. I don’t think about it a lot for other creative mediums, so it feels a bit weird to use that...
• The Tome of Worldbuilding is Stuffed
  4mo ago · 6 min
  I want to start by saying I’m really happy this product exists. I was talking to a game designer a few weeks ago who said of the Tome of Adventure Design that he loves it...
• The Mythic Engine
  5mo ago · 8 min
  This game runs itself. I don’t mean that it’s easy to run, because I think if you are coming from a traditional or even OSR background you will find that this game is quite an...
• Running Shadowdark for 2 Players… And a love letter to Willow
  6mo ago · 12 min
  “Why does Sully always start us in fantasy’s biggest shitholes?” I like low-fantasy, what can I say? I have come to the conclusion that running OSR games for 2 players is not...
• Tropes are your friend
  7mo ago · 5 min
  GMing a regular game often means being creative on a tight deadline. This can be alleviated somewhat by running pre-written adventures/modules, but even then you are expected...
• Appendix S
  7mo ago · 10 min
  I’d hate to miss hopping on a blog bandwagon so here we go. Here’s my list of genre inspirations that work their way into the games I run in some form or another. So, in no...
• Crawling Before Running
  7mo ago · 6 min
  Some thoughts on Shadowdark as an introductory system for complete beginners. Mild spoiler warning for Tomb of the Dusk Queen by Sersa Victory. I ran a pickup game of...
• Adapting Existing non-RPG Settings for your Home Game
  8mo ago · 7 min
  A lot of us like to homebrew our settings, or play in official TTRPG settings built from the ground up to work with whatever system we choose to run. While I love a good TTRPG...
• Daggerheart - First impressions as a player
  8mo ago · 11 min
  Not gonna lie, I never thought of myself as the target audience for this kind of game. I am not a Critical Role viewer. I also am not super into kitchen-sink, modern d20...