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Players: Bomb - FelineAvian Zema Zafat (ZZ) - Laumry Orkhon - Kut Snubrash - Tor Xaayr - Iniquitous Dina - Al Atar - NPC Recap: The PCs left the roost at the crack of dawn,...
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Session Date: 10/07/2026 Players: Polpo Ultimo - Me The Great Beast - Weird Writer School Locker - Bubblegum Jimmy the Polyp - brwagr Creel Crusher - Arkbrik Hannibal Crabba -...
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Players: Snubrash - Tor Zema Zafat - Laumry Xaayr - Iniquitous Recap: The party decided to investigate the Lost Citadel further to see what treasures might be found within....
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Session Date: 09/23/2026 Players The Great Beast - Weird Writer Mikele Colucci - Prometheus Xocolatl - Bue School Locker - Bubblegum Coral Kid - Podunke Lots of Little Stripes...
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Players: Yipblot Zema-Zafat Snubrash Recap: Rainy morning meant the jungle would be a slog. The party decided to cut through the desert to reach the Lost Citadel on the coast,...
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09/16/2026 Players Mikele Colucci - Mr Treez Mobile Home (RIP), School Locker - Bubblegum Xocolatl - Bue Jimmy the Polyp - Brwagur Grax the Abyss Claw - Theo Polpo Rosso (RIP),...
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Players: Dina Snubrash Zema Zafat Bomb Recap: Party decided to investigate the jungle of Thracia a bit further and hex-crawled along the eastern half of the hex-flower. They...
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Players Bay Taking the Place - Jay Zero Creel Crusher - Arkbrik Jimmy the Polyp - Brwagur Polpo Rosso - Me Recap: The reefers decided to explore the strange light to the...
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Players: Snubrash Zema Zafat Dina Bomb Recap: The party made their way to the caverns, taking the secret entrance hole down to the sacrificial chamber. They learned more of the...
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Players: Arete Parthenios Carly (RIP) Recap: Carly the Priest of Saint Terragnis introduced herself to Arete and Parthenios in Minos, as they loaded their ass with torches and...
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Players: Snubgrash Orkhan Wine Recap: Wine, Snubgrash and Orkhan gather together in Minos to make introductions. Wine is a druid who prefers to hang out in the forest outside...
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Players Polpo Rosso - Yours truly Davy Crabcakes - Princess Pizzabones Creel Crusher - Arkbrik Amby - Kirkatta Billy the Squid - GB Nilsson Chilli Con Carnage - Mister Jenx GM...
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As of this week, I will have spent 6 months in Hell. This will be a sort of report/retrospective on my time playing in Spuk’s ongoing campaign, Sinners, which takes place in...Linked by the ring
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After a month long break for summer, we're back in the Caverns! Off the bat, it felt good to get back into the swing of things. It hasn't been that long since we last played...
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Players: Zema Zafat (ZZ) Ebane Strabon Bomb Parthenios Epicaste (NPC ally) Hirizin was re-named Parthenios. Recap: Session began as party discussed with their stationed warband...
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Players: Strabon (RIP) Ebane (RIP) Bomb Epicaste NPC (RIP) Recap: Delve began with the party greeting their warband at the entrance. Bomb noticed the traitor in their midst but...
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I have a confession to make: I didn't bother prepping a setting for this campaign. It's weird. Normally I like to indulge in some worldbuilding, especially if I am running a...
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Now that I am taking a month off from running Thracia I feel like it might be a good time to reflect on how the open-table has been going so far. I've been writing up reports...
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I'm very impressed with the Pirate Borg box set. It might be my new go to for IRL pickup games after I ran it last week for some drunk friends to great success. I am finding...Linked by the ring
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Minigame: Take a shot every time I say Dark Souls. I’m a FromSoft fan. I like my souls dark. My blood borned. My rings elden. I definitely see the appeal of trying to capture...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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“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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...