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I started writing little scenes about the locations keyed in my hex map and it's transformed my game for the better. The player-facing mapWhile preparing my campaign's hex map,...
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This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here. The series will, when necessary, go into detail on the development of my...
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A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).
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I've finally posted an updated version of my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! having accepted that it is a living document and that there will always be gaps whether because I'm...
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Everyone has a homebrew ruleset, and everyone wants to show it to other people, or at slap it around until it's presentable. And a lot of people are interested in your fantasy...
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Troy Press published a piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a survey they did - and I am fascinated by the 'mentioned in passing' implication of a huge amount...
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A rite of passage for TTRPG blogs: I'm throwing my hat in the taxonomy ring.
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Anyone who talks to me about games hears about Nomic sooner or later. I bring it up all over the place, in any conversation having to do with rules as such. My excitement over...
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Last winter I put together a draft of rules for swimming and drowning in His Majesty the Worm because I was running Michael Madsen's Caves of Cowardice module, which heavily...
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I got new rules, I count 'em.I liked my existing rules for conversations, being basically the same as in D&D Fifth Edition, but I felt like they lacked structure up to the...
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Continuation of my series to edit a quick "Friday Night Dungeon" using Dolmenwood.Tomb of the Twin-Headed Hawk (Pg 4)Link to the Draft Document: Six Doors of the Forgotten...
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A quick follow-up to the challenge posted earlier in April, just for accountability purposes I suppose. The goal, paraphrasing Tim Brannan, was to provoke conversation and fill...
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Upbringing, Profession, Specialties, NotorietyAfter rolling for stats, roll 2d6. One result determines the kind of upbringing you were raised to and your notoriety in the...
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This is a simple framework for roleplay that I've been able to use successfully at the core of my characters. I think it's especially useful when you are playing old school...
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A Retrospective on SPINE and Production Value
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Third in the series of player aids for different types of adventures, today I present my heist planning guide and "score sheet" to help with plundering all those vaults.
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I recently joined Meet the RPG, a round-robin thing organized on the Paper Cult Club forums, and we just went through three-ish sessions (plus a Session Zero) of Sentinel...
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[This is the second half of the hidden backstory of ‘Til Death. The first half can be found here.] A thousand years ago, the woman who came to be called the Ashen Empress...
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“Our first assignment—“ “Our, that’d be… me and you.” “—will be to locate and restore to its owner a somewhat tasteless lamp, indeed among lamp collectors considered the crown...
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The Cairn 2nd Edition adventure should be great, so what's missing?