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I've been sharing in various Discords my journey of running RPGs at my LGS, stuff like Mothership, Mausritter, etc. Ultimately, it led to my LGS stocking things like OSE and...
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This post is also a shameless plug that Cadastre and RAID Array Mischief are available at my itch page, feel free to pay what you want and let me know what you think! My new...
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This blog post started, like so many do, as me getting mad at a YouTuber. This YouTuber shall remain nameless, because they are dumb and I have devoted enough of my time...
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There may come a time in a post-OSR (or NSR, or plain old OSR - whatever, choose your acronym) gamer's life where they feel compelled to study the old ways. To look beyond the...
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"No man is an island,Entire of itself;Every man is a piece of the continent,A part of the main."--John Donne"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."--Archimedes...
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"When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than...
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This post is about the notation system one uses for hexcrawls, so you probably know right away whether it's for you. My personal problem with the standard method in all...
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We honour the real when we make a decision in service of the integrity of the in-game reality. We honour the play when we make a decision in service of the group having fun at...
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A blog post talking about the rest of my play style preferences and why I think framing them as preferences is so important.
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Musings on the differences between these two concepts.
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"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness." --Tecumseh (apocryphal)If the world is a tree, its roots are legends. We cannot see them, but the sap...
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My friend Chao wrote a low fantasy Trav thing called wayfarer. Here’s some magicks for it Sorcery requires ritual and effort. If interrupted, the Sorcerers must test CON and on...
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This semester I've found myself with about 3 hours a week of teaching time that is not allocated to any required curriculum. I teach in an alternative learning program; we have...
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"Co-creation and sharing of knowledge," Jorge Franganillo, CC By 2.0. Suppose that over the course of a game, jigsaw puzzle pieces are given out one-by-one, randomly, as...
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Editing the Antarctic Adventure Anthology has precipitated many ideas about how to steer the future of the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a mild polemic against overly...
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As part of my weekly Endless Eon game, the party eventually gained access to the aid of the wise man Jake, an orthodox adherent of the Emulators of Jake. Conceptually, he's a...
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I am not a TTRPG creator, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night I hang out with a bunch of them on various discords. Occasionally people have asked questions about...
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This is part of the poison relay after being sent the challenge by 500poundsofnothing. The Victim The city of Vandham is protected from an enigmatic figure known simply as The...
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I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? the other day (good movie, minor spoilers ahead). While OBWAT is openly inspired by Homer's Odyssey, it makes some changes to the structure...
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In a story, how do you know what should happen next? Well, of the writers I know in my life, the answer to that usually comes down to “hell if I know,” “I realized in a moment...