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There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get caught in an...
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Why? Because you wish you blogged more and you like citing yourself. Where? Your blog, or wherever else you want. I'm not picky. When? Whenever someone asks a question in a...
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Fuck it.
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No quantum ogres were harmed.
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Who am I to deny not only a potential bandwagon, but the humble request of a respected contemporary to clarify my rambling? At 3 AM. On a Tuesday. When I have a meeting early...
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A Blogwagon for Indonesian-related TTRPG stuff
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A survey on campaign length and lethality
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Sacred Cows!?!
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On making positive claims and contributions.
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Growing EdgesThere are a lot of different aspects of being a GM - a lot of different valuable skills: setting up a good adventure structure, fun and challenging encounter...
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Recently, beloved blogger elmcat wrote a good post providing some clarifications about what blorb is through describing what it ain't. While I get that the blorb principles...
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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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Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and...
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Magic system based on Indonesian occult practice
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The Joesky tax pisses me off more than it should. But it only pisses me off more than it should. It should piss me off, and it should piss you off, too.
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bandwagonFirst of all, throw out the common knowledge.False cognates are good. "Herpys" is an excellent elf name. Glancing at my list, I have "Odd" and "Snorri" on it; you best...
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Sundered over on his blog asked to hear about others' methods for coming up with the names featured in their games, even being so kind as to call me one of the good...
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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...