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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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Magic has become boring.
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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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As I write this, Deathbringer, the self-proclaimed most anticipated RPG of 2026, is entering day two of its Backerkit campaign and has raised three-quarters of a million...
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No quantum ogres were harmed.
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Fuck it.
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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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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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Should I just run Mothership for the rest of my life?
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Be Cautious of MaximsAs I've written before, the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try to describe shared principles and act as a way of mutual recognition among OSR...
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Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can always just say "Dwiz is a...
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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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There was a post on Facebook (cess pit that it is) that I found really inspirational. Here's a screenshot so you don't ritually defile yourself by going there.It's a node-based...
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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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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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These are the terms we’ll be having people pick up starting in early 2027 and ongoing through the following five fiscal years, to accommodate the need for rhetorical conflict...
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Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
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Discussions around TTRPGs and theater/improv are marred by the fact most hobbyists seem to know fuck all about theater. I won’t go into detail why comparisons between TTRPG...