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Today
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Delvers are explorers, salvagers, and tinkerers. Any group of people that braves a pre-Arrival ruin, takes something valuable out of the wreckage, and uses it to make or...
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The party gets some info from some snake men, finds access to the hobgoblin stronghold and meet an information broker. Party Members Tina the Titanic - Level 7 Fighter...
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On Thursday I got a chance to play in Mr. Mann's now Euro-friendly weekly game running through the 1,000 Statues dungeon, along with several other members of the Gay Beholder...
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This is a continuation of my entries to the GLÅUGUST 2026 challenges. You can review all previous posts here: GLÅUGUST 2026 - 1 GLÅUGUST 2026 - 2 GLÅUGUST 2026 - 3 GLÅUGUST...
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Your weekly ttrpg newsletter with discord discussions, blog posts, game projects, a map for you to fill in and a poem!
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Campaign Mastery gives us this months prompt The Face of Money for the RPG Blog Carnival. This post covers my slightly meta-takes at two of the questions posed on the prompting...
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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...
Resurfaced in the ring
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A not so short tour of your rpg's layout, its different parts, and how to use them.
Recently linked from Finishing Projects by To Be Resolved .
Yesterday
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Look out -- some cool stuff this week. Sorcery for Wayfarer from The Black Citadel I posted a link to Chaoclypse's Wayfarer last week. Already, others are starting to tinker...
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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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A few more random worldbuilding ideas that are free for the taking if someone wants to flesh them out or incorporate them into their worlds! Intended to be quick and encourage...
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A setting book is a coffin. It arrives glossy and heavy, three hundred pages packed with royal lineages, racialized taxonomies, ancient history, and satellite-view geography....
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The High Tin Wall is 333 stories tall. Beyond it, Heaven.You are... (d6)a young psychopomp.a fallen angel.a questing knight. a pilgrim. an Orpheus-type bloke. a demon in...
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S is for Silver. That precious metal, foundation of stable currency and useful in various aspects of the adventuring lifestyle. We’ll cover Salt, too, not because it’s the root...
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For Glaugust: Classic Monsters as Classes.Howard Phillips LovecraftRadiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were men!They are foreigners to...
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Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn...
This Week
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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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Just fucking do it.
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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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Motley? A feather in his cap? A hurdy-gurdy!? This guy has it all. At the final leg of our journey through the classes, we come to the bard. Another magazine hack, this class...
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Awed by the genius of Warenunförmig’s Ocean D&D, I present the burgeoning and mucusy aggregation of a new game, also like Dungeons and Dragons, but different. Behold Amoeba D&D...
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We played the twentieth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as...
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That watering hole in where people drink and gossip sure is a great place to pick up rumors, huh?
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Links to all the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon blogposts
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Been a little quiet on here lately! I have moved states and am in the process of recovering from having moved states. Everyone survived and only a few small and replaceable...
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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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My final contribution to the Indonesian Blogpost and Softlaunching my system!
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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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I comically misunderstood a question in an advice channel earlier today, but my misunderstanding gave me a few ideas of fun ways to use treasure maps as hooks to facilitate...