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This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourSo you've gone ahead and sketched out a rough outline of where you want your campaign to go. Now...
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An alternative to stat blocks designed for The 1 HP Dragon.
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Setup In part 1, our players escaped from captivity when the ship they were imprisoned on, sailing the vast astral sea, was seemingly attacked by a cosmic kraken which...
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Listen to this episode here. In Blades in the Dark, you play as criminals in Doskvol a haunted city where the ghosts are such a problem that they built giant...
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Why you should avoid the temptation to map every square inch of your favorite fantasy city and instead lean into a lower-fidelity representation of it instead.More
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The story continues—sort of! More-or-less new characters across the board, but we’re moving on with the thing because I had already prepped this shit and didn’t want to do...
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Why you should consider creating a villain for your next RPG character and how to ensure it's safe at the table.
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Sometimes when you're writing a dungeon room, it can feel like pulling teeth. The empty space and the stocking result of "Trap with Treasure" mocks you.Here's a technique 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...
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Further links from about the interwebs! For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired...
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#Daggerheart #CriticalRole #Gaslighting #BigDogBeefstink'sCigarettesthatareGoodforYou
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No essay today, folks, just a quick message to see if you'll...Vote for "Books in TTRPGs" as the Best Series for this year's Bloggies; and/orFollow the prelaunch for Violent...
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This poetry isn't new. Most of it is years old, in fact. But hey, who cares, let's have a poetry break. I'm working on a secret project for other game designers right now, so I...
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New readers - check this out first!
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What are Four Legendary Treasures one might Search for in your Game?
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An examination of Chris McDowall's Mythic Bastionland as a forerunner to a new culture of Capsule Games
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Let me tell you a story about the old Reeve. He was a hard bastard, taking all we could give every season and shoving our faces into the muck whenever we didn't hop to the...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what elf-friends get.What are elf-friends? Well:The master of the house was an elf-friend—one...
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On reading and interpreting Luke Gearing's big hexcrawl.
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Over the past few years I've been running quite a bit of Cairn, especially with the release of the game's second edition, and while I've pretty much lost track of most of the...
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I got the chance to speak with friend of the blog Hilander the other day about the Cairn adventure he's kickstarting, the Valley of Lune. Fair warning, I like this guy and his...
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Last time, the wizard freaks went to a party and really harshed the vibe. This week, things got worse. The grey-market eigenpharmaceuticals company Kanopy had entered into open...
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Let’s talk about fear of failure and player investment, in both traditional and OSR games. This was originally intended to be one post on building landscapes of fear around...
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Mythic Bastionland uses seers to convey secrets and clues about myths to knights. I love seers, and I think they are an excellent way for us to create interesting and useful...
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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the next episode in the Gamma World 1e system. Scene 1 Nathal(⇟∲⇟) and...
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This week's round up including the first ever Paladin advice column, plus discord, blog posts, projects to download, new arrivals and projects I'm working on. Enjoy your week!
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Following up on Grace of Choir of Fire's idea of laying out how elf-games are played at specific tables so people can see the multitudes that throng beneath the umbrella of...
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There was a Reddit user named Kubular who happened upon a novel way to determine damage in D&D combat when their friend had assumed that it was just the difference of their D20...
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What is the intended vibe of NULL_SPACE? “Cyberpunk-esque” # Shannon at The Novel Gamemaster described NULL_SPACE on bluesky as having “a low-powered mothership feel but...