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Hello! Long time no blog. The last month has been busy as all get-out and I haven't been trapped inside by a snowstorm in a little while, so I've been occupied with my day job...
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Roll a D4, D6, D8, D20, and consult the tables.Louis RheadHow many are there? (1D4)ThreeHalf a dozenA DozenA Horde (10 + Add up all dice rolled)Where is their hideout? (1D6)A...
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Magic items! Weird and arbitrary little things, ideally without being the obvious key to a nuisance lock. Always amusing when, if you think a little too long, you start to...
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Last week, the party got baited into an ambush.Most of the PCs start by questioning Alex Fuller, the last survivor of the cult of Apollo, while Valrel checks the next room,...
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My name is Anh. I’m a state-employed service worker. The conversation usually stops there. It’s not that I’m embarrassed of my line of work, but most don’t assume I’m anything...
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Since Blades ‘68 is almost out the door, I’ve been thinking more about my next game. I’ve been thinking about system, and setting, and how I want them to dovetail....
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Song titles as spell names. Spread a little bit of authorial love for a whole lotta fun.
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I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing for your dungeons and...
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Ahora que sabemos que las facciones son geniales, vamos a ver tres ejemplos prácticos, del más sencillo al más complejo.
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Looking at how the historical practice of descent into the divine palaces can inform our TTRPG campaigns.
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I've had a hankering to test out my sandbox for Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the Unknown. I enjoy coming up with these sandboxes for their own sake, but the intention has...
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Some fresh-ish magic to switch up your games. Born from spark tables.
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Look what the cat dragged in. Monthly project updates, plus curated blog posts and oddments worth your time.
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Okay. They slapped me on the wrist at work for saying in an email thread which CC’d my boss’ boss’ boss that I hadn’t (past tense!) used AI on a project. They apparently spent...
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This post is part of an ongoing collaborative Realm for Mythic Bastionland. If the Luck Roll blog is going to pull from the FKR’s “every book is a source book”, then I shall...
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tl;dr: card-draw based storyteller, potential for great pre-campaign party cohesion or post-campaign epilogues. I cannot recall where/when I first heard of this - probably the...
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I've had a few people ask about playing Mythic Bastionland with larger groups of players. I've found the game flows at its best with 2-4 players, but getting up to 5 or more...
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The Bloggies wrapped up this week. Congratulations to the winners! Now I'm here to tell you which posts I thought should have won in each category. We are all very fortunate...
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It's 8 p.m. on March 3rd 2026, a little over 24 hours from the conclusion of the Marathon Sever Slam - No not that Marathon, instead its new younger sibling; a live service...
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I've been wanting to share with anyone who would listen about the Open Table Cloud Empress (CE) campaign I've been running and then I realized this is one of the reasons why I...
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Another year and the Bloggies have come and gone! I'm very pleased to have taken home some medals in the Best Series category!Gold: The Designing Dungeons Course, or, How to...
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This seems incredibly useful (especially in light of my recent abandoning of read later apps). It inspired me to make a bookmarklets page. Find a bookmarklet for using this there.
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I blame this post for my recent return to Pokémon via the Nuzlocke Challenge.
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Into the Odd famously jettisoned the “roll to hit” aspect of D&D derived combat. How can accuracy, specifically reducing an opponent’s accuracy by means of sand in the eyes or...
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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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Listen to this episode here. If the thesis of last week’s episode was “hey the fiction of your game matters a lot and can even have mechanical effects,” how do...
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I was reading Pikliz Dungeon's most recent post and thinking about one of the contradictions of the Jewelsea that I haven't yet resolved - why does a world full of states and...
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Blades ‘68 has plenty of listed touchstones, but I want to talk about four meta-touchstones. These were navigational guides on my journey through the project. They might be...
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“What distinguishes man from beast?” “I know this one.” Matteu gestured towards the bird, plucked clean of its bones, on the table. “Behold!” he glanced at me, and smiled at...
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Haven’t written one of these in a while but I realized they help me focus so, why not. Thanks to the incredibly diligent Mk., player of Ditchbank and John Napkin, for his...