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Let's Solve a Mystery! A Sliver of Evidence is a 16-page adventure for Cairn by Karly Anders. It's an investigative site-based adventure packing a lot into a small package....
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Links from about the interwebs! For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...
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After the feint, the strike! This dungeon came out a little more vanilla than I expected it to, I think because the initial idea that I was excited about (Cenobites haunting a...
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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, Here is quick summary of the setting from Gamma World 1e: Around the year 2309, (also...
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I had no idea SJG had done a licensed sourcebook for Andre Norton‘s excellent Witch World series. It feels awesome to crack open a book from 1989 — my salad years as a gamer —...
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Inspired by two excellent posts on using ecology to make encounters more realistic and exciting (Writing Encounters in Networks and Trophic Encounters), I started reflecting on...
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Mausritter is a fantastic game – very few get as close as it does to the Platonic ideal of a post-OSR ruleset, covering so much ground yet remaining so brief. While most of it...
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I've been spending a lot of time playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. To sum the game up briefly, imagine if Skyrim or The Witcher 3 were made by the most annoying person...
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toki pona la toki kulupu pi sona suli li lili a lon linluwi tawa jan ale.
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"...in 2026 gender, fascism, and dehumanization are pretty universal experiences."
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Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a Blog Bandwagon, this time focusing on maps. One of the options is to make something with a map donated by the...
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A digital garden about RPGs.
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Writing a book is awesome. Writing a book is terrible. My current main creative project is Triangle U, a campaign guide and mission collection for Triangle Agency. It is an...
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This post was originally titled "A Lightweight Reputation System" and it turned out to be truly anything but. Meta Image courtesy of DesertUSA. I've been sharpening up the...
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One of the most essential tools I employ when game mastering, both in prep and play, is what I call a narrative framework. This is my term for it - others may use different...
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Lots of digital ink has been spilled on the merits of hexcrawls and pointcrawls (though I think Dinkie Rizzle has the right of it), and something I've always noticed when...
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Sorry to keep Cinco!-posting, but Alex from To Distant Lands wrote a really fun addition to magic which I wanted to share and also slightly refactor: Metamagic When you work...
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This is a continuation of my previous post My First Campaign - 1. You might want to read that one first if you haven't already, it contains a lot of the context relevant to...
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This week’s blog posts, discords discussions, projects to download and play reports. Featuring a deep dive into pacing and a little fold-up hexcrawl booklet.
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For the 'childhood inspirations' blogwagon that Havoc kicked off - I wrote mine last September - because I cheated by starting at 12 so my Appendix N conformed already. More...
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I wrote a guest post on the Flashback Universe Blog! I recently started watching the show Space: 1999, and my friend Trey, who operates both Flashback Universe and From the...
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I won't waste words explaining why I don't like the terms GM and Player in reference to the two sides of the screen in a traditionally structured RPG; I doubt the reasons for...
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Alex from To Distant Lands had been considering Cinco! to play his Gran Carcosium setting (which I had played in a little bit ago!), and he asked me where I was at with feats...
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Hey, this website is todays Blog of the .Day! Fun!
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Armor Armor is simple. You have an AC (pronounced "Ahs"), which is 10 if unarmored, 12 if wearing a helm, 14 if wearing a cuirass or other armored shirt and a helm, and 16 if...
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High scripts = domain documents, ritual instructions, holy scripturesUsers of high scripts: heralds, sages, priests Low scripts = trade orders, posted signs, most writingsUsers...
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Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed...
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Dungeons & Dragons began as a game about exploring mazes, trying not to get lost as you navigate spaces with complicated layouts. At some point, these conventions fell to the...
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Steam says my review can't be longer than 8000 characters, so I'm posting it here.I: ForewordThis began as a series of rants about a card game I used to play. Then it became a...
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HP and SavesHP is a measure of your vital spirit (pronounced "hep"). Level 1 PCs start with 6 HP, which is reduced by harms and regained at a rate of 1d6 HP every sunrise. At 0...