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Over the last few years at work we've shifted into tracking work on a quarterly basis. Hardly revolutionary for many workplaces, but it was a shift in thinking for me. I've...
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My group’s been on a bit of a hot streak with BREAK!! item creation lately. Along with this post, I’ve added 2 more items - Feather Stones and the Feather-Touched Pouch - to...
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I did not grow up in the Call of Duty lobbies. As a child, I wasn't really allowed to play shooters, and the closest thing I ever got to a proper multiplayer match was...
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I had a chance to run a second session of the Honeybee RPG this past Friday afternoon with my friends Zak (of Bommyknocker Press), Kati (of The Play Reports), and Scott (of...
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The Straight DopeI come from the Colville tradition of opinion sharing 1, which means I'll try to give a quick summary of the main points for the folks who don't care for the...
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I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned before that when I started playing (GMing, to be more precise), I had never read a ttrpg book before. I had played a couple sessions of a...
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One of my players, Dave, plays Smokestacks: a Hound who also works for a large paper. We named it The Doskvol Times last session, so I wrote it up as a faction so we could use...
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Announcement the First: I recently upgraded my bear blog! That means it's discoverable on search engines, among other tiny improvements. In addition, my bear blog is connected...
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The blog rattles along, last such milestone in the 3-digit posts. I hit a tough patch in the immediate post-Xmas lull; finding it hard to get things back up and running which...
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Juicy ttrpg Discord discussion summaries, blog posts to read, projects to download, play reports, projects I'm working on and a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. Happy Easter!
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The Stat Sheet The Label The Details Date Played April 3, 2026 Adventure Summer Season System Honeybees GM Pat Player Count 3 My Role Player (Derpia) Number of Sessions 1 The...
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I Swoon For Toads That Swallow Characters The Flooded Greenhouse is a tri-fold adventure in English and Spanish for Mausritter by David M. Alfaro. Mice will explore the titular...
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There was a poll a few months back on the Mythic Bastionland asking how many player characters is optimal for a long-running game. And of the 27 responses, the results were...
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This is the first in what will probably be a series detailing my method for developing a sandbox. I will be using my sandbox for Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the...
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Joseph B. Tyson argues in Marcion and Luke–Acts: A Defining Struggle that the canonical version of Luke's gospel and the heretical gospel of Marcion, which was supposed by some...
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Roll a D6, D10, D12 and D20 at once, and consult the tables for inspiration:Arthur RackhamWhat message is imparted? (D6)A warningA rebukeA requestAn instructionA...
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Part thirteen, adapting the B/X spell list to Whitehack. Cleric, 2nd level and Magic-User/Elf, 3rd level. In which I attempt to think of two alternate versions of Dispel Magic...
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Writing dungeon locations is hard. I'm not referring to the creating a dungeon (that presents its own sort of challenge) but rather the actual act of writing it down. You have...
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This, mostly.Howdy, Farmhands! This January, I posted a year-in-review to cover what I'd accomplished (or neglected) in 2025, as well as posited what I'd learned. The big...
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note to self
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A reading informed review of Orbital Blues.
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There was a conversation recently in the Bastionland Discord about a Mythic Bastionland session which the referee felt didn't go well. It sounded like they had fought a...
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A submission for this month's big blog hootenanny. I don't normally write for these things but I guess I came to a turning point and found my inspiration.Art by Jon DunhamIf...
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As a longtime player of the Basic Dungeons & Dragons game, I grew up with your character’s race being equivalent to a class (by the book), meaning it was how you got your...
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We played the fourth 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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Book recommendation for your Mythic Bastionland campaign
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what goblins get. You can also use this table for folks like half-orcs or maybe even tieflings,...
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Because I know that nobody reading this right now has ever read the D&D 5.0 Dungeon Master's Guide, that also means you almost certainly don't know about one of its best...
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Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is my upcoming deckbuilder tabletop roleplaying game built for bloody revenge operas inside a tight-knit clique of professional assassins. Here’s a...