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The last weeks I've been doing a deep dive into playing ttrpgs solo, with a specific focus on solo procedures for games that are not specifically for solo play, as I am...
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This is a writeup of Session 7 of Miranda Elkins’ Cuccagna campaign, where we exploring and plundering the mysteriously abandoned manse of the famous wizard Prospero the Blue....
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My regular Friday night gaming group has been playing through Gavin Norman's The Incandescent Grottoes. It's a dungeon that's full of caverns of glowing crystals, which is what...
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As is eternal, there is discussion about RPG design theories, what is a rule, what is the purpose of a rule, etc. I offer a definition that may be of some use, by looking at...
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Posted on March 31, 2024 Since finishing school (which is starting to be a distressingly long time ago), I’ve found it challenging to finish personal art/design projects....
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Here's a rough collection of thoughts pulled out of my first sludge pile, which I filled sometime in 2022. It is a mixture of setting-specific blurbs, wild ideas, and whatever...
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This week I played my first session of ICON, Massif Press’s tactical fantasy RPG. It’s my usual group less two players, so that makes one GM and then four of us on the other...
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This is my third annual Year in Review post, so I think I can officially consider it a tradition! Here are my favorite things from 2023. The Best Things I Read Fiction -...
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I’ve got an RPG campaign burning a hole in my pocket. It’s a fantasy adventure setting, with a little world of my own devising seeded with smaller adventures and modules to...
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I’m reading Berserk. There’s a part—almost 200 chapters in—where Guts is teaching Isidro how to fight. Here’s the panels: The core of these panels seem to be drawing on Kentaro...
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On today's episode of Between Two Cairns, we discussed a module called Gone Fishin'. We mentioned that it is kind of hard to find, and that the original sources were lost in a...
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Fabulation, Tall Tales, & Lies.The gem robbers and drifters of the Crystal Frontier come from every corner of the world, but they are often reluctant to speak of their...
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Inspired by Throne of Salt’s bookposts, here’s what I’ve been reading in the first two months of the year. January The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera What a...
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This isn't anything like my usual posts on here. But, seeing as I haven't posted anything in almost a year, I feel as if I have an opportunity to live up to this blog's name....
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Hi there! I made a big update to how Liminal Void works! You can see some previews of what I did in my newsletter post here. The big changes are: Static Assets from...
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For the Queen, by Alex Roberts, made for the smoothest oneshot I’ve ever played. It took less than five minutes to jump into play, and the whole game wrapped up in under an...
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In a 2010 blog post, John Harper argued that custom moves in Apocalypse World have a danger of “crossing the line” between player and MC roles. I’ve read it before, but only...
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Thoughts on an initiative system, to be used with any game that uses initiative.First, we assert that the game has a designation between combat and non-combat, and that...
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Hi there! v1.1 is here! It brings a few major changes: Formatting Increased page size slightly. Various typo-fixes. Tightening up of layout. Combat Rules Missiles. Deploy now...
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Liminal Void quickstart coverLiminal Void's quickstart has been around a little more than a year now. It's the first Total//Effect thing I put out and it's...fine. It's fine....
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*Before I release the extra edition that tacks on like 2 more posts. In Part 1 we established what kind of game we're using. In Part 2 we tied together Valiant Horizon's class...
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So we started poking at turning Valiant Horizon into Persona in Part 1 by establishing initial premises of what even this kind of game is like. It's got a lot of the DNA of...
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I'm thinking about Persona* a lot lately, partially because P3 Reload is out and I kind of want to play it but also it's $70 so fuck that shit. But partially it's because I...
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Machinations of Amirus A Machination of Court and Frame Binary Star Games*Does it really count as "mortem" if only like 1/3 of the game is out? I don't know but I'm sure going...
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Since I wrote my previous post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a place of...
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I plan to use a bunch of jargon in this post. I may or may not explain it.So to explain at least what the title means: PF2 is, of course, Pathfinder Second Edition. E6...
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Valiant Horizon v1.0 is finally out! Some big changes: 12 incredible illustrations by Charlotte Laskowski! Editing and revision by Marx Shepherd! And some smaller ones: Swarm...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Since I wrote this post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a...
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Hi there! Last class overview devlog, because after these two we’re out of core classes! Introducing the final two, Tactician and Windmagus. Just in time for the full release...
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It turns out I can just post whatever I want here and no one can stop me. Ability scores are boring in modern versions of D&D. If your ability scores are randomly generated,...