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What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in...
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If someone told you they were going to play sports at a professional level by the end of the year but they don't even practice regularly, would you believe them? This is how...
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A small wiry man in a black bodysuit, red shorts, brown loafers, white gloves with torn fingers exposing dirty, gnarly long nails, and wearing a cheap costume mask of a rat...
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There are quite a few puns I could make to introduce this topic, so I’ll save us both some time and let you imagine your favorite one. There, feeling better? Now you’re ready...
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CONTEXT & GOALSI have a slight fascination with understanding how much creative mileage one can get out of the Basic D&D and a couple of sheets of graph paper. I hold this...
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Artist credit: Jeffrey HummelGamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mired in bizarre value...
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The Straight DopeI'm trying to make this a habit, so here's the gist. In ttrpgs, play will usually follow this basic procedure: Describe React Resolve Repeat This particular...
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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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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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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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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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Hey I decided to make a Webring for specifically bay area ttrpg people! I made it via onion ring so shout out to those wonderful people.If you wanna join the webring shoot me...
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I just read Cats Have No Lords's post Tyranny of the Crawl (as well as the accompanying topic on The Cauldron), and it got me thinking about the relationship between hexcrawls...
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Been tinkering with some advice for pacing a game of Intergalactic. I suspect I'll go a bit further than this, but it's a start.The speed at which the group moves through...
Earlier
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My marble visage wrinkles with an Ozymandian sneer when I read the countless posts advocating the disposal of this rule or that procedure because they are, and I'm trying my...
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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the last episode in the Gamma World 1e system. Scene 1 After it seemed...
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Of all the factions and polities in Barony, the White City has always been the hardest for me to draw and think about visually. Part of this is scale - the images for these...
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What if I told you that you could map every single element in your adventure to one of two states? You heard it here first friends and enemies: I’m back in the writing mines,...
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Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene has a Gen AI problem!
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We started preparing for our GURPS mini campaign about two months ago. Myself and several other intrepid explorers from the Paper Cult forums have been running a variety of our...
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While running Libra and, now, prepping for Not My Destination, I'm still trying to keep up at least a once-a-month cadence for posts about my 2nd edition domain rules, to prove...
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Here are some of my fresh thoughts after wrapping up a mini-campaign running Crown of Salt in Mörk Borg. This took a total of 5 2hr-ish sessions with a group consisting of 3-6...
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Some of the most useful tools for a GM are tables and oracles. In it's most basic form random tables can aid a GM to make decisions or perhaps throw the adventure in a...
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Last weekend I (officially) attended my third Gary Con. My first was in 2020, which was unfortunately moved online for obvious reasons, and I also attended in 2024. In 2022 and...
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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...