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Apocalypse World is what I would call a narrative role-playing game because success-failure always leads to narrative and fictional consequences for acting. Threats are capable...
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Zero, Strong Devilman Porter 1 - Session 1 – Aug 2, 2026 DM Bateman – Violent City 1 – Whitehack with Dingo Wells, Leaper Black, and PRJCA045773-Molars Busting up a bar and...
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Lady Suprema (Silver Age)A cephalopodic alien refugee from the planet Xenon that crash lands into the Pacific Ocean as a baby after the devastation of their world. When she...
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Still working on my first caravan crawl. All the locations are written, and now I just need to polish the remaining three up a tad. I've also got the rules more or less done....
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Fantastical Ahistorical ViolencePreviously Pseudo-pseudohistorical Violence Right under the buzzer, I completed a new version and submitted it to the VIOLENCE IN JULY...
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TW: the game i'm reviewing is about body horror, which i’m not discussing in depth and leaving in the footnotes anyway if you wanna skip them, but be warned~! Also, naturally,...
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Posted by: taicharaThis month's RPG Blog Carnival is "Small Gods, Saints and Minor Divinity" --Find yourself ...Wandering the borders of the fields or the zigzags of...
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I’ve been a fan of minor magical items as a standard type of treasure for a while now--reality-breaking objects that either lack a clear use in adventure or that are too...
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Be Cautious of MaximsAs I've written before, the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try to describe shared principles and act as a way of mutual recognition among OSR...
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Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can always just say "Dwiz is a...
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I keep having people ask about how to start playing D&D, generally old-school rulesets. The thing is, it's pretty much effortless despite people being often intimidated. As to...
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I’ve been chipping away at Appendix N since 2012 (although I’d read a number of Appendix N works prior to that, just not as Appendix N works), and my thinking on how to...
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Crossing the RubiconIt goes without saying not everyone is going to agree with what I have to say here. When I showed the outline of this script to my editor, the first thing...
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Blerot, Ladies, Giant Head, Spears
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The post Layout Set-Up Checklist appeared first on Graftbound.
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There is often discussion of what HP means, no sinlge answer ever seems satisfactory, but heres a few ideas that can be intresting, and what they mean for the world. d6 HP...
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A quick progress update.
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When I was running Baseline Drift with my wonderful girlfriend Yakamo each night she would often be in bed before me and I wanted something else to work on while I stayed up...
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A response to MCDM's "Crows: Is it OSR?"
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Words on the Rime Wind: an OSR ice-crawl for the Appendix N Jam Hi all! Last year I joined the first Appendix N Jam, but I had too much on my plate so I never finished more...
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An Unusual Crop: Fermentation Written from inspiration from one of my players my PC's - Padyte the dwarf cook, who will eat anything. In food processing, fermentation is the...
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Special thanks to Christopher Campbell and GM Cellar for inviting me onto the channel. It was a really fun discussion and I hope to do it again!
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Two weeks ago, I traveled to Portland, Oregon for Between Two Cons, a "casual and inclusive convention dedicated to independent and old-school role-playing games" hosted by the...
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So I’ve got this dilemma. I like rolling dice to see how well things go, and I like asking players to roll dice to find out how well their actions go. But I don’t like the dice...
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*Private education at Gordonstoun introduces traditions of brutality - dog fights. Purchasing and rearing hounds to kill each other in illegal rings excites the lingering...
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YOU ARE TWOOr three, or more. It depends how you split it.Most everyone has a chip in their brain and an augmented-reality display playing over their vision. Names and...
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In 1985, eleven years after his resignation, Richard Nixon replaced his Secret Service detail with private security. The year is 1987. The players are a team of robbers from...
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Brindlewood Bay, created by Jason Cordova of The Gauntlet, was the first TTRPG I every purchased. The players will take the role of The Murder Mavens, a book club of elderly,...
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A very normal post about randomization Problem Take a look at this mischievous little fucker. An arrogant nepobaby grandfathered into modern game design. When was the last time...