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Hi all! As you might know, Pine Shallows is now on Kickstarter: Good news, we reached the first stretch goal. This means a new adventure will be added: Salvaged Memories, a...
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The Black-Blood God promised Senator Johnson that, in exchange for extracting more fossils fuels from the Tennessee hills, it would save Senator Johnson's wife from lung...
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Writing adventures for Cairn is very similar to writing for other OSR systems, with a few additional tweaks. Before reading further, see my previous post for a decent...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked creatively. Playing games...
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Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Injuries (and Other Combat-Related Matters)Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Violence Master Page Injury Guidelines I think there is real tension between the...
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It is our patriotic duty to buy Canadian Mothership modules. Emergence is a funnel adventure—like you remember playing in DCCRPG. Emergence takes place Henko Acquisitions...
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Demons can tell you a lot of things, and some of them are even true, but the one thing of which they will not speak is what comes after. It is forbidden.What could a demon...
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Rolling 2d6? Make doubles matter!
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Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to recent Bloggies-winner elmcat for setting up rootring, an old-internet styled webring for RPG blogs.
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How the necromantic demon evocation of Solomonic Magic can be translated to TTRPGs
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"Hunting is the labor of the savages, but the amusement of the gentlemen." - Dr. Samuel Johnson Incited by FĒONDAS, ultimately from Luke Gearing's Monsters &. ...
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Lessons learned about teaching the OSR play style to middle schoolers using Cairn Second Edition.
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500 Years Ago The Italian painter Raphael might have stood at his easel in a candlelit Roman workshop in the early 16th century, carefully layering paint onto the canvas that...
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The Binary Star Promise is that I will get a great idea for a prototype, start something, and put it on the backburner for a bit if it’s something I don’t owe people and would...
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Since Blades ‘68 is almost out the door, I’ve been thinking more about my next game. I’ve been thinking about system, and setting, and how I want them to dovetail....
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Posted on February 27, 2026 This is part 2 of More Than Telling a Story, an open-ended series of posts describing aspects of TTRPGs that resonate with me that aren’t “telling a...
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Alexandre Gustneau is an Artisan. An esteemed scholar of more than thirty years, he has advanced the field of Conjuration into the modern age—largely through his methodology of...
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The post Product Photography appeared first on Graftbound.
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As of writing this article, it has been exactly 3 months since Sam Sorensons Over/Under ended, and since then a small subculture of real time play by post games has spawned....
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I have been thinking a lot about what the second edition of Oswor could look like. I think one of the biggest mistakes I made with the current version is the choice of the...