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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, I rolled up a new PC for Dragon Quest who will be meeting our current adventurers as we...
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In a story, how do you know what should happen next? Well, of the writers I know in my life, the answer to that usually comes down to “hell if I know,” “I realized in a moment...
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Instant Pit A five foot wide, ten foot deep pit appears immediately, anywhere in view of the caster. Notes: We were painstakingly playing through a big old dungeon (iron-god's...
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My design philosophy has long been rooted in the idea of permissive and cooperative design – the idea that a game’s text and rules should serve to help the players. However,...
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I'm not sure how much I have to say on this topic, but prompted by Seraphim Seraphina's Write More Short Blog Posts here I am.For the past few years I have not rolled to hit. I...
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Assorted cataphracts thoughts part 1 I really like the cataphracts discord for having ideas floating around but sometimes you can get stuck in a rut. I'm going to try and step...
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Why? Because you wish you blogged more and you like citing yourself. Where? Your blog, or wherever else you want. I'm not picky. When? Whenever someone asks a question in a...
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Grenzland 8 recently showed up in my mailbox and is also now downloadable on its’ website (or available as a physical copy if desired). The ‘zine once again has a mix of...
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This post is a response to friend-of-the-blog Phlox' prompt "Spells of the Evil King". Here are a set of spells you might find in a grimoire once the dust has settled. I...
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Welcome back to the continuation of the Building Better Worlds review that I began here! This will include my thoughts about the other expeditions that my group completed, and...
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In the fair number of one-shots and short adventures I’ve run for BREAK!!, there has been an archetype of player I’ve had that genuinely loves playing but is always either 1)...
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On making positive claims and contributions.
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Recently, beloved blogger elmcat wrote a good post providing some clarifications about what blorb is through describing what it ain't. While I get that the blorb principles...
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The AP
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You were anointed by the blood of the forever dying God-Serpent, the beheaded Ouroboros. You were given a mission:Survive, scavenge, study and spread.Subvert, subsume,...
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I just realized that it's been almost a month since the one-year anniversary of running Operation Lamplighter. I think this is the longest I've been running a regular campaign...
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In case you missed my possibly too subtle footnote in Five Years in the Apocalypse, APOCALYPSE FRAME 2nd Edition is in the works.1 When envisioning what this would look like, I...
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I ran the lovely Eon’s Something Sinister at Candlewick Cabin at my local library recently. They broke into a house, caused multiple NPCs to have panic attacks, and generally...
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Encountered through the myth of The Shadow in Mythic Bastionland
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For UNUSUAL DAYS.Kit MillsGreaser You're the cool cat, the jukebox king, the rebel without a cause. You got an impeccable hairdo, a chip on your shoulder, and a tendency to...
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Posted on August 20, 2026 After moving to Portland, it was only a matter of time until I succumbed to the call of the clown. In one of the first classes I attended, Anne Zander...
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I used the pokemon api to convert the stats of every pokemon into Oddish form. here is the link to the json file. This was my logic for converting stats. I followed Warrens...
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For Glaugust 2026 Prompts: Primates Psychic Gorilla Humans arrogantly believe they are the superior primate. Fools. What could be more superior than a gorilla with a massive...
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I know that travelling in TTRPGs is hard. Hard to make it interesting. I’ve prepared an event or three for the journey, meant to fill an hour or two - instead, we spent the...
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In today's bestiary entries, we have two powerful predators—Thylacoleo, the marsupial lion, and Paludirex, one of the largest crocodylians to…
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I'm happy to finally have played Shadow of the Weird Wizard, especially with MTB at the helm as our Sage. He offered us the Weird Ancestries backgrounds, so I chose a Revenant....
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Our Lord Mammon has a formula, and now you can also use it
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A thorough analysis of Deathbringer's failure to commit to the bit
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I'm back with an odd one today, a look at a completely unpolished home game adventure that I ran at my weekly Gongfarmer event. It's a sandbox adventured I called "The Dark...