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The best posts in the meta category of this year.
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A mucky Swamp Romp Swamp World is a tri-fold adventure for B/X-like old school adventure games by Brad Kerr and Skull fungus. It's part of their Pamphlet Adventure Tryptich,...
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The Bloggies Tournament is over. Here are the 2026 champions...
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I'd like to talk to you today about my favorite dungeon. It's not some sprawling multi-layered thing like Arden Vul, or the old 3.X era delves like Rappan Athuk or Slumbering...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what elves get.This is ostensibly for the Middle-earth Hexcrawl project but I think it can be...
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Piggybacking on a good post.
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Basically: I was inspired by Dwiz’s post about how ‘the maze game’ of charting sites was central to early D&D in contrast to later approaches which abstract or give knowledge...
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Nova over on Playful Void has a lovely little series called "Make Dice Work For You" - It's an excellent primer on dice, maths and using probability curves that I think every...
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After the third Bloggies Blog Bath: Who won? And by how much?
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Session 1 Date: 2026-02-19 What the PCs know: You were taken by raiders in a flying ship You've been locked up at least a week, up to a month You've been able to talk in...
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Make Dice Work For You is a series where I’ll regularly talk through a new way to use dice in your game. It came out of conversation surrounding What to randomise when you’re...
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Factions that pursue their own agendas regardless of the PCs are a great tool to bring your RPG setting to life, and can help the world feel dynamic, both reactive to the PCs...
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Patch Notes!
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This post is part of the Prismatic Wasteland blog bandwagon on the topic of maps.The first mention of mapping by players in the AD&D PHB is on page 101, in the section titled...
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After the second Bloggies Blog Bath: Who won? And by how much?
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Sea of Stars proposes Dragons, Gods and other Powerful Beings for this months prompt for the RPG Blog Carnival. Inspiration for one big idea did not strike so I am going to do...
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Youth is the semblance of strength, love is the semblance of peace. Neither youth nor strength nor love nor peace can be granted to me [...] nor can I accept such a gift.-2666,...
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So you took the pledge! Great, now you need to figure out which city your Vulgar Manse calls home. Luckily, the League of Dark Few has been designed to fit within most fantasy...
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With a host of furious fancies,Whereof I am commander,With a burning spearAnd a horse of airTo the wilderness I wander.By a knight of ghosts and shadowsI summoned am to...
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Best Case Scenario is live on Kickstarter right now. Buy my book. Buy my book. Buy my book.You want some more art about dudes in black body armor about be vaporized...
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how do we represent passage of time in ttrpgs?
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The best posts in the theory category of this year.
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Introduction This post is part review of my time reading The Rulebook and part recognizing the importance of Instructional Design for TTRPGs. I've taken my time reading The...
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I was introduced to TTRPGs by the bassist of the band I was in right out of college. This was back in 2012 in Akron, Ohio (USA). We started with D&D 4E, premade characters, and...
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After The Bloggies Blog Bath: Who won? And by how much?
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Introducing my unfinished worlds, candidates for my starter boxes: Brightshore, Hautesalme, Ashkarland, The Windborne Groves, The White Sand Sea and Deepmarket. Come tell me...
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Listen to this episode here. There's many ways to decide who has authority over what in an RPG. Traditional games have a bunch of players with one PC each and...
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Dead simple craft. Do you have a printer and an appetite for breakfast? You're nearly there.
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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...