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Well, nothing too interesting. I just noticed a few things that I left incomplete after sharing the first post. I forgot to add any OpenGraph tags, which results in a barebones...
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“Why does Sully always start us in fantasy’s biggest shitholes?” I like low-fantasy, what can I say? I have come to the conclusion that running OSR games for 2 players is not...
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Adventuring is dangerous business. Dungeons are filled with monsters, tricks, and traps. The wilderness is littered with small armies of orcs and bandits, and strongholds ruled...
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This dungeon was revealed to me partially in a dream. It is set in the Unfinished World. You have been heading northeast from the Holy City, Anyang, for a fortnight. It feels...
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I've been back in the US for a few months now. I had my goodbye party in Austria on July 4th, and left the next day to come back to the US after four years in Austria. It's...
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Ite, the Four-Fold World, was the first recorded Splash. If the stories of the Pilgrims of Yordsk are to be believed, it was a world divided into four tetraspheres by huge...
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I was explaining to my friend and local game designer Phandas Trove my goals with making Inheritors' somewhat unwieldy hex crawl more digestible on the player side; The player...
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The witches of Krakow live in their beasts. A direct successor to the witch hut, their hollowed out chests and stretched pelts serve as a sturdy, mobile ritual...
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Special thanks to Archon's Court.There's a certain way things go. The throughline of history. Fate. It's written in the whispering of advisors and traced by knives in dark...
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As if any of us need a reason for unrestrained summer fun Howdy, Farmhands! Celebrations are an oft forgotten part of worldbuilding. Adventures derived from loss or fear...
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Your friends might be psychic, or wizards, or cultists of strange gods, but you're the only one with a driver's license. Godspeed.A: Hurt People, Background, +1...
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Finally getting this blog off the ground after a year of procrastination and tinkering. The last time I blogged was in the height of the blogging boom that social media...
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I don't watch a lot of Dungeons and Dragons YouTube. Lots of it is advice I've already learned from forums and mates on discord, other parts are engaging with the game in...
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Session 3 of Scarlet Sunrise started off with our heroes in two places, thus violating the most sacred rule of DnD. Mercy was trussed up Hannibal Lector style in a Tok...
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Today is the release date for Orestruck, my next adventure in the Tannic Forest. ORESTRUCK INVITES YOU TO RETURN TO THE FORESTOrestruck is an adventure for Cairn and other...
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I’ve been making games professionally for long enough now that people sometimes ask me how I got here. I don’t really know the answer, but I know these things are true: I’d be...
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This is just a quickie character generator for HOU, in preparation for running a game for some folks later. Thanks to Spwack for the provided quick table tools!Eventually I...
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Announcement! Game!A roleplaying game on my roleplaying game blog? No way. But I'm excited to share that it's my first published game (that's not an anthology of other people's...
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This is an experiment - Lanthanide Horizon has always been classless, so I was interested in what would change if I replaced its backgrounds with more standard GLOG...
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I read far too many articles offering guidance on how to reduce the amount of time spent prepping for ttrpgs. Ridiculous!! If you are anything like me, you can never have...
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GMing a regular game often means being creative on a tight deadline. This can be alleviated somewhat by running pre-written adventures/modules, but even then you are expected...
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Piscomancy Or Ichthyurgy AKA Ahabs, Aquamen, Casters, Ickies Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat forever.You fish because you are...
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About a week or so ago, the wonderful Hilander prompted me to get back into writing up proper dungeons.A lot more of my personal experience I feel has focused on cultivating...
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hey hey i wanna be a rock star This post is part of a series of Blogs where I work on my home-ruleset, 'The Sanic Hack.' You may or may not gain better comprehension from...
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Back when man ate the planet the nithhugry was made. On command they would hollow out entire mountainsides, now only a few are left, roaming the places few dare to tread. They...
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This is a guide for using Photoshop to take a photo of a blank object and digitally apply art to it, preserving the photos lights and shadows to make a realistic Digital...
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What makes a Feast? Three things, as you’d expect.Ceremony - How is the official purpose of the feast observed?Spectacle - How is the host showing off how wealthy, powerful, or...
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Different GLOG / OSR posters - This kind of is a given for everyone sharing these I guess? But I felt the need to state the obvious. I've been reading different blogs for about...
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Posted on September 10, 2025 In this game you create a character and write poems as that character. Perform Part 1 once to create a character. Repeat Part 2 each time you write...