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Design Diary - Generating worlds & cultures based on the science fiction works of Jack Vance. Planet art by Evlyn Moreau 🌲 Pine Shallows Flip Through 🪐 Design Diary - Creating...
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This is my fourth year doing a round-up of my favorite media. This year, I decided to pick one winner in each category, but acknowledge a top five, which made it easier to give...
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This is a post for the Obol Desert, a setting I've been working on with friend-of-the-blog Eos of Nobless Goblige. This one mostly focuses on caravans and caravan...
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Collage by me. Don't Fear the Reaper (2025).What my mother and the trees taught me was this - there are 3 places to touch the divine. The cathedral, the theater, and the...
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I recorded my solo play of Mythic Bastionland, the game of knights and mythic quests by Chris McDowall.The ambient music is kindly provided by PrismaticNoiseProject.Recording:...
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JUDGEMENT IS A BLADEShe is a good sorcerer, but a poor disciple. She finds it difficult to concentrate. When she arrives the bell has been struck—the lesson has already...
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You are a mystic, whose psionic techniques circumvent the need for magic and arcane tradition. You have a pool of psions used to fuel your powers (fun fact: the term...
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Note: This post contains spoilers for the Mothership scenario Another Bug Hunt. I love running mystery and investigation scenarios. Designed well, they allow players to engage...
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A launch post for the beta version of my game, Mistwalker.
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You walk the line between two worlds, and have created something new in its wake. Artisans fear you, for you collude with forces that cannot be fully understood, and it in turn...
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Last weekend, 7-9 March, Sharon and I hosted a party.Because: It was my birthday the week before;Sharon’s “Portal” work, which began on our local beach, then travelled to the...
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My rendition of the Urik, the City of Lions, from the Dark Sun setting. Available for free download.More
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An RPG critique focused on inspiring, usable, and playable texts.
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A Brief Barrow Fields GazetteerI was born on the Cidro. The City of Fountains, back during the war. Devil's pox and the proscriptions took most of my family. Left my poor...
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A reading informed review of The Hidden Isle.
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I was reading through Grimwild when I was struck by a lightning bolt of "Oh, duh!" It was one of those revelatory moments that change how you think of games forever. You should...
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Inspired by a post on the NSR Cauldron, I explore my personal criteria for great adventure design.More
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Setup Pidash is in Moongaze, in a tucked away upper room at the inn. He’s known to Hegemony soldiers for some petty crimes, and has no desire to be shipped off to Gnomon. He’ll...
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There's Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, and on this world, there is also Existential Selection. Beyond simply sex and survival, creatures on this world have innate,...
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A reading informed review of Swyvers.
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You want to run a “Dungeon Crawl” adventure… Not just an adventure in a "dungeon", but a Dungeon Crawl - that distinct, classic mode of RPG play about exploring a fantastical...
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A session report for part one of a Paladins of Awoudan mini-campaign.
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Two years ago, I ran a West Marches campaign using the tools from the Cairn Second Edition Warden's Guide. It was a lovely campaign. Games were almost never canceled, as new...
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Announcing a new grimdark, tactical roleplaying game.
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To live is to be at war. Some liken the world to a vast wilderness, where dangers silently roam the forests and hills beyond the safe confines of civilization. This is false....
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What even needs to be said? You are a pebbled worm, never to be smiled at. Any who know you fear you, and rightly so. You are a god of the river, an oasis king. The mighty...
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Old School Essentials
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Any attempt to read Appendix N is necessarily going to involve some interpretation. If Gary just listed an author’s name and nothing else, how many of their works should you...
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How players can share the load a traditional GM bears.
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I've been running an ongoing Crystal Frontier campaign using the "Fistful of Crystals" ruleset for the past several months, and at the same time finishing up editing and layout...