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One of my greatest challenges when running Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games is the underspecified 7-9 result. A few examples follow, all from games I enjoy and admire:...
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A series where I talk about what I'm working on. In this post, I cover the challenges of designing a Soulslike roleplaying game.
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Initiative (who gets to go first in combat) is one of those things that is endlessly discussed in RPG circles. If you haven't read an excellent roundup of initiative systems,...
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Previously In a previous post, I started using the Tome of World Building to create a fantasy setting with the intended theme of sci-fantasy/sword & planet with room for being...
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Retrospectiva del Noviembre Hermético 2025.
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I don't particularly like the concept of stats in role-playing games. You play a person, not a mechanical robot with a bunch of technical characteristics that describe you.A...
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With a winter weather advisory in effect here in the foodhills of Appalachia, I'm feeling pretty festive. So, inspired by Dávid's Snowfall post (and using most of his code), I...
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Many months ago, I completed a table for Tiefling Traits and Infernal Features in which I promised a Post pertaining to their more Angelic/Aasimaric Counterparts. I plinked...
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A blog post talking about the benefits of developing and advancing your character based on experiences grounded in in-session action when playing Adventure games of the OSR play style.
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what dwarves get.You can either roll a d7 for your house to get a result from a tightly-bound...
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Now that we are past the beginning, I will begin at the DAWN OF TIME and tell you about all the adventure games I have ever loved. This will be a blog about tabletop role...
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I am not exactly a connoisseur of first dates, but I feel like "Watch someone else play Huniepop" is probably among the lower echelons of what one would consider a...
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Or: Everyone always says what combat is doing, but nobody ever asks how combat is doing. The TTRPG community (well, the blogging part of it) sure does love to define combat as...
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Over on Bluesky, I did a walkthrough of B1: In Search of the Unknown. I already wrote about how B1 tells the story of Rogahn and Zelligar, two adventurers motivated "by greed...
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This is an entry to a Merry Hexmas blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. DM me on Bluesky if your hex links to mine and I will update the list below!A huge mechanical baboon visits...
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I saw this video about Perfect Draw! and it made me think of King of Games (my beloved). Below is mostly stealing from the former and simping for the latter. (obv I'm not...
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It’s Troika! Tuesday. I ran Devil in the crypt for 3 people in a discord server I am in. We had Vashko the Demon StalkerJimdon the Gremlin CatcherGhonnorea the Hogoblin The...
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When people ask for a good system change - from say something like 5e - that's easy to handle, I used to always recommend PbtA. Now, I don't, and it isn't because PbtA is bad....
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This is a capsule game inspired by To Be Resolved's Honeybee Game Blog Posts and Honey Heist. The game is about non-anthropomorphic rats living in a subway station. The goal...
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Domain Specific Technical Writing
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I played Seven Party Pact, Paranoia, Planet of the Apes RPG, Monty Python RPG, Break!!, Barkeep on the Borderlands, and Escape from Atlantis and am reporting those experiences...
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Afraid of Play Reports is a series of blogposts where I write play reports of the campaign that I have finished or currently running. I name it that way because I keep on...
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Intro Back in June I decided to join an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons newbie group as a means to refresh my take on the rules rather than just read them. The OSR seems to mostly...
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A play review of the solo TTRPG, Siderius Plug's Immortality in Ninety-nine Endnotes SPINE
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I love fonts. There is something beautiful in how neatly organised lines form letters.I'm also in awe at how you can almost instantly tell if the font is easily readable or...
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There was screaming coming from below. Down a short flight of steps was a stone archway opening into some kind of gallery. All Dariel could see were figures moving and a...
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In case you missed it, I'm currently running a direct pre-order campaign for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon The Castle Automatic. Become an Early Worm now!But what's...
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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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Beginnings are delicate things. Honestly I don’t like them so let’s skip to the part where I am blogging about table-top role playing games, okay? But maybe one more thing...
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This set of tables inspired by spark tables is designed to roughly emulate the style of prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Prophetiae Merlini. Every roll will have some gaps...