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Here's a short blog post. More of a rant. If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when someone challenges or debates...
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it's 5 AM or so and I haven't been able to sleep at all and i got work in the morning, its the time to be stupid until I can pass outever since I heard about the term...
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In the GLoG, MD can be hard to acquire, traditionally one per wizard level, +1 for wizardly robes and 1 per scroll consumed in the casting. A wand also gives you a spell you...
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"Look not so fearful my dear wife, Dribble Beauvoir is a goodly name, it is decided, hehehe"That stolid bunch, the Puritans, how novel they were. Such onomastic masters, true...
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Your sports team is cursed. You must discover the nature of this curse and then remove it. CHARACTERS: Pick a name and choose the history of your allegiance. Share the best and...
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Note: this one of several play reports about this session. See also Weird Writer and Against the Cult of the Commodity . I was nosing around my favorite Discord server, OSR...
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I’ve been inspired by Hilander’s ZLDA dungeons recently. It’s made me reconsider what I view as the essential components of a dungeon. This is not the first time I’ve mused...
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At work right now, I'm putting the polish and juice into our current project (a video game for kids), and it got me thinking about juice in tabletop games. If you're unfamiliar...
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Lots of RPGs describes themselves as heavy metal. Today I will dare the task known to be impossible, but which every metalhead is drawn inexorably to do: I will decree what is...
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A blog post where I compare a Tabletop Roleplaying Game session to having a communal meal, and why its important for everyone's expectations to be aligned.
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The Sodden Skulk map Wandering Monsters (1d6) 1–3: 1d6 Killer bee workers (½HD), 4: 1d4 Killer bee drones (1HD), 5: 1d3 Oil beetle (2*HD), 6: 2d4 Giant centipede (½HD) General...
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In which I announce the release of The Salt-Goddess and Her Wares, a ready-to-run location for David Somerville's Planegea!
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I'm putting together a campaign centered around Potter's Bay, so I'm gathering the various materials I expect to use for that. First of all, I'm going to run it with Whitehack...
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When designing a downtime procedure for a long-running campaign, you want to know how involved you want the procedure to be. I’ve run campaigns where domain management is the...
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This Month on Table 46No posts from me this month, but there's plenty of good reading down below. Hopefully I'll finish up some of what's in my drafts in the coming days! Blog...
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Proposing roleplaying the given circumstances.
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Subcreation for all!
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Check out the new daily puzzles for Murder on the Chessboard!
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This isn't a fighter, thief, wizard or cleric (I think!) Its intended to be pretty versatile, but I bet it's especially compatible with Unusual Days and a wip that...
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Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn...
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There may come a time in a post-OSR (or NSR, or plain old OSR - whatever, choose your acronym) gamer's life where they feel compelled to study the old ways. To look beyond the...
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Been a little quiet on here lately! I have moved states and am in the process of recovering from having moved states. Everyone survived and only a few small and replaceable...
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This post is about the notation system one uses for hexcrawls, so you probably know right away whether it's for you. My personal problem with the standard method in all...
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A survey on campaign length and lethality
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I am sure many of have fallen into the same spiral Elmcat describes in Death of a Hobby. I’m of the opinion that talking about RPGs online is its own hobby, pretty divorced...
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Sacred Cows!?!
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This semester I've found myself with about 3 hours a week of teaching time that is not allocated to any required curriculum. I teach in an alternative learning program; we have...
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I try to follow this procedure when possible. Sometimes I’m not in the best headspace and I fail. Sometimes it really helps. You want to buy an RPG book Get excited from the...
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1 A perfect circle punched out of reality2 Plates and shards of mirror intersecting and colliding in a constantly-shifting mass3 A pinpoint of light that expands to engulf you...
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Well, that was an unexpected break from blogging. I pulled back from keeping up with TTRPG releases, online discourse, and crowdfunding at the same time.Meanwhile, my gaming...