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Shiny links this week are wholly from a series of conversations on discord pulling up links from the past - see if you can guess the themes. For more, see last weeks collection...
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The Bloggies' 2026 submissions are closed. Here's what's next...
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Hi! I'm Sabrina Hawthorne and I design TRPGs. I'm also a kinkster. As you maybe have guessed, I'm of the opinion that you can't meaningfully disambiguate those two hobbies. So...
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Everyone who says how they know your RPG notes should be organized is wrong. Except for me. In this post, I am going to outline a theory of bottom-up organization for RPG...
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You can learn a lot about someone from their signature spell.
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A prison larger than any cityBuilt on the first prison ever builtBuild to restrain the god that wants to eat the worldBuilt with seven seals (no fewer would do)Each seal built...
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Scene 1 Expected Scene: Arriving at Ekkurad and meeting with the Seekers Test: 3, Altered Scene The ruins of Ekkurad are known to local Faa tribes. These dusty, crumbling...
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Like any 'creation project' the tactility of it is important for me; I find myself picking some slightly novel approach to note taking each time to keep things interesting and...
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Lightning is the purest expression of strength. Where it lands, grass burns, trees split, and men die. It is the fire born of water, creation and destruction in one dread...
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Monthly design jams, critique, theory, and inspiration for tabletop rpg designers by rpg designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
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Comparing the apocalyptic eschatology of 1 Enoch with present-day political discourse on the left.
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This post is about running my first long campaign and what I learned from it. It is the first of two or three posts detailing the same campaign. BackgroundI've run three long...
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Last week, our favorite wizard criminals trashed a hotel, found the Philosopher's Stone, and shot their way out of a police raid. We start this week with our group hiking...
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This morning Liz over at Magnolia Keep offhandedly made a joke about a tactical RPG for concealing your affair at a Coldplay concert (it made sense in context of the...
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I've been thinking about knowledge this week, prompted by Elmcat's Common, Recalled, Obscure. It's a great framework for thinking about how to provide characters with knowledge...
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As part of an organized effort on the Paper Cult forums, I have been playing a variety of games in short 3-session campaigns to “Meet The RPG“. It’s kindof like a book club,...
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I was going to bed last night when my friend Dadstep sent me the coolest idea, why not do opposed overloaded reaction rolls with cards, instead? He calls it the...
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A lot of people who are culturally Christian are often surprised, I’ve noticed, to learn that the so-called “seven deadly sins” do not originate from the Bible. Certain...
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The first RPG I ever played was D&D 3.5. It wasn’t my introduction to RPGs. I knew full well what they were like. I had grown up around them, listening in on my family’s...
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There's this pattern that happens every time I go to a new falafel place: They'll ask me how spicy I'd like the sauce, I'll say "medium spicy" then they'll look at my pasty...
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My friend over at A Shrike for my Dreams made a very fun post last week about the Overloaded Reaction Roll. It's an awesome post, so this is a pretty paltry contribution to the...
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A look at the Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene
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Mercy is something of a complicated subject within the borders of Renuvia. Although technically governed by a human kingdom, centuries of petty quarrels have carved this land...
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Are you using overloaded encounter dice to track time? Clocks like from Blades in the Dark? Here is a more tangible, toyetic alternative method for tracking progress of...
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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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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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It is 3 AM and I cannot sleep because I woke up with these random mechanics coming into my head. But one of the reasons you keep a blog is to have a place to dump such...
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I think some time around november last year, I was talking to some friends about how I stumbled upon that forum post where one of the authors of the original Ravenloft module...
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I think some time around november last year, I was talking to some friends about how I stumbled upon that forum post where one of the authors of the original Ravenloft module...