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If you spend a lot of time in the blogging circles I do, you'll notice the term "Gameable content" crop up a lot. I was first introduced to the term in Prismatic...
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For my Shadowdark homebrew, I created feats for fighters, thieves, priests, wizards, and all classes. Feats are meant to be even-level customization options, and also may be...
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I’ve always appreciated one (of many things) Yochai Gal did for Dungeon World, Into the Odd, and Electric Bastionland: collecting resources. He put together a syllabus for...
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I like to make a point of trying new things. I find it’s very easy to feel like I’ve gotten stuck in a rut, and to not have a sense of how to get out of it, or even if there’s...
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A codified form of my approach for running immersive roleplaying games.
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Looking back on 2025, looking forward to 2026.
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Maybe it's the fact that I just had to spend an hour hacking a space in the frozen mound left by the snow plows on my sidewalk to fit my garbage bins, but I feel like talking...
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Back when I was messing around with an emulated C64 and reading through the user manual, I made this little dice roller. Forgot to post it back then. Now that the new C64...
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OLD BUSINESSHow did I do on my 2025 goals? Well, let's see:Post more "good enough" adventures 😃Finish Serpent Psalms to complement Serpent Song Hymnal 😐Run another "family &...
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Table of Contents Introduction System & Adventure Breakdown System Breakdown Adventure Breakdown Memorable Highlights Facilitator Shoutouts All the Data Conclusion Introduction...
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A year has passed and it is now time to summarize and reflect on what has happened on this blog in 2025.
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Warwick GobleSeasons have 4 Seasonal Actions each representing about 3 weeks. At the end of each Season, during the Seasonal Phase, you perform Seasonal Actions. The number...
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The Waawaatesi rises from the frozen earth like a dream half-remembered upon waking, stretching endlessly east and west until it vanishes into the mists at the edges of the...
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A Dyson Logos ClassicThis post was written as a "Secret Santicore" response to the Dododecahedron's request : "What are your hopes for the future of the OSR/NSR?" What is the...
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This one by way of Prime's challenge on discord. I've been wanting to try my hand at a hexcrawl for a while and haven't been able to grok it for whatever reason - I'm hoping...
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A GLOGmas gift for Swan and Raven Studio, derived from her Known World #32 - Sideways World. Key Characteristics: world exists only in direct line of sight of Site #42106 /...
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Long time readers may recall I had started an Arthurian Dark Souls sort of setting I never finished called Misericorde. A year or so later Chris started sharing his work for...
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Hi there! It’s once again that time of the year. Every year I take stock of what I accomplished, go through my numbers, chart what I did and how well it did, and try to draw...
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Long time readers may recall I had started an Arthurian Dark Souls sort of setting I never finished called Misericorde. A year or so later Chris started sharing his work for...
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Adoring FanStarting Items:2d6 pieces of merch from your Idol1d10000 (4d10 for different digits) of financial debt, in appropriate currencyan idol of the object of your...
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It's the start of a new year and a lot of folks have been posting their yearly wrap-ups, so I thought I'd get in on the show and talk a bit about what I've been up to this...
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The 2026 Bloggies are upon us, and I plan on submitting a handful of mine - and, of course, others'. If you've enjoyed reading this blog in 2025, I would greatly appreciate you...
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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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If you're into old-school dnd and not already reading "You see this." (not to mention using their excellent tokens), you definitely should be.
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I want to declare book amnesty for myself, having fallen behind on my habit of writing up my reading habits (previously in January, April, and August of 2025). In rough order,...
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The past year ended up being the biggest year of blogging on this site. At the start of the year I shared my thoughts on blogging in the post Blogging is Forever, a reminder...
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So I got the chance to run another playtest session of Protoplastic, this time with an entirely different group of players. I ran essentially the same scenario as the last...
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I feel funny writing a wrap up/looking forward post but I'm doing it. First: thank you everyone for your support this year and for playing/reading my adventures. Here's how the...
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If the theme of my 2024 Year-in-Review was despondence, lack of direction, loneliness, and uncertainty, then the theme this year is one of hope, renewed purpose,...
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Happy New Year, everyone! As a yearly wrap-up, the Vienna Supergroup put together a Review Round Robin, where we each reviewed a game or adventure of another's choosing. For...