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Troika! Tuesday is here again. Here’s a small little monster. Hidden within the goblin labyrinth of Troika City are many abandoned underground projects. The first underground...
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I forgot the man himself Daniel Dean also made an appearance during this campaign. This might have been the only session he managed to play, but the nice thing about G+ was...
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I'm in the process of turning my old website (if you know, you know) into my more professional home on the 'net. To that end, and during that process, I've brought over all my...
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Well folks its been a year since we officially formed an LLC and started publishing games under the name Graftbound. We wanted to look back at the first year of being a small...
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Weather is tracked on three axes, each on a 1-to-6 scale: Clouds, Wind, and Heat. At the beginning of the game (or every time the players enter a new region, or when a...
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User-friendly definitions, tips, and tricks for tabletop rpg designers.
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Previously Earlier posts documenting my process of building a world with the Tome of World Building: Genre & Theme - Heavy metal gonzo sword & planet in an asteroid field at...
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Some important discoveries this session. The Rainbow Connection finally discover the lair of the Jale Slavers. They had first learned of it after rescuing some slaves in the...
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I have been writing in slow, vague circles around some kind of high school/teen fiction setting. This fits into that. I would like to have a think about some procedures, and...
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"The more of the following a campaign has, the more old school it is." - Principia Apocrypha. 1. Concrete SpacesIn Die Hard, Nakatomi Plaza is a fabulous dungeon. It is...
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Another blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland has summoned the bloggers. This time, it's about creating a hex, using the rankin/bass Christmas productions as inspiration. You can...
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The players had their home base in Invak, and had a strong relationship with the merchant town to the south, Jahar. At this point in the campaign they wanted to try and unify...
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Now do one for fun! Normie church-murder setting agnostic version here - this is part of that same bandwagon, probably.PALADINSkills: clique survival, social awkwardness, a...
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A rundown of TTRPGs that I played in 2025.
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I have a distaste for a lot of terms bandied about in the OSR sphere. Gameable Content is one. Another, apparently is "Player Skill." During yet another roundabout discussion...
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Merry Glogmas to Mr Ampora! Very happy for your new blog, and hoping many good things for you in the new year.1st LevelCure Light Wounds (also called "Cup of Cheer")Detect...
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The 3D on the 3DS was really cool. I got every gold trophy on every difficulty, but couldn't quite manage three gold starts on all the 150cc and mirror cups. Still, solid Mario...
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This post is a part of December's blog carnival: The End Times and After: December 2025 RPG Blog Carnival Recently I wrote new vehicle rules for my All-Out Apocalypse game...
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Four years ago today, I made a generator for Vampire the Masquerade to represent the vampiric population of the United states. It was a neat toy and fun to make, and it was...
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I love Shadowdark--it's lean, it's elegant, it's evocative. Everything you need from a fungeon crawl, nothing you don't. But coming to the OSR from a perspective of loving...
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Posted on December 14, 2025 Forget the Ennies, it’s time for the Endies! What RPGs did I play this year? What did I think about them? What intentions am I setting for next...
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As you’ll see in the comments, I had been reading Blood Meridian, and the book and its mood started seeping into the game. I wrote about this a few years ago: A Carcosan...
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With baby in month three and the holidays here and family in town and work ramping up, time is short. Here are a bunch of topic ideas and short thoughts, bones only. If you...
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I have played a total of 23 Tabletop RPGs in 2025. That's more than last year or the years before that (not in total). Also, I was FOMO about Spotify Wrapped this year, so I've...
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Have you ever thought to yourself: “I wish my fantasy campaign had a deckbuilding minigame like Triple Triad, Gwent, or Pazaak“? Would you like something more mechanically...
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A Review of Tania Herrero's Menagerie of Unbearable Things
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A few years ago, my first sandbox campaign used the Beyond the Wall (BtW) system, and it was also an excuse to buy Hexographer to create my own hexcrawl. I had no idea what I...
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This session the players explored the rest of the Space Alien outpost. When the returned I had re-stocked the space differently, because it had been captured. The rooms that...
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I rediscovered the Greek Magical Papyri when creating the magic systems for Fire Tales, while specifically looking for historical magic systems. What I found here was somewhat...
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Back in September of this year, I began a daily writing prompt inspired by this year's reread of The Lord of the Rings and Idraluna Archive's excellent hexmap of Middle-earth....