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The discussion of improvisation and its role at the table continues to fester in my mind, especially after my post on Improv, Play Culture, and Authority. I've only scratched...
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Portals are cool as hell. Who doesn’t love those science fiction and fantasy covers from the golden age of paperbacks where the other side of a doorway is different from the...
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I bought some tengu from Reaper the other day just because I've always enjoyed corvid-folk and thought they would be a good miniature to have on hand. I even had a half idea...
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Recently, Luke Gearing put out a post on Bluesky and that personally offended me. I also don't care for the words that he said in the post but that is unrelated to being...
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Rise Up Comus makes an excellent point in Unblocking Yourself: Dungeonize your Home look to draw inspiration for your hexes and dungeon rooms from what you see about you. They...
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So what about those unsettled and unexplored worlds in Intergalactic Bastionland?They won't get the same detail that the main worlds get, but I want to include some information...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q532 Col. 2 Frags. 1 - 6 2 [...] flesh [...] 3 al[l...] monsters [...] will be [...] 4 [...] they would arise [...] lacking in true knowledge [...]...
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The best to ever do it!I've been dealing with some nasty depression recently, and as a way to smooth off the worst edges made a decision to revisit one of my favourite...
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Everyone has a fix for the Fighter. Every OSR game. Every blogger. I have. You have. It's a veritable right of passage. I have tried quite a few in my home games over the...
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Looping forests. Creepy basements. Crawl spaces whose darkness can't be pierced by your flashlight. Wouldn't it be great to have a game that preys on your fear of the unknown?...
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Listen to this episode here. My friend Tristan Zimmerman is currently crowdfunding Ballad Hunters, a GUMSHOE game, meaning it’s based on a core mechanic built for investigation...
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Lessons learned about teaching the OSR play style to middle schoolers using Cairn Second Edition.
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Previously We left off after getting an idea of the number and size of the other continents - or planetoids in our setting. Earlier posts document building a setting using...
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500 Years Ago The Italian painter Raphael might have stood at his easel in a candlelit Roman workshop in the early 16th century, carefully layering paint onto the canvas that...
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I have recently fallen down the Classic Traveller rabbit hole. I think about UPPs in my free time, design spaceships in my mind, and play the character creation minigame to...
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Comedy: not a standard topic of TTRPG discussions, but a highly pertinent one all the same: if you haven’t laughed at your table, then you need to find a new group. In this...
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Way back at the beginning of this blog I wrote about disease in the Barony. It is a bogey man, a sort of societal great enemy, and also ambiguously a divine extermination...
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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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Only the most interesting links from about the web. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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I’m right at the beginning of the design process on a few different projects, one in particular in a pre-mechanical stage: I know what the game is about and roughly...
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A month has passed yet again and I have continued to track my favorite blog posts from across the RPG blogosphere this month. There's a lot of great writing to read, think...
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Wishlist cleaning! For the unacquainted, Steam has a wishlist feature where you can put the games you want to buy, like a lot of digital storefronts. It also serves a nefarious...
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Starting a Pine Shallows solo campaign - Solo Actual Play Report The Kickstarter campaign for a physical release of Pine Shallows starts coming April 2nd. Most of the game has...
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Zenopus archives did the hard work of grabbing all possible syllables and title combinations for names from Holmes Basic and B1. Just hit the button to generate however many...
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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the next episode in the Gamma World 1e system. Scene 1 Nathal(⇟∲⇟) and...
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I am working on a TTRPG. Here are its classes!PremiseYou are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of your ancestral herding lands by...
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(Check it out: I released a new single-session adventure on itch called Quest for the Vorpal Sword. You might use it with Dungeons and Dragons 5e or you might borrow bits for...
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Your weekly dose of ttrpg discussions, links, and projects. International Women's Day issue!
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I have long been a big fan of the Semiotic Standard developed for Alien (1979) by Ronn Cobb for "all commercial trans-stellar & heavy element transport craft" - in particular...