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I like a good end of year wrap up, so I was happy to see the idea for a personal awards post "The Endies" by Lady Tabletop. First things first, I have used one notebook to keep...
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A blog post talking about my ideal campaign structure for an Adventure game of the OSR play style.
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Law and chaos are mirrors. Earth sits between them, in the habitable zone (at least, the human-habitable zone). "Magic", "psionics", "demons", "fairies" - these all come from...
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My Carcosa-style recap of this session was as follows: The Bone Man sorcerer, The Dominant Reflection (AC 16, MV 90’, HD 4, Chaotic) has taken over the abandoned Space Alien...
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Art by Port of Zelda on tumblr Howdy, Farmhands! Super Smash Brothers, a fighting game with party game sensibilities, released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999. The appeal...
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Been a minute since I got to be a player, but I'm back with more Mothership. This is fast becoming one of my favorite systems to run and play in. The Stat Sheet The Label The...
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Class: Phlox's Barbarian. I am entranced by these sorts of meta-projects. It takes a deft hand to leave just enough room for others to explore while also laying a strong...
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Frankly, if we were all stranded on a desert island, we'd be eating each other alive before the boat even left the shore. Unrelated to any brutal power...
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This is a hex for the Rankin Bass themed shared hexcrawl/blog bandwagon announced by Prismatic Wasteland. The Autumn Valley - A forested valley region nestled between wintry...
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You know I had to load this puppy up on my Miyoo Mini Plus for some festive holiday fun! (So what if my high score is currently only nine hundred something—I'm still getting...
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Robert shares two great tools here (in addition to his beautiful vision of the internet): Blog Quest (for finding RSS feeds as you browse the web) and StreetPass (the same but...
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B1: In Search of the Unknown is a very self-contained dungeon module. That is, the dungeon is the module. There is a hint of civilization nearby, but it isn't made explicit how...
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Setting a BearingBefore casting off, the ship must set its bearing to an agreed destination. This requires a meeting of the Bearing Council, which consists of the captain and...
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An inaugural post for my new domain.
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It's Troika! Tuesday. I made a micro setting based on a d6 encounter table for troika.A PDF for home printing can be found here.
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When Stocking Hexes, I occasionally find myself at a loss when it comes to all those “Lairs” that can get generated in the Process. Those Encounters/Monsters need to shelter or...
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An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. From the beginning of the project, I knew it wasn't...
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Yesterday, I ran some Blades in the Dark and I thought the scenario was a lot of fun, so I'm posting it here! It includes a custom starting situation - my group was playing as...
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That's a wrap on another series of the Bastionland Podcast! If you haven't been following for long, here's the line up who each discussed three games that are important to...
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A while ago I saw a post on the OSR Discord (I think it may have been Jenx's Zandan megadungeon retrospective) that talked about how useful it was to talk about failures....
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I have been very kindly granted the Sunshine Blogger Award by my good pal xaosseed of the excellent Seed of Worlds blog. This is an award of "peer recognition to bloggers who...
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Each player starts with one (1) ticket, as well as anything you can fit in a suitcase in real life. Yes, you need to actually pack a bag in real life. Anything in your house...
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I am currently running an open world Arthurian Fire Tales campaign, complete with a full 5 mile scale hex map of Britain, Ireland, and Northwestern Gaul. When populating this...
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A dungeon’s challenges should teach, test, and twist its core gimmick. Build puzzles that reward player mastery and stack mechanics creatively.
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NOTE: This post contains minor spoilers for Act 1 of the Delta Green campaign Impossible Landscapes. If you're going to be a player in this campaign, you may want to skip this...
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This is part of a series of blogpostsCampaign framing, timeline, and general detailsMinor tweaks to hex descriptionsThe Lost Wing,The Dawnward Path, and coda. (this post)In...
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With a shout throughout the air,delivered at the doorway,"Please, just one more cup we'll share?"As the travellers prepare,its the exact phrase they saywith a shout throughout...
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Honestly, RPG blogosphere. If there were a Bloggie for 'worst blog', I'd be a contender.I'm not trying to beat myself up here; it's just a reflection of fact that I've barely...
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I hang out with a lot of OSR folks. It’s where I’ve found community, and it’s where I perceive the most discussion happening in the ttrpg space. The blogging culture is...
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Domain of Many Things (DoMT) had an interesting blog post about how 5e is fundamentally a good game, but that quality is obscured by 'layers of interdependent ill-considered...