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It's the most wonderful time of year, the Bloggies! The RPG Blogosphere all gathers around, has a contest in which we pit the year's best blog posts against each other, and...
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This character generator sketches out a PC, except that it doesn't list out the standard starting skills and equipment, and it doesn't spend your 500 starting XP. I figured if...
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Hello there, I wanted to start a blog/website to showcase some projects I am working on. I will be posting TTRPG Solo sessions/adventures, maps, and systems to help players...
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You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about Should old acquaintence be forgot? Nay, I say. This retrospective blogpost might be a week late to actually matter to anybody,...
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One of the great challenges with writing good NPCs is to present them in such a way that the GM can easily portray them in a scene. I am experimenting with punchy descriptors...
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With ten minutes of prayer, the cleric can roll their Guidance Dice (GD). Each die is unique, with various symbols on the sides. These represent signs and omens in the cleric's...
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A critique of my approach for running roleplaying games.
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My sprouting in-person group voted for Libra as our next game, so it's gone from "something to think about" to "an immediately upcoming deadline". As such, here are the game's...
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Join me, dear reader, as I indulge in some self-reflection...2025 RetrospectiveThis past year was a quite a solid one for my home game. We completed our 24th session after...
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Kero Kero Cowboy is a great little platformer for the Game Boy Color (which I played on my Anbee, aka my Anbernic RG 35XX Plus). The first half of the game is near perfection,...
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I received Nimble 2e for my birthday in October, about time I reviewed it here. Nimble started out as a 5e rules hack to make it faster, but Nimble 2e is its own game--a...
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Location types exist in close proximity to one another but serve very different gameplay functions.There are basically four main location types in D&D (and D&D-like games):...
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It's Troika! Tuesday. I decided this time I am gonna stat up the family from my gothic horror module Von Hynd Manor. Dora Skill 7Stamina 20Initiative 4 (see special)Armor...
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Cover art for Slugblaster by Sex on a Pizza. The Stat Sheet The Label The Details Date Played January 1, 2026 Adventure Slugblaster Turbo-X System Slugblaster GM Kati Player...
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I didn't get a chance to participate in the The Rankin Bass Hexmas Crawl, but it sure looks like an exciting project. I hope to run some games in it next holiday season...
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Half a century ago a king ruled here - The ruler of a very small but ancient domain. The king had a princeling son, and a court bard, and a retinue of servants and vassals. ...
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A Christmas-themed hexcrawl setting with 60 hexes written from bloggers across the blogosphere.
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Every winner of The Bloggies from 2022 to 2025. Want to melt your rpg brain? Start here.
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This hive dungeon serves to introduce some of the marquis monsters of the setting, created by random generation. While a little bizarre on their own, I believe confidently...
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John Dickson BattenAn old ruinous chapel, several miles from the nearest civilized folk. The stone brick walls are covered in moss and ivy. At midnight the chapel bell tolls...
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I am currently trying to key Dyson's Winter Tombs as a Dolmenwood-by-the-numbers dungeon. As I was pondering the question of dungeon history, I realized Dolmenwood has a pretty...
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Part 2 of my four part series on fixing mistakes in my spaceship-hunter-gatherer domain game. See part 1 (on economy and domain actions), and later part 3 (troupe play and...
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I take a deep look at the article that inspired the Gygax '75 Challenge to understand how D&D's original creator viewed campaign design and world building.More
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…If you’ve heard them called social matrix games from this blog and other places, that’s fine too. Basically, I’m over bifurcating my brain to make posts for two separate...
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Here's a sad story in six words.FOR SALE: RPG SETTING, NEVER RUNAs bloggers, we have reams of loreposts and toneposts and appendices N and classes and bestiaries and all the...
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I'm getting rid of all combat procedures in my games. I'm a bit tired of reading a game with something that really makes my eyes sparkle (a cool resolution system, evocative...
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Reflecting on how the lack of a games press affects how games are funded.
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This tower sits like a teetering stack of broken bricks on Hush Island, jutting from the mouth of the Crowkut River, a thoroughfare that splits Swamphaven into northern and...
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I'm in beginning-of-year cleaning mode, and as part of that project, I reorganized my PDF archive. Here's how I did it. Maybe you'll find it useful. The key element of this is...
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Swear to Gxd I was working on this before the previous post. I just waited to post until it seemed less topically timely because it was a genuine effort and something I had...