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Lakshman Anil Paschim had a problem... he was too popular. Born into a family which had gained its wealth during the Green Conquest—wherein precursors to the new faith sought...
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Hi there! v1.1 of Valiant Horizon is out! This includes: Tweaked Create an Opening downward because it was Too Good By Far. Clarification of interaction of inverse with...
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Substack is a silly place. Back to Blogger, thanks.Hoping to get back to weekly posts soon. Probably be a monthly cycle, aiming to get at least one of each of the following a...
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There are dozens of intelligent species in the System, but only a handful have a significant presence in interplanetary space. Producing spaceships requires the kind of...
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At her funeral Silver’s children did not cry. Their grief was dry as pyre kindling. They said:“We will sail east past the border. We will search for our mother in the shoals of...
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…Ugh. I do not enjoy this. So, a disclaimer. I am a rather negative person, in demeanor in general, but especially in critique. I try to make a point of reining that in when in...
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The opening of my soon-to-be-real Cairn RPG adventure, The Tide Returning, is a crime scene.The king of Zum and his sceptre has gone missing in the night. Hired to find him,...
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When the first hives approached La Republique amidst the waning storms, they did so with open arms. Offering humanity the same gift that elevated the imps was—in their minds—a...
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Let’s consider a game where player characters cook regularly, to resolve conflicts or scenes. During character creation, Alice selects the following ability: Keep the doctor...
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"Vpon the Seuentene Daye of the Seconde Moneth, that same daye were all ye fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp, and the wyir of ye heauens cast wyde."- Late added...
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Stamina is a resource I bolted onto both the RUNE engine and the NULL/CIPHER healthless idea for Valiant Horizon Tactics. It’s a very major change to how a RUNE-like does...
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Hypothetical time: you’re starting a new game and want to have all the player characters connected in a way that creates just the right amount of drama, tension, and connective...
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Hi everyone! I have two announcements about the ongoing Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam, still open until July 8th. First, several people have reached out to me with links that...
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Hi there! First off, a little update to this quickstart. A few big changes: Gaining your Background doesn’t give you a smattering of Attributes anymore. Instead, you get to...
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Better off shedding your own blood on the groundThan shedding your self-respect on a court's floor. Better off worshiping foul idols than a man.That is my teaching. Heed it and...
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When I’m running a game, one of the highlights for me is inviting players to collaboratively build the world with me. In the past, this has resulted in a few hiccups. Enter...
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Solo boss encounters are a common thing that people want to do in D&D-likes, but the way the system is set up, they don't really work unless you mess with it.This post is a...
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In imitation of a friend of the blog. Source: Solid City, by Paul Klee Wretched MockeryTwo identical statues, wrought images of your g_d, joined ankle to ankle, wrist to wrist,...
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I want to officially announce the start of the Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam! The goal of this game jam is to design a small roleplaying game setting based on the Lego sets we...
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Today I had a thought and had to write it down, so here we are. This is the design fragment of a tactical wargame using the basic core of the Nightfall Engine (from Against...
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The theme for this month's RPG Blog Carnival is It's Not Easy Being Green, which sounded interesting. So here's a mini-campaign or setting.The Wood has been growingNot in the...
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Posted on May 4, 2024 Don’t Kill a Bird with a Baseball: A Randy Johnson TTRPG by JD Clement is a 3-page, 1-shot RPG in which every player plays a parallel version of 6’10”...
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A few sessions into the ICON campaign I’m playing in, I was struck by how much smoother the game played than its d20 cousins. There are drastic simplifications and streamlining...
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I was going to write something about how game designers need to go hiking. But, actually, it turns out that a lot have. Fifth Edition's ludicrous statement that an average...
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Hi there! I added a commentary edition of the game. This is exactly the same as v1.2 except I added 2” of margins on either side and added a bunch of red-text notes,...
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Firearms are an oddity in Bromeilles. While handguns and long guns do exist in some real capacity, their construction is both tedious and unique to its builder, with only a few...
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Welcome to the second part in my article series analyzing solo procedures. This part of my deep dive into playing ttrpgs solo, with a specific focus on games that are not...
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(This is a companion piece to Gila RPGs/Spencer Campbell’s recent stream about healthless TTRPGs, which is well worth your time if you have an hour to spend and goes into VH...
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Surely everyone has a take on dragons. Here's mine.Dragons follow their own morality, perhaps not quite so alien as that of the creatures of the Void, but certainly not one...