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3 Cuccagna session reports from forever ago that I never got around to posting, and that may be of use in our next endeavours:
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Marathon (2026) is an upcoming extraction shooter from Bungie, a revival of their old sci-fi shooter series from before Halo and Destiny - it’s the game that formed the bones...
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As someone who GMs many games, I often think about improv and how that skill has grown with the number of systems and sessions I run. Not having this skill as a beginner GM...
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Games I played, games for 2026 and Pine Shallows coming to Kickstarter this April Hi all! Last year I’ve played just 4 different roleplaying games, but my collection keeps on...
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I just started playing Pokémon LeafGreen for the Game Boy Advance. It will be my first playthough of a generation 3 Pokémon game. (I'm opting to play the 3DS remake of the...
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Last night I saw Dracula: A Love Tale (the French one, not to be confused with the American one), and I realized partway through the screening that I've now seen three Dracula...
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Two weeks ago I celebrated a pretty awesome one year milestone, and this summer I'll be hitting the big 3-0 ~ This all still feels surreal given there was a time it was looking...
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THOUGHTS U: Search the top half of your Draft pile. Select one topic to post. Shuffle your Draft pile.2026 BLOGGIESWell, 2025 was a banner year for I CAST LIGHT! given that I...
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Here's a little bit of musing based on a chat I had in the pub last night about the Sorcery! video game adaptations. Sorcery!, if you think about it, is a classic pointcrawl...
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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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See here for part one, detailing the Warbodies, Pilots-in-Dreaming, and Exterminator Orbs. Angel's Egg, Mamoru Oshii, 1985. Had the privilege of seeing this classic in cinema...
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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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My contribution to Woland - a collaborative realm creation project
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I need to be less of a tourist when it comes to Japanese roleplaying games. I exist downstream from decades of culture and art that exists in conversation with itself, and I...
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Goodboy Galaxy is a metroidvania released for the Game Boy Advanced on the console's twentieth anniversary (and also available on Steam). It's also the first game I played on...
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It’s been close to three months since I updated Protoplastic officially, but believe me, I never stopped working on it. In spite of a variety of other projects and things going...
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When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what hobbits get.You can either roll a d10 for your culture to get a result from a...
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Written for the February 2026 Blog Carnival. Giants only enter the Jewelsea rarely. The low latitudes are unpleasant at best for these relics of a bygone era, bitter paranoiacs...
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Monthly design jams, critique, theory, and inspiration for tabletop rpg designers by rpg designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
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Today, foreshadowing danger. The next few posts in this series are my take on the path of fear for adventure games: how GMs can threaten and surprise players, maintaining...
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More fiction in progress, continuing from here. I don't know what this is yet, but I am enjoying working through it. - Ella Makes a DecisionIn her room on the other side of the...
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After reading Seed of Worlds's review of the book Fief, I knew I had to take a look. I've been on a British and French medieval history kick after starting Tuchman's A Distant...
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You Can't Go Wrong With a Creepy Derelict Lorac One is an 8-page scenario for Death in Space by HereticZed. Like any good sci-fi horror scenario, it pits unwitting salvagers...
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Another Random Table Resource to assist Referees with those often-under-specified Secret Doors. Some Dungeon Maps neglect to describe them in their Keys, so all one has to work...
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This is inspired by Zelda-Style NPC Personalities. I am a big fan of using a variety of NPC generation tools in a single campaign to keep things fresh for myself and players. ...
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This vast span of Antarctic coast is riveted with a treacherous mountain range. Hundreds of miles of jagged peaks erupt from the earth: they are all made of interlocking...
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(Check it out: I released a 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 your...
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Setup After defeating Amelia and scouring the ship for weapons to use against the cosmic beast that is tearing the ship apart, the crew ready themselves to free themselves for...
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