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The Bird Warren, aka Prismatic Warren, aka the Warren whose leader board I am seventh on (and climbing perhaps) is running yet another blog wagon - like a fool who's been...
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Yonkers Fleshless Love: Dev Log #1
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Got into a discussion about when you should link to relevant content in your blog, but not all the authors are cool, so should you? Maybe even some of them are problematic, and...
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I’d hate to miss hopping on a blog bandwagon so here we go. Here’s my list of genre inspirations that work their way into the games I run in some form or another. So, in no...
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Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas Still LifeAnonymous Flemish painter, 1670s.It was interesting to reflect on images and aesthetics that...
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Sing, O Muse, of the wars between the stars.Sing of the clash of light, the hum of the blastersThe sith speed sith speed sith speed super sith speed sith speed super sith...
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I present a cheat code for breaking through writer’s block and coming up with a gameable idea from all the cultural detritus that has built up inside your brain.
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This post is part of the "Appendix N" blog bandwagon. I decided to share some of the many influences that have shaped a game I've been working on for a few years called Tricks...
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An Appendix N reverse engineered: my principles for player-driven sandbox games and the sources that planted them.
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Created as part of Prismatic Wasteland’s Appendicitis Blog Bandwagon. Influence is a very hard thing for me to specifically quantify a lot of the time. I don’t usually think of...
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You folks, probably Howdy, Farmhands! There comes a time in every blog's life when it must attempt one of the many traditional blog topics that have been done to utter death....
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The Blogging Clerics, or Blerics, have been summoned again by the Bandwagon! This time, we're posting our own Appendix N entries. As a 90s kid, my list is comprised almost...
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A presentation of many of my media influences.
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[Context for this post: this is a re-write of an old post of mine I wrote back in 2021. I wasn't happy with my explanation, and it's filled with errors, but people link to it...
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I discuss how I utilize pagination documents in my adventure design process, and how they can benefit other TTRPG designers.More
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So! After... a bit of radio silence, I released the game I've been working on, called X-in-6. Find it here on Itch. It's classless, but if you want to use classes with it, here...
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So, I’ve been getting back into Exalted recently. Exalted is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Normally, I don’t traffic in guilt. I think it’s a rather useless emotion,...
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Back in 2023 I made a short sort of video-pitch for a setting linked on the blog here. In the years since I've been fleshing it out into a big bloated setting thing after work,...
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You’ll have noticed that if you stick around a holding in Mythic Bastionland then the land is, well, less mythic. In fact, Myths kind of pause when the Knights aren’t out...
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Maufesto (vice: refined taste; spell: detect poison)(except anything nonalcoholic also counts as poison) When something especially frightening, dramatic, or embarrassing...
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SURPRISE! This is a double-dip on prompts: a Paladin of an Unorthodox Law.Or, more accurately, a Monk.Quoted from the linked post, so you don't have to jump between there and...
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I've slowly been procedurally generating out a map of a science fantasy campaign setting and doing a solo hex crawl over on my dice camp. I realized I'd have more fun with a...
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I put out my homebrew ruleset back on 8/18, and as part of that I had a second document drawn up of Features (which are sort of analogous to Delta Templates, except instead of...
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Over on bluesky, Zenopus Archives posts a new favorite Holmes/OD&D house rule: "...that thieves can fire into melee without penalty; i.e. no friendly fire". This is a great...
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NOVA, plus interviews with Spencer Campbell and Alex Connolly
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Here's the first dossier from semiurge, get in loser it's time to get organized. Seven artefacts one might find, or at least read about, in the Facility. Pτ PHENOMENON -...
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A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCredit: Mike MignolaHey, happy 200th post, Knight at the Opera. Now let's populate this digital...
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Some thoughts on Shadowdark as an introductory system for complete beginners. Mild spoiler warning for Tomb of the Dusk Queen by Sersa Victory. I ran a pickup game of...
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I use a fair number of magical drugs and substances in my games, and out of the goodness of my heart and my universal love of all mankind I will share a few with you....