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I've been meaning to explore some thoughts about injuries, wounds, and character death in adventure games for some time. In doing so, I've inevitably had to tackle the subject...
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Posted on September 21, 2024 After lurking on my shelf for measureless eons, Arkham Horror: The Card Game has me back in its tentacles. This is mostly thanks to a friend...
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A reading informed review of His Majesty the Worm.
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Presenting a playing card based duelling mechanic.
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What's been happening in the Goblinverse since I last wrote. Or at least, wrote like I meant it.New AcquisitionsNew board games this month:Mazaza Games's Kavango, of which more...
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Last time I did a brainstorm session like this was for Persona: 1, 2, 3. This one's way shorter though. The idea is to flesh out some kind of specific JRPG-inspired campaign...
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Confession time: I don't play Warhammer 40K, but I do read the tie-in novels. Well, some of them, especially Dan Abnett's stuff. I can't recommend his Gaunt's Ghosts books...
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The PCs are breaking into Heaven because they couldn't make the waitlist, or are otherwise morally compromised, and now they want revenge for the eternity of bliss they didn't...
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Many RPGs these days use a universal resolution system that covers all parts of the game. This was popularized with D&D 3rd edition and the "d20 System", the idea that no...
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Fed up with the fact that buying gear is a major bottleneck in the otherwise exquisitely streamlined character creation process, I took it upon myself to give my players the...
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This is superficially a review of Barkeep on the Borderlands. But everyone knows it’s good. It won a bunch of awards, it’s written by a killer team, and the book is absolutely...
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Crouched in the broken shadow with the sun at his back and holding the trap at eyelevel against the morning sky he looked to be truing some older, some subtler instrument....
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THE LAST ROOST OF THE BEAKED GODOn the ungovernable border land between the North Eastern Crystal Frontier and the Imperial canton of Blackacre, the jagged Maiden Tomb...
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For the past 6 months I’ve been running a weekly game of Cloud Empress. And it was INCREDIBLE! This will be an absolutely glowing review, with a few minor criticisms followed...
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You can only grope for a way ahead as you crawl on your belly through the filth in the coal-black tunnels.As you push forward, hoping for space, for light, and maybe even a way...
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Welcome to the Underground Howdy, Farmhands Yes, The Nether. Yes, like in Minecraft. No, I don't ever tire of making half-baked adaptations of media I enjoy separately from the...
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In “Replica, Aura, and Late Nationalist Imaginings”, the political scientist Benedict Anderson (most famous for his Southeast Asia scholarship and that definitive critique of...
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Tyrannomon, as seen in Bandai's Digimon Analyzer Howdy, Farmhands. During the Kickstarter campaign of my current ttrpg fixation, Heroes of Cerulea, one of the met stretch...
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My mother didn't live to regret forcing me to takepiano lessons, so that honor goes to you ig Howdy, Farmhands! So, Music. Music is like. A core element of video games....
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This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous pubcrawl location. Among other things,...
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The MORNINGSTAR SCORPION!HD: 6 AC: 3 Attacks: 4 x Morningstar claw (crush 1d12 or grasp 1d6 + grab), sting (1d4 + poison) Move: 150' (50') Morale: 10 No. Appearing: 1...
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I am running Deep Carbon Observatory again, this time in 5e. The players have expressed an interest in hunting the infamous Alpha Platypus. So, in preparation for our next...
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It was my idea to do this picture pong thing, just so you know — as with all brilliancies the source can be found in me. But I had to let the ideas lie fallow for a little...
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I've been given this power and am about to make it everyone else's problem Howdy, Farmhands! Blackfisk Publishing released the 3rd Party License for works based on Lucas Falk's...
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I had a player express interest in seeing a list of deity options available for his chaos cleric so I put together a list based on a bunch of ideas I've been sitting on. Here...
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Last time I made a post about mechanics I talked about the Grid. Now I’m…still talking about The Grid, kind of! But it’s a different one this time. Home-ship construction is...
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Good evening, good evening. This is a small post just to say I finally got around to updating the houserules on the sidebar of this blog. My opinions on The True & Only Way...
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Oops! It’s been a while. I’ve actually had a lot of gaming stuff going on lately that I haven’t gotten around to blogging about! For one, I kinda sorta went and wrote a game....
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The Summer Lego RPG Setting Jam has officially ended. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated! Nineteen people submitted entries between May 8th and July...
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There exists, within the world, a single somata engraving kit. It is not something one stumbles upon by luck or chance, and it cannot be found through research, coin, or word...