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This is the hastiest review I’ve ever written. It’s mostly for a few local friends to take advantage of a great deal (and to share a bunch of cool pictures).
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Posted on October 30, 2024 I’m swimming in a hazy mixture of post-con-blues and invigorating enthusiasm after coming home from Big Bad Con. This was my second RPG con, and...
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Pokemon Base Camp" - Pokemon Legends Arceus, Game Freak Howdy, Farmhands! Heroes of Cerulea by Blackfisk Publishing comes with 3 separate campaign styles printed in it's...
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Recently I noticed my desktop was struggling to run games that it should have no trouble with. My partner was getting severe frame drops playing Overcooked 2; Tactical Breach...
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A PERFECT WIFE(It is Vampire Weekend! Have a pontianak-themed urban-horror investigative adventure. I wrote it with Kuala Lumpur in mind, but it should work for any big city...
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As the ICON campaign I’m playing in wraps up, I’m thinking about what makes games “slow.”[1] I’ve come up with four distinct sources of slowness: pondering, friction,...
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Last night during character creation for our RuneQuest campaign, my group employed a tool we use before almost every new game: CATS. Created by P.R. O’Leary, CATS stands for...
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Natalie’s vision of a sociable web is exactly what I’m hoping for in the post-Cohost blog era. Her post got me thinking about what a comments system for an indie, blog-based...
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"The Combat Wheelchair" for dnd 5e by Mark ThompsonThe homebrew that launched a thousand piss-baby's tantrums Howdy, Farmhands- Twitter is dead. Long live... well,...
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The long-awaited conclusion to the Flying Island adventure. The final session may have been many months ago but the memories last forever or something. Part I, Part IIClassic...
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EDIT:Freddie Foulds over on Bluesky found the post for me! It was a Chris McDowall post: Alien Dojos. This is now a fan post about the genius that is Alien Dojos.Every martial...
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I’ve been meaning to try to post more on my blog/site following the death of Cohost, which made it very easy for me to toss design thoughts out. Writing into VScode and pushing...
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Elminster's Tale"- Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide Howdy, Farmhands- I almost didn't blog this at first, wanting the opinions and input of people more learned than me....
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Posted on October 12, 2024 I love goblins. That itself is probably worthy of examination another time. But for today: why are goblins the way they are? I’m thinking...
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I got COVID right at the end of September[1], putting me out of commission for about a week. COVID infection and isolation means I’ve been reading less, coding less, going...
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It's no secret in the Fifth Edition community that Challenge Rating sucks. It's a guideline at best, and a rather loose one. There are all sorts of suggestions out there on how...
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Image taken from the Magic Tree House anime. Can you believe they didn't bring this thing over to the US? Missed opportunity. IntroductionA lot of ink has been spilled on...
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I never thought I would make a video game.
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A a collaborative way to build a fantasy world before starting play.
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Fire! Fire! Psycho Soldier!RerunsEpisode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4It's Halloween season!...but I've got nothing seasonal on the mind. I have been watching movies...
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A monster for His Majesty the Worm
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A magic system using power words
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The King has always been the King. Even when Great-Grandfather was a boy, he had always been King. Nobody questions this. But the players might. Typical players.Roll a d12 for...
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No, it wasn't. Realistically, that honor probably goes to Apocalypse World, whose innumerable descendants we are still plagued with 14 years later. But Abandon All Hope...
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I describe how the constraints of game jams inspire creation.
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The Kickstarter Fairies have been kind this month. Off the back of Kavango the other week, the latest arrival at the Goblinhole is Mycelia, the self-described Strategic...
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The common wisdom, popularized by Arnold K. here and recently invoked by Josh McCroo here, goes that active abilities are superior to passive bonuses because they present...
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A possible origin of Orcs.
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This post is a brain-fart—me trying to jot a thought, lurking and seeing TTRPG folks react to GNS Theory for the upteenth time.+Context:GNS Theory seeks to frame, understand,...
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Posted on September 22, 2024 What would an OSR-style game look like without hit points (or wounds, or stress, or ruin, or any other similarly abstract resource)? What about...