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There’s a professor at my partner’s graduate school who’s very eager to catch students in the act of academic dishonesty. The class is split up into small groups to write and...
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Where other culture groups build towns and cities as a collection of dozens or hundreds of free-standing structures, Vo cultures usually construct hives, labyrinthine...
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Clementine will remember
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As another elaboration to assist with Dungeon Stocking duties, here is a Table I’ve put together of some potential locations to secrete the occasional “Hidden Treasure” that...
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When an electronic computer or any kind of “thinking” machine is left undisturbed for long enough, it acquires free will. The amount of time is proportional to its processing...
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A postmodern roleplaying wargame ruleset.
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Inspired by the number of potential feats across DnD- and OSR-dom, I came up with "badass normal", OSR-compatible feats for Shadowdark. Part 1 of this series had Fighter...
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I have this idea of making a Mörk Borg hack more suited to commonplace medieval fantasy adventuring, from old D&D modules to the more modern adventures and expansion books....
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Another session with no treasure, which was starting to become a point of tension with the players. In my mind Carcosa was really grim and grotty: rich PCs didn’t make sense to...
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From the Mound up through every world that hangs in the sky, there is tragedy and suffering. And from that, there is Monstrousness.If a character is Unbalanced, in Shock,...
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In Fire Tales, the See Omens technique allows characters to notice and interpret omens sent by gods and spirits. This is not an innate or magical ability, like spellcasting,...
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I like superhero comics. As a trans woman, I feel a particular affinity with the X-Men’s mutant metaphor. I had a few random comic books as a kid but I began a serious...
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Merry Christmas, Grace :)I was looking through your class list and got struck by the Kodoku Master, who traps all manner of bugs in a jar and shakes them around until only one...
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Table of Contents Introduction Inspiration Blogosphere Event Die Real Life Event Die Blogosphere Flux Theme Encounter Local Effects Points of Interest Special Equipment Final...
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The players decide to head East, further into the territory friendly with the Jale Slavers. The town the players learn about, Joi, may have been lifted straight from an episode...
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This year, the Gloggies follow a democratic process, in which members of the community are called upon to nominate the posts that stuck with them and inspired them, for later...
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I've run nine different RPG systems in the last year and change (and read twice that many games). A couple of these were one-shots, but most were adventures or campaigns. The...
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As I've mentioned before on this blog, I'm currently doing a preorder campaign instead of a "traditional" crowdfunding campaign for my first big project for His Majesty the...
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Angel's Egg, 1985There are many stories of saints of the church who have been killed in battle and brought back to life by god's angels. Usually they go like this: the sainted...
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A Merry Hexmas location: dungeoncrawl through Santa Claus’ castle. Whether you lead an elf and reindeer uprising is up to you!
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Looking back on twenty twenty-five as I was making this list, I kept thinking of things I wanted to put on it, only to realize they're from two thousand twenty-four. This past...
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Eko has done some good work here. If I hadn't already hacked together my own setup using Eleventy, I'd probably give it a try. Regardless, looks like a great option for new...
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The previous session the players rolled a 1 on the Hazard Die when travelling back to town. We didn’t want to play out the encounter at midnight, so I told them it’s how the...
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Depiction of 20 heraldic shieldsI find it easier to be creative when I have a prompt or some starting point rather than a blank slate. Its a seed from which ideas spring. And...
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In situations of prolonged/grievous exposure to environmental pressures, you have a chance of becoming ill. Roll a d12, and compare the result to the Illness Chance for this...
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This is something interesting that came up when I was messing around with the AD&D DMG's Appendix B to create a sandbox (okay, many sandboxes - I have a problem).As I've...
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I’m gonna be honest, when I first heard the term 'matrix game' (uttered by Tim B during an NSR camp hangout) I fully thought he was talking about TTRPGs based on the popular...
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Intergalactic work continues. I'm constantly reminding myself that the first Mythic Bastionland playtests (then Primeval Bastionland) were based on an extremely rough document,...
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Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Violence Master PageConsider this my "fantasy heartbreaker" Credits to Luke Gearing's "Violence" and "Violence at the Street Level", found...
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I’ve been making changes to my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! based on my most recent play-sessions. These aren’t published yet because I have some new empty space I’d like to...