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Troika! is the new OD&D. And after looking at these fantastic OD&D backgrounds I was thinking about Troika!'s luck applying to the classic Five Saving Throws. Experience Beats...
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Idraluna has an excellent point in the back of the Littlest Brown Book about how some of the XP rules were written with longer play sessions happening multiple times a week and...
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Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to recent Bloggies-winner elmcat for setting up rootring, an old-internet styled webring for RPG blogs.
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I find it hilarious that there are two OSR blogging webrings you can join if you are so inclined. The 90s are back, in webring form. Daniel Sell of Troika set one up first, the...
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A peek into my dark, twisted mind. I came across someone hacking OD&D for the titular Anglosaxonese setting of HârnMaster and seemingly adjusting the rules to be more Hârn-like...
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I was looking to expand my Blogosphere setting, and I wanted to write-up locations for them. This led me to considering how and what would be included in each location. I...
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This is a game inspired by Conqueror of Kamelia, and the Bourne Movies.Rules:Characters have no traditional attribute stats. Only year of birth, backstory, passports (name and...
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How the necromantic demon evocation of Solomonic Magic can be translated to TTRPGs
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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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Read the first post Here. CCabbages - the pulling or cutting of a random cabbage from the patch can be used for divining, including the summoning of omen-wraiths. Cabbage-leafs...
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The most fascinating links from about the internet. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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A few months back, people were talking about this Indie Game Reading Club post in which Paul asks where the innovation in games is right now. It’s been years since...
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About a year ago I played through Fire Emblem 7 for the first time. I got through the tutorial a couple times as a kid, but for some reason I never moved on to the main...
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I’m adding a new blog title prefix - “Table Talk”.
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A friend forwarded me an email from a prominent left-Catholic journalist asking Texans, or perhaps by implication left-leaning Christian Texans, to contact her to chat about...
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Another month, another irregular collection of things to read and/or look at elsewhere. I only wish I could keep up with it all. MAPS and how they LIE (Blog Bandwagon) at...
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Preamble Before we begin, there's a fair amount of cleaning up to do. Firstly, my dogs ate two of my character sheets, so I needed to crawl through my own session reports to...
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I am gonna be running a campaign soon based around the Feral Indie Studio megadungeon Ave Nox. I like starting campaigns at level 0 so I made a level 0 occupation table for...
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If cats wore pants...
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WF over at Prismatic Wasteland called for a blog bandwagon back in February to discuss the topic of maps. I perseverated for a while about whether I had anything interesting to...
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A review of the Abomination Vaults for Pathfinder Second Edition after playing through the entire adventure.
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Time for another entry into the beloved-by-me "town with problems and lots of interesting stuff to discover nearby" style of adventure which I have written about previously....
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CW: surgical horror. Thanks to PRIME, I have biomancy on the brain. A significant debt also to the very great Meal of Oshregaal. Whence they come, none know - their great...
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I've made a lot of magic items for my adventures and campaigns in the past. Problem is, most of those were built for Dungeons and Dragons 5e. For today's post, I decided to...
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The swordsman is standing on the furthest edge of the promontory overlooking the Whorl. He can feel the spray of waves against stone on his face, with the Whorl thrashing so...
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Errant Thinking proposes Tiny Epics: Small Souls in a Big World! for this months prompt for the RPG Blog Carnival. Thinking about the "Dungeons in miniscule" point, I was...
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Your weekly tabletop round-up of discord discussions, blog posts, projects to download and other goodies. Enjoy!
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As mentioned in the last session report, I was interested in some spirits/druidic items the party might find as loot in the now uncorrupted ruins. I often like to give out...
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Weird Danger At Sea Cold Blows the Wind is a three spread adventure for FIST:Ultimate Edition by Peter J. Boyle. Players find themselves investigating the strange disappearance...