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Restore Bluesky comment threads on Bearblog with a quick meta-tag trick and updated plugin code—step-by-step fix in one concise guide.
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AD&D 1e
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Depending on who you ask, metagaming can vary between 'the reason we play' and 'cheating, get out'. This is in part due to changing definitions over time and in part due to...
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This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here.Pertinent to this post, I've also released the beta version of the Catalogue of...
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Oh boys~ This post and others like it are made possible by members of my Patreon, where you can see Game WIPs and Previews of future blogposts a week early! Thank you in...
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Hastily written as part of Prismatic Wasteland's Emergency Conclave Bandwagon. Hail, citizen of Theocastrum: the Blogclave has commenced! The Blope, after many years of...
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I tend to oscillate rapidly between projects I’m interested in, like some kind of misfiring neuron in an RPG-soaked braincell. Right now, I’m working on a science-fantasy...
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A blog post about how Religion in D&D and other Fantasy RPGs approaches polytheism in the wrong way and how to fix that in order to have more mystery and adventure in your game...
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Created as part of Prismatic Wasteland’s Blogclave 2025, in which we all write about clerics during the papal conclave. I don’t love almost any of the “core four” D&D classes -...
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I heard the clack of keys as Prismatic Wasteland's call to blog about clerics summoned people in the blogosphere. We rose up like the curmudgeons we, sometimes, are. What...
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A discussion of the cleric as a social class, and the benefits of being part of the hierarchy.
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One day middle-aged middle manager Soren Skelton jumped off a bridge, landing on his chrome dome only to wake up 6 years, 6 months, and 6 weeks later alive and kicking...
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This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here.Every player needs a character sheet and a copy of the cheat sheet. Click those...
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Hi all, A small detour from the design diary of the last few installments, but don’t fret, it will return next time! Sometimes you just get a thought and have to write it. I've...
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A selection of diegetic advancements for Cairn or other fantasty games, as well as a discussion of character abilities in OSR/NSR games.
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We recently completed a short campaign of Mothership - Another Bug Hunt - the published adventure module that comes with the Mothership box set. It was my first time running...
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I’ve been doing some reading on GNS lately. (Please don’t leave, I haven’t even gotten to the bad part yet.) More specifically, I encountered this post by the irreplaceable...
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Well? They ain't gonna roll themselves. - (Source, no affiliation) This post and others like it are made possible by members of my Patreon, where you can see Game WIPs and...
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HookOn the edge of town there’s the house of Old Man Hamsy, the swineherd known in all the valley; his basement is where he prepared his meat, and he was so precious about his...
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Step 0: The Spark TablePrepare a Spark Table. Ideally, you should use one you already have for the general setting, but if you don’t have one, making one isn’t at all hard (I...
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A HUNTER OF THE VERGE AND WASTE At the heart of all violence, atrocity, and suffering is fear, and a mortal's greatest fear is death. Some will do anything to avoid it, face...
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Thoughts on what is required to be a full game, and how systems support games being "good".
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Eat your heart out, novelty dice manufacturers Howdy, Farmhands. I got bored at work. It's one of those jobs with a lot of sitting in one location while waiting for very...
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Conversion notes for DCC’s “The Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen” to run the level 0 DCC funnel in Shadowdark. Includes my free VTT and print map downloads.More
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Wow, wonder what might have happened to totally blow up my blogging schedule. Well, time to look at the news and—blog posts have been delayed by a month. Ah shit. Well lemme...
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VTT maps, GM Tools, and NPC tokens for the Shadowdark adventure “The Château Amongst the Stars.”More
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Monsters. It was monsters that got me into this whole thing. The first RPG product I ever bought was the fifth edition monster manual, which I spent countless hours just...
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This is the first original game material I've written for my current Maximum Recursion Depth Campaign, up to now I've just been using the book or other materials I've...
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A blog post reviewing the OSR module The White Horse of Lowvale by Tania Herrero.