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A reading informed review of Kingdoms.
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The following is some creative writing I did for my GM persona in VANGUARD, a play-by-post wargame of a strangereal 1940s Indochina War. Jane sits with her mother and father in...
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In the choking vacuum of the Machine Space, there are islands: sealed pockets of material in the mechanism of the Structure, waiting to be cracked open and stripped bare by...
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I wanted to have a pseudo-lifepath thing in the appendices for Cinco! to help players conceptualize characters if they’re at a loss with where to get started. Below is what...
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The DragonSince the "clock" of stamina is tracked by players, there is hopefully a bit of mental bandwidth budget to determine where the dragon is and track it's movement when...
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Today I was catching up on a recent Dice Exploder episode about the chit-based inventory mechanic in Mausritter – which is a great system, which the hosts come up with some...
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Man, Chrono Trigger is rad as hell. I'm not a JRPG connoisseur, but it's definitely my favorite of the genre by far. Nothing from my childhood will ever be cooler than seeing...
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As you may have already seen, I did a readthrough of Dungeon Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess (both the orange and green versions) on Bluesky. I also wrote a comparison...
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There exists a fungal growth known to sages as athervospora tenebris, or simply the Dark Mold. Most fungi consume, the Dark Mold remembers. Nobody knows where it originated,...
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Hipsters & Dragons gives us this months prompt of fantasy locations and from the long list of prompts they suggest I am going with a "homebrew location that fellow GMs can drop...
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That's right. When you run a playtest it's not about those parasitic players. You're the one who should be under the microscope.Not exclusively, and I talked about player...
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It's not what you know. Matter of fact, it's not even who you know. It's what you have. Everything in the world exists in relation to money. You especially.You don't really...
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Last time we took a step back from the playtested mechanics and meditated on the first principles of this survey game project. We arrived at three major themes for future...
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Landmark, Hidden, Secret reframed for character knowledge.
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A while back I saw some south east asian roleplaying game that had a random ration generator. I have not been able to find it since (found it). This appealed to me greatly as...
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Every year, over the course of the entire Dry Season, the Gormlings march from one side of the Mound's surface to the other in as straight a line as their little legs can...
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My friend Blazer19 recently prompted me to take a read through Vincent Baker's blog series reflecting on Apocalypse World and Powered By The Apocalypse. It was an entrancing...
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My mom is a big fan of the Paul Mitchell haircare company, and has been my entire life. Their flagship product, the one she still uses to this day, is the Awapuhi line....
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After a couple posts, my Libra game's on the road with a group of new-to-the-OSR players (which is fun, given my normal playerbase of obsessives from the various Discord...
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A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCredit: John BauerAlready covered previously: Nightmare and Nymph. Probably should have...
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A retrospective on the jam. My hopes and dreams and oh so many dungeons.
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A tentative title for "The Wine Dungeon"Sitting at the top of my list of "To-Dos" is a wine cellar that has metastasized, via the power of the mythic underworld, into a...
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A punchy set of links to start the week. For more, see last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by...
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New cookie recipe! Wanted to simplify things and use more unit measurements. Ingredients 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt ½ cup butter (whole stick) 1 cup sugar (½...
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I found myself reading a very bizarre conversation the other day about soft vs hard magic systems, which I'll be referring to as unlawful and lawful magic systems,...
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Brainstorming PlacesThe Slumbering Castle will need plenty of hazardous places, and places with treasure to be looted. In an adventure with basically no NPCs, I also want to...
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The Lord of the Rings is strange. This is not going to be particularly insightful or thoughtful. I hadn’t seen the movies since over a decade ago, and I think my mom was...
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I blasted through Enshittification by Cory Doctorow in just three days. It was a great, if mostly infuriating, read. I was already familiar with Doctorow and his idea of...
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I've been in the process of revising a lot of my notes from the last few years, in order to make them more usable / post-able. And lately, that's included a lot of thinking on...
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TL;DR: Tell your players what the enemies are about to do, let them respond to those threats with good plans as a group, and deliver on threats that were not mitigated.In the...