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Band-Aids & Bullet Holes is my upcoming deckbuilder tabletop roleplaying game built for bloody revenge operas inside a tight-knit clique of professional assassins. Here’s a...
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We played the third session of our In Search of the Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. My session 2 report is here.We were missing Matt (Barthalo-gnome), so our roster was as...
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Pseudo-Pseudohistorical BestiaryPseudo-Pseudohistorical Violence Master Page Armour: The type of armour the beast is considered to have for the purposes of injury checks....
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A play report from a recent run in MARATHON.***I've accepted a contract from CYAC in return for gear, but importantly, an introduction to TRAXUS, another corp trying to claw a...
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This post is full of good advice. A lot of folks toil under the expectations of the hobby and what they feel they need to write or run an RPG. I've talked about that in the...
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Last time, the party realized they had infinite money and learned how to become immortal. I'm going to tell you the truth - I barely remember session 8 and it was mostly a...
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It is our patriotic duty to buy Canadian Mothership modules. Emergence is a funnel adventure—like you remember playing in DCCRPG. Emergence takes place Henko Acquisitions...
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Demons can tell you a lot of things, and some of them are even true, but the one thing of which they will not speak is what comes after. It is forbidden.What could a demon...
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A session report for a game of Dread with amnesiac characters.
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Una forma alternativa de organizar ganchos para tu saga de Ars Magica.
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I have run a couple campaigns where I decided to design a custom calendar, I find it quite rewarding to develop a list of names for days and months that gives a flavour to the...
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Who digs those Dungeons? Why do they attract so much Treasure/Danger?
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The Bloggies, the premiere awards for tabletop roleplaying game blogs, was on a month ago, and This Vorpal Coil was nominated for Best Debut Blog! However, it did not win, with...
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Problem 1Time. In this hobby we are blessed with an abundance of cool, creative, delightful, powerful and innovative games which urgently press upon us for our time and...
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“What the fuck is a quinotaur,” I hear you ask under your breath, “is this stupid possum just making stuff up for the hard letters?” Well, the answer is yes, but also no! The...
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My new release, a solo journaling game about longing and waiting, about fairy and mortal, and about making a life in uncertainty. And some thoughts on how poems inspire me.
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Rolling 2d6? Make doubles matter!
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I was futzing about with the smallest householder using up cardboard that had come with furniture and stumbled upon correctly scaled dinosaurs standees. Needless to say, this...
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Or patches, badges, tattoos. This covers a broad category of unofficial trophies that can be earned by a member of a starship crew in the form of some sort of physical mark to...
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"An eight foot tall, green, slouching monster steps out of the swamps..." - GM "It's a troll everyone get ready!" - Player 1 "It only has 125 HP and 20 AC. It should be easy...
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I have been thinking about Muppets, and also other Henson puppets, Skekses, Gelflings, etc. Jenx from the purple server put up some fantastic muppet-goblin art recently, and I...
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Consider thus: a sword is a tool for killing. I had a mental breakthrough years ago when I saw a guy carrying his bike in one hand before setting it down, straddling it, and...
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Slightly Less Early Design Theory
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Classic Megaman (AKA Rockman) games maintained a nonlinear structure: they presented the player with a stage select screen showing the set of bosses they could fight, and...
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The vocabularies of certain Indo-European languages encode a memory of a social taboo against speaking the name of the bear. Germanic languages famously (although not quite...
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I've heard some folks only allow characters in dnd to wear two magic rings—one on each hand. Well, I say that's dumb. I've got ten fingers, after all (and that's before we even...
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New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, We continue with the next episode in the Gamma World 1e system. Scene 1 Spending a day's...
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ThoughtsClassic Traveller continues to amaze me with how well it lines up with my sensibilities as a GM. I've never had a system that was so easy to prep and play before. CT's...
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ThoughtsReally cool the players found one of the few areas in Dolmenwood that directly ties to the Cold Princes and would know the consequences of the actions the main party...