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Hey chat ~ I've been a little less active in pretty much all but my local spaces recently. Insurance bullshit, paired with house hunting, paired with mild local drama, paired...
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I have a new blog! But you already know that if you're here.
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I like to imagine that I'm a really good GM. In reality, I'm an average GM who has problems just like everyone else. Later, I like to think back and try to understand what...
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Here be Dragons
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Design Diary - Creating a roleplaying game based on the science fiction works of Jack Vance. Planet art by Evlyn Moreau Hi all, One of my current works in progress is a...
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As part of my current exploration in PF2E, I'm collecting a set of houserules that I would use which I am currently calling PathfindOSR. I like many of the things PF2E is...
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Announcing my 2025 Zine Quest project, “The Château Amongst the Stars.”More
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Looking at skills and feats as an alternative to character classes.
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THE PONTIANAK, IN FICTIONThe following is one of a pairs of essays I wrote as a Stretch Goal for A PERFECT WIFE.Pretty basic stuff for hantu aficionados, of course. But it is...
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Since I decided to get back to reading Appendix N back in October 2024, I’ve had a great time tracking down old paperbacks and reading books. The mental shift to this being...
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Some of my blog is directed at people like me who exist in the indie dev or OSR scenes, but I want to address Dungeons & Dragons for a bit. This is Part 1 of the Play Something...
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Sea of Stars is hosting the Blog Carnival...
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Three years ago I bought a game called Text Fortress by ma8ui which is a solo game with the goal to recreate a form of Dwarf Fortress - a childhood favourite of mine. This was...
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Liminal Void received another update, somehow, bringing it to its 4th distinct iteration (not counting sub-iterations and tiny fixes). It’s a neat little subset of a game about...
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Another "weird gender" writeupThis species comes in two genders, Factory and Worker, although for most of their history they identified as Nest and Dweller.A young Factory is...
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I'm a big fan of the old Hitman games. I'd count Blood Money among the greatest videogames of all time. I've often idly thought of an all-assassins game, perhaps set in...
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A blog post about how to think about and design obstacles when designing adventures for OSR systems.
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Posted on February 12, 2025 I’m currently running a campaign of Frontier Scum and last session I started a hexcrawl using the procedures in the Games Omniverious Hexcrawl...
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Blech. I've been trying to come up with a variant Fighter class for B/X derivatives.Trouble is, so has everyone else, and all my ideas are either (a) ones that someone has...
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Indie RPG creators love community copies. We put them up all the time on itch.io.Other creators have products on OneBookShelf (OBS) websites (which actually is owned by Roll20...
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This presentation is for a friend’s Presentation Party. This was my presentation.
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Amanda P. discusses dungeon design, specifically themes.
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It's elements day in the deep dark dungeon of blogging, so I present you with my own offering - random traits for your elemental PCs - whether running a genasi in D&D 5e or...
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Amanda P writes a brief drabble on the periodic table elements as petty gods
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In Valiant Horizon, crystals and the magic from them are a big part. Drilling further into that, though, magic itself is further expressed through the 4 -Magus classes. Each of...
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A blackjack based alchemy system.
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What happens when a toxic man forcibly marries a murderous vampiress?A PERFECT WIFE is an adventure of contemporary supernatural horror, featuring the Malaysian pontianak, set...
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A "culture of play" is an expression of the way a game is played at the table. It's a term to describe the norms, expectations, and standards of a group of players. The reason...
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Collages by me. L: Gods and Masters (2025). R: Untitled A4 (2024).I write this in comfort in Vienna, warmed by a space heater in my long-suffering Austrian boyfriend's...
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Now that I’m once again employed, my reading has decreased. I’m still making room for books, but I’m trying to spend less time on the Internet - no “links” section this time....