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Love me a long title. It reminds me of writing "practice" scientific papers in high school and it makes me wonder if any of our teachers ever thought someone from over there...
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Ride through the High Wold & Arrival in Lankshorn
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Trying to understand a game better can be a lot of fun and lead to less frustration.
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I am currently running a Fantasy rpg using the simple free d100 rules Hack 100 and Rob Conley's setting of The Majestic Realms using the expanded Blackmarsh setting. I wanted...
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Sometimes Less is More Nothing in this post is new. As with anything to do with randomization and tables in the OSR, it’s been discussed to death already. But this is about my...
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If there is any such thing as true evil in the world, it was the Dragons.Georg JannyThey were the enemy to all people, fighting a war that ended in prehistory. They ate...
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In role-playing games, how to deal with the ultimate failure, death? There are plenty of ways to punish players for lesser failures, and as the Knight at the Opera points out,...
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Cath Celdaenn! ...is not an easy setting to share. The Doggerlands are much more cohesive because they exist outside of me: amphibious where Cath is hadopelagic.The domain game...
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"Hunting is the labor of the savages, but the amusement of the gentlemen." - Dr. Samuel Johnson Incited by FĒONDAS, ultimately from Luke Gearing's Monsters &. ...
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A test map for Earth Resists (ignore the text on the bottom left)(I believe this may be mappy enough to count for Prismatic Wasteland's map bandwagon.) I first mentioned my...
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Walking Dead Braunstein/Cataphract-LikeA cool idea I had: Rather important readings:Sam Sorensen's Cataphract Design DiaryMythic Mountain Musing's Traveller Braunstein This is...
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Maybe it’s time to expand a little on the nasty things that sometimes accompany a Portable Wormhole. Not every extradimensional monster has to be a full-on Yog-Sothoth or the...
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In Science Fantasy, one of my favorite tropes is "deep history" or "deep time". I.e., time scales of civilizations that stretch beyond understanding. Hundreds of empires rising...
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Kicking off session reports without any campaign context, nearly 40 sessions in, seems like poor storytelling but, ah, maybe I’ll explain in time. Regardless, here is a session...
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My upcoming Littlest Brown Book campaign, Not My Destination, has a decent naval component - much of the stereotypical wilderness between the players' starting town and the...
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Goals, resources, and blog posts that will influence our Dolmenwood campaign.
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Whenever I heard people talk about Holy Mountain Shaker, they seemed to converge on the same conclusion-- that it's a beautifully illustrated, well-written, and competent...
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We had the opportunity to play the second session of our In Search of the Unknown AD&D 2e campaign last night. My session 1 report is here.For this session, we were missing...
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Hi there! I’m Quagg, and welcome to my TTRPG blog (or rather the start of it). I have little plans for it besides showcasing new homebrew or adventures I write, highlighting...
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I had a brief but productive chat in the Discord about the fantasy economies in Barony. It's not the kind of setting where these things are particularly worked through or...
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Hello, Rootring! You may have noticed that little widget to the bottom left of the page. If you haven't, what are you doing? Well, that's the Rootring, a modern Webring for...
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A little monster-making game for you today, based on combining the Exquisite Corpse art game with lore blocks and quick stat lines.
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Tempting, dangerous choices, clear rewards with unpleasant surprises–that is the key to helping PCs to simultaneously feel fear and agency, I think. This is the ‘mess around...
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At the end of the Libra campaign and the start of summer, I'm planning to run something Normal™. Wizards and suchlike. In the pursuit of Normal™, I'm going to run...
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A ring forged from heavy, drab gray metal, bearing an arcane sigil. Characters with knowledge of magic can identify it as a combination of runes that meaning “I call upon the...
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The crew arrives in Fort Deauvilly. They meet a half-giant seer and take on jobs. Ratboy communes with a mysterious entity. Play Report The crew of the Last Chance arrived in...
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This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourSo, you've finally gotten yourself a group of players and are preparing your first session. So,...
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Character Creation & Preparations