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Inspired by interesting setting details for Meg's River Kingdom and Matthias's Vrivmiya, here is a proof of concept for a perfectly normal way of slicing the classic RPG pie,...
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If I post this and three other articles, I'll have posted an average of one blogpost a week, which would hearten me a bit. When Disco Elysium came out in 2019, it was broadly...
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A quick post to introduce the blog, Dantalion, Hellscape Press, and - yours truly - Mia Øvrum
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It’s helpful to find a media reviewer with clear preferences. If you know what that person likes, then their review is much more useful to you. “She hates science fiction...
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Whenever I say Warcry is the best game Games Workshop has made, someone always chirps up to reply that I am wrong, that title belongs to Blood Bowl. It was hard to argue about...
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Earlier some various folks on the Discord were talking about efficiently adding personal stakes to a dungeon via making things personal (see the link to Phlox's post in...
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Before entering the agonizing labyrinth and struggling forever I ran Rota Fortunae, an 11-session superhero game in the Las Vegas suburb of Considerata. There isn't much...
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With a little bit of digital elbow grease, I’ve finally managed to create a Generator that produces Magical Items from the dozens of d100 Tables I’ve created on this topic....
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At Hilander's suggestion, here are examples of a great cheap trick to make normal D&D events feel more connected to the characters while still being very play-focused. "You...
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💡This is an in-progress adventure module for FIST RPG.IntroductionWhat is Zvezdochka?Zvezdochka (Russian for "little star") is a geo-artillery platform. It digs the lunar...
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I was born in the USA, but my parents moved overseas when I was four. Outside of a very brief stint in an international school, the vast majority of my pre-university education...
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Prismatic Wasteland has announced a new Blog Bandwagon. This time, it's adding hexes to a hexcrawl based on the Christmas movies of Rankin & Bass. For my entry, I thought about...
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Every year I try and write a little post about what folks should expect from me in the coming year. I suppose a small part of me feels that once I've announced my plans, it...
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With the arrival of the Moon and the push to colonise the Mound's surface, the need for raw materials has boomed. Traditions regarding the exhuming of pre-Splash debris have...
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This isn’t the focus of your article, but it feels really good to see someone saying that their longest campaign lasted 23 sessions over roughly a year and a half. Way too many...
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This isn’t the focus of your article, but it feels really good to see someone saying that their longest campaign lasted 23 sessions over roughly a year and a half. Way too many...
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This post is for Glogmas ‘25 and is in response to Loch Eil’s post from October 2022 called Small Gods of the Old Forest. Merry Christmas! Happy holidays!Collage by me. Don't...
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Spruce and pine line trails ne'er traveled Beneath the boughs, wolves stalk o'er gravel The Beorling growls and guards the brains Of humble travelers where Bumble reigns Used...
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Inspired by the number of potential feats across DnD- and OSR-dom, I came up with "badass normal", OSR-compatible feats for Shadowdark. Part 1 of this series had Fighter...
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I'm going to do this post a bit differently from the ttrpg one. Due to the fact that I can play computer games without having to schedule them with three or more other working...
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This was my first time running an OSR dungeon. It was a lot of fun! I ran standard Shadowdark with pre-generated characters from the quickstart edition. For the dungeon itself...
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Yeah you sickos love lists don’t you.
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Masters of Carcosa is the longest campaign I have run. My friends and I played 23 sessions, starting at the end of 2014, ending near the start of 2016. The game began after...
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Masters of Carcosa is the longest campaign I have run. My friends and I played 23 sessions, starting at the end of 2014, ending near the start of 2016. The game began after...
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! In my last post, I blogged about what I gave for the 2025 Secret Santicorn. On this day of gift-giving, I wanted to post what I received.My...
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Young angels do not dream. When they arrive in the present it is almost always with the dim memory of some implanted or assigned task or function, and, since the rest of their...
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An introduction to the Nomad Fleets of the Novarion Sector, and spaceborne town for spacefaring adventure games.
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I am running an arthurian campaign using Fire Tales right now. This version of the Green Knight is a faye knight and spirit who tests warriors.Artist UnknownThe Green...
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I’ve been having an interesting time with Draw Steel recently. At the start of 2023, Dungeons & Dragons’ new Open Gaming License was released, and people got upset. The history...
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This post is a part of Prismatic Wasteland's Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. The intention was for participants to make a single holiday-themed hex with connections to other...