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The long journey of late, great first and last Stratemeyer loyalist.
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This is a question I've pondered quite a bit in my exploration of AD&D. Theoretically, my assumption would be that there's nothing to restrict a character-type NPC from...
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Ships large enough to travel between the stars are a big investment, so most interstellar travellers get around as part of a captain’s crew. A standard sized ship has a crew...
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This is a tie breaking system I came up with for spells, but also as a potential universal tiebreaker. I don't think I will make any use of this system in Fire Tales. When you...
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Yes. Tabletop RPG Gamemasters are Players as well. But they are also Game Designers. What made me to make this blogpost? Pettiness. Someone said that one does not need to learn...
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I was thinking about information design after my review of The Concealed Abbey of the Dragonfly Horde. I missed a possibly crucial detail about a dungeon wide effect, the...
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My upcoming RPG, Oswor, is based on Into the Odd (ItO) system by Chris McDowall. ItO gives out equipment during character creation using a Starter Package table. This table...
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Definitely a lawyer and allegedly a blogger Prismatic Wasteland has issued a new Blog Bandwagon wherein everyone comes up with a hex and then connects it to other hexes that...
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A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has...
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A blog post talking about the benefits of embracing random character creation when playing Adventure games of the OSR play style.
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There are RPGs that ask you to think of complications, setbacks, plot twists etc. in response to certain results. I've sometimes experienced fatigue with this. It feels...
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First things first, here is the pitch for the bundle in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.🎲 HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid is Live! 🎲Earlier this year, the...
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This past week I went to the GameHole Con in Madison, Wisconsin. For the 12th iteration of the convention, it was me, along with 8,000 other gamers, plus three of my friends,...
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© 2015 Dean Spencer, used with permission. All rights reserved.For the last couple of months, I have been working on a new campaign setting for an upcoming home game....
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The thrill-seeking gambling addict wizards of Level Die get a missive:To the sorcerers of Level DieA challenge:Come to Caesars Atlantic City and I will kill you.I have a...
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I've written before about how Chaos are the bad guys. That doesn't mean Law can't be the bad guys either. ---The Aeternum is a radical sect of the Church of Law rapidly gaining...
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Afraid of Play Reports is a series of blogposts where I write play reports of the campaign that I have finished or currently running. I name it that way because I keep on...
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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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Is the immovable rod the perfect tool to teach players how to do OSR-style puzzle solving? I think so. Plus a list of 51 uses for it that I rattled off the top of my head.More
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An attempt to communicate through prose what cannot be conveyed in mere description.
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Sci-fi conceits, assumptions, and concepts underpinning the universe of the Novarion Sector.
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The major planets of the Novarion Sector.
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History has a gravity all of its own.
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An overview of my sci-fi campaign setting, the Novarion Sector.
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Wax from a hot candle, flicked onto the wrist, will pool and form into auspicious writing on the outstretched palm of a Ghoul. If a suspected Ghoul does not submit to this...
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A clearing in a large forest with a small reflective pool of water. Ghosts can be seen here but only by some (have each player roll a dice and only those who roll odds may...
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I hate scarcity. It drives people to make decisions based on short-term outcomes and is a major source of anxiety in the modern world. It is also often artificial — if the...
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Embracing the silly origins of skeletons and why it makes them one of the more refreshing undead horrors to use in your games.
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A review of a mini-adventure for Shadowdark from the Arcane Library.
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Use Glory as an instant reputation roll in Mythic Bastionland: who's heard of your Knight and how fame changes the world at the table.