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Posted on October 4, 2025 When I hear people say what they like about RPGs, oftentimes it’s something along the lines of “it’s fun to tell stories with your friends.” And while...
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Here we are, back to my personal monster manual. No further elaboration required.Cockatrice3 HD (12 HP), AC as leather, 7 moraleA disease among dire fowl, a retrovirus that,...
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An essay on how we play with books in ttrpgs, also SPINE the ttrpg
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I reflect on the merits of smaller TTRPG conventions and my recap of The Ettin 2025.More
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Adventurers often find themselves with loudly growling bellies. The clever ones make sure that they’ve brought along some Rations for this occasion, but we rarely really delve...
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Today is the first Solo RPG Day!I've had a great time with solo play this year, so I wanted to make a small contribution to the day. My main solo game is the Mythic Bastionland...
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This is a productivity game, for when you need a little extra motivation. When you complete a task, or a series of tasks, open a booster pack by clicking the button below....
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The Mythic Bastionland realm creation procedure suggests a 12x12 hex Realm, but I've drifted more toward 12x18 mostly because it's a nice easy fit to print out on a regular...
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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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A few days ago in somehow actually a Farmer Gadda's discord we discussed the idea of humans in your typical fantasy games, especially seeing as it is, largely a D&Dism. I can't...
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"Australia has a lot of beautiful plants and animals and most of them are, frankly, monsters. The eucalypt is no exception. Its reproductive strategy is to drop those heavy,...
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I've had a busy summer and my autumn does not promise to be any different, so my blogging habit has fallen by the wayside. I'm not sure I had much to contribute to many of the...
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It's not a novel observation to point out that, in BX D&D, a system which articulates a clear distinction between dungeon and wilderness adventures (the former described in...
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On the evening of Wednesday July 23rd 2025, unannounced yet clear as rolling thunder, NSFW games as well as games with queer and LGBTQ+ themes began to disappear. My day job's...
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Gonna be real, Josie did all the heavy lifting here - but I was there to assist, sort of like a mildly helpful court scholar later known in history for dying in a really weird...
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Thieves guilds and assassins guilds are ubiquitous in AD&D cities and towns. Both assassins and thieves are found on the DMG's city/town encounters matrix:The assassin entry...
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The last two packages I've gotten in the mail have spilled their contents. "Ooze Nun" is an adventure for Mothership - not sure how if I can slot this into the current campaign...
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The Fediverse isn't the busiest hive of RPG activity but it's where some of us call home, even if only part-time. To get a handle on what others are posting on their blogs in...
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[NOTE: I originally wrote this review back in 2023 as a guest post for Bones of Contention, a critic collective comprised of many of the best RPG bloggers out there. This...
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It was one of those ideas that seems good when you've been living on black coffee and Yonah white.They obsessed over it. A dozen Giant laborers taken out into the wilderness,...
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Rustic fey more closely aligned with the earth than any of the faerie courts.
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A new worldbuilding project is a balm on many wounds. Here is a truth: in worldbuilding, the smallest timelines are the most virtuous. Here is a prompt: a setting that is only...
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Whoa! The Chateau Amongst the Stars is featured on Between Two Cairns!More
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Minor update on the blog. Finally added slugs for URLs on posts. For some reason I thought it would require setting up another plugin but, of course, that's built into 11ty....
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Mythic Bastionland has this spark table for it's lands.Want to go a further step deeper? Let's see how deep this place...
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I was inspired to start this blog because of the theme going around a lot of blogs was "Appendix N". It got me thinking about my influences. They don't all make sense but I am...
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I'm really late to the party on this blogwagon, but I've finally put a list of media that truly inspires me as a Tabletop RPG fan and creator. When I think about what inspires...
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is the weakest official Mosh module still a certified banger?
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Reviewing one of the earliest adventures for 5th Edition D&D: how I would improve player agency and how my proposed fixes grind up against the play culture of 5e.
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Original image from the Diablo pitch document, which nowfeels like an OSR doc from yesteryearWhy Megadungeons?Over on the Prismatic Wasteland Discord, a member asked...