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Original Article: https://samsorensen.blot.im/apologia-for-plain-paragraphs
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Idle thoughts while reading through a roleplaying game.
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pei leeSpoilers, I guess, for Dogbox.I've started with the three smallest dungeons and their hexes, as a warmup. Lil design ramble at the end.* * * The Sump is a poisonous salt...
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and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked creatively. Playing games...
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Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Injuries (and Other Combat-Related Matters)Pseudo-Pseudohistorical Violence Master Page Injury Guidelines I think there is real tension between the...
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It is our patriotic duty to buy Canadian Mothership modules. Emergence is a funnel adventure—like you remember playing in DCCRPG. Emergence takes place Henko Acquisitions...
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Demons can tell you a lot of things, and some of them are even true, but the one thing of which they will not speak is what comes after. It is forbidden.What could a demon...
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Who digs those Dungeons? Why do they attract so much Treasure/Danger?
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Problem 1Time. In this hobby we are blessed with an abundance of cool, creative, delightful, powerful and innovative games which urgently press upon us for our time and...
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Rolling 2d6? Make doubles matter!
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Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to recent Bloggies-winner elmcat for setting up rootring, an old-internet styled webring for RPG blogs.
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How the necromantic demon evocation of Solomonic Magic can be translated to TTRPGs
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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 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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Recently, Luke Gearing put out a post on Bluesky and that personally offended me. I also don't care for the words that he said in the post but that is unrelated to being...
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Looping forests. Creepy basements. Crawl spaces whose darkness can't be pierced by your flashlight. Wouldn't it be great to have a game that preys on your fear of the unknown?...
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Lessons learned about teaching the OSR play style to middle schoolers using Cairn Second Edition.
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500 Years Ago The Italian painter Raphael might have stood at his easel in a candlelit Roman workshop in the early 16th century, carefully layering paint onto the canvas that...
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Zenopus archives did the hard work of grabbing all possible syllables and title combinations for names from Holmes Basic and B1. Just hit the button to generate however many...
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I am working on a TTRPG. Here are its classes!PremiseYou are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of your ancestral herding lands by...
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"You probably know this already: roleplaying is a conversation. You and the other players go back and forth, talking about these fictional characters in their fictional...
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The Binary Star Promise is that I will get a great idea for a prototype, start something, and put it on the backburner for a bit if it’s something I don’t owe people and would...
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Recently I was seized with the idea that what if some of the “Languages” the Players gain access to in these games had a more Limited Vocabulary of Words than a full-fledged...
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Since Blades ‘68 is almost out the door, I’ve been thinking more about my next game. I’ve been thinking about system, and setting, and how I want them to dovetail....
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Posted on February 27, 2026 This is part 2 of More Than Telling a Story, an open-ended series of posts describing aspects of TTRPGs that resonate with me that aren’t “telling a...
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#Daggerheart #CriticalRole #Gaslighting #BigDogBeefstink'sCigarettesthatareGoodforYou
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Alexandre Gustneau is an Artisan. An esteemed scholar of more than thirty years, he has advanced the field of Conjuration into the modern age—largely through his methodology of...
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The post Product Photography appeared first on Graftbound.
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As of writing this article, it has been exactly 3 months since Sam Sorensons Over/Under ended, and since then a small subculture of real time play by post games has spawned....
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I have been thinking a lot about what the second edition of Oswor could look like. I think one of the biggest mistakes I made with the current version is the choice of the...