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Or, at the very least, I don't think it solves the core problem.Late stage capitalism sucks. It sucks especially hard for folks who try to make a living through art. By "art" I...
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Well, I had intended that last post to be my farewell to 2025, but my kids are munching on dinner and I need a break. Plus, the idea of writing a Year in Review post for a...
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It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been.I am still not over stuff that happened in 2023....
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For a theoretical game playing a gang of criminals in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Draad. I realised that the standard set of Scribe, Astrologer, Signatory, Knight and...
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Good evening. Two or three months ago I had half of an idea for a haunted house in a swamp for the Char3terie Board project of the secret GLOG server. Events...
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Blogging isn't dead: a 2025 year-in-review of the blogosphere map dataset—posts per month, survival rates, and publishing patterns.
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Final Hexmas Map This entire project wouldn't have been possible without Prismatic Wasteland's Blogwagon Call. Another shoutout to Among Cats and Books for keeping a...
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I have wanted to buy a copy of Crown of Salt for ages. Nova wrote a pretty glowing review some time ago. Months later Jason and Tom talked about it on Fear of a Black Dragon,...
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Back in 2024 I decided to track all of my purchasing and painting of minis. This was an attempt to buy less and paint more. It was a nominal success. This year, not so much....
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This is a glogmas present for Craggenloch Tribune - further retainers for their Caste Noble class, bringing it up to a potential d20. Diviner: Intent, slow-talking, looks for...
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A magic item inspired by Josh's version of Phlox's version of the Periapt of Wisdom.The idea is to take a traditional passive stat-boost item and turn it into something active....
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Each creature has an alignment. This alignment is their relationship to the four elements. The alignment of a mortal can shift over time by spending a long period in...
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It is a well known truism in games media that the more colons there are in a game's title the more likely it is to be ass. Usually this kind of thing smacks of Suit...
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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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In late 2024, I was hanging out in Farmer Gadda’s discord server, talking about tabletop rpgs (as was custom at the time). He mentioned that he had published 28 blog posts that...
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I've stumbled in the last steps of my sprint to complete my 52nd blogpost of the year. A moderate sickness of aches and headaches is making long stretches looking at the...
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The logo for Over/Under. This post is part of a series. Resources as Players - Over/Under The Gift of Grash - Over/Under You are here. Table of Contents Introduction Game...
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Alright, I think I can squeak in one more review this year, increasing my 2025 output by 33%... anyway, let's talk about Where The Sun Dies, an adventure for Vaesen, part of...
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Link the pictureI had the good fortune of sitting down with DirectSun to discuss putting all the pieces together for a good puzzle dungeon.We chat about Nightwick Abbey,...
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A magic item inspired by Phlox's version, here. Approaching from my premise that +1s are boring magic items, how can I adapt the classic periapt of wisdom?The periapt of wisdom...
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Sappho, Charles Mengin (detail)Baronial society and culture is significantly concerned with the management and cultivation of social alliances. Peers of social standing are...
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The Casting DieWhen you cast a spell, roll 2d6 + your casting modifier The Results Roll Outcome 13+ Triumph: The spell succeeds with amplified effect. Choose one: double...
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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 banged out 30...
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This system is a complete ripoff of Sofinho's excellent Alone in the Wilderness, except for the parts that are a complete ripoff of Phlox's beautiful Ten Blade Demigod. This...
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These are a tradition of the World Above. This is to say, Images of Officials, icons of office-holders. Royalist society occupies many of the positions that would otherwise be...
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Wise Old ManStarting Items: comfortable plain clothes, a flask or pipe to warm the cockles, a cane or walking stick, some kind of geegaw or bobbin or thingamajig or other...
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trigger warnings: gore, sudden death
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A collection of short reviews for each book I read in 2025.
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It is an oversized owl charm, silver on a silver chain. The eyes are set with flints, and a fil de fer runs through the silver links of the chain, forming a silken iron...
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I'm throwing down the gauntlet. Three campaigns in 2026.