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It's been a while since I posted a top level view of Barony, the worldbuilding heartbreaker setting thing that has occupied the majority of my blogging attention this past...
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Mecha TTRPGs Monthly
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Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn...
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More shiny links from about the interweb. Still need more? See last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally...
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The study of magic is fraught with perils - but wisdom, caution, and a reliable friend to steer you away from poor decisions are often enough to keep a practitioner from the...
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I’ve circled back to this lovely scrabble idea - Spell FRIEND and Enter - from mindstorm again and again, and have finally sat down to sketch what a potential campaign in...
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In the previous session of my solo All-Out Apocalypse game the party finally entered the water park in the West Edmonton Mall, where they hoped to find some chlorine to solve...
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Here we are, back at it again, after an interruption of a month or so. I didn’t get to participate in the February RPG Blog Carnival as my computer was in pieces transiting...
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I've played two games this week that involved secret information.First was my regular Mythic Bastionland game. The company of knights had planned to visit a town where one of...
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Original Article: https://samsorensen.blot.im/apologia-for-plain-paragraphs
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I don't know who needs to see this today, but I've been needing to see this for quite some time. The stuff you write for your table doesn't need to follow the same principles,...
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Idle thoughts while reading through a roleplaying game.
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On the role of mechanics in describing games as art.
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This post is both a player and GM report at the same time! I'm calling it a Referee Rundown, a Mirror Report, the Director's Commentary, Behind the Screen? Something like that....
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I was writing some harsh criticism of Vaesen's maps but I decided not to be negative today and stashed it. Instead of complaining about the prep of Vaesens past I will ponder...
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Never thought I’d be so happy to see webrings return to the internet but my god do I detest the current state of the commercialized dead internet so here we are! I have very...
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I play a lot of games with my son. Sometimes we don't have dice, cards, or other tools for resolving narrative situations. Initially I toyed with a resolution system that...
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I'm in the process of collecting cartridges of all the original launch titles for the Game Boy (both Japanese and North American). So far, Yakuman is pretty fun (see my mahjong...
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I participate in two weekly campaigns, one in which I am a player, while the other one I am the GM. I also try to run a single-session adventure every other week, if not more...
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Here's some lovely ttrpg goodness for your Saturday. Discord discussions, blog posts, projects, session reports, and starting this week, a poem!
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On the principle of 'stack up the gunpowder' I wanted to set up a couple of fault lines within this city to have it in a high energy unstable equilibrium, liable to go...
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Being a Review of Titan of the Verdant Maw Turned into a Reflection on Adventure Design Titan of the Verdant Maw is an adventure for Old School Essentials by Daily Ritual...
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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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Previously In the previous post, a basic idea of what nations exist on the non-starting planetoids was rolled up and some of their names adjusted. Previous posts in the series...
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I've been getting into skateboarding again recently, I used to do it a lot as a kid but then I moved to where the closest sidewalk was a mile away in town. Anyways here are...
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Consider this: an 'adventure site' or dungeon or whatever is better if it's above ground and you climb up it. Here's a Moodboard. Tuang Kalat in Myanmar. It's built on top of...
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"You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to meet girls"-Shamus Young, DM of the...
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G is for Goblin Economy, the essential markets which sustain the adventuring lifestyle. Returning to the city, that paranoid place of authoritarian control and walled...
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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...