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Playful Void

Bathtub Review: When In Rome - 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 o...
Crab Dungeon

Omphalos 1 - *THE YEAR IS 199X AND THERE'S SOMETHING WEIRD IN THE OCEAN. ARE YOU TOUGH AND SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE THE SOVIETS SINK THE WHOLE OPERATION? ...
Goblin Punch

Cailish Andorum - Bospero I’ve sure you’ve heard many stories of Cailish Andorum, and his great sin. However, I suspect that few of you know how it begins, or that it took ...
Break!!

Freebie: Arcane Contamination Syndrome (Magical Disease) - Arcane Contamination Syndrome (Odditis) A chronic mystical illness caused by exposure to excessive, uncontrolled, or otherwise dangerous magical energies...
i'm going to blog here

Ol' Gadda's Pirate Game - y'know what, sure, why the fuck not? Howdy, Farmhands. As of the time of writing, it is the release day for Dicegoblin's "Block, Dodge, Parry" (an...
Prismatic Wasteland

D20 Tabletop Roleplaying Game Gift Ideas that Aren’t Just More TTRPGs (or Dice) - When you are shopping for a tabletop roleplaying game obsessive, most of the recommendations are for more TTRPG books or more dice, when they probably alre...
I Cast Light!

AS THE WORLD TURNS: Retrocloning the Regional Events Tables - *Oriental Adventures is a TSR publication often noted for two things. The one I want to talk about today is its regional events *because the other has be...
Rise Up Comus

Running a Tolkien Game that Does Not Exist - The Lord of the Rings Adventure Game is one of my favorite licensed Tolkien games. It was released in 1991, and was largely the work of long-time ICE des...
Traverse Fantasy

Cinco: Inventory Items - Oh yeah, I forgot I was doing this! Here's some gorgeous art by Norn Noszka to start. :) Last time, I talked about the UX side of your character's invent...
PinkSpace

Story of Saints - In our moment of crisis we prayed to our Saints. To our awe and terror, they answered. The post Story of Saints appeared first on PinkSpace.
ONEZERO

The Mark, a contagion mechanic for your vampires - I can't remember what came first: Vampire Hunting Weekly, or the idea for a defensive mechanism that turned vampire hunters into, well, vampires themsel...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

A PERFECT WIFE - *A PERFECT WIFE* *(It is Vampire Weekend! Have a **pontianak**-themed urban-horror investigative adventure. I wrote it with Kuala Lumpur in mind, but it s...
Benign Brown Beast

Thermodynamics for Game Design - In thermodynamics, a reversible process is one that happens near equilibrium and with minimal dissipation. In a reversible process, a tiny change in some...
A Knight at the Opera

In the Mouth of Madness - "Go on in, it's okay. You can see him." The Dungeon Master was frozen at the door. He was nervous for what he'd find on the other side. But that was his ...
mindstorm

The Somata Engraver - [image: A body clutching the engraving kit.] There exists, within the world, a single somata engraving kit. It is not something one stumbles upon by luck...
Borderline Manifesto

Character Sheets and TTRPG Visual Identities. - The character sheet to a game is important in many ways, but one way I haven't seen discussed too much is how a character sheet reflects the game's visual ...

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