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December 19, 2024

"Death, Injury and Other Inconveniences" and what makes a good Splatbook

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Just One Thing Per Hex

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Blogs For the Blog Gog!

Crab Dungeon

New Year, New Blog - The Dungeon has been quiet as of late as I have been absorbed into a new project I am working on- but rest assured there will be more Dungeon posts as I ...
I Cast Light!

PRACTICAL MAGIC III: Starting MUs Are Not Feeling The Magic! - A common refrain in old-school games, most often from those new to old-school play, is that 1st level magic-users (MU) suck, don’t feel like masters of t...
Prismatic Wasteland

Monster, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa - The medusa is a cool monster that was the victim of TSR’s honeypot encounter design like so many other female-coded monsters. A close reading of woman mons...
Break!!

The BREAK!! store is open! - Just a short but exciting announcement today, but our store is now open! Physical and digital books now available to everyone! *Prices are discoun...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Lost Mine of Phandelver - 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...
i'm going to blog here

d50 Fantasy Crop Table - Also known as "thank god these bitches are horny for fresh produce" Don't actually watch this, please. *This post and others like it are made possible ...
Traverse Fantasy

2024 Year in Review - Happy Holidays! It's funny writing this after having de-emphasized my presence here over the past year as I had intended. The thing is, having a blog is ...
Rise Up Comus

Designing Dungeons Course - Hello, happy New Year! As we start 2025, I have noticed that many people are spinning up dungeon-creation projects (Dungeon23 continues into its third y...
Benign Brown Beast

2024 - *See last year’s summary here.* 2024 was busy! I traveled internationally to Iceland, Mexico, and Portugal. I played in campaigns of OSE, Fate, and weird...
mindstorm

Baseline Worldbuilding - Forgive me, but I must post theory. I want to talk about worldbuilding, cognitive load, and the narrative baseline. Let’s first work to define what the n...
PinkSpace

Play Report: Opera Eterna at RPG Nite - On November 30th, Alex Roberts and I hosted our very first playtest day. On that day, I finally got my shit together to bring Opera Eterna to the table. ...
A Knight at the Opera

Slush Pile - All the cool bloggers are into slushposting. I think it was started by Dan over at Throne of Salt? He occasionally does this thing where he takes all the u...
Goblin Punch

Blue Sky Temple, Revised - Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky. It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed together. This week, I ...
ONEZERO

On encounter design, combat and incentives - After writing the third Hexember post, I couldn't stop thinking about two blog posts regarding incentivized behavior, the first by Luke Gearing, and the ...
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...
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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