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A Knight at the Opera

Ten Years (Part 2) - As you know, I quite like D&D 5E. Hopefully I was able to illuminate some of its positive qualities that you may have overlooked. But let's be honest. Th...
Traverse Fantasy

Cinco: Abstract Opps & Encounters - Thank y'all so much for y'all's interest in the last one! Will respond when I can, just preparing for a (nice) busy week and weekend :) in any case, yep....
ONEZERO

HEXEMBER: Chronal Wastes - Here's a quick recap: Hexember is a series of semi-daily blogposts where I detail a hex and its points of interest, tailored for OSR hexcrawls (but compa...
Playful Void

Critique Navidad: Necromancer Heretic - This holiday season, I’m going to review a different module, game or supplement every day. I haven’t sought any of them out, they’ve been sent to me, so it...
Goblin Punch

Crowdsourced Dungeon: Blue Sky Temple - I joined Bluesky last month and decided to pretend that it's actually G+ and the year is 2015. This means that I'll be trying to have conversations, bu...
mindstorm

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Prismatic Wasteland

It’s the Barter Economy, Stupid - Rules for abstract wealth, abstract supply, reputation, bartering, carousing, starvation, and random treasure in dungeons, and how all of these rules come ...
Rise Up Comus

Starting Equipment Packages - Here are some equipment packages you can use when generating new characters. The goal is to make it quick and easy to pick some gear based on your motifs...
PinkSpace

PinkSpace Turns 2 - Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to my blog! Thank you sincerely, dear reader, for tuning in to my silly thoughts here over the past two years. It really ma...
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? ...
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...
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...
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...
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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