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TORCHES (6): A RPG Microblog Collection 4 - The "TORCHES (6)" posts are basically my bit of microblogging when I spot something I like but don't really have a deep opinion beyond "Look at this g...
Playful Void

Zungeon Zunday: A Mirror Dungeon - In 2025 I’m reviewing zungeon zines. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques, just like Bathtub Reviews, but they’ll be a little briefer. Th...
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...
Break!!

Freebie: Harmful Terrain - Traveling throughout Outer World is exciting, but also perilous. Sometimes the danger doesn't come from a monster or ne'er-do-well like one might expect, b...
i'm going to blog here

Fish of the Nether - for the Nether Depthcrawl - Fish want me, I fear Women, something along those lines The following is an adaptation of an existing Minecraft Mod, "Nether Depths Upgrade". For ...
Prismatic Wasteland

2025 Is the Year of the Beta - In 2025, we shall all release a playtest-ready beta version of that TTRPG we have been working on.
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 ...
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? ...
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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