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Rise Up Comus

The Memory of the Meatgrinder - My colleague, Warren at ICastLight, posited that we can embed short-term memory into tables like your encounter table to create a more dynamic or interes...
Benign Brown Beast

Standard Playing Cards - I’ve been thinking about cards a lot recently. Really, for a while. I wanted to lay out a little bit of how I’ve started thinking about them, why I think...
I Cast Light!

RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLES AS ADVENTURE RAM: Adding “Memory” To Encounter Checks - artist: Stefan Poag What if we design the random encounter table to function as computer RAM- to store short-term information/change without having t...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Salthaven - 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...
A Knight at the Opera

Urban Gameplay Part 6: Concrete Jungle Gyms - I sure do talk a lot about the needs of "simulation," huh? Truly the least interesting approach to design. But my defense of simulationism is a topic for...
Break!!

What's Being Sold at Radiket? (Freebie, Gear) - This blog entry serves two purposes - it is a companion piece to the previous entry, providing a variety of strange items to be sold at the Radiant Marke...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

JUDGEMENT IS A BLADE - *JUDGEMENT IS A BLADE* She is a good sorcerer, but a poor disciple. She finds it difficult to concentrate. When she arrives the bell has been struck—the le...
ONEZERO

Three kinds of wealth abstraction rules - I don't always have the time or the energy to track currency in my elfgames, and although I see the merit in doing so when you're aiming for a specific k...
Prismatic Wasteland

A Game to Generate the World History for Your Campaign - Could a depressed person make this?! A DIY board game using Risk and Monopoly components that you can use to generate the history of your fantasy setting b...
Borderline Manifesto

Concealability in Cyberpunk 2020: A mechanic at odds. - I love Cyberpunk 2020, and I would be lying if I told you it wasn't an influential work in just about all of my creative projects. Needless to say, in...
Traverse Fantasy

Not a Med Student - With respect to my last blog, I want to clarify: I am not a medical student. I know *many* medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy and vengeful....
Goblin Punch

The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
i'm going to blog here

A Radical Stash of 1d20 Mondo Cool Items for OSR - Party like it's 199X - You will never be Him. - Reddit *This post and others like it are made possible by members of my Patreon, where you can see Game WIPs and Previews of fut...
Crab Dungeon

Glorious Dungeon Racing - Glorious Dungeon Racing is my barely tested work up for a GLOG-a-like dungeon racing game. The general idea is that players form a wacky racing team ...
PinkSpace

A Dangerous Game - Make Faggot Games Catherine of Darling Demon Eclipse recently published a blog post titled Faggot Games: An Urgent Warning, a manifesto that calls for th...
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...

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