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Benign Brown Beast

Precursors and Tangents to the Trading Card Game - There are no novel insights here, but I needed to sort these things visually to get a handle on them. Dashed arrows indicate a more inferential or a cont...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: The Dark Tools - 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 Cast Light!

THE SPARK COLLAGE FOR DUNGON STOCKING: When You Got Vibes But Need Definitive - I am trying to quickly key the last dungeon level for my *Tropics of Cancer *campaign so I can start running it for friends and family. I'd like to do ...
Prismatic Wasteland

Slush Magic - Ten Thousand Random Spells and How to Cast Them (in roleplaying games, of course).
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Shrine As Practice - *(Photos: **Patrick Stuart**, **Scrap**)* *Attention As Devotion* In Nottingham we visited the Museum Of Curiosities. It boasts “haunted items from aroun...
i'm going to blog here

What That Dog Doin'? - Pictured: The Goodest GirlHowdy, Farmhands. I've got a new dog. A foster dog, to be precise. My Beautiful Wife (and I by extension) volunteers with...
Break!!

BREAK??: The Balladeer (Freebie, Calling) - *Welcome to our second installment of BREAK??, an April Fools tradition where I use the holiday as an excuse to post something for BREAK!! that's a bit o...
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...
A Knight at the Opera

Urban Gameplay Part 6: Concrete Jungle Gyms - Pssst! If you're coming here from the Glatisant, Part 1 is here! I sure do talk a lot about the needs of "simulation," huh? Truly the least interesting ap...
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...
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...
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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