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Why? Because you wish you blogged more and you like citing yourself. Where? Your blog, or wherever else you want. I'm not picky. When? Whenever someone asks a question in a...
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Magic has become boring.
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Growing EdgesThere are a lot of different aspects of being a GM - a lot of different valuable skills: setting up a good adventure structure, fun and challenging encounter...
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No quantum ogres were harmed.
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Sacred Cows!?!
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The Joesky tax pisses me off more than it should. But it only pisses me off more than it should. It should piss me off, and it should piss you off, too.
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I've been running Night Tripper recently. It's fun, you should do the same. Broad strokes, it's a space opera/pulp game in the style of Classic Traveller with the explicit...
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This blog post started, like so many do, as me getting mad at a YouTuber. This YouTuber shall remain nameless, because they are dumb and I have devoted enough of my time...
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A survey on campaign length and lethality
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Editing the Antarctic Adventure Anthology has precipitated many ideas about how to steer the future of the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a mild polemic against overly...
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I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? the other day (good movie, minor spoilers ahead). While OBWAT is openly inspired by Homer's Odyssey, it makes some changes to the structure...
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Magic system based on Indonesian occult practice
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There was a post on Facebook (cess pit that it is) that I found really inspirational. Here's a screenshot so you don't ritually defile yourself by going there.It's a node-based...
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On making positive claims and contributions.
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Recently, beloved blogger elmcat wrote a good post providing some clarifications about what blorb is through describing what it ain't. While I get that the blorb principles...
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The D&D in my head is not D&D 5.5e, and that's OK. Or, how to have fun putting living volcanoes into your game instead of traps.
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When designing a downtime procedure for a long-running campaign, you want to know how involved you want the procedure to be. I’ve run campaigns where domain management is the...
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This post is also a shameless plug that Cadastre and RAID Array Mischief are available at my itch page, feel free to pay what you want and let me know what you think! My new...
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A setting book is a coffin. It arrives glossy and heavy, three hundred pages packed with royal lineages, racialized taxonomies, ancient history, and satellite-view geography....
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The High Tin Wall is 333 stories tall. Beyond it, Heaven.You are... (d6)a young psychopomp.a fallen angel.a questing knight. a pilgrim. an Orpheus-type bloke. a demon in...