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Today
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Session Date: 09/23/2026 Players The Great Beast - Weird Writer Mikele Colucci - Prometheus Xocolatl - Bue School Locker - Bubblegum Coral Kid - Podunke Lots of Little Stripes...
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Today I’m continuing my series on RPG Table Skills: skills that’s going to be used primarily at the table rather than during prep and used by many or all people...
Resurfaced in the ring
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A method to create a better encounter table for creating varied random encounters that tie to your adventure.
Recently linked from Bad. Session. by A shrike for my dreams .
Yesterday
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Recently my cousin who had been a player in my Shrike game for the last half year asked me to run a long and classic D&D session. Well I love running games and I used to run...
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New and improved content for the solo mega-dungeon crawler!
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The Players: On a rainy day at the reef, we swimmed against the current to chart a small space that was neglected beforehand, led by The Great Beast. We passed through Clown...
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Upon initial breakthrough, espers develop a two-way connection to the noosphere – but that torrent of mental input can easily overwhelm an untrained mind. Therefore, they must...
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For Spuk's Ocean DnD Attribute Requirement: DEX 12 Alignment: Chaotic Weapons: None Armor: None Languages: Reef, Fish Bubbling Movement: Free Swim 45m (150ft) Flying Fish live...
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Issue 5 of Unnamed Worlds has dropped, the theme is Sci Fi. It is a collaborative collection of new and twisted worlds suitable for roleplaying, it includes: fiction and art as...
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Great covers from across the tabletop rpg industry.
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One of the big non-rules changes I’ve made to Intergalactic, just added in the latest update, is a downgrade of galactic communication. So far it’s been fun to play with, and...
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They see you as subsentient. The only value they see in you is your reproductive ability. It doesn't matter that it will destroy you. All that matters to them is you have...
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I want to talk about my flair tonight1: I had a bad session. I consider myself a journeyman Game Master, one with a lot left to learn about our craft. I have run two longish...
This Week
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Have you ever lived in a city? Think back and you will notice: your experience was mainly a series of rooms. You visited perhaps 6-12 rooms each day. (Usually the same rooms...
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1d10 Adjective Energy Type Weapon Beam Color Noise 1 High-frequency Neutronium Projector Electric blue Pew pew pew! 2 Supersonic Gamma-ray Beam Purple-black Bzzzzzt! 3...
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After three years of massive multiplayer asynchronous play-by-post domain gaming, I am ecstatic to declare DoN officially DEAD. *champagne pops* *cork crashes thru a window*The...
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The conclusion to Savoro Kingswood’s story
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Slightly late shiny links gathered from around the web. For more, try last weeks set found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....
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Listen to this episode here. Further reading Our Lives in the Wood episode 5 This Game Takes Place in Your Home Town Socials Kendo on Bluesky and the web Sam...
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A weird thought came over me. "What if players could keep a character from dying?"It was an odd thought, especially as I'm specifically designing a game where characters can,...
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IRL game I plan on running, trying to aim as RAW to the game as possible. William Martial returns from Crusade, Sibylla is crowned Queen of Jerusalem and Richard, Saladin...
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I haven't been posting true session reports for Not My Destination because, so far, there's been little to report. One dead PC in the first session (the Herald of the...
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So wendi yu is testing a new game she’s been writing and I was invited as a player. The basic premise of the campaign is that, centuries after capitalist degradation of the...
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A civil war simmers without end in the fog shrouded Isles of Pretannia in the kingdom now known as Blackthorne. It was renamed when the current King Blackthorne assumed control...
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With Cadastre and RAM out the door, I've been noodling on which projects to push forward to something like completion this fall. Last week I sat back down with Hellbenders and,...
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So, played a one-shot of Brindlewood Bay yesterday, which will now turn into a campaign. I'm not the most grandma-coded person, but it was a lot of fun! Having never played BB,...
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I haven’t been sleeping much, so I wrote some Troika! backgrounds instead. They are mostly concerned with bodily fluids, cosmic mistakes, and terrible jobs. Use them the next...
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At the end of my review of the original HuniePop (HuniePop 2 review coming eventually I promise) I mentioned I didn't really have a lot of experience with Match 3 games....
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I was listening to the Dead Letters episode on Magical Industrial Revolution, and they were talking about the difficulties of representing cities in tabletop roleplaying games...
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No matter what you call them, Beholders are vile servants of the coastal wizards. But worry not. They have monstrous cousins that can be used to populate (monsterate?) your...
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A geomorph:10 X 10 for the win!GeomorphsJosh over at Rise Up Comus has been writing about dungeon nodes as “dungeon patches”, or small clusters of dungeon rooms that can be...
