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Weapons and Armor Rules Without Numbers
You know what makes no sense, that two-handed weapons strike last. They should strike first! That’s the point of having longer range! Anyway. Here’s a long table with weapons and…
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The shift from location based to story based adventure modules in early German TTRGPs
In 1984, after a contract dispute with TSR around licensing D&D, German fantasy creators Ulrich Kiesow, Werner Fuchs and Hans Joachim Alpers released The Dark Eye (Das Schwarze Auge/DSA, henceforth TDE). This game…
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Dungeons are a place, Railroading is a technique, stop arguing about what Railroading means
Railroading is something game masters do during play. It is when the GM makes something happen in the world in response to something the players did, which negates the effect…
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Play Report: Trollcoming, Session 2
Recap: last session, our adventurers battled a cannibal giant. The festivities in honour of their heroics were interrupted by a troll ambassador who demanded that the ancient troll lands would…
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Just flip two coins
Just flip two coins. Count the heads. (Or do 1d4/2 rounding down, or 2D20 ≤ 10, same thing.) Read as: 0, 1 or 2 heads. 0: you fail. 2: you make it.…
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Play Report: Trollcoming, Session 1
This game was played over Discord, using my The Dark Eye variant of Diegetic World, my unholy ultralight FKR/PbtA mashup. All instances of invoking mechanics are [within brackets]. Excuse the…
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Into the Caves of Chaos: Stats, first draft
I am preparing to run B2. This post is probably the start of a series of attempts to adapt it for my purposes. First, stats. Given that more people have…
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Goblins: The Goblining
So, a game. You’re goblins. Goblins. The plural matters. Some goblins, they have a purpose, dignity, even names. You’re not that kind of goblin. You’re Goblins, Plural. A single goblin…
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El Dorado of Damage and Death
Great module title isn’t it? Anyways. I’m generally against combat systems, but if you have to have them: the El Dorado of TTRPG combat and damage systems, to me, is…
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Does it matter if something comes from prep or not?
That’s something we argued about on the Discord, somehow, in the context of how Blorb (a play style insisting on strong prep) relates to FKR (a play style centered on…
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