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A Blogwagon for Indonesian-related TTRPG stuff
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EVERYONE LOVES GLOGTOBERHOWEVER, OCTOBER IS COLD, AND ALSO BUSY, AND ON THE FUCKING MOON-HAUNTED ARCTIC ISLAND UPON WHICH I RESIDE, THE SUN IS GONE IN OCTOBER. THIS MAKES IT...
Recently linked from d12 books of the ruin-infested swamplands (GLÅUGUST 2026 #2) by Seed of Worlds .
Yesterday
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Just went with a quick sketch today :) RPG A Day 16! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers. This is a company which enters dungeons to...
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The Arden Vul Weasels return. A hard return. The Players: At Gosterwick, we ordered good furniture for the hall and decided that we should be living rather frugally this month...
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A review of the Chair written by Zach Vaupen (emo sludge) and with art by Zach Vaupen
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Still from Dracula (1931) featuring Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra and Count Dracula as himselfFulfilling my own prompt, reviewing another's blogpost, for Glaugust 2026. I...
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Housekeeping note: I missed a couple of sessions, and my original numbering was slightly off, so this is a chance to correct that. I also had to leave a little early, but it...
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I love random tables - I like the way they can get me started on something that I'm feeling some "blank page" inertia about, the way they help me get out of a rut or prompt me...
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I missed session 2 but Nathan summarised it here. Essentially the gang went south, killed a harpy in control of these derelict buildings called Harpy Towers, and took over,...
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(Challenging myself to express this thought in under 500 words) What kinds of obstacles do OSR characters typically encounter? The broad categories of traps, puzzles, combat...
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I am a very tall, loud, animated dude in real life. It’s probably cultural to some degree, growing up in a family of Italian-Canadians. Say what you will about stereotypes, we...
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Break's over, we're back in Thracia baybeeee. Players & CharactersReferee - Sully Arete, Human Thief - laumry Bomb, Halfling Fighter - Me! Ebane, Human Bard - Tor Parthenios,...
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In today's bestiary entries, we have two powerful predators—Thylacoleo, the marsupial lion, and Paludirex, one of the largest crocodylians to…
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This Month on Table 46I went to Gen Con this month and wrote up what I did there! A late addition! IsaacIsAfraid has put out a call for Indonesia-related blog posts for...
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I made my annual high summer pilgrimage to Indianapolis as I always do, alongside my wife for the second straight year. This was a pretty good iteration of Gen Con, severe...
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This is where I am gonna go through the running of my zurth games and talk about the stuff I am doing as a GM, the rules I am working with, and how I feel about how things...
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It was a windy day when they rolled into Ux Quorath, after seeing the bank was closed for safety inspections they spent the night at the inn and headed to the market in the...
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A reading informed review of Troika!
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RPG A Day 15! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers. This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in...
This Week
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GLÅUGUST Challenge 5, #1: Write a location where roughly 80% or more of the language is directly lifted from a single author or poet (they can't be a ttrpg writer, don't be...
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Campaign Retrospective of My Campaign 26 clusterfuck and how I hate myself. I fucked up this year. I decided to run a "spinoff" of Wolves upon the Coast called BY THESE WOLVES...
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Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #2 is from a list by Prime - "Books as treasure. No spellbooks." A list of books that were scattered throughout the...
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One of the greatest temptations in any budding GM's life is the idea of building up an entire world out of nothing. We'll get into more of that in a later post, but one of...
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For today’s entry to RPGaDay I could write some kind of rule for exhaustion or resisting great wounds or perhaps encumbrance, but honestly I am here to give the people what...
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After about six months of play we had the first run in with starship combat in Classic Traveller. I was excited to finally get to bust out the majority of book 2 and had...
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Quick premise on da boss's orders: Shrewfield-On-Avon, a rustic village whose particular location has swamped it with glaziers and pane-mongers after a longstanding window...
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This is a continuation of my entries to the GLÅUGUST 2026 challenges. You can review all previous posts here: GLÅUGUST 2026 - 1 GLÅUGUST 2026 - 2 If you want to follow along,...
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This week's discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to bookmark and download, play reports and of course a poem!
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I had the lovely privilege of playing in spuk's Ocean D&D game yesterday, and here is a quick recap and thoughts on it. Featuring Blubbub - Level 1 Octopod (Me!) Magnifico -...
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The open table spelljammer game in the gay beholder server continues. Again hmu is that is something you’d be interested in!Mistah returned, playing Greasy Gary the...
