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Author Appearences! - In case you missed them, Co-Creator Reynaldo was recently on both a podcast and an RPG roundtable. If you are so inclined, check them out below! Reynald...
PinkSpace

Lens Theory - What distinguishes a spellcaster from a warrior at their core is not that they have high intelligence and low strength, but that they cast spells. I find...
Traverse Fantasy

Resourciv: Nothingburger Combo - What the hell happened to this, right? I think I like to rotate my hobbies every couple of weeks, so I've been back on this. I'm just going to walk throu...
Rise Up Comus

Information Architecture in The Castle Automatic - In 2023, like many people, I participated in Dungeon 23. The end result was two dungeons - one based on the tarot (for *His Majesty the Worm*) and one ra...
I Cast Light!

NIGHTWICK ABBEY: The Purple Eater of People Session 98 - *I am going to attempt to be more brief in these play reports. I think after 98 sessions, the dungeon-crawling aspect of play has been well documented...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Victory’s Planet - 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...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

GNS is not a Theory; it is a Tradition - This post is a brain-fart—me trying to jot a thought, lurking and seeing TTRPG folks react to GNS Theory for the upteenth time. + Context: GNS Theory s...
A Knight at the Opera

A Response to the Esteemed Dr. Crackpot - That's the title of a little journaling game a friend of mine got off of itch.io, created by Emily Jankowski. You can get it here as a PWYW, although I'v...
Benign Brown Beast

Recovered: Two Flavors of Horror and Six Anomalous Media - Flavors of Horror I’ve been thinking recently about why the early episodes of the Magnus Archives hooked me so immediately. In addition to solid storytell...
Crab Dungeon

Fear and Hunger Takeaways - The dungeons of *Fear & Hunger* stand before you... Fear & Hunger (F&H) and Fear & Hunger 2: Termina (Termina) are dungeon crawl RPGs with a lot of meat...
Goblin Punch

Lessons from Elden Ring, Part II - This is a continuation from this post. Anyway, here are some more things you can do to make your tabletop game more like Elden Ring. DO Give Players The ...
Prismatic Wasteland

Which Sacred Cow Doth I Kill? - The worst part of the otherwise excellent "Roll Under" system is that rolling low on a d20, contrary to popular conceptions, is a good thing. Can we keep t...
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The Nether - A Depthcrawl for OSR/POSR games - Welcome to the Underground (Minecraft Dungeons via Minecraft.net) Howdy, Farmhands Yes, The Nether. Yes, like in Minecraft. No, I don't ever ti...
mindstorm

The Somata Engraver - [image: A body clutching the engraving kit.] There exists, within the world, a single somata engraving kit. It is not something one stumbles upon by luck...
ONEZERO

The Wyvern Journals: The Six Masteries - I've been teasing a big post on expanded casting rules for well over a month now, and while I was finally getting ready to write it, the strangest thing ...
Borderline Manifesto

Character Sheets and TTRPG Visual Identities. - The character sheet to a game is important in many ways, but one way I haven't seen discussed too much is how a character sheet reflects the game's visual ...

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