"Jaquays Your Dungeon" - Another OSR Maxim
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Be Cautious of Maxims
As I've written before, the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try
to describe shared principles and act as a way of mutual...
B.U.R.G.L.A.R.s
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When people give me a recommendation for a book, a show, whatever, I always
say "I'll add it to the list!" And I'm not kidding: I have a list. It sits
at...
Why I closed up shop
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Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a
man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can
always ...
Some Wild Girls
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None of these animal girls is considered lost because they don’t operate
with gangs, but they make for decent contacts. Easy to tell the Puppy Girl
apart: ...
Stonetop GM Notes
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- Reading The Rulebook(s)
- Prepping For the First Session
- Session Two Prep
- Session 2 Love Letters
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the games of drowned children, and Other Stories
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jungles from the future and palaces beneath the sea
how it feels being the only tranny at the bar
finally, another three! i've been running around and par...
Black Athena & The Odyssey: An Informal Review
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Oh my God. That’s her. How about a double feature, baby?
Black Athena
It’s hard to explain to people how fucked the field of Classics is. There’s
a guy ...
Hot One-Shot Summer (part 1 of ?)
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Summers are where campaigns go to die. Schedules get impossible to
coordinate, time passes, the fizz escapes the bottle. But where some see a
campaign necr...
A Review of 4th Edition Underdark
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I was broadly demoralised by this damnn book, but to make it bearable to
get through, I will make a list, from back to front, of everything I
actually l...
June 27th Megagame: Super-Diplomacy
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The evening of Saturday, June 27th, 2026, some friends and I—including
Walid from Dead Letters and ty from *OVER/UNDER*—are running a megagame
version of...
I Ran: The Dose Makes The Poison (Using Mothership)
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*A rescue (note: definitely not a kidnapping) on an art deco pharma lab
with multiple ticking clocks — I ran The Dose Makes The Poison and these
are my t...
Treasure Encumbrance Matrix
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Here’s a structure for planning out your treasure. See if you can create a
good variety of treasure that is easy to sell vs hard to sell and easy to
carr...
My Favorite Map
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Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this
time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the
deadline ...
I went to GaryCon 2026
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*and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet*
Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful
time.
I had been feeling a bit cooked...
Referee Sabotage
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It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine
this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning;
perhaps robb...
The Sacrament of the Minotaur
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This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am
running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign.
This ...
Rings Of Reminder
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It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me
still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been.
I am still not over stuff t...
In 2025 I played twenty-nine role-playing games
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The year is almost over,
and I didn't do a *lot* of blogging here, regrettably. Turns out I can't
really juggle a day job, a crowdfunding campaign, and a ...
BLOGGIES 2024 Concludes!
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The Bloggies 2024 have come to a close, and what an incredible celebration
of TTRPG blogging it has been! A phenomenal range of talent, creativity,
and p...
Folie à Trois: Trophy Gold
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Below is a shared review of *Trophy Gold (2022)*, a fantasy adventure game
designed by Jesse Ross and published by The Gauntlet. Although it is
informed ...
Carrion
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*Carrion is the endless city. Time began in*
*Carrion, and in Carrion shall it end.*
*When the world was new, the Hornèd*
*Mother's child, the demiurge Cann...