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Omega and Alpha - Endings. So good. Best if served with a side of heartache. We wrapped up our Coriolis campaign this week! Suitably epic, grand scale events, razor thin mar...
1 day ago
The Soloist

🛠️ Build Your Solo RPG Toolkit - Plus 7 New Solo RPGs, and More
3 days ago
Was it Likely?

third lives in a stolen world - *the third part of a lifepath for a stolen world (pt. 1 & 2) jerry's kids + big boys <3* *brains and thoughts and the hounds that hunt them * 19. Though...
3 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

Political Transbianism - I’d like to be so bold as to suggest that we have a problem. Trans-females are obviously having a moment in political discourse, and their characterizati...
3 days ago
Fail Forward

The Loot Sicko's Dilemma - Today Clayton of Explorers Design released an incredible article about an issue that's been living rent free in my brain and I finally have a word for: D...
3 days ago
Explorers Design

Against Dominant Mechanics - Rules form relationships with each other. Some share play. Some hog it.
3 days ago
Rise Up Comus

Forging and Artifice - Schwew. OK. This turned into a long one. Break!! has the best crafting rules for an OSR game that I've ever seen. Originally, I was trying to borrow them ...
1 week ago
Knight at the Opera

M Monsters at the Opera - A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: Joe Sparrow, from *Dungeons & Drawings* Strap in, because there ar...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Playtest Early, Playtest Often - To design a game, you have to break a few eggs and discard some rules or completely rewrite them. But you won’t know what to discard and what to rewrite un...
1 week ago
Mazirian's Garden

Monster Presentation - This post is about how I now writeup wandering monsters. (The lovely illustration above, by Lazy Litch, depicts a brain-like demon of Kolail. It is forth...
1 week ago
Mindstorm

Shimmernight: Session One - I’m going to be blogging about the current game I’m running, called *The Shimmernight Sea.* It is a nautical / pirate open-ended seabox. When I started p...
1 week ago
False Machine

A Review of 'Soliloquies in England' by George Santayana - “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Remember that Plato quote? Well it WASN’T Plato, it was George Santayana! In one of the better parts of one of h...
1 week ago
All Dead Generations

The Future - 2026 - A Dyson Logos Classic *This post was written as a "Secret Santicore" response to the Dododecahedron's request : "**What are your hopes for the future of th...
3 weeks ago
Weird Wonder

Year Over Year - Endies 2025 - I feel funny writing a wrap up/looking forward post but I'm doing it. First: thank you everyone for your support this year and for playing/reading my adv...
3 weeks ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - 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...
3 weeks ago
Sam Sorensen

New Words from 2025 - Late in 2024, I started a big list on my phone of new words I encountered that I didn’t know, with short definitions for each. This is that list, to date...
3 weeks ago
Hendrik Biweekly

In 2025 I played twenty-nine role-playing games - 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 ...
3 weeks ago
Technical Grimoire

TTRPGs That are Actually Fun to Prep - It’s helpful to find a media reviewer with clear preferences. If you know what that person likes, then their review is much more useful to you. “She hates ...
3 weeks ago
Goblin Punch

Secret Santicorn 2025: Two Forges - The Forge of Yakul Yakul was obliterated, and his temples were sunk. Memories of the dead god were struck from the souls of men. A heavy punishment was ...
4 weeks ago
Pointless Monument

Expanding Injury in Cairn (and elsewhere) - Exploring options for critical damage, scars and wounds across Cairn 2E (and other Odd-like ttrpgs). Cairn 2E is my second most Wardened system of 2025 (...
4 weeks ago
Roll to Doubt

The Sunsetters Agents – Retrospective on Delta Green - Havoc, our Handler for a Delta Green campaign (my first play report of it is here), is a passive-aggressive little bitch about the lack of play reports. He...
4 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

tricks taught: risk, thought, and the Marxist (un)truth of myth in Sukumaland - *a matched pair of mabindas (Sukuma articulated dance figures) on a performance cord* “*For revolutionary consciousness is subjective consciousness...
8 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun! - Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the unfathoma...
9 months ago
Sachagoat

BLOGGIES 2024 Concludes! - 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...
11 months ago
Bones of Contention

Folie à Trois: Trophy Gold - 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 ...
2 years ago
Failure Tolerated

The First Line of Every Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - “ONCE UPON A TIME, long, long ago there was a little group known as the Castle and Crusade Society.” *– Dungeons & Dragons (1974), “Foreward” (sic)* “Pla...
3 years ago
Permanent Cranial Damage

Carrion - *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...
7 years ago

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