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Traverse Fantasy

Blue Moon Fragments - I had started writing the below with high hopes, before I got kind of stuck thinking how awkward it would be for everyone to be a farmer and how difficul...
9 hours ago
Explorers Design

The Bloggies' 2026 Nominees - Over 90+ blog posts. And a surprise category for 2026.
1 day ago
Goblin Punch

Gender Among the Elves - There are only two genders: male and female. Men are strong, stoic, brave. They protect the weak and build great things. Women are sensitive, kind, and ...
1 day ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic - Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn...
4 days ago
Knight at the Opera

Navigation Games - *Dungeons & Dragons* began as a game about exploring mazes, trying not to get lost as you navigate spaces with complicated layouts. At some point, these ...
4 days ago
Was it Likely?

error's young (the Faerie Queene Cantos I & II as a lil module for Troika!) - Troika! Chewsday Innit (because the game is Britslop. also it's quite good. the same can be said about the Faerie Queene, which is what this little adventu...
1 week ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Sacrament of the Minotaur - 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 ...
1 week ago
Rise Up Comus

How much [garlic] does my merchant have anyway? - If you're running a game like Dolmenwood, a fun, realistic detail is that shops have variable stocks based on the rarity of the trade good. For example, ...
1 week ago
Fail Forward

Micro-Blog: The Skirmish Game as a Sims-Like - *The Sims *is a series of games that despite its obvious "genre" (that of simulation) actually has a lot going on that defies neat categorization. While ...
1 week ago
Sam Sorensen

Cataphracts Design Diary #4 - *Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. Previous design diaries: Entry #1, Entry #2, Entry #3.* After many mo...
1 week ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Monologue Games - Not all RPGs are a conversation I’ve had this maddening…koan, I guess, spinning around in my head for a couple weeks now. It came from a buddy being comple...
1 week ago
False Machine

Hugh Cook is Re-Published! - A curious wonder has taken place. Some of you may remember my extensive reviews of near-forgotten 90’s Author Hugh Cooks ‘Chronicle of an Age of Darkness’ ...
1 week ago
The Soloist

🛠️ Build Your Solo RPG Toolkit - Plus 7 New Solo RPGs, and More
3 weeks 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...
4 weeks 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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 (...
1 month 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...
1 year 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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