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Was it Likely?

worm in me - there was something inside me back in febuary. it looked kind of like the light you see when you press on your eyes very hard, but wet, and wormlike. if ...
1 day ago
Sam Sorensen

Cataphracts Design Diary #2 - *Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on.* Since my first design diary entry, quite a few people have reached o...
3 days ago
Rise Up Comus

Knock! #5 - one week to go! - I assume the Venn diagram of "people who read my blog" and "people who have already backed the *Knock!* Kickstarter" is a perfect circle, but if not, I w...
3 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

Patriarchal Pyramid - While writing my review of Leslie Feinberg’s *Transgender Warriors*, I sketched a model of patriarchal ideology and society. It can be read top-to-bottom...
4 days ago
Explorers Design

How to Roleplay Without Accents - Can't do an accent? Me neither. Here's how me, the worst person in drama club, depicts characters at the table.
4 days ago
False Machine

A Review of MALUSTRIOUS BROOD - A book of monsters, of visions. A 102-page pure art book with “12 iconic monsters from the pastiche swirl of d&d's fantasy pool …. “Gnome, Nereid, Salaman...
5 days ago
The Soloist

10 New Solo RPGs & "Micro May" Games - In this issue: We’ve got Army Rangers facing down dragons, a serial necromancer, and eldritch ballet.
1 week ago
Knight at the Opera

R&L: A Sporting Fight - This is a post about our wuxia game that's currently in development. You can check it out here. Pertinent to this post, I've also released the beta versi...
1 week ago
Mindstorm

Biblically Inaccurate Religions - I tend to oscillate rapidly between projects I’m interested in, like some kind of misfiring neuron in an RPG-soaked braincell. Right now, I’m working on ...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Divine Magic Works in Mysterious Ways - I’ve spilt so much digital ink about making a wizard’s magic feel more arcane, but now it is time to think about how to make a cleric’s magic feel more div...
1 week ago
Roll to Doubt

What Holds the World? - Filmic rendition of Planescape’s Sigil. This is a late-night thought following my last post. I proposed Anchors as thematic elements of the campaign that w...
1 week ago
All Dead Generations

Natural History of the Mantichora - A HUNTER OF THE VERGE AND WASTE At the heart of all violence, atrocity, and suffering is fear, and a mortal's greatest fear is death. Some will do anyth...
2 weeks ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Mothership is Good Enough - A few weeks ago I ran my first scenario for Mothership, the OSR hit about space horror. Space horror is extremely My Jam. Before I ran it I thought I’d hav...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Technical Grimoire

Wildsea Campaign Log - Alongside our weekly Cairn campaign I’m also starting up a Wildsea Campaign! Every week(ish) I’ll update this post with a summary of our adventure.
4 weeks ago
Hendrik Biweekly

High number too good! Investigating horror in Cthulhu Dark - Back to thinking about dice, again. Specifically, the meaning we attach to certain results. In a previous newsletter—one of my first, actually—I was fasci...
5 weeks ago
Fail Forward

Sandro's Print-and-Play Manifesto - So those tariffs, huh? Years of folks collectively manifesting US global economic dominance and imperialism to take a hit has finally begun actualizing t...
5 weeks ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Shrine As Practice - *(Photos: **Patrick Stuart**, **Scrap**)* *Attention As Devotion* In Nottingham we visited the Museum Of Curiosities. It boasts “haunted items from aroun...
1 month ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Oneironaut Launches! Downtime in Zyan is back in print! - There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you. The first is that I have launched the first installment of my new physical zine for my Patreo...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
2 months ago
Weird Wonder

Opposed themes and natural tension - Amanda P. discusses dungeon design, specifically themes.
3 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...
3 months ago
Pointless Monument

Stepping out of the Spotlight, and other Roleplaying Improv Tips - Only one of these is an actual acting tip, and even that is about making it less work for you. Around 10-15 years ago I did improv once or twice a week f...
3 months ago
Failure Tolerated

Writing rooms in pairs - When you’re working on a key for a dungeon or other location, it can be difficult to come up with all the concepts you need to round the place out. One t...
4 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

craft before craft — DIY RPGs and the meaning of a literary idea - *cool engraver guy on a 47 Workshop letterhead * *Let there be the clack of the shuttle flying* * forward and back, forward and* * ...
10 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 ...
1 year 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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