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Traverse Fantasy

Enlightened Centrism's Specter - Before I broach this topic, I must perform a little social ritual. Hail Charlie Kirk! I ask this saint of free speech, wherever he is, to intercede on my...
17 hours ago
Weird Wonder

Orestruck Release Day - Today is the release date for Orestruck, my next adventure in the Tannic Forest. [image: bsky landscape image release day] ORESTRUCK INVITES YOU TO RETUR...
22 hours 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...
5 days ago
The Soloist

✍️ 8 Journaling Tips for Solo RPGs - Plus a Star Borg play report, new GM-less games, bundles, sales, and more!
5 days ago
Rise Up Comus

A Hexmap for Middle-earth - I reread* The Lord of the Rings* most years, and have done so since I was 12. As I was reading it this year, I was thinking about the physicality of jour...
5 days ago
Was it Likely?

the neurological event of the decade!!!! - the absolute homie oldhawkeye unwisely encouraged me to moviepost so here are some movies you should see ive grouped them into categories so u know which on...
1 week ago
Fail Forward

Appendix A - *The Bird Warren, aka Prismatic Warren, aka the Warren whose leader board I am seventh on (and climbing perhaps) is running yet another blog wagon - like a...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Pick Two Inspirations and Combine Them - I present a cheat code for breaking through writer’s block and coming up with a gameable idea from all the cultural detritus that has built up inside your ...
1 week ago
Pointless Monument

Appendix N: The OSR of the first level of Deus Ex - 25 years ago a videogame introduced me to sandbox level design. Spoilers ahead. Deus Ex (2000) is a game that sits within a lineage which extends all the...
1 week ago
Knight at the Opera

Appendix T&T - This post is part of the "Appendix N" blog bandwagon. I decided to share some of the many influences that have shaped a game I've been working on for a few...
1 week ago
False Machine

Un-American Activities - I am halfing prices for all False Machine books held outside the U.S.A. This discount will last until sales the the U.S. are re-started, OR until the ...
2 weeks ago
Explorers Design

The Explorateur: Issue #11 - Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
2 weeks ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

NO SPUR BUT YOU, MY BROTHER - *NO SPUR BUT YOU, MY BROTHER* *A powerful gang of cockerels, a series of killings, and bitter quarrel between siblings.* +++ *IN DEEP NIGHT, A COCKEREL CR...
2 weeks ago
Mindstorm

Sicko Worldbuilding - The weekend Return of the King came out, the sun was just peaking above the horizon when my friend Mike and I piled into my dad’s truck and made the fort...
3 weeks ago
Goblin Punch

Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...
4 weeks ago
Hendrik Biweekly

Game mechanics as demands, refusals, requests, encouragements, discouragements and allowances - My brother texted me, and said: ‘Is it common in rpg discussions to look at rules as *affordances*?’ That might sound odd or surprising to you—or just pla...
1 month ago
Sam Sorensen

1d20 Diegetic Rules, 1d20 Hypo-Diegetic Rules - 1. When they step into moonlight, those bearing the lycanthrope’s curse transform into wolves. 2. Magicians can learn magic spells from ancie...
1 month ago
Indie Game Reading Club

I Ran A House Con - Regular readers probably know I play a lot of board games. Games are games! I mean of course they’re not all the same, but they all tap into the primal nee...
1 month ago
Technical Grimoire

The One Ring TTRPG: Fear of Tolkien - This is a review of the One Ring TTRPG by Free League publishing. It is also a chronicle of my descent into Middle Earth and far longer than it needs to be...
2 months ago
All Dead Generations

Dungeon Design Note: Defining Interactivity - A lot of dungeon design advice focuses on “interactivity”, and to a degree this word can be a meaningless substitute for “stuff I personally like”. Yet o...
3 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...
3 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...
4 months 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...
6 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...
7 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
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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