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stop writing like a robot! - sometimes i catch myself writing like a damn robot and sometimes i catch YALL writing like this :// and the next time it happens ima do this to us by...
1 day ago
Sam Sorensen

Review: The Crooked Moon - In October 2021, the popular tabletop RPG actual play channel Legends of Avantris began releasing episodes of their “Edge of Midnight” *Dungeons & Dragon...
2 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

OSRIC 3e: An Informal Review - The vocabularies of certain Indo-European languages encode a memory of a social taboo against speaking the name of the bear. Germanic languages famously ...
2 days ago
Knight at the Opera

Thinking about Permadeath in Fire Emblem - About a year ago I played through *Fire Emblem* 7 for the first time. I got through the tutorial a couple times as a kid, but for some reason I never moved...
4 days ago
Pointless Monument

60 systems and 600 sessions. 3 years in the life of a TTRPG meetup. - *I found 436 people who wanted to play TTRPGs in-person near me. Here’s how I did it and the 10 tips I learned along the way.* The Motivation In late 20...
5 days ago
Indie Game Reading Club

Guest column in Rascal News: Year Zed et al - I’ve got a piece in Rascal news that might be of interest to my regular readers. You won’t be surprised, probably, by what I have to say about the Year...
1 week ago
Mindstorm

Shimmernight: Session Three - The crew arrives in Fort Deauvilly. They meet a half-giant seer and take on jobs. Ratboy communes with mysterious entity. Play Report The crew of the La...
1 week ago
Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - 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...
1 week ago
Fail Forward

Public Access is Not What You Think It Is (A Review) - Looping forests. Creepy basements. Crawl spaces whose darkness can't be pierced by your flashlight. Wouldn't it be great to have a game that preys on your ...
1 week ago
False Machine

Take This You Fiends - This is the story of an encounter with Tunnels and Trolls by a guy who did not know that much about Tunnels and Trolls and still doesn’t, so if you are a T...
1 week ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
3 weeks ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Rating Every Room in White Plume Mountain - I review every single room (and some non-rooms) in the original funhouse dungeon and describe what makes them work or not work and what is worth stealing f...
3 weeks ago
Rise Up Comus

Bloggies Debrief and Thanks - Another year and the Bloggies have come and gone! I'm very pleased to have taken home some medals in the *Best Series *category! *Gold*: The Designing Du...
3 weeks ago
The Soloist

🤯 Your Solo RPG Toolkit Part 3: Spark Tables - Also: 1,439 games for $10, new games for your solo bookshelf, and more
3 weeks ago
Explorers Design

The Explorateur: Issue #17 - Monthly design jams, critique, theory, and inspiration for tabletop rpg designers by rpg designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.
3 weeks ago
Failure Tolerated

Talking to the Dungeon - Prepping dungeons is hard and while I’ve read a lot of great modules, I never seem to remember what I loved about them other than the vibe. So now, whene...
1 month 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 month 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
6 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...
10 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
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...
8 years ago

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