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Traverse Fantasy

Transgenderism & Class Realness - Try to guess context from this bit from a conversation I had with my friend Ènziramire: when they figure out womb transplants we’ll be back to square 1 ...
1 day ago
Rise Up Comus

On the Road from the Three-farthing Stone to the Bridge of Stonebows - Middle-earth Hexmap - An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The East Road stretches across...
1 day ago
Explorers Design

How to Promote Your Work - How to reach out to blogs, pods, and media outlets, and the 5 things creators can do to promote their work while building community.
4 days ago
Pointless Monument

Bastion Station Mall: Alternate Mothership Starting Equipment Loadouts - The Mothership starting equipment loadout tables are an excellent piece of game design, but can they be taken in a different direction? And is there some...
1 week ago
The Soloist

1️⃣ Why We Play Solo RPGs - Plus Spooky Season Sales, New Games, and The Inquiracle
1 week ago
Fail Forward

The Isle: The Review (Mostly) - Well shucks. I read *The Isle* (Luke "Fever Swamp" Gearing's minimalist "masterpiece"), knowing many people loved it, knowing I hadn't loved the demo of ...
1 week ago
Indie Game Reading Club

The New Novelty - Hello readers. It’s been a while. You may have noticed I haven’t put anything up for a few months. Things are good here, no worries. No medical emergencies...
2 weeks ago
Sam Sorensen

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Starting on October 14th, as a part of *Mothership* Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for *Mothership,*...
2 weeks ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Moonlight Glitters upon Weregild - Lycanthropy is played out. Instead of using another werewolf in your game, try some weregilt.
2 weeks ago
False Machine

A review of The Golden Peaches of Samarkand - by Edward H. Schafer tldr; this book has a whole sub-section on Dwarfs Its 1962 and Edward H Schafer delves into ream upon uncounted ream of scholarship ...
2 weeks ago
Knight at the Opera

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: the Adventure Game: A Scathingly Positive Review - [NOTE: I originally wrote this review back in 2023 as a guest post for Bones of Contention, a critic collective comprised of many of the best RPG bloggers...
4 weeks 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...
5 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...
1 month 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 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 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...
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...
5 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...
6 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...
7 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...
8 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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