Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) who had only played 5e and Emily (Bagira) who has played many of my games. If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
System: B/BX.
Players: Emily, John, Erin.
We played as if Sasha's character simply wasn't there. If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
System: my Knave hack. Players: Emily, John, Erin and Sasha
If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
d100 - Brainfood for Burgeoning Blogs
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Recently, some impressive work Mapping the RPG blogosphere by elmcat had me
thinking about the recent surge in new Blogs about these games. It is very
ex...
Ancestral Peninsula #1
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By Guilherme ProvidelloSavvy Thief StudiosOSELevel 1 For years, you were
victims of an imperial Senator who lived in the Capital. He stole you as
children ...
Decks and Compartments
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Getting around a ship can sometimes be worse than getting around the
galaxy. Any point on a ship is defined by its Deck and Compartment numbers.
*Decks...
Dan Plays Games 9
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In the last installment, Arnold suggested writing some bits of gameable
material at the end, and I think that's a pretty good idea. Only got one
bit for ...
Are Conservative Gamers Just Stupid?
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There's been a recent one of those fistfight-in-a-fishbowl things online.
A go-round of grousing lately online, dozens of responses.
Conservative gamers...
On Bounty, Questions worth asking.
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Well? Will we?
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Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 ...
What is the point of the OSR?
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Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes
his post with some questions.
So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
Gormand's Larder is back
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Hello, I made a 36 pages extended edition of my old zine Gormand's
Larder. You get the digital version
here: https://evlyn.itch.io/gormand-larder
An Appendix N(VLG)
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A few days / weeks / units of time ago I saw Prismatic Wasteland’s round-up
of people’s appendix Ns. Well, thought I unto mine self, I have just such a
one...
Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead
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So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted
the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I
...
Eyes of Idola, Part 2
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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...
Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun!
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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...
Chatbot and the Demiurge for Solo Play
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I have been playing around with my solo protocols, the d6 demiurge (
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/347048/the-d6-demiurge-protocols-for-solo-pl...
Another Underclock
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I've been using Arnold's Underclock since about 5 minutes after that blog
post dropped. It's great!
Trouble is I do miss the "oh shit there's something her...
Articulations
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Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign,
has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective
house rule...
Notes on a semi-successful skill system
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When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things
that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to
keep...
As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks
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Remember STEAL THE EYES OF YASHOGGHUH? Still working on it.
The post As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks first appeared on Last Gasp.
Spoils of the Gorgon Coast: The Degenerate Heir
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As the kickstarter for the Zinequest Quartet winds down, I find myself in
awe of the amount of folks who seem interested in my project; especially
given t...
Prinny Dood!
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Prinnies are the souls of the dead who are working off their lives of sin
either in the heavenly or infernal realms before they are able to
reincarnate...
Thursdays in Thracia – Part 21
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This is Part 21 of my Thursdays in Thracia B/X Dungeons & Dragons Campaign,
an actual play of Jennell Jaquays’ The Caverns of Thracia. For more
context, st...
Elsai Overview
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Elsai is a small planet and the only inhabited one orbiting its star. From
its spaceport—nothing more than a flattened chunk of rock used by stellar
scum—E...
"The Gardens of Ynn" Referee Control Panels
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I recently picked up Emmy Allen's excellent *The Gardens of Ynn*, and I
think this will be the next adventure I run. I still have an itch for *Alice
in Won...
Goodbye and Good Luck
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Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting
access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from
the OSR...
Dolmenwood: The Book of Monsters So Far
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Since the announcement of the work on the Dolmenwood book of monsters in
*Wormskin* issue seven, I've been meaning to write a quick blog post about
it.
Fi...