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.
Why the dearth of 'other world' campaigns?
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JRR Tolkien was a crucial 'break' between two conceptions of the fantasy
genre. Before him, most (though not all) fantastical tales either involved
people ...
The Fenworthy Inheritance
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By Simon ToddMontidotsBRP/CoC/Gore When David Farrington decided to drag
his sister, Jinx, away from the hedonistic vortex of London’s Bright Young
Things ...
The Power of Bluntness
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I was reading through the rules for *Blood Red Skies. *I picked up the starter
set for reasons that will become clear in a few weeks.
The game appeals to...
Kalliope Jazz
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This campaign setting was originally envisioned using the Lancer RPG, a
jazz playlist with a lot of Sun Ra, and these house rules. It was intended
to be ...
THE UNIVERSAL THING GENERATOR!
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Need something?! Don't know quite what you need, but you know you need
something? Is it an idea, a concept, a person, a group, a monster, a place?
Whatev...
On the Sector Turn
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It's very simple.
There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents
need to do: Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the...
Update and Marchebranche is getting in print!
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Well my desire to post weekly vanished after only one post. I guess there
is a big different between blog journaling just for fun while you play
games and...
Dan Plays Video Games, Part 3
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Previous episodes: 1, 2
Balatro
This game is fucking dangerous. Absolute chronophage. One-more-run taken to
the extreme. Makes brain chemicals go brrrrrr...
A Goblin in the Synthetic Dream Machine
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A good human finally asked: “Are there any quick-and-dirty conversion
guidelines for porting in B/X or OSE monsters into SDM? HD roughly equate
to level, u...
GLOG Class: Bioweapon
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I got this idea from mad gods on bear blog.
Crab Evo from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman
A thousand soldiers were slain. Too many to be tragic--this is just a fact...
Bad Weather after Judgment Day
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The world has ended and the weather is fucking terrible.
Oh it's not as bad as a decade ago, when the poison storm of a Gas Front
would sweep through and tu...
Another take on demihumans as social constructs.
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I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had
already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant
orig...
Skull Rabbits and The Pale Lion
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A silly kitbash I did (*"What if _______, but skull??"*) that felt
afterwords like it needed lore:
Skull Rabbits appear much like regular white rabbits -...
The Blade Itself
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I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Blade Itself, volume one
in Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy. This was my first exposure to
his wo...
Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start writing!
The post Hello world! first appeared on Last Gasp.
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...
Unlawful Update
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Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind
y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I
continue ...
New Home!
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This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I'll no longer be
updating on this blog primarily due to all the spambots that plague this
platform. ...
Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release
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A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012
Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at
Dr...
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...
Migration
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A note to anyone checking this blog:
I've moved my blogging activity to https://necroticgnome.com/blogs/news.
This blog will remain indefinitely, but will ...