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Ugh I’m getting so many of these

submitted 5 days ago • 138 comments

So uhhhhhhh anybody know a good wedding planner around Atlanta

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

#TTRPG GMs: Suppose you had 2 hours to run an adventure for a group of mostly-new players. What system and adventure do you run?

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Ok, doodling on a tablet is very fun...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Macrodata refinement #severance

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

I think I'm going to do it. I think I'm going to cancel my Adobe subscription.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

#OSR #TTRPG Folks: What modules would you say nail both vibes (evocative, imaginative, inspiring) and usability (concise, well-structured, easy to reference)? I'll start: Valley of Flowers has immaculate tone and is packed with incredible ideas while being well-written and designed. S-tier module!

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Great video from @techconnectify.bsky.social about pushing back against algorithmic content curation. It's definitely been something I've bee feeling more strongly lately, moving back towards blogs and RSS instead of relying on big tech to do it all for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Look, I'm super in favor of de-Googling, and I've been using alternative search engines like Duck Duck Go and Brave through Firefox for a while, but... they are still not as good as Google as a search engine. Too many times I have to swap to Google to get a result the others won't give me.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Hyped for the Liminal Horror Deluxe campaign -- such a great and easy go-to modern horror system.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

Checking out the lancer rpg one shot game jam, tons of cool stuff in here: itch.io/jam/lancer-o...

submitted 73 days ago • 6 comments

time to add elmo to the blocked word lists

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Dammit. I want to run an RPG campaign in the Android universe and I don't want to use Shadow of the Beanstalk/Genesys, so I'm nerd-sniping myself into writing a Cities Without Number + Stars Without Number mashup

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

I'm really glad I took the time to learn good typography and layout lessons while writing The Demon of Dogwater Gulch. It has helped me in my day-to-day life, even at work, improving basically all my written communication. Information design is for more than RPGs and technical manuals!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Very glad I moved my main blog to a self-hosted Ghost site. There's really no other viable option. As long as you're hosting on someone else's dime, you're going to be beholden to them.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

My tests of the 14b Qwen distill of Deepseek R1 are going great, nothing to see here

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I'm very excited to run His Majesty the Worm on Thursday but this is the second game in a row that I've run that seems wildly difficult to run as a one-shot. I feel like 80% of my prep has been making reference material and pregens when I'd really rather my prep just be limited to the adventure.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

(Spoilers for Tomb of Golden Ghosts from His Majesty the Worm) Having fun playing with a new IRL GM setup, getting ready to run His Majesty the Worm. I'm tickled by the idea of using a three-ring binder as a GM screen of sorts, without creating too large of a barrier between myself and the players.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Prepping for a one-shot of His Majesty The Worm last night, doing some "goldfishing" of the Meatgrinder table, just drawing new encounters with each dungeon turn and imagining player reactions. I was struck by how much of the dungeon resides on the encounter table, maybe more than the map key?

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Got a pair of notifications today saying that Grimwild was release, and a new game called Glumdark just launched on Kickstarter. NSR TTRPGs really have a vibe, don't they I'm just gonna name my game Cave Losers

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Now that my Lancer adventure is published (just waiting for a marketing push), I'm finally turning my attention back to His Majesty The Worm. Hoping to run a one shot of it within the next couple weeks. Meanwhile: coming up with new Dungeon Seeds for a HMTW Zungeon... rezuaq.be/new-area/

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

One of the last steps in getting this past the finish line was editing. I went back and forth quite a bit deciding whether to get this edited, and I'm glad I did. Publishing a TTRPG module without send it to an editor is like selling furniture without sanding it.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

My #Lancer #TTRPG adventure, The Demon of Dogwater Gulch, is finally released! This has been an amazing and educational experience, and I'm thrilled to finally get this into people's hands. Enjoy! If you can't buy it now, feel free to grab a community copy. gordianblade.itch.io/the-demon-of...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

At long last, I've published my article on making NPC Faction Rosters in the #Lancer #TTRPG. This massively improved my campaign for the better and ought to be useful for anyone running a long-term Lancer campaign! gordianblade.com/supercharge-...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

#Lancer #TTRPG GM Tip: If you're playing in person and suddenly need a map for a combat, break out 15-20 d6's and roll them on a blank hex map, and draw terrain based on their results: 1-3: Size 1 4-5: Size 2 6: Size 3 (Examples featuring terrain from The Upgrade Factory on Etsy)

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Looking at some doodles I did for my module, I actually really kind of like this one overlooking the gulch from Porthull. It uses an older version of the map, but I think I was onto something here. Might clean it up into some sharpie lineart and put it in the module somewhere, if I have time.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments