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I did some more hex map stocking with the AD&D 1e DMG. This one's got brigands (not to be confused with bandits!), a leprechaun, a horny sphinx, giant beavers, & lake gargoyles!

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Announcing the next blog bandwagon topic! Get on board! (Also rounding up some good recent posts from around the blogosphere for your edification)

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I reviewed my favorite Mörk Borg adventure yet - the Death Ziggurat! There are some nasty beasts & a truly frightening big bad! People died! I can't wait to run it again!

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Wishes must come from the heart, not the brain. The cosmic forces which govern reality-bending magic abhor logic. The moment the person making the wish stops to deliberate about the wording so as to avoid a monkey’s paw situation, the wish is doomed to fail in the worst way possible.

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Happy Valentine's Day! I love Mörk Borg. I reviewed Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch, talked about Mörk Borg's motivation problem (& how it applies to both the PCs & NPCs), & suggested a way of putting it all together into something more coherent.

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Today I want to talk about types of Obstacles in OSR and other challenge-based systems and why I think having Locks without Keys is bad design. Except when it's not. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/a-lock-with-...

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Did you recently see a bunch of blogposts loosely themed around "elements"? Too many to keep up with? Good news: I tracked them all down and provided brief summaries of all the posts so you can go read all that sound interesting (which may be all of them!) #osr #ttrpg

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Critics of D&D have practiced a cottage industry of deconstructionism for many years. But if the same techniques for reading against the text were applied with the same rigor equally, every RPG would break down as well. A poorly remembered course in: riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/02/dung...

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Want to play a TTRPG other than D&D, but can't get your D&D friends to try something new with you? Ask everyone else you know! The number of people who are willing to try playing TTRPGs is vastly underestimated! They don't have to be people who play D&D! It's probably better if they don't!

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Some owlbear studies from my sketchbook #kaseyart #illustration #penandink

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Beyond creating something interesting for every hex, I think it would be nice to link certain hexes together; chains of events that players can stumble on and interact with. Basically: give players a goal, and let travel mechanics/random encounters etc. do the rest! dicegoblin.blog/play-fetch-l...

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New Post: Control Weather Should Not Be a Spell How a single spell holds back an entire field of magic plus a new character class (Tempestarius) that can control the weather and also gets a storm cloud stronghold (This is for today’s blog bandwagon. Y’know, “elements” as in weather) #osr #ttrpg

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Hopping on the blog bandwagon to talk about elemental damage types - the classics (cold, fire, and lightning) & the oddballs (acid? thunder?)! I present some ideas to give unique mechanics to each of these damage types, as well as suggesting in what situations & against what creatures to use them!

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retweet so I can look at this once my group gets into Mothership

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When you’re randomly stocking your sandbox for a D&D game & roll up a dragon lair…that’s the good stuff

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As a demonstration, I began stocking a sandbox using the appendices of the AD&D 1e DMG! The 1e books are monuments to a very strange man's attention to detail, but they are also quite useful (if not a bit onerous) when creating an area for play in D&D. The process was quite fun!

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just vibing with the lads

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This blog is awesome. Spending the rest of my work day reading this!

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I wrote about "Gold or XP": my take on gold for XP, which posits that every treasure hoard should force players to make a choice between material advancement & level advancement.

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It is really funny that D&D takes an iconic idea like "A witch can turn you into a newt" & for whatever reason turns it into five different spells that all work differently, & none of them actually capture the magical feel of the original concept

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Told my girlfriend I'm considering buying more RPG books because I'm almost done reading my Mörk Borg & Mothership stuff. I turned around to look at my bookshelf & said, "Yeah all I have left to read after that is Dungeon/Mutant Crawl Classics, Blades in the Dark, Troika, Ultraviolet Grasslands..."

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One of my favorite totally unnecessary & nonsensical DCs in the new D&D PHB comes from the disguise kit, which allows a character with proficiency to...apply makeup! It requires a DC 10 Charisma check to do so for some reason.

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I reviewed Mothership's introductory module, Another Bug Hunt. I give a general overview, discuss the holes in the scenario, & talk about how I'd fix them. #mothership

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The PCP smoking scene from Training Day is iconic for a lot of reasons but my favorite part is Denzel Washington calling Ethan Hawke this.

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One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.

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The existence in D&D 5e of the "Keen Smell" trait implies that we should be tracking the player characters' body odors somehow

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I would be depriving the world of something if I didn’t share this character sketch from our Mothership session this weekend (art by @speedballhippie.bsky.social)

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I wrote about my experience running Mörk Borg (& its introductory adventure, Rotblack Sludge) for the first time! In this age of bloated systems that require a computer to run, playing on Discord, PDFs, & VTTs, Mörk Borg reminded me of the power of physical TTRPG products & slim, elegant mechanics.

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I finally ran Mörk Borg for some friends this weekend. Takeaways: 1. The graphic design makes players curious about the game & instantly communicates tone. One of the single most effective ways to get new players to try a game is to show them a cool book.

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🗳️BLOGGIES 2024 - THEORY - QUARTERFINALS🗳️ And with over 222 responses, we now have the brackets for our quarterfinals! It's the same blog posts, but a new match-up. Voting for #BLOGGIES24 continues! Link to voting form⤵️

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