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I’m so lucky to be featured on Blogs on Tape! If you haven’t been listening to this excellent podcast for the last few years, you should definitely start now!

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We've got a little series on NPC design and social play going here! Today's reading is from @idlecartulary.itch.io on how to manage characters with internal conflicts.

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I'm not being facetious when I suggest that the quiet, concealed art of good craftsmanship may be revolutionary now. (1968)

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Wife: Promise me you won’t go down down, to goblin town? Me (one cave later): You go, my lad! Ho, ho! my lad!

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Of all the posts this season, I think the two from Ènziramire have been bouncing around my head the most. I'm so grateful to him for bringing his historical and anthropological interest into our little tabletop gaming scene.

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Rounding out my memorial to Basic Red RPG is a collection of several of Daniel's short posts throwing out various ideas for novel classes. Sadly, my Sinistar impression leaves much to be desired. :P

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When people complain about "Peregrination."

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Old D&D had a lot of really good classes you could only play if you happened to roll great stats. I'm intrigued by the opposite: a consolation class for those who roll poorly. Continuing my memorial to Basic Red RPG: Hobbits As Consolation Class

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I'm studying anatomy in an art class right now, and we're talking a lot about the Great Trochanter. Every day I must remind myself that NO ONE WILL LAUGH if I ask what level of magic user that is.

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Last month the venerable old blog "Basic Red RPG" was taken down. In memoriam, I've prepared a week of readings pulled from that blog (with Daniel's permission of course). To start with we have "Initiative Should Kill You."

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To wrap up this mini series of dungeon design readings is a post from @inplacesdeep.bsky.social on megadungeon design. It really doesn't take as much work as you might think!

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Trying to figure out how I feel about this blouse. I think good?

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US folks watching something unfold in the US because of very US systemic & institutional shortcomings : "it's like... North Korea shit..."

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Continuing on our current Dungeon Design theme, Emmy Verte breaks her ideal dungeon down into 12 rooms. Guest reading performed by @weirdwonder.bsky.social

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Thank you for coming out to Downtown Bremerton for Krampus of America Convention! The vibes were good. I had a blast. I look forward to this being a new Bremerton annual tradition. nod nod #Bremerton #Krampus #krampusAmerica #KrampusBremerton #KrampusCon

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Solving any problem well involves breaking it down into more managable chunks. What's the best way to make a big dungeon? Break it down into a bunch of small dungeons! @traversefantasy.itch.io lays out a useful technique with her usual rigor:

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In the first Guest Reading of season 6, we have "Empty But Not Nothing: Thoughts on Actionable Empty Rooms." This is genuinely one of the most important fundamentals dungeon designers need to master, and @icastlight.bsky.social explains it well!

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I tried to separate the art from the artist, but he got really mad, and chased after me until I threw his sketchbook off to one side to divert him.

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You can now listen to one of my blog posts!

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The backbone of blogging is smashing two of your esoteric interests together, and just going and going and going. @iemcd.bsky.social 's Runescape posting is a great example of that tradition.

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There are hexcrawls everywhere for those with the eyes to see.

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If you haven't been following Ènziramire's work, you ought to be! In this post he examines how the common adventure setting among the ruins of a past civilization might be contrasted with the Pende people, who live among their own ruins with intention.

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Take a trip back in time for MAY THE FOURTH!

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the most unrealistic part of jrpgs is how you are somehow richer after travelling

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Anytime someone gets a technique down to a science like this, they produce some really good info. Even if you don't do a lot of system-hopping yourself. "How to Run 200+ Sessions with 25 Systems in One Year" by Lowell Francis

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Recently found this 40k universe re-imagining by Lucas Roussel today and I kinda love it? Like, it makes me want to make a weird scifi universe, which is about the nicest thing I can say Funny enough I think I vibe with the tyranids most, funky lil guys www.artstation.com/artwork/AZaBx5 #scifi

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I stopped following Star Wars entirely in 2012. I really had to be dragged kicking and screaming into watching Andor, and it's as good as everyone says. I absolutely love that they dug up the Ghorman Massacre as a central plot element. That's some WEG sourcebook deep cuts.

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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Art Share time! With the goal to reach 1k follies 👀 repost & spread the love!! Hi, I'm Norn and I'm a Philly-based illustrator who also teaches, tattoos, does comic and TT RPG art!! ✨be nice ✨don't A*I/NFT!! ✨share something you made this year/something old you're proud of ✨tag a friend or two

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Though the two artforms are not interchangable, there is overlap between video and tabletop games, and a lot we can learn from that younger artform. Dr Curious VII explores tutorials through the lens of the original La-Mulana:

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Just found this great advice and tool for setting DCs and consequences for rolls: www.mindstormpress.com/how-to-set-a... I made a version of the graphic customized more for how I run my game. Shout out to @linkskywalker.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention via his Blogs On Tape podcast.

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Back-to-back @mindstorm.bsky.social posts!? Ty solves another common problem in his "How to Set a DC in a D20 Dungeon Game" Blogs on Tape #138: blogsontape.paperspencils.com?p=478

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If you're in Seattle, @morriebird.bsky.social and I are tabling at Harbor Market, hosted by Baba Yaga by Occidental Park

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Your sound card works perfectly! #GilbertGottfried

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Hey RPG Bsky, does anyone know who designed the logo for the 1e/2e D&D era Forgotten Realms setting?

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