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a little wisdom
Found this quote while doing some research wholly unrelated to D&D type stuff:The good craftsman seeks out the commonplace and tries to master it, knowing that originality comes of necessity and...
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Venderant Nalaberong & Godpower
1. WTF is Venderant Nalaberong?In Doctor Who, they call this the Skasis Paradigm, the base code of the universe, and/or block-transfer computation. Tolkien called it the Music of the Ainur. On...
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a dumb project idea
This would be a good project for someone who got around to more game conventions than I do. Start with a large scrapbook/photo album. Something like this one:The insides are these sturdy, creamy...
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some miscellaneous links
Dungeons and Possums is one of my favorite new blogs, and not just because of his rave review of Broodmother Skyfortress. It's also because Possum interviewed me and fellow co-conspirators Alex and...
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how to make a megadungeon without really trying
So I've never found a commercially available megadungeon that really spoke to me, that made me say out loud "Yes! I want to spend the next fifty sessions running this bad boy again and again!" There...
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An Attempt to Account for Natural Sunlight in the Caves of Chaos
Factors to consider: location of sun, elevation level, intervening foliageSunrise:Midmorning:Noon:Mid-afternoon:Sunset:I've probably made several mistakes here, since I've never attempted this kind of...
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OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnaire
OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnairethis was Zak's idea, by the way 1. One article or blog entry that exemplifies the best of the Old School Renaissance for me:Joesky the Dungeon Brawler's A TABLE...
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OSR Vision, activate!
So the last item on the questionnaire that Zak has been circulating asks you to share "The OSRest picture I could post on short notice." Here are a bunch of the results gathered together, as sort of a...
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Shiny Rocks
So Angus at Meandering Banter built this doo-hickey that can turn any list into a bit of code for random table widgets. Below are buttons that should each generate a random gem, based upon but not...
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turns out there are RPGs that don't involve orcs
So this morning I got to participate in one of the playtest sessions for Zak's superhero game. I quite liked a lot of what I saw. Chargen involved a combination of random roll and choices. The...
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he/she/it/ke
So I've owned for years this old DAW anthology Heroic Fantasy, which I read one story at a time over the course of a decade or so. My favorite of the bunch is "The Mistaken Oracle" by a dudeperson...
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a vision
In my previous campaign it was established that the Great Cosmic Flailsnail carried all of reality on its back, each facet of its hyperpolygonal shell reflecting a different parallel universe. Here's...
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a stupid battlemat trick
If you use minis and a markable surface, here's a fun thing to do when the party accidentally stumbles into the lair of Mr. Bad and his minions. First, take a minute to write the numbers 1 to 30 on...
View Articlea campaign concept from a dream
The campaign was called Mummies of Mars. The players wander a postapocalyptic Barsoom-like red planet fighting mummies and their minions. The mummies are a lot like the crazy gimmick-of-the-week...
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so let's talk about this thing
I'll have to admit that I was pretty disappointed when I saw this post:My first thought was Dammit, Jim. You're better than this. I'll admit to not knowing a ton about this Peterson guy, but he...
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check this out
I am right now in a workshop on gamification in faculty development. I just took this interesting quiz on gamer type: https://gamified.uk/UserTypeTest2016/user-type-test.php. Click "User Type...
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Arise from your grave!
Guess who has a full draft of his dissertation and a hankering to play some D&D?The new campaign is called Lost Tombs of the Western Kingdom. As with most of my previous outings, it will be a...
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So forty people have signed up for the campaign. That was fast. This means it might be several sessions before your turn comes up. My goal will be to get everybody a chance to play as soon as...
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Lost Tombs session #1
So I've decided that I am not going to attempt a recap of my own after every session. I'm not sure I have the time to do that sort of work justice. However, I have put a bounty of your PCs current...
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Lost Tombs session 2
No session recap from a player yet, but here's a map by Perttu Vedenoja:And here's a sweet illo depicting an encounter with some sort of purple thing, courtesy John Sarracino:
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