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Prismatic Wasteland

What Is a Roleplaying Game: The Roleplaying Game - A roleplaying game about explaining what a roleplaying game is.
I Cast Light!

HOW I PREP: A Weekly-ish Megadungeon Campaign - Context For How I Prep Jumping in on the "How I Prep" series started at *Roll to Doubt *by describing how I prep for my megadungeon campaign using Mi...
Benign Brown Beast

Slush 2025-06 - The earworm in my nostrils. The ringing in my fingertips. Coins of Southeast Asia. Seashells. Koh Samui, Thailand. By Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC-By 4.0, vi...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Brackish - Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my o...
Rise Up Comus

In Praise of Prep - Weird Writer's prep post has started a bandwagon. I have enjoyed reading people's various modes of prep. As I am preparing a campaign right now (running ...
Break!!

Adventure Hooks - Fishing activity for the BREAK!! Tabletop RPG (Freebie) - A lot of people joke that every RPG needs a fishing mini-game. While I think the jury is still out there on that one, I do think it makes a fun downtime ac...
Traverse Fantasy

Resourciv: Revamping Peeps - I've been struggling with how I kinda really hate game design. No matter if I play things or run things or design things, the number one thing I hate is ...
A Knight at the Opera

EVERY Initiative Method, Addendum - This is a follow-up to that one previous post. I'm glad to see it's been received pretty positively, and that I've gotten lots of suggestions for additions...
i'm going to blog here

Kludgebuckets - Customizable Vehicles for the Sanic Hack - You wish your ride was this cool - (Source) *kludge*: something, especially computer hardware or software, that has been put together from whatever is av...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

!!! Somebody made fan art of my crocodile! Ahhh!!! - roveeeatsart: Made this for the crocodile, thought they deserved some fanart cause I love them so much and I couldn’t stop thinking about them. ^———^ (...
PinkSpace

Speaking With My Body - Public / Private Sex is contested ground. The boundaries of sexual morality are pushed and pulled by social forces that dictate the circumstances under w...
Crab Dungeon

On the Malleability of the Flesh, Corporealization of the Spirit and General Practice of Biomancy, Or: To Live and Die as Beasts, and the Phenomenological Discovery of Self-Actualization - Better known more succinctly by seekers and practitioners as the Oizarch Heresies, these four grimoires contain the theoretical and semi-autobiographical...
mindstorm

Biblically Inaccurate Religions - I tend to oscillate rapidly between projects I’m interested in, like some kind of misfiring neuron in an RPG-soaked braincell. Right now, I’m working on ...
ONEZERO

Three kinds of wealth abstraction rules - I don't always have the time or the energy to track currency in my elfgames, and although I see the merit in doing so when you're aiming for a specific k...
Borderline Manifesto

Concealability in Cyberpunk 2020: A mechanic at odds. - I love Cyberpunk 2020, and I would be lying if I told you it wasn't an influential work in just about all of my creative projects. Needless to say, in...
Goblin Punch

The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...

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