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Villains - Building a Baddie

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mindstorm

Shimmernight: Session One - I’m going to be blogging about the current game I’m running, called *The Shimmernight Sea.* It is a nautical / pirate open-ended seabox. When I started p...
I Cast Light!

SKELETON: A BX Class With A Bone To Pick - *Ha ha! Burn!* *Preamble: For reasons, I realized I might need to allow players to be Skeleton PCs. I've seen undead classes before that march from skelet...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Mana Meltdown - 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...
Break!!

BREAK!! in the new year! - Hey everyone! I know I usually use the blog for freebies - which I still will - but I thought I'd take this week to talk about some things we have coming...
i'm going to blog here

Gadda's 2025 (A Year In Review) - You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about Should old acquaintence be forgot? Nay, I say. This retrospective blogpost might be a week late to ac...
Rise Up Comus

Playing War Games with your Grandmother's Nativity Set - I worked on this over Christmas. It's a little late but perhaps you (like me) haven't quite cleaned up your tree yet. I have limited exposure to war ga...
Prismatic Wasteland

The Rankin Bass Hexmas Crawl - A Christmas-themed hexcrawl setting with 60 hexes written from bloggers across the blogosphere.
Traverse Fantasy

Cinco: Bibliography - Swear to Gxd I was working on this before the previous post. I just waited to post until it seemed less topically timely because it was a genuine effort ...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been. I am still not over stuff t...
Goblin Punch

Secret Santicorn 2025: Two Forges - The Forge of Yakul Yakul was obliterated, and his temples were sunk. Memories of the dead god were struck from the souls of men. A heavy punishment was ...
A Knight at the Opera

Archaeology: Dwarf Class for 5E - I had been playing RPGs for many years before I ever even considered getting into homebrew. Of course, I wasn't *against* homebrew. I routinely took homema...
Crab Dungeon

Carver's Ridge - I dropped into a fugue state for four days and cobbled together this big wilderness pointcrawl! It's a horror adventure through the woods of Washington, ...
PinkSpace

ID Tables - Inspired by the mobile roguelike "Pixel Dungeon," Item Discovery Tables add dual-layer randomization to items (and more!) in any RPG. The post ID Tables ...
Benign Brown Beast

More Erroneous Pictures of Whales - Recently, Project Gutenberg added a new feature. Can you spot it? Let’s look at *Moby-Dick*: [image: A screenshot of the Project Gutenberg page for Moby-...
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...

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