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Traverse Fantasy

Tech Journalism - I followed an independent tech journalist for a while because I don’t trust most big news firms to report on technology (or, really, most things) without...
Playful Void

I Read Full Send: A Game of Mountaineering - I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I ca...
Prismatic Wasteland

Random Blogwagon Roundup - In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!
Rise Up Comus

Keying a Dungeon with Class-specific Descriptions (Microblog) - I bet you've seen notes in dungeon keys that say something like: The murals depict an ibis-headed god handing out the tools of writings to grateful huma...
I Cast Light!

APPENDIX N(EW DUNGEON CRAWL): Modern Media For Delving Deep Down - *Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei* I was trying to get together some other new posts, but those are slow going so here is something that has been rattling ...
Break!!

Freebie: HENSHIN HERO (Calling) - In today’s entry I’m happy to introduce the Henshin Hero, a calling based on a variety of transforming heroes you might see in anime and tokusatsu. I had...
Crab Dungeon

Crabinet of Curiosities Reopening - I've given my current list of posts and blogs from around the blogaspora, the Crabinet of Curiosities, a significant overhaul and moved it onto my new si...
mindstorm

My Favorite Map - Prismatic Wasteland has once again put out the call for a blogwagon, this time about maps, and I’ve got to land this hot air balloon before the deadline ...
A Knight at the Opera

How to Talk About Difficulty - Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mire...
i'm going to blog here

What's Gadda Up To? - Spring 2026 - This, mostly. Howdy, Farmhands! This January, I posted a year-in-review to cover what I'd accomplished (or neglected) in 2025, as well as posite...
Benign Brown Beast

Virtual Table-Top Tokens from Tom Gauld: A Story in Images - [image: A white poster with labelled silhouettes: The Hero, The Pirate, The Fairy, The Guards, The Golem, The Girl, The Strongman, The Headless Man, The ...
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
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...
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 ...
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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