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B.U.R.G.L.A.R.s - When people give me a recommendation for a book, a show, whatever, I always say "I'll add it to the list!" And I'm not kidding: I have a list. It sits at...
A Knight at the Opera

Why I closed up shop - Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can always ...
i'm going to blog here

A Matter of Systems - You lot, after reading the clickbaity title. You are correct to do so. Pull the trigger, Piglet. Howdy, Farmhands! In 2024, I made a post titled "Th...
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Drought Dragon Desolation - 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...
Traverse Fantasy

Black Athena & The Odyssey: An Informal Review - Oh my God. That’s her. How about a double feature, baby? Black Athena It’s hard to explain to people how fucked the field of Classics is. There’s a guy ...
I Cast Light!

RADOM WIZARDRY DUNGEON: Improving Undead Kobolds with the Dungeon Design Course - *DESIGNING (THIS) DUNGEON'S THEME* In the last post, I talked about how easy it was to make a simple dungeon that could fit on 2 sheets of paper, but ...
Break!!

The Council of Wings (SETTING) - *Wyrms have roamed Outer World since the time of The Dreaming. Ayidah the Dawn Dragon was created by the unshaped as a compliment to the Sun Mac...
Prismatic Wasteland

Review: A Book of Beasts - A bestiary of 56 or so monsters, written initially for Dungeon World but useful for any fantasy game, reviewed.
Benign Brown Beast

Impressions of Valdemar - I picked up a big pile of Mercedes Lackey ebooks from a Humble Bundle, and I’ve been reading thru them in roughly publication order. [image: Painting: A ...
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 ...
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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