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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Don't Keep Score: Attributes as Adjectives
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Over the past year I have been playing RPGs much more than I have been running them, but I recently returned to some adventure writing and i...
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Saturday, March 9, 2024
Creating Tension through Character Advancement Rules
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A few days ago, user Ryan on the Necrotic Gnome Discord server asked if anyone used a simpler version of 3d6 Down the Line's "Feats...
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Monday, December 4, 2023
A Staging Post for Adventure
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Sometimes, you don't need an entire base town. I recently started running one of the adventures from the OSE Adventure Anthology 2 for ...
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
A Silver Lining to Everything
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Most of my 5e books still take up space on my shelf, despite not playing the system for years now. Occasionally, I will browse the monster b...
Friday, July 14, 2023
What Happened to the Dungeon?
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A post on Reddit asked for advice: what should a referee do (if anything) when higher level players return to a dungeon populated with lowe...
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Scaling Up Player Tools
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I often see a variation of this piece of advice in OSR circles: Give players fun tools without specific applications and encourage them to...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Posts from an Ill-Fated Zine, Part 2
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You can enjoy any campaign - even one set in an Age of Discovery like the Last Continent - without any fancy classes. The “core four” prese...
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