#RPGaDAY2020 Day 3: Thread
August 3rd, 2020When preparing a game I try to think about the various plot threads. They’ll vary from ones I’ve introduced to something in the player’s…
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#RPGaDAY2020 Day 2: Change
August 2nd, 2020Today is day 2 of #RPGaDAY2020 and today the prompt is Change. It feels like we’ve seen a lot of change to RPGs in the past couple of years…
#RPGaDAY2020 Day 1: Beginning
August 1st, 2020Every year for the past seven years, David Chapman has run something called RPGaDAY. It’s a series of prompts about RPGs for an entire month…
OCRing a lot of PDFs
July 18th, 2020First, some preamble: I very much enjoy RPGs and I’m always finding new ones and reading them to see if I want to run them. My kids are…
Review: The Stone Heir (The Phlogiston Books, #2)
November 19th, 2018I really enjoyed half of this book, namely the Pigs from the Pit (a transitional adventure for level 0 characters going to level 1) and the…
Review: Doom of the Savage Kings
November 19th, 2018This adventure offers three things: a nicely fleshed out town with a serious problem that needs to be dealt with soon and a lingering sense…
Review: Spire
November 13th, 2018To date, I’ve played in exactly one Powered by the Apocalypse RPG and only one session: The Sprawl. I thoroughly enjoyed myself with that…
Blights of the Eastern Forest Rumor Table and Loot
October 24th, 2018As part of my review for Sky ov Crimson Flame, I mentioned that I wanted to make a rumor table and roll up some loot for the Blights of the…
Review: Sky ov Crimson Flame
October 24th, 2018Some preamble: I buy a lot of RPG material. Rulebooks, modules, random tables, settings, zines, and so forth. I’m a bit of a hoarder when it…
OSR Guide for the Perplexed
October 16th, 2018Recently Google announced that they’re shutting down Google+ in 10 months. Before I really got into RPGs, Google+ was merely the butt of a…