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Aug 16, 2021
Let Me Tell You About My Character
1. Let me tell you about my character, Baston. I’d just moved to Seattle and through a series of coincidences ended up with a new gaming group that I was...
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Jul 12, 2021
I Spent The Last Year Being A Hobbit And Also Playing The One Ring
This isn’t a review. It would be a pretty pointless review to do, anyway, as the game in question is The One Ring. TOR released in 2011 (when I rushed...
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Apr 23, 2020
Ikoria Deck: To Me My X-Men
Let’s start with the obvious: I’m not a competitive Magic player, and this is not a competitive deck. If you’re looking to win against good players, go somewhere else. If...
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Jul 7, 2017
The Wizard Who Met His Own Ghost
Adam Blinkinsop shared some actual play from a recent Dungeon World session in his Pacific Northwest Marches game: Ok, scene: characters are underground, in the tomb / prison of a...
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Jun 30, 2017
Dungeon World Five Years In
It’s my five year wedding anniversary, which means its also the five year anniversary of Dungeon World’s Kickstarter closing. (Yeah, the Kickstarter campaign finished during my wedding, somewhere around the...
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Apr 10, 2017
All Civilized Nations
On April 6th 2017, after launching missiles in to Syria without congressional approval, President Trump called on “all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and...
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Jan 24, 2017
The Black Hack (Read)
This post is part of 12x2017: read + play 12 new RPGs in 2017. Turns out I set my self up for success to get started. The Black Hack is...
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Jul 9, 2014
D&D 5th Edition
This was going to be a series of posts on elements of D&D 5th edition, which just released (sort of), but they started seeming too interlinked. Instead I’ve put them...
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Mar 27, 2014
Mythos But Not
Apparently I’m not done with True Detective after last time. The thing that lodged in my head: if True Detective is a vein of the Cthulhu mythos, what else might...
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Mar 25, 2014
The Flat Circle
This was going to be a Google+ post about True Detective, The King in Yellow, Lovecraft, Cthulhu gaming, and Black Stars Rise, but it rapidly approached critical mass. So now...
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Oct 23, 2013
Black Stars Rise on Github
Between revisions on the Dungeon World supplement, I keep getting drawn back to Black Stars Rise. As this thing gains momentum, I decided it was time to start my development...
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Jul 10, 2013
Fiction & Story
There’s this discussion I keep seeing round Dungeon World. It boils down to this: is Dungeon World about telling a story? It’s not an easy topic, mostly because “story” seems...
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Apr 12, 2013
A Tabletop Gamer's Look At Pebble
I’m a hopeless early adopter. Around a year ago I backed the Pebble watch. As a backer, I got it for $100, and it’s now available to everyone for $150....
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Apr 10, 2013
Open Source D&D
This is another one of those big crazy ideas that I throw out their based on the best data I can have and some speculation. I don’t think I’m the...
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Feb 1, 2013
Formatting
We get games in a lot of formats these days: hardcover bricks, softcovers that look like mass-market books, box sets, PDFs, 4-page pamphlets, verbal descriptions, apps, videos of play. Many...
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Jan 30, 2013
Electronic RPG Tools
As we start working on the Dungeon World monster maker I’ve been thinking a lot about online tools for tabletop RPGs. The most obvious example is D&D Insider: what did...
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Jan 24, 2013
The D&D New World Order
Last week at work we had our bi-weekly gaming meetup. Usually we plan a game to play and discuss, but this time we chose a designer instead: Richard Garfield. While...
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Jan 22, 2013
D&D Classics
In case you haven’t heard, starting today Wizards of the Coast is selling PDFs of classic D&D material. Or, really, they’re selling them again. This isn’t the first time they’ve...
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May 15, 2012
A 16 HP Dragon
Over on the Dungeon World forums stras gave an example of play that completely describes why I care enough about DW to put all this effort into it: Azato, We’ve...
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Oct 15, 2010
Comparing the Editions: Principles
I’ve tried to extract Apocalypse World-style Principles for three distinct editions of D&D. How do they compare? Below I’ve compared all the principles I’ve drawn from Moldvay, 3E, and 4E....
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Oct 13, 2010
The Principles of D&D 3E
Principles are kind of my new thing, they’re a great way of actually putting instructions on how to run a game into the text. I’ve already taken a crack at...
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Oct 11, 2010
The Principles of D&D 4E
Apocalypse World has this brilliant way of presenting what the GM is to do at the table during a game. There are a few parts to that, but the one...
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Sep 28, 2010
The Principles of Moldvay D&D
Jonathan Walton took a look at what things from Burning Wheel might be called the Apocalypse World-style Principles of the game. I thought that was really interesting, as was Clyde’s...
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