#13thAge artist Lee Moyer has a 364-page graphic novel on pre-order sale at Barnes&Noble. Lee is the *writer* and painter of Trident of Aurelia, and today the code PREORDER25 gets you a 25% discount when the book releases later this year. tinyurl.com/52bhwuzs

In @robheinsoo.bsky.social's Arduin campaign, we revisited themes from a previous Arduin campaign: a bridge and an unopened box. We fought to bear the box across the bridge against phraints & knoblins. Rob used standees from the Vault of Mini Things (Tinkerhouse). When we finally opened the box, 1/2

Loved this map when @jonathantweet.bsky.social used it as the city we were defending in his Mighty Ones game! Enough transpired that I plan to fold Bombasharna into my 13th Arduin game.

Melee's daggers might have been on my mind when we did 13th Age. Not the grappling element, but 13A says that when rogues use daggers, they do just as much damage as a fighter with a longsword.

Jonathan's Yenzdillian 'magic-user' presents as a member of the jaded old-magic power-group, the icon organization called Old Talismonde. Now that Yenz is 3rd level we should refer to him as a Conjurer!

The campaign has a couple names. 13th-Arduin pegs the system and the world. Arduin Blessed Arduin puts new spin on Hargrave's bloodier-sounding original, and the original meaning of blessed brings back the blood.

Just ran my first session of @pelgranepress.bsky.social @robheinsoo.bsky.social @jonathantweet.bsky.social 13th Age SECOND EDITION. Absolutely fantastic system, and the upgrades to 2e really add to the excitement in combats - but don't take my word for it, you'll be able to watch it soon!

Final session. After the party's failure to liberate the angels last session, the forces of the rogue prince were in retreat. The party was tasked to guard a shine: a round building (yellow w green top), raised outer walkway (green), stairway & blocked door (black), and barrels for cover (d12s). 1/n

The part that Jonathan left out of this write-up was the pre-combat bizarre/wonderful philosophical argument between three sailors about infinity, the sea, and whether a ship alone was real or could be certain of its existence given the vastness overwhelming it. Rosencormac & GuildenMcCarthy.

Mutants & Masterminds Fourth Edition to Launch on Kickstarter February 3rd The next chapter of superhero roleplaying begins! Streamlined rules and all-new art, Mutants & Masterminds Fourth Edition is ready to rise—sign up to be n

We are launching a Kickstarter for the 4th Edition of Mutants & Masterminds next Tuesday, Feb 3. See this article for more info and follow the link there to sign up to be notified at launch. Please reskeet and tell your friends that M&M 4E is coming!
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I was a guest on The Tome Show with @dandillon.bsky.social as we took monster lore and blew it up into an adventure. Who am I kidding? It was an ultroloth and I'd say it blew up a campaign: tinyurl.com/yy2a4tr9

It's true that if Jonathan uses those exact words, no way is it gonna be safe. But in the cause of good GMing, he does occasionally break character to assure us "No, really, serious now, it's safe, you don't have to take all the precautions and roleplay security procedures. This isn't an ambush."

Sita Rutu Karu Tuleb That’s one of two Estonian phrases my father taught me in the last few years of his life. He’d been weirdly reinvigorated by the Russian i...

A blog on my dad's favorite Estonian sayings and their relevance to European and US politics. tinyurl.com/ykzkdcwf

No, it was your abandoned baby. Which sounds a lot worse than it was. You know what I mean.

The plan for the screen surfaced in the first serious conversation I had with Lee Moyer about him working on 2nd Edition. I was driving on the highway and stopped for coffee. Told Lee the Orc Lord was dead, and Lee instantly proposed 12 golden icon silhouettes on the GM screen. Voila!

Articles Needed: In My Dragon Empire Work on Issue 12 is ready to begin, now that we've completed Issue 11. This issue is dedicated to a popular phrase in 13th Age social media ...

Work on the next issue of Escalation is underway: In My Dragon Empire. We dedicate this issue to the ways your Dragon Empire, the default setting for 13th Age, is unique!

For more info on what we're looking for check out this post: escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/11/arti...
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Will you revise the Fortress or are we talking Skullforge Ruins?

What was perfect was that you'd settled on using that die for a game mechanic that was all about rolling 5s and 6s.

"Now with a soft map" wasn't a slogan I'd considered!

I haven't held a copy of the Escalation die yet. It's BIG.

13th Age 2Eboxed set

Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E.

First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1

13th Age 2E Round-up: It’s Shipping! I got both the deluxe versions of the Heroes’ Handbook and Gamemaster’s Guide and The Art of 13th Age in the mail on Wednesday. I took t...

Like it says on the tin, this is about 13th Age 2E shipping, and also about the '13th Arduin' game I'm running for fun, and about the updated resource pages on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social website . . . tinyurl.com/ycy93kw5

Beyond D&D: A Complete RPG Guided Tour Through Tabletop Design Philosophies I’ve created this guided tour for GMs and players who’ve played D&D and want to explore what else tabletop RPGs can do. It features 12 games arranged in a specific sequence, designed to show th…

Here's an interesting blog post about RPGs other the D&D, what they do, and how different systems support and demand different sorts of play. Thirty years ago, this is what I wanted to see one day: lots of story-oriented RPGs on the shelves.

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Late in the Elysombra campaign, when Jonathan expected to TPK us because the PCs were going to a Font of Undeath, despite being warned away, he ran around WotC collecting as many giant NIghtwalker 'minis' as he could. Something like 11 or 13. Impressive. But we player-charactered-it and won anyway!

Skill & Strategy in Legendary: Game of Thrones Despite the subject line, today’s blog is not a strategy guide! Instead, it’s a look at a couple of cards from the about-to-release Legendar...

Notes on translating a superhero game's terminology into something that works better for GRR Martin's swords and subterfuge stories. tinyurl.com/r3thmw4z

Legendary: Game of Thrones, Releasing Soon as a Cutthroat Card Game I love the Legendary deck-building game designed by Devin Low! Lisa and I were in the same city as Devin when he made the original edition,...

A new card game I designed is coming out from Upper Deck in the next couple weeks! tinyurl.com/2vp4yevb

City of Bones: a Wonderful Martha Wells Novel The success of Martha Wells Murderbot stories has reopened the window for well-supported publication for some of her earlier books! One of...

I love Martha Wells' book CITY OF BONES, and by the end of this blog I'm searching for a word I'm not sure exists to describe its evocation of place. tinyurl.com/y9c4dey5

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