Last call for this month's blog theme: Over the Garden Wall - Beyond the OSR. Herein I briefly muse on why we should consider playing more games like the Fellowship, with immortal wizards & warrior-kings alongside plucky hobbits.
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Unbounded successes (exploding dice or multiple hits on max result etc) would also help to keep even small dice pools in the running for “full success” levels of picks. Fun middle ground of specificity between PbtA and FitD.
This is not a drill! Cinematic roleplaying Double Feature: what can Paint the Scene and the Unscene bring to *your* adventure gaming table? RPG Blog Carnival for Mad March is "Over the Garden Wall - Beyond the OSR"
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RPG Blog Carnival theme for Mad March is "Over the Garden Wall - Beyond the OSR" - and this is part 1 of a miniseries on story-game techniques that are battle-ready to be deployed in your very next adventure game session!
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Illusory Sensorium is proudly hosting the RPG Blog Carnival for March: Over the Garden Wall - Beyond the OSR. I want to hear YOUR voice join the chorus!
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Stone Soup - let's manifest this tulpa, and communally build our own public domain DIY-elfgame, out of rough-and-ready one page bi-fold (A5) zinis:
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I hadn’t thought of this - but love your proposal that undead level drain might alter reality and undo your reputation and great deeds - severing you from the world.
To twist the otherwise spent quote by Voltaire: with great responsibility comes great power.
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What if instead of those musty spellbooks, living spells must be borne?
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My riff on "Beyond Vancian Magic" for this month's #RPGBlogCarnival #OSR