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Most of the participants of LFGcon SESSION 2!

Most of the participants of LFGcon SESSION 2!

My Mythic Bastionland table

My Mythic Bastionland table

LFGcon SESSION 2's Consignment Table

LFGcon SESSION 2's Consignment Table

Was busy with my local community, organizing our second TTRPG con. The Indonesian scene did not disappoint ❤️

8 games: AGON, Cyberpunk RED, D&D 5.5e, Daggerheart, DCC, Dialect, Mythic Bastionland, and Troika!. I ran Mythic Bastionland.

And we also had consignment table for local creators!

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WELCOME TO TOMODACHI LIFE CUNO

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The Long Read: Mausritter A long first look at Mausritter

What's better than a small game about being mice? A long thread about a small game about being mice, transposed onto a blog.*

*It's not actally better but you should read my long read of Mausritter anyway: https://loottheroom.uk/the-long-read-mausritter

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Chain Stocking the Hex Map — Prismatic Wasteland A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracle dice.

Bluesky CENSORED me yesterday by just fucking up and not working, but here is a new blog post where I propose a procedural method for generating hexcrawl terrain, inspired by both Mausritter and the original DMG
#osr #ttrpg

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Quick Stakes For Tense Situations Quickly create and adjudicate tense situations.

Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form!

Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie)

www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...

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From Mr. 2026 Bloggies himself. A must read for TTRPG Gamemasters out there!

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Fullstack Refereeing A framework for thinking about refereeing as Backend, Frontend, and Runtime, so you can diagnose play problems instead of solving the wrong ones.

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.

I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!

elmc.at/fullstack-re...

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Playing Alone Together My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.

Last week, @the-soloist.itch.io published my essay "Playing Alone Together" about my experience running solo rpgs for groups at Breakout Con. With permission, I'm reposting it in my own newsletter plus a little nugget of my own, where I give my "nutshell" take on how solo RPGs are never truly solo.

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the zine cover for Orestruck,black with a bony bug, aman with a torch inside the cave mouth

the zine cover for Orestruck,black with a bony bug, aman with a torch inside the cave mouth

the cover for eternal empress. faux vintage cover effect depicting a building with arches, pink text reads “Amanda P The Eternal Empress”

the cover for eternal empress. faux vintage cover effect depicting a building with arches, pink text reads “Amanda P The Eternal Empress”

Hello new followers. I am Amanda P. and I write adventures for roleplaying games including Cairn, OSE, and Mothership. I wrote a solo journaling game called Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard.

You can check out my work at my website, as well as:

weirdwonder.itch.io

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

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Cover of Bastion Elysium. An Electric Bastionland adventure for 3–5 players. The cover shows an apartment building with several silhouettes and a burning corpse.

Cover of Bastion Elysium. An Electric Bastionland adventure for 3–5 players. The cover shows an apartment building with several silhouettes and a burning corpse.

BASTION ELYSIUM

An Electric Bastionland apartment crawl adventure for 3–5 players. What if Disco Elysium were set entirely in an apartment building?

Coming soon!

Cover art by Citaaticat

#osr #ttrpg

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You'll have to see! 👀

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🚨TWO TASTES THAT GO GREAT TOGETHER ALERT🚨

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Let's freaking go!

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Cover of Bastion Elysium. An Electric Bastionland adventure for 3–5 players. The cover shows an apartment building with several silhouettes and a burning corpse.

Cover of Bastion Elysium. An Electric Bastionland adventure for 3–5 players. The cover shows an apartment building with several silhouettes and a burning corpse.

BASTION ELYSIUM

An Electric Bastionland apartment crawl adventure for 3–5 players. What if Disco Elysium were set entirely in an apartment building?

Coming soon!

Cover art by Citaaticat

#osr #ttrpg

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Developing the Sandbox: The Town This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here . The series will, when necessary, go ...

Continuing my series on developing your D&D sandbox. This week: the Town. I talk racial demographics, numbers of character-type NPCs, henchmen, stronghold-ruling, faction-controlling high level NPCs, inter-faction intrigue, districts, & random encounter tables. #D&D #AD&D #OSR

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Streamlining Hit Locations Fast and deadly combat with hit locations

I love combat systems with hit locations. The only thing better than kicking someone off a ledge is taking off their arm.

BUT they're always so fiddly! I'd love to use hit locations in an OSR game. So here's a little system with a new combat resolution scheme.

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5 Rpg Ideas from Urban Design Urban design is the art and science of shaping urban spaces. Let's steal from it.

I've been re-reading a lot of books on urbanism lately. It's going to be hard not making this profile all about urban design.

www.explorersdesign.com/5-urban-desi...

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Death Has Come to This Town by Binary Star Games

A revised version, more refined and complete with layout, is now available.

binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...

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just played The Chair by @emo-sludge.com in Liminal Horror! with @apoleen.bsky.social as Facilitator and @isaacisafraid.bsky.social

i was playing James Hurley expy lol

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Front page of the trifold going over the basics, D&D, APs and VTTs

Front page of the trifold going over the basics, D&D, APs and VTTs

Back page of the pamphlet going over dice and some other game recommendations

Back page of the pamphlet going over dice and some other game recommendations

The final version of my "What the Heck is a TTRPG?" trifold is available completely free on my itchio! Perfect for those looking to get a basic understanding of the hobby or branch out into new games ~ (((Thank you to everyone who gave feedback!))

sandroad.itch.io/what-the-hec...

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Hi #TTRPG #OSR #DnD people - I am looking for cartography/illustration work in May! If you're looking for maps for your adventure module, or for your home game, send me an email at matthews.rj@gmail.com!

My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!

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As the Stonetop #TTRPG team are not on social media...

The final proof has arrived and met satisfaction.
It has been placed on the edge of the woods as an offering to tempt the Forest Folk back.

Let us be good neighbors.

Preorder your copy at ttrpg.link/stonetop

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Play Is Canon — Prismatic Wasteland What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in play, rather than what is m...

Here's how I like to run a campaign in an established setting: I kill Luke Skywalker. I find a load-bearing character and kill them in the first session.

The player characters are the Marty McFly of their universe. The moment they drop in, the timeline changes.

Other thoughts on canon by Pris:

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Play Is Canon — Prismatic Wasteland What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in play, rather than what is m...

New Blogpost: Play Is Canon
What are the sources of "truth" about the world of your tabletop setting? For me, the paramount truth derives from play itself. This is my synthesis of blorb and anti-canon.
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Essay: The GM Is Dead In Firebrands, The GM Is Dead.

Here is a blog post that I wrote with a friend titled "The GM is Dead."

It asks: If we can describe some GMless games as "GMful," how might we describe games like Firebrands?

The post is super short (4 min read), and I think we hit on something interesting despite the brevity.

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Well, I finally broke down and made hardcover versions of the Cairn 2e Warden's Guide. It looks pretty good! You can get it from Lulu right now, or you can wait for it to show up on DTRPG.

www.lulu.com/shop/yochai-...

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