Blogs about Role-playing games
21 blogs about Role-playing games.
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Adventures in Parn
By Etna. 🇺🇸Updated
Playable Skaven Class for Lamentations of the Flame Princess As usual, I wanted a Skaven class for LotFP, as I have a ton of Skaven miniatures. This allows players to pick a Skaven PC, or create leveled Skaven NPCs if you so wish.Class features:High …
Feed Roughly 10 posts per year. Started in .
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Aiee! Run From Kelvin's Brainsplurge!
“I'm Kelvin Green. I sometimes draw. I sometimes write. I'm trying to get better at both.” 🇬🇧Updated
Nice(r) Belt Buckle Prompted by the recap at House to Astonish -- in particular the glowing praise of George Perez's last hurrah as penciller on the Avengers main title -- I dug out my copies of "The Nefaria …
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The Alexandrian
“…designed not only to be a site of news and updates, but also as a repository: Here you’ll find my reviews, my politics, my stories, and my thoughts.” By Justin Alexander. 🇺🇸Updated
Random D&D Tip – Inverting Challenge Let’s talk about encounter balance. A common misconception is that the challenge rating system in D&D is meant to guarantee specific encounter outcomes: The CR = X, therefore the encounter will end with precisely Y …
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ars ludi
“if you asked Ben's brain about gaming, this is what it would say.” By Ben Robbins.Updated
Damage Per Second I was playing Sentinels with the usual crew, and my buddy was playing a character that could play a card to let them play a card to let them play a card, etc. Each turn …
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Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository
“An abode to share artifacts, simulacra, histories, and other items of note related to ongoing years adventuring.” By Matrox Lusch. 🇺🇸Updated
Pig Faced Ork Con 2023! If you are down in So-Cal I highly recommend the Pig Faced Ork Old School Role Playing Game Convention set for Saturday October 21, 2023. This Fresno, CA area convention is a one-day gig in …
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Dreams in the Lich House
“A blog about Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, and fantasy and horror gaming.” By John Arendt.Updated
The Strigoi - Vampire Alternative for LOTFP Zombies? Nope - vampires! The Strain.To quote my teenage daughter, I've become "low-key obsessed" with Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain. I binge watched the four season TV series on Hulu, and am working my way …
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Failure Tolerated
By Sean McCoy.Updated
Thinking about Safety Tools in RPGs I wrote up a thread recently about safety tools in ttRPGs/mothership, but I wanted to archive it here for future reference and expand on it a little bit. Let’s get into it: I’m working on …
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Who knew adding/subtracting dice does not change the probability profile (well not me I guess) UPDATE – Reddit said this better: “I think more precisely, flipping the sign of a die doesn’t change the distribution, just the offset” I have to admit my brain did not intuitively grasp the below …
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The Indie Game Reading Club
“Deep reads, play analysis, reviews and everything else about small press roleplaying today.” By Paul Beakley.Updated
Actual Play: a|state (part 9 of 9) This is it, our grand finale. Thank you for reading! If you’ve just run into this one somehow, this is an edited version of my actual play reports of a|state I wrote for our Slack …
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The Levellers
By Dan Q, John Trevor-Allen, Simon Gilbert-Hague, Alec Richardson, Matt Payne, Matt Reynolds. 🇬🇧Updated
73. Finger-Pointing Driving their damaged vehicle down from the plateau, Contra-Disward towards the banks of the Styx, the Levellers soon spotted what they’d been looking for. At the bottom of a steep incline, run aground on a …
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Numbered Works — Notes
“Making adventures, games, art, toys, music, objects.” 🇦🇺Updated
Dungeon23 03 The Hex Garden Encounters Three inductees in vivid butterfly robes, gardening. Brilliant, giant butterfly, fluttering above the chapel. Hex Priest. Two furred, swift, small humanoids, stealing figs. Giant caterpillar, feeding on the nearest green leaf. …
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Playing D&D With Porn Stars
“Zak S / Zak Smith / Zak Sabbath playing diy D&D … notes on playing RPGs w/fellow porn performers.” 🇺🇸Updated
I'm Going To Break Some News About The New Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game As far as I know--nobody knows what I'm about to write but me and the chain of people who got it to me, so it's breaking news.There's a new Marvel superhero RPG. Though playtest kits …
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Professional NPC
“Human by day, Dungeon Master by night.” By Simon Tsevelev. 🇺🇦Updated
All Dogs Go To Hell So it was like this. James Raggi, in his wisdom, decided to make a free adventure for Gencon to go with the LotFP catalog. Since he had a lot on his plate (he brought, like, …
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Project Work by Shane Preece
“Board game and Dungeons and Dragons development.” 🇬🇧Updated
What brings you here? Helping players buy in to your game. If you’re running a one shot, it’s more than okay to drop your PC’s at the entrance to a dungeon and forcibly push them in. On more long lived games though, you’ll want to make …
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Rolltop Indigo
“The Blue Room Blog: RPGs, Fantasy Cartography, Cooking, Fonts, Stuff.” By S. John Ross. 🇺🇸Updated
Flavors of Presumption It’s time for another dip into the RPG Lexicon, where I explore the terms I use (for the concepts I need) to design RPG stuff. If you’re new to this peculiar series, you can check …
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Save vs. Total Party Kill
“This is a blog about D&D.” By Ramanan Sivaranjan. 🇨🇦Updated
The Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2023 2022 was a slog from beginning to end. I was glad to be done with that year. Whenever my mood is sour I end up spending too much money: they call it retail therapy. My …
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Sly Flourish: Helping Dungeon Masters run great D&D games.
“Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for the ffth edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.” By Michael E. Shea.Updated
Share PDFs With Your Players There are times when we're running our RPGs where we want to be able to share PDFs of game materials with our players. Maybe we're including 5e published material not available on D&D Beyond. Maybe …
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Spooky Rusty
“A blog dedicated to Weird RPGs.” 🇺🇸Updated
babbling plasma; a troika city story, chapter 2 before you hit play (the audiobook is only available on my substack, or read chapter 2 or go back and read and/or listen to chapter 1)i want to mention something first…my friend Bolt-Neck Opossum (featured …
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tenfootpole.org
“I bought these adventure and review them so you don't have to.” By Bryce Lynch. 🇺🇸Updated ⚠️️
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Down in Yon Forest By Zzarchov Kowolski Self Published NGR/OSR Level ? Down in Yon Forest is a seasonal adventure about a small town dealing with the threat of Krampus and torn between the Holy Church and the Old …
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Throne of Salt
“Many Fantastic Things.” By Dan.Updated
Bookpost 14 Previous installments found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10 , 11, 12, 13 The Wizard Knight, Gene WolfeDNF 524/909It feels like something impossible has happened. But I guess they …
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