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Planning in RPGs is not a fun activity, so don’t do it. Planning in RPGs is necessary so that we don’t get our characters killed. Both of those statements are true. The optimal way planning should work in your game is somewhere in the middle of those two statements. The optimal way is a combination

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Magic Like This: From the Sorcerer's Skull (sorcerersskull.blogspot.com)

 I'd like to see a traditional fantasy rpg with magic like this:Podmore picked up his fork and stood it on its end. Snaith stood, stepped over to the shelf behind Arthur’s head, and picked up a sharp knife. Moving by instinct, Arthur reached out and knocked over Snaith’s wine-glass. Snaith slipped o

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[This is a repost of something I wrote almost four years ago. Last night, I found myself thinking about space suits in science fiction RPGs and decided to write a post about it. As usual, I soon realized I'd done it before. Rather than abandon the idea, I thought I'd repost this, since its initial a

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I try to be entirely honest in my online posts. While I don’t talk about every aspect of my life (there’s a reason y’all don’t get pictures of my meals unless I have flavored with Mtn Dew something that should not be flavored with Mtn Dew); I am often open about my mental health struggles, my ongo

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Paizo released information on in-person and online events

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"The paramount collector of spells."

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This is a community submitted press release.Long ago, before our world, there was another.How much are you willing to invest in a world that is going to be destroyed? When you have already seen the end, been cursed with the prophets foresight, can you truly do your best to struggle against the force

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The upcoming 2nd edition of 13th Age updates the rules, tweaks the classes, gives lots of useful Icon-related advice – and murders the poor Orc Lord. It’s up to you how the Orc Lord perished in your campaign. The Eyes of the Stone Thief campaign does make quite a few references to the Orc Lord, but

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People are always looking for suggestions of GMless games to try, so I decided it was time to harness the collective brainpower and make a list. But not just a plain list of names: actual descriptions and recommendations from people who have played the game, so curious folks can decide for themselve

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This is a community submitted press release.EUphoria (can be alternatively pronounced as "EU", referring to the European Union or Europe* as a whole, and "phoria"), has announced its inauguration on 26 June as,Follow EUphoria on your social media platform of choice"A place dedicated to the best and

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There’s a new Bundle of Holding out with my work in it. Except instead of my previous contributions to the OSR Bundles, the whole bundle is all Dyson all the time. The complete bundle features both of my classic Dyson’s Delves books, the three annual cartographic reviews, three annual commercial

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We added condition rules to Fantasy AGE 2nd Edition and Cthulhu Awakens to simplify the various strange and alarming things that can happen to Player Characters, their friends, and their enemies. Slowed my magic? Confused by a psychic attack? Frightened by gore—or cosmic horror? These now have set

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The Summer Sale is now live on itch.io. All our paid supplements have 30% off individually, or the entire range can be bought for $59, reduced from $103.68. Click here to see them. The post Itch.io Summer Sale 2024 first appeared on Azukail Games.

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The new version of the Wizard in the 2024 Player's Handbook brings flexible spellcasting to a new level! Make better use of your spellbook, swap spells more easily, and specialize in certain magic schools with revised subclasses!

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A game master can be creative with weirdness. You can create completely new monsters, magic items, and adventure situations. Another way to be creative is to take the things we already have and use them in ways that subvert expectations while fitting within the constraints of the game rules and th

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Publisher and Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur is here to give you some insight on the state of the industry and the place of the Tales of the Valiant (ToV) RPG in it! So here we are, smack dab in the middle of a Golden Age in tabletop RPGs. There are more games than ever, with better support than

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This week’s TTRPG crowdfunding sampler includes projects that end between July 4 to 10.

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A Messy Toolbox: Bastionland Presser (bastionland.substack.com)

This Week’s post looks at some options for long-form play. One-off battles are fun in MAC Attack, but what if you want a campaign?Before writing anything resembling a campaign system I wanted to think about campaigns. I mean, what's the point in them?For me I look for a few things out of a campaign:

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 For those of you who are unsure about How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox, tomorrow, June 27th, the PDF version will be the Deal of the Day on DriveThruRPG. For 24 hours starting at 10 a.m. Central Time, the PDF will be $3 instead of the normal price of $14.99.  If you want print copies How to Make a Fan

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Peace Finally Comes: GROGNARDIA (grognardia.blogspot.com)

I've mentioned a couple of times previously that I'm currently playing in a Traveller campaign refereed by an old friend of mine. I first met this particular friend around 1990 through a Traveller fan organization known as the History of the Imperium Working Group (HIWG – pronounced Hi-Wig). HIWG's

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Motels are an iconic fixture of mid-20th century America, both as a roadside oasis offering relief to highway travelers and as quirky novelties for roadtripping families. I always imagined them somewhere coastal, such as Florida or southern California, their ocean blues and flamingo pinks dangling t

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Beneath Red Eagle Tower on the face of Longboat Mountain are the necessary dungeons for such a structure. These dungeons again show off the red stone of the mountain as the tower above (except the caves where the stone has darkened with age and exposure). Longboat Mountain – Red Eagle Dungeons (

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The Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game is here! PDF and VTT versions are available now! The Player’s Guide contains the classic fantasy people for player characters: elves, dwarves, and humans, and some new-school favorites like kobolds and sydereans. But there’s room for more kinds of people
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I’m aiming at a tongue-in-cheek topic. It describes war machines that barbarian or humanoid cultures would line up in battles, from single-pilot bloodrunners to colossal battlebeasts carrying siege weapons and shock troops. The article is written for D&D BECMI. Game stats and guidelines to incorpora

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The Creator Recognition In TTRPG (CRIT) Awards were set to hold their second annual celebration at Gen Con this August. That is, until June 24, when Ivy, the CRIT Awards organizer, stated via the CRIT Awards Twitter that the in-person ceremony would be “unable to return to Gen Con,” citing “safety c

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