Rather than slowly recover these posts one-by-one, separating them out from their main topics and apologetic framing, I just put all of them here in| beast.blot.im
As I find myself thinking about minimal game structures, I keep coming back to the elegance of this setup. So I thought to bump it up the recovery| beast.blot.im
Into the Odd is my one-shot game of choice. It has just enough of everything. Just enough mechanics, just enough character, just enough world. I| beast.blot.im
The adventure I spent the most time with this year was Skerples’ Tomb of the Serpent Kings (TotSK), running it for a group of 5e players. I also| beast.blot.im
For a while now,1 I’ve been dreaming of a maritime campaign, so I jumped on Weird on the Waves a year or so ago. It’s finally out, and it’s OK I| beast.blot.im
I’ve been running D&D 5e for a group of remote friends recently. These are the “house rules” that I’ve adopted to make things go smoother, or at| beast.blot.im
Dan D. at Throne of Salt requests from the jackalope: d6 Chuckleheads you have to deal with from the local wizard mafia This should be easy:| beast.blot.im
On 20 Feb 2020, PlanetNiles (Ey/Em) NB on the workshop channel of the OSR Discord asked:1 7d6, split between two attributes One way to think| beast.blot.im
In many editions of D&D, everyone learns a handful of languages at character creation, and then either never thinks about them again or never has| beast.blot.im
On 7 Feb 2020, diregrizzlybear on the GLOG channel of the OSR Discord asked:1 5d6 but only count straights and matching. One solution might be to| beast.blot.im
I spent a lot of my time in 2019 solving little problems and coming up with ideas on various forums and Discord servers. With this collected post,| beast.blot.im
Apparently Zak S is an abusive PoS (CW: abuse, sexual violence, violence).(2024: Dead link, sorry.) Later today he is planning to make a statement,| beast.blot.im
Rival adventuring parties are a classic device. But if I expect one to appear more than once, I’d like to make it an explicit foil to the party,| beast.blot.im