Rise Up Comus: Building layouts with cards
Here is a technique I used to create the map(s) for my upcoming dungeon, The Castle Automatic. I think it has merit, and I think you should ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
Here is a technique I used to create the map(s) for my upcoming dungeon, The Castle Automatic. I think it has merit, and I think you should ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
Here's a GMing tip. When a combatant reaches 0 HP (or 0 HD in His Majesty the Worm), ask the player who struck the final blow: "How do you vanquish this foe?"| Rise Up Comus
I have a weird relationship with safety tools. On the one hand, I absolutely see their usefulness and think they are important for a certain...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
The advice here was written for a side project I struck up work on this week called The Manse of Bad Memories. After chewing on what "horro...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
I posted my blog post, 10 Reasons Why the Guild has a Partial Map , on Prismatic Wisdom's Discord (as is my wont). Then I went to go get a...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
Moria: Through the Doors of Durin for The One Ring 2E recently won Gold for Product of the Year in the 2025 ENNIES. I am interested in TTRPGs based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I thought it would be interesting for me to look into how Moria has been represented in roleplaying games. | Rise Up Comus
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I am flabbergasted (my ghast is flabbered) to have His Majesty the Worm nominated for a 2025 ENNIE award for both Best Rules and Best Game ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
His Majesty the Worm advocates for the GM to give the players a copy of the dungeon map. In my opinion, this is all positives and practically no negatives. | Rise Up Comus
Technical writing is a profession that is literally hundreds of years old at this point. Interestingly, the essential techniques and fundamental best practices haven't changed very much over the years, even as we have transitioned into digital-first media. | Rise Up Comus
Click the pic to get the dungeon!| Rise Up Comus
As you might know, ENNIES voting is currently ongoing. HIS MAJESTY THE WORM is up for both BEST GAME and BEST RULES.| Rise Up Comus
The Bare Bones Roll under your attributes to succeed in a check. If a skill would be relevant for a check, add +2 to the attribute be...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
In games I write, I tend to be pretty uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Reddit neckbeardy about religion (despite being a somewhat religious person). There ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
The early history of D&D is pretty interesting. If you haven't yet, listen to When We Were Wizards. The dramas that play out in the "hobby with friends -> business -> multimillion dollar industry" are almost mythological in their parallelisms and ironic twists.| Rise Up Comus
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At my day job, I’m a technical writer. In the evenings, I blog about RPG stuff. I am combining these professional interests into this series: I am using my career of instructional design to tell you how I play games. This makes me the most boring person alive.| Rise Up Comus
User castella on the Worm discord did a great write up of the different ways a monster can inflict harm and setbacks to adventurers in His ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
Weird Writer's prep post has started a bandwagon. I have enjoyed reading people's various modes of prep.| Rise Up Comus
I had this "aha" moment a few weeks ago, sketched it out, and shared it. Unfortunately, that drained all the endorphins out of it, and I nev...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
The cockroachatrice is, like all animals with a stupid name, the result of a wizard's bad sense of humor. Goddamn, those idiots ruin everything.| Rise Up Comus
A while back, I wrote about the tensions between wanting no homework and settings with rich lore (and some potential solutions). Today, I'll...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
I don't think I'm the first person to make this observation (as an OSR blogger, I almost never am), but it occurred to me today how useful the saving throw names are for communicating the kinds of challenges your character will face in the game. | Rise Up Comus
I have gone on record as saying that making a megadungeon is fun and easy. I wrote a book about it. | Rise Up Comus
I assume the Venn diagram of "people who read my blog" and "people who have already backed the Knock! Kickstarter" is a perfect circle, but if not, I wanted to say (shout! scream!) that the campaign for Knock! #5 campaign is one week from completion!| Rise Up Comus
I really do believe that indie games live and die by their third-party support. Mothership is probably the best in the business with this r...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
My colleague, Warren at ICastLight, posited that we can embed short-term memory into tables like your encounter table to create a more dynamic or interesting engine for exploration.| Rise Up Comus
As Dan pointed out in his post, the cleric's Turn Undead ability says something about the default setting of D&D: there are undead here. Indeed, for this to be a core class core ability, there has to be a lot of them. Barrows teaming with draugr. Unquiet ghosts lingering near their graves in cemeteries. Abandoned castles ruled by a vampire lord and his brides.| Rise Up Comus
