Rise Up Comus: The North Moors - Middle-earth Hexmap Project
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The North Moors ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The North Moors ...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
I have gone on record as saying that making a megadungeon is fun and easy. I wrote a book about it. But I have good news. It's even easier...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
During my weekly game, I have been running a magical school game using His Majesty the Worm. Following my copy and paste manifesto ethos , I...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. In this entry, t...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
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...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series.| Rise Up Comus
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series.| 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
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.| Rise Up Comus
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
Weird Writer's prep post has started a bandwagon. I have enjoyed reading people's various modes of prep.| 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 Majesty the Worm. Because this essay isn't published anywhere else, they gave me permission to link to it from here.| Rise Up Comus
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
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 never got around to really exploring the idea fully. I still think it has merit, though, so I'm going to post it here in hopes that either a) blog dialectics will transfer the idea to someone more productive or b) I will return to it in time.| Rise Up Comus
An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series.| 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 practica...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
I love the Brothers Hildebrandt "You cannot have a meaningful campaign if strict time records are not kept." - Gary Gygax, Dungeon Mas...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
When Warren first had the idea of an Appendix N blog bandwagon , I thought I'd skip it. His Majesty the Worm has an Appendix N section (Dun...| riseupcomus.blogspot.com
I reread The Lord of the Rings most years, and have done so since I was 12. As I was reading it this year, I was thinking about the physicality of journeys and exploration embodied by the books, even in the early chapters. It is a book about journeys: walking through your home country, taking shortcuts, getting water from a stream, repacking your bags for weight distribution, avoiding roads, finding river crossings, and so on. As ever, I was wondering how to reflect this experience at the gam...| Rise Up Comus
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
Eraserhead, 1997| 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
