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Welcome to my blog . Here I intend to think about tabletop roleplaying games and perhaps provide some resources for players and GMs. A fundamental principle ...| Advantage on Arcana
Welcome to my blog . Here I intend to think about tabletop roleplaying games and perhaps provide some resources for players and GMs. A fundamental principle ...| Advantage on Arcana
Horror games are not what I run most often, but from time to time I run games, or adaptations of setting lore. In fact, it's become a bit of an annual tra...| Advantage on Arcana
In a previous Lakelands post, I discuss a central tension that animates the setting, one which rejects both hope and cynicism. To a significant extent that tension is just a question of realism...| Advantage on Arcana
For September's RPG Blog Carnival, host WobbleRocket at his eponymous blog chose the topic Magic Stones. Among possible examples...| Advantage on Arcana
A Lakelands setting post| Advantage on Arcana
Not many years after the Arrival, an Unbound named the Hallowed Instar gathered a small team of scientists in an Illinois university laboratory and...| Advantage on Arcana
A few months ago in one of my anthology sessions I had an opportunity to use the flickers, a magical disease I homebrewed. I thought it went quite well. ...| Advantage on Arcana
My intention is for two central tensions to animate the Lakelands setting. This post will lay out the first of these tensions, which I think of as...| Advantage on Arcana
At , Scot Newbury chose as the topic of August 2025's , immediately after announced the . I know it might not seem it, but this is a bit of a coincidence; ...| Advantage on Arcana
Much of the wildlife in the Lakelands has not changed since the Arrival: beavers still industriously dam rivers, ducks migrate seasonally, and bumblebees sleep in flowers. However, the substantial decrease in human development has had a number of effects. Feral populations of once-domestic animals have established themselves here and there: colonies of cats, packs of dogs, sounders of pigs, flocks of chickens and goats, gaggles of geese, and herds of cattle, horses, and llamas have all found ...| Advantage on Arcana
Prismatic Wasteland, perhaps on behalf of Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy, has announced an Appendix N (or other letter) blog bandwagon. An Appendix N, I only recently learned, is a list of works that a TTRPG takes inspiration from, so named for the Appendix N in an early edition of Dungeons & Dragons. As it happens, I already have a list of non-fiction works that influence my playing and writing; it makes enough sense to make a list of fiction influences, too.| Advantage on Arcana
What is it, to be human? From a biological standpoi...| Advantage on Arcana
While working on my "" post, part of the "" RPG blog carnival at , I had an idea for a random table to generate magic trades that might be available in a cit...| Advantage on Arcana
I. I want to take another run at what I was trying to figure out in "." I'm going to use Matthew A Olson's "" as a pretext to do it, because I've realized...| Advantage on Arcana
Magic shops, that staple of high fantasy campaigns, can be controversial in the hobby. On the one hand, in all but the most magi-tech of settings, magic shop...| Advantage on Arcana
