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Recently, Project Gutenberg added a new feature. Can you spot it? Let’s look at Moby-Dick: Summaries! But there’s something off about them…| beast.blot.im
Recently, Project Gutenberg added a new feature. Can you spot it? Let’s look at Moby-Dick: Summaries! But there’s something off about them…| 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
Let’s make some magic. Let’s do some divination. Let’s play pastamancy.1 “Little Waterfalls.” Cascatelli were developed in 2019 by podcaster Dan| 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
Itinerarium is a daily solo walking RPG that I wrote in March when I was thinking of game mechanics to “explode” for the Game Exploder Jam. In the| 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
I’ve put a lot of thought into this series, but I never developed it into a coherent vision. There are a few reasons for this, which I’ll lay out| 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
As an area for role-playing, “language” is both rich in potential and generally underutilized in D&D-like games. I’m not the first to observe this,| 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
I recently released Palace Run Remastered as an entry into the Disc 2 TTRPG Jam. There are plenty of free “community copies,” and you should feel| beast.blot.im
I promised my players I would “concoct some suitable fable” about atomic bees. It’s not great prose, but I think it’s functional. I didn’t find a| beast.blot.im
The cat’s claw in my tongue. My snoozed reminders. Select units of time by increasing duration. Millisecond (ms). seconds. Jiffy. Variably small,| 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
This is my entry into Anne’s Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. I don’t have my old Lego handy, so I’ve had to make do with images I could find online.| beast.blot.im
It’s no secret that I have been low-key obsessed with Richard Kelly’s Rod, Reel, & Fist. So when the Game Exploder Game Jam suggested: Want to turn| beast.blot.im
The meatballs in my gazpacho. Maybe you can find a better place for them. Vampires, as agents of chaos, stand opposite the Hounds of Tindalos. They| beast.blot.im
Were you a professional in a shop with kit and space enough and time, you could extract every coin of value from this carcass. But instead, you’re| 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
W.F. Smith of Prismatic Wasteland challenges everyone to describe a novel resolution mechanic, name it, and blog it. I want a fighting mechanic| beast.blot.im
I’m still very pleased with my first attempt at a minigame. But it didn’t feel like a minigame when I played it. It felt like every other procedural| beast.blot.im
The files for Bloodring remain as unencumbered as I can make them, but if you’re willing to download them from itch.io instead, it’ll make the| beast.blot.im
Returning to my example tracking system in the catacombs. Several bits of feedback were gathered from playtesting and some weaknesses became| 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
