After the first session of Godbound
The Holy Party has returned. The Monsterists believe that they return because of the pull of the Tarrasque, that the monsters they battle offer as many lessons and as much wisdom as the heroes. The...
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Review: Superman Volume 1. The Unity Saga: Phantom Earth
Bendis does a good job juggling the cosmic Silver Age vibe (THE ENTIRE EARTH IS TELEPORTED TO THE PHANTOM ZONE) and a down to earth family vibe (Clark talking to his son about responsibility and anger,...
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Making Cloroshaw
Step 1: Visit the Medieval City Generator Page Step 2: Add some numbers and letters. Paste pic. Step 3: I’d like us to make some stuff up. We’ll need some structure. A .The Griffon Gate Six things the...
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Travel in Trophy Gold Redux and Pretty
We played our third session of Trophy Gold last night and it is really fun. I thought I’d hate the tokens handed out in Hunt rolls but I’m enjoying the heck out of them. If a player doesn’t like that...
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Improvisational Worksheet: from Ep 55 of Daydreaming about Dragons
This is the improvisational worksheet mentioned in Episode 55 of Daydreaming about Dragons. It was made after talking to Janaki, trying to give structure to the ways I make things up on the move when...
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D&Dish: Questions to ask players about their character’s Strength, Dexterity,...
Asking good questions is such a big part of being a good librarian that it was a shock when Apocalypse World first made me really think about questions as a tool at the table. Of course gamers asked...
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Watching and Reading
Feels like I’m hip deep in things to read and watch about gaming today: Orion’s Statement Also a Tor article… Orion Interview on Analog Game Studies Go by Orion’s Amazing Games Here 3 Twitter Threads...
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The Nemesis System
The above video came out and reminded me of Austin Walker’s amazing article about this. Real Human Beings: Shadow of Mordor, Watch Dogs and the New NPC: And in the analog game space, one of the major...
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A Godbound Adventure: The Holy Party
It is a tale as old as polyhedrals – a group of delvers goes into a series of monster-haunted pits, gathers riches and turn their ambitions and expertise to the real world. You know where it goes from...
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Dreaming about Trollheim
Right before we headed out for a celebratory birthday dinner, Janaki saw the picture on the cover of the Cormyr sourcebook and said, “Are those goblins?” “I don’t think so. I think they are trolls.”...
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