It was OSE Month over at Backerkit and the theme was demons. Demons have a weird history in D&D. BECMI excluded them almost entirely, with only some odd creatures slipping through the barrier between systems. They were famously written out of AD&D 2nd Ed in an attempt to appease unappeasable people, then written back in …
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Emergency Blogpost: A Response to the Response
Like many others, I enjoy listening to the podcast Between Two Cairns. Their analysis of adventure design is fairly astute and their camaraderie is a comfort among the onslaught of other more edgy, false-outrage content. I send in questions now and then that are inspired by the show, and one of them was answered on …
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System Matters (plural noun, not verb)
Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, I’m going to keep going through some of the rules-oriented ones as they pertain to my Iron Fist of the Hobgoblin King setting. In our Sunday morning Ptolus game, we play things pretty much straight as written. At the moment, I’m …
Critical Exploders
Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, today I’m going to start going through some of the rules-oriented ones as they pertain to my Iron Fist of the Hobgoblin King setting. In our Sunday morning Ptolus game, we play things pretty much straight as written. At the moment, …
Reading Roundup
I'm still working on my 5e movement and chase mechanics post, so here's what I've been reading to bridge the gap. The New Mutants: I read through the Renewal Epic Collection and was surprised by how good it was. I honestly think it's on par with the X-Men books of that era. Christ Claremont was …
Proving Grounds of Folkvangr 
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