That’s just good scientific technique
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Saw it for the first time a couple of months ago. Haunting.
Now with each chapter beautifully recorded by DM Jon of @3d6downtheline.com ! Learn with your eyeballs or ears or both!
Nice read and especially good discussion on the clever use of a 1st level spell.
But looking at the amount of adventure with *just* 25 hexes- 5x5!
Also, the pressure of needing money creating a low-level basic need of the party
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Hey! Appreciate seeing the connection to ICI.
Hands, moving as if by their own volition, select “columns have headers”— I weep uncontrollably as the cells arrange themselves with ease now.
The disgust I feel when I realize that maybe keying a dungeon via Excel tables might help with reviewing things like treasure amount and monster variety
You leave Nacmyth’c Sallu alone!
Well.. this is why you have to use the 3-clues rule.
I blog about converting the “declare spells” step in an encounter into a broader “declare actions” as a way to provide a space for action novelty and set the stakes for the initiative roll: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/decl...
For International Woman’s Day, 28-MAG (covering the “Inq28” scene) put out a great set of issues collected here for free: 28-mag.com#iwd-issues
Whipped up some toothpick cacti for some more #oldhammer next week! Gosh, it’s just so fun!!
I can see a world where someone fully trains an LLM to write a new RPG based on my CC-BY-SA text, then spits out the result with a closed license.
This is already possible of course (mechanics can't be copyrighted) but it still is very anti-social behavior.
He’s there to pump everyone up
the stop motion skeleton warrior is one of the best gifts that film has bestowed on us
Make a poison save...
Back of the box:
Did anyone else have a friend with this game, Battle Masters?
Big fan of play reports because they help others understand one way of making D&D "go", demonstrate where the energy is located in certain modules or adventure styles, or (in the case of old-school D&D) how quirky facets are navigated.
“Government grant funding was abysmal and honestly the work was interesting on an abstract level!”
Same but I’m the research goon working for Dr Conners or Mr Freeze
As someone who spent many hours over Halo:Reach, Left 4 Dead, and Battlefield, I dig this.
Classic! I’ve pull similar wins in B’Tech. Always a good time!
📷: Lori Pond: Bosch Redux
Great post from a great blogger.
If I could add one thing, it would be to *read* more blogs as well. I have been in a bit of a reading slump for a while, and getting out of it, it is amazing how much it inspires me to write. If nothing else, because I see something I disagree with and must respond
I reflect on the 2026 Bloggies, blogging in general, & what inspired the posts featured this year: icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/03/pond...
Appreciate it!
Appreciate it!
