Agreeable Chatter

@caelreader.bsky.social you might find this interesting as a life path visualization

Oh I love this, I’m going to have to chew on it for a little while but I love the idea of playing with vectors and path dependency. The first place my mind goes to is a hex flower injury and recovery engine

hey man, hey! it’s me! we went to college together remember? they used to call me th- yeah, The Honorless Worm, that’s it, you remember. although i’m usually considered pretty honorable these days lol. how’ve you been?

How I always lose U in these woods

starting to suspect these guys, well, they're not on the level. i think they may not be straight shooters

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about family togetherness. It's about dancing with yetis. It's about making ill-advised, Faustian bargains with the Peppermint Man. It's about shrinking down the super rich and trapping them in snow globe pocket dimensions.

Conservation of Game - How Resilient is your Prep? How resilient is your prep when your players zig instead of zag? For the most part these days I mainly aim to run blorb-style prep that is, by nature, rugge...

I had some scattered thoughts about what makes #ttrpg game prep resilient or fragile to player decisions

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PAXU: Cram a Month of Gaming into One Weekend — Prismatic Wasteland I Played Seven Games at PAX Unplugged and Lived To Tell You the Tales Thereof

I had fun at PAX Unplugged! I played over 20 hours worth of games and went out to the local taverns every night. How did I do it all? That’s proprietary, but you can instead read all about the games I played
#osr #ttrpg

An image of Jar-jar Binks with a speech bubble containing a screenshot of a tweet from a public figure named Geert Wilders, which reads “We hebben een serieus probleem”

the literary form of the modern American conservative movement, the mold by which that TPUSA dunce's writing seems to have been shaped, is the Facebook comment section. AI is the "aesthetic" of fascism; "I didn't read the article but I'm mad about what I think it said" is the prose.

[Early Worm Campaign] The Backstory of the Castle Automatic In case you missed it, I'm currently running a direct  pre-order campaign  for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon  The Castle Automatic ...

In THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC, a giant mummified psychic vampire will tell you that you're the chosen one. She is lying to you.

Learn more about the *story* of the upcoming 100 room, 5 level Metroidvania-inspired dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM.

Waiter, more theoryslop please! I wrote a little bit about how to use historiography as a lens for understanding what narrative means in tabletop games.

#osr #ttrpg

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Hiroshi Nagai, Cruisin’, 2000’s

Hiroshi Nagai, Cruisin’, 2000’s

quantum ogre reborn It’s time we re-examine what we mean when we use the term “quantum ogre”. The seed of this post started when Valeria posted her review of Fabula Ultima and quoted Emanuele Galletto (the game’s author)...

It's been over a decade since the original quantum ogre posts. We use the term, but do we all mean the same thing? In this post I unpack the history of the quantum ogre and propose a modern definition.

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Explaining to my boss that “focus, and resolve” are things I save for the evening when I get to work fashioning the perfect blade

sign that says warning we play jimmy buffett music

i'm home

Defining Story Games But first a caveat. Nailing down definitions can turn into a horrible quagmire, particularly when we're tackling words that lots of people already use but define differently, or use without an actual ...

I think this is an older post but I like the acid test concept of “can the player affect the story externally to actions that their character can exert”

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This is a great recap Amanda! I appreciate seeing the advice, I’d love to make a trip to paxu

That’s a really good point, emulation of the hero’s journey isn’t usually mechanically/textually/formally reproduced - it would be a fun thought experiment to formally incentivize it in a “heroic fantasy” game though. Daggerheart’s arc structure GM advice comes close

Do you think there’s rhetorical value in splitting hairs between adventuregames and, like, herogames where the process of adventuring serves the function of actualizing the characters as heroes? That feels different from storygames and dramagames to me

I’ve donned my armor, gale

You’re right to say it and more people should be saying it

I've been working on a hypothesis about how complexity can be allocated and a few ideas about rules density but it's been tricky for me to articulate. Fun vein to dig into!

A screenshot from a Quinns Quest video where he explains that LARP stands for "Live-action-roleplay AKA Recreational Playpretend-time

Gonna get a lot of mileage out of this one, thanks Quinns. Also Tacklebox was such an instant purchase for me that the money left my bank account before the video was over, cheers

Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window. Orange is Sanguine Green is Melancholic Blue is Phlegmatic Yellow is Choleric

This really rocks out loud dude, congrats on finishing this stage of the project!

Mapping the Blogosphere An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.

Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at

Fastest “yes, and” of my life

RAM Play Report 11/26/2025 Unfortunately tonight I did not get a chance to break out my magical squid Dungeon Lord in my weekly His Majesty the Worm game. On the plus side, that meant ...

Took this concept for a short spin last night and had a grand old time!

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