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Perhaps suits of armor on the walls have been posed in fighting styles that hint at a ritual combat dance that needs to be completed for characters to escape.

Sliding the army pieces into the same configuration as a famous victory? Bonus points if you then do a flashback scene where the characters roleplay being on that battlefield, and you portray King Olaf when he was not/less mad.

My biggest ever! 1.3kg, 7.5 inches long.

Maybe I could do a pointcrawl like in Heart, where characters are assumed to be off adventuring somewhere else in the dungeon when not at the table. Then people would only be able to take respites at the table? Or force everyone to take a respite at the end of a session? Or just play Heart.

I’m wondering how to run an open table for Draw Steel. In some ways I’d need to OSR-ify my prep to decouple encounters from PCs. I think the design might clash also between pushing with Victories vs. heading back to a central point at the end of the session.

There really is a dearth of good LARP materials for GMs online (that I’ve seen). Caro Murphy has some great resources+free settings, but I’m not sure they capture what I’m looking for. Maybe I’ll make my own using their Mytharc system.

I’d love to run a LARP for Halloween, but all I can find are real-life horror stories about Vampire the Masquerade LARPs gone wrong.

Yayy….

Parkour Civilization

Biking home from picking up groceries and listening to Car Seat Headrest >>>

they should invent a Doing The Dishes that doesn’t fill you with dread

Photo of a model of Bologna, with so many earthy pink tall skinny towers sticking up from every block of the terra-cotta-roofed town that it looks like plant seeds starting to come up in spring. Around the edge you can see the city's moat and battlemented walls, looking tiny compared to the towers which rise to six or seven times the height of the three-story buildings around them.

...absolutely incredible. Here's what Medieval Bologna would have looked like when all its towers were intact. Florence didn't have so many but did have dozens, so the richest part of the city center would have looked much like this. Much to the despair of the city fire brigade! 11/?

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trying to remember how to do non-destructive editing for that FOSS photo manipulation program when I realized I had made a terrible mistake

I’m curious what you mean by male-coded as opposed to male.

In my Stonehell game, I had a matriarchal orc band that the players often allied with by to get treasure from lower levels.

I know DS aims to get away from the dungeon crawl to focus on a heroic storyline. I’m just wondering if there’s a place for exploration as a game pillar in that paradigm. How do you Jaquays the battlemap?

Notably the focus with battlemaps seems to be on building tactical rooms/areas for combat, rather than interconnected environs with empty/evocative rooms. I’m reminded of a Jacob Geller video about spaces designed for violence (I should rewatch that.) To a certain extent, both styles do.

Getting into Draw Steel, I’m reminded of the ways design goals for battlemaps differ subtly from dungeon design. I’m wondering how my time in the OSR will inform encounter design for DS.