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But shouldn't there be an effort to present these adventures/systems as they're meant to be, which is played? A lot of discourse seems to be dominated by people stuck in cycles of white room thinking. I've found that many modules I was told were greatly designed were quite tiresome, and vice versa.

Chew Your Own Damn Food There's this idea I've noticed over my past few years in this corner of the hobby that I want to talk about at a length a little longer than a discord post. ...

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Amazing post about the problems that modern reviews have with actually doing the work of play. I tried to combat this with my review of Mandog being rooted in how I prepped it (minimally) and how it played.

I think your most amazing invention is the world’s first module that requires the reader to actually use their brain. If only others saw this as important as the creation of fire or the electronic cigarette.

The Door in Murex Canyon After Action Review Buy it! https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/cairn-2e/products/the-door-in-murex-canyon-for-cairn-2e-rpg-and-b-x-ose Writing, Design, Layout by Editing by...

I finished my review for The Door in Murex Canyon, @evilgoblin.wedding ‘s fantastic science fantasy dungeon and hexcrawl. It’s a truly alien and alive setting, much better than the tepid Wolfe rehashs that usually dominate the genre!

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Troika! Wilderness Crawling Rules Travel speed dictates how many hexes, grids, points, etc can be traveled along during one day's travel. and these rules can serve as a useful scaffold for t...

My wilderness rules for my Troika! megadungeon game I got running. Happy Troika! Tuesday all!

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If you ever struggled with trying to learn how to play OD&D then you have to read the Littlest Brown Book. It clarifies and explains so much of the hard to parse information of the originals. It is also very funny.

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I am a player in this campaign and this one of the most engaging, layered games I’ve been a part of. The world Chao presents us is so fully realized. Getting caught up in the details of it is a highlight of my week.

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Troika! Tuesday: Yvild the Mold Maker's Magnificent Lab I wanted to practice writing a dungeon so I took a Watabou layout I liked and riffed on it. Unless stated otherwise the general construction is sleet gr...

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Merry Troika! Tuesday to all who celebrate! Here is a dungeon ready to go for your campaigns!

Mandog After Action Review \ Artists:Written by Gromb Illustrated by  Edited by  Layout by  \ Players: Shaman as \ Zaro as \ Valibuk as \ System: Delta Green Session...

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Here is my review of Mandog! @gromb.bsky.social's fantastic investigation module. Something that should be an inspiration to other adventures in the same space. You should run this module.

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go ahead. post another "discourse". tell me incentives are fascistic in nature. say that blorbo is downstream from the forge. accuse an indie designer of stealing spark tables. come up with a woke way to fuck a dragon.

Luck Gained and Lost: Troika! Tuesday Luck is one of the three pillars of stress that you can apply in Troika! Stamina and Skill are things I'd like to look at a later time because uses for Luck ...

Wrote up some stuff about Luck for the last Troika! Tuesday of 2025!

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On the Rails Jam A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-02-01 hosted by Sivad's Sanctum. WHAT IS SETTING SUN? In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite tabletop roleplaying game of wild west adventure and shenanigans....

#OntheRailsJam is live! You have one month to design a rail car for the Rose & Thorn, a train traveling across the frontier! Have fun!

If you hated Impossible Landscapes going to Masks is gonna be an even more bitter pill.

Troika! Crawl Rules After an exchange with Melsonia last week for Troika Tuesday I thought I would expand on the dungeon rules I have been using and get them posted. And ple...

I wrote some crawling rules for Troika! after we discussed it.

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Enchanting Troika! Every game needs a way to make all these baubles magical and useful right? Troika! is not different and so for this Troika! Tuesday we're writing up an Encha...

Use this to fill up your games with tons and tons of magical Knick Knacks that will surely cause more problems than they solve! Happy Troika! Tuesday everyone!

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Run this adventure for your friends this weekend! It’s easy to prep and they will be terrified of the beast.

Troika! inspired ice cream flavors to stock the freezer bin at gas stations seems like untapped $$$$.

Six More Fantastic Spells for Troika! Troika! Tuesday has blown into town again and while I am still working on the Gygar backgrounds I am not quite ready yet. So here! Have some more delightful ...

The world has blessed us with another Tuesday, so we have all been blessed with another Troika! Tuesday! Here are some more spells to inflict upon the Spheres while I work on more backgrounds.

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I just finished running Mandog and my experience with the adventure is ENTIRELY different from this review. I wholly recommend the module and my players all bought a copy they loved it so much.

RUN GAMES. DON'T JUST READ THEM.

Critique Navidad: Mandog Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…

I'm not gonna comment on the layout comment because well you know what fair I heavily prioritized the PDF as a physical object than I did other things so it didn't come out searchable
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It was the only way to be sure we’d get past the dinosaur!

Encounters is Tsark It's Troika! Tuesday. I made a micro setting based on a d6 encounter table for troika. A PDF for home printing can be found here.

Troika! Tuesday will continue until morale improves. I decided to write something out based on the implications of result 34 of the feast of the chiliarch plothooks. https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/2025/12/encounters-is-tsark.html

Troika! Crawl Rules After an exchange with Melsonia last week for Troika Tuesday I thought I would expand on the dungeon rules I have been using and get them posted. And ple...

Another Tuesday, another Troika! Tuesday post! Tried to write out some of the rules I have been using for Troika! Mega Dungeon play. GO PLAY SOME TROIKA!

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TLDraw! It’s the best one I’ve found by far!

Oh the luck affecting encounters is great!

I have had the idea of burning Luck to add more imitative tokens to the bag. Kind of a big gamble on being able to do more!

1. Wolves Upon the Coast. Take the familiar and show how it can be filled with a real, physical presence.

2. Mythras. Present a world and characters that bleed and suffer.

3. Troika! What imagination and the unfettered mind can actually imagine.

4. Whitehack.

What have you added or tweaked for running a megadungeon with Troika? I’ve found it runs a dungeon fine out of the box. For chases and sprints I’ve just had parties test their luck to avoid encounters.

A picture of four hirelings for a megadungeon campaign. Modomnoc Sam, Bin Prayer, Spidery Aileran, and Harrison Gristle all ready to carry treasure and light the way for the party.

The Troika Citizen generator should be the ONLY thing you use for statting out hirelings for your megadungeons.