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DND campaign ended tonight after we defeated a dinosaur amalgam we dubbed "the Horrorzord," prompting a planar ship to sail out of a volcano to pick us up. My buddy has the best flair for the ridiculous and awesome. Power metal the whole way through.

Happy to see someone thinking up map creation processes beyond "have you considered plate tectonics?"

Oh, if RSS is still standard, I'll definitely look into that. Thanks for the correction and recommendation!

Thanks! I'll check that out. I've read good stuff on that blog but never perused the sidebar.

Bookmarks feel clunky. RSS feeds probably aren't universally provided. Sometimes I'd rather not go through social media as an intermediary.

With all the awesome posts compiled in this year's Bloggies, I'm finding a lot of #ttrpg and #osr blogs I want to follow, but I don't have a good tool to keep up to date on any particular blog. Anyone have tools they could share?

Even on the other side of the screen, describing rooms with your mapper in mind takes a bit to get into a groove. Very rewarding when everyone gets the hang of it.

Either that or the players need to be able to either glean more information from the dungeon itself or better, more specific information from the rumor table to start bridging into that mental space, seeing as this is a beginner module.

Reaction rolls from B/X should've been restated somewhere in the text because this dungeon design really puts a damper on the faction play idea that's suggested before the dungeon keys are laid out.

With how the caverns are structured, which say you're going to run into a guard room no matter which way you turn, it's designed for a fight to break out from the get-go without some other intervention. I wouldn't fault a GM looking at the room descriptions and running it that way.

Doing my first real close read-through of the B2 module, and I have to admit that I'm just getting dissonance when reading #osr play expectation back onto the text and the actual implication of the dungeon design. The most natural way I see of playing this module as a PC is novel combat tactics.

Yeah, everything has to be paced so quickly to feel like you've gotten anything done. I want time for the goofy sidebars and diversions that make play fun.

Agreed. It's so much less of a spreadsheet game, and it's much better off for it.

I didn't think they could improve this much over the first game, but oh did they find a way.

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Me: Path of Exile 2 Early Access launches today! I'm so hyped!

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Awesome, thank you!

BRP?

I have a buddy who's going to run a time-hopping/time-fixers style campaign here soon. He's stuck on what system to use. Anyone from the #osr or #ttrpg feeds have any recommendations?

Why You Should Nominate For the Bloggies Way back in 2022, the Prismatic Wasteland blog hosted an award called the Bloggies. The award was designed to showcase the best blog-posts to appear on an RPG blog during the course of that year. H…

A long, but good impassioned post about the OSR blogging culture and how you can participate in it! tasker.land/2024/12/05/w...

This is such a savage takedown lol

Losing the easy collaboration access will suck, but hopefully avoiding full core meltdown is enough of an upside.

Yeah, the claim looks to hinge on implied setting concerning magic item availability. A fair point, but not the best evidence to make that sweeping of a claim when the rest of 5e is essentially 3.5 streamlined.

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This is genius.

So hyped!

This is definitely closer to what I wish I had found earlier on. Appreciate the link!

I feel this. It took me a full 6 months to recover, and that was only after being able to direct all my energy into recovery. It's crazy how fast the wick can burn and reach critical levels.

Shameless #ttrpg #osr tags for the feeds!