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Best NPCs are always the accidental ones. The guard with no name. The innkeeper you made up in five seconds. The random merchant with a weird voice. Players latch onto them, and suddenly they matter more than your carefully planned villains. Funny how that works.
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First adventure memories hit different. Mine was Palace of the Silver Princess many decades ago. Died to a surprise crossbow bolt from two female thieves in a side room, Candella and Duchess. Lesson learned fast. What was your first run?
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I steal ideas from video games all the time for my RPGs. A cool boss fight, a quest twist, a weird location, even the pacing of a dungeon. Games already solved a lot of problems we face at the table, so why not borrow what works and tweak it.
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Thinking about my holiday gaming plans now that December hits tomorrow. Hoping to squeeze in a few sessions, try a winter one-shot, and maybe catch up on some books I’ve been meaning to read. Slow month, cozy games.
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Thanksgiving-themed adventure ideas, keeping them weird, fun, and OSR-friendly:

• A harvest spirit demands the “true tithe” this year: something more than grain.
• A pilgrim caravan arrives with blessings… and a curse hidden in their wagons.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for my players, the stories we build, and the chaos that comes from one bad dice roll. Every campaign turns into a memory worth keeping. Hope your table’s full of food, friends, and critical hits.
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Been using AI lately to build quick NPCs and sample dialogue for my sessions. It’s great for prep , fleshes out side characters fast, helps find their voice, and gives me lines to tweak before game night. Always good to have a few surprises ready.
#TTRPG #DnD #RPGPrep #RPG

Don’t punish players for choices, just let the world react honestly. Help someone today, they might save you later… or resent the debt. It’s not about being fair. It’s about making things feel real.
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Games hit harder when choices matter. Not just “good or evil,” but why someone does it and what it costs. A burned bridge, a lost ally, or the town that remembers what you did. Consequences give weight to dice rolls.
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It happens to me from time to time..and after a year or 2 we always go back due to nostalgia..

Coyote & Crow is a sci-fi fantasy RPG developed by First Nations devs, where colonization of the Americas never happened and indigenous peoples advanced into high-tech societies. Players explore a world of tradition, innovation, and destiny shaped by their communities. #ttrpg #FirstNations

Great idea..and just repurpose HOHH tables!

The trick is not making it about the timeline, it’s about memory. What the characters remember, what they forget, and what they can’t change even when they know how it ends. Keeps players guessing, every session.
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Been playing with chronomancy and time travel in my current game, and it’s wild how it changes everything. NPCs can lie across time, prophecies turn into puzzles, and choices echo backward as much as forward.
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Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying Explore the mysteries of a world beyond death. History, mutant madness, and old-school combat meet at the end of humanity.

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weird, wild crawl full of strange magic, dangerous rooms, and that old school “figure it out or suffer” charm. It feels like the world is deeper than the map shows. Also the monster roster? Still hits. New creatures, odd magic items, and encounters that reward thinking not just swinging.
#OSR #DnD

Tharizdun is the big bad of my current game, so I'm revisiting The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Strange relics, old powers, forgotten lore. It quietly sets the stage for darker stuff like the Temple of Tharizdun. You feel the shadow before you meet it. Lots of worldbuilding.
#OSR #DnD

Evening crew:

Front cover of the ttrpg Nightcrawlers, by Tanner Yea.

Running a Halloween one shot in a few hours.

Halloween RPG ideas:
• A village traps ghosts in pumpkins to keep the dead quiet
• A masked festival where one mask belongs to something not human
• A house that grows new rooms every night, each one stranger than the last
Spooky works best when things feel almost normal…almost.
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Going back to the original Ravenloft module. Still one of the best adventures ever written. Tight location, smart clues, real tension, and Strahd feels like a character not just a stat block. Gothic dread done right.
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DungeonDraft

DungeonDraft has become one of my go-to tools for map making. It’s fast, clean, and doesn’t feel like “software gets in the way.” You can knock out a whole dungeon in one sitting without fighting menus. Great for homebrew prep.
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Online DM Tools
There are so many great DM tools online now. Things like Donjon for quick generators, Kobold Fight Club for encounters, Owlbear Rodeo for quick maps, Kanka for worldbuilding, and Fantasy Name Generator for NPCs on the fly. Prep has never been easier.
#TTRPG #DMTools #RPG

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I’m reading the playtest rules for Ruttigers RPG and it’s shaping up to be something special. It keeps that clean OSR backbone but layers in a mythic tone that feels fresh. The art? Gritty storybook vibes that pull you right in.

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Awesome, sandbox tool. Need to review that one as well.

It feels like a midpoint between OSR danger and NSR speed. If you like grim fantasy without bookkeeping, Tombpunk is worth checking out. Easy to teach, fast to run, and hits the right mood.
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The rules stay out of the way. No long spell lists or gear bloat. You pick who you are, what drives you, and then the world tries to grind you down. Perfect for one-shots or short brutal campaigns.
#NSR #TTRPG #RPG #Tombpunk

Of the most recent games I have read, this one really made me consider the rules lite aproach.Tombpunk is a rules-lite grimdark fantasy game built for fast play and bleak stories. Character creation takes minutes and the tone leans hard into ruin, rot, and desperate survival.
#TTRPG #OSR #Tombpunk

Or maybe NSR is more your speed:

• Cairn
• Into the Odd
• Electric Bastionland
• Troika
• Tombpunk
• Knave

Same spirit of play, just looser rules and faster table time.
#NSR #TTRPG #RPG