Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to recent Bloggies-winner elmcat for setting up rootring, an old-internet styled webring for RPG blogs. In the wasteland of the post-Web 2.0 internet I’m grateful for anything that helps me discover new…
3 Cuccagna session reports from forever ago that I never got around to posting, and that may be of use in our next endeavours: Prospero the Violet goes carousing and has a divine visition with the following vision: Mountains overlooking Cuc…
Haven’t written one of these in a while but I realized they help me focus so, why not. Thanks to the incredibly diligent Mk., player of Ditchbank and John Napkin, for his fastidious record keeping. Killing a Lamia – The Lamia’s Treasures –
Many of you are worried that this is just another big tech company finding new ways to collect your personal data. That we’re creating a problem to justify invasive solutions. I get that skepticism. It’s earned, not just toward us, but towa…
I am someone who constantly fixates on dungeon ecology questions like “what do they eat” and “where do they shit”. Joe’s solution – “they don’t, they just got here” is honestly really good, something I wish had occurred to me sooner. And in…
This is not a post about the things this blog is usually about. This is a post where I write at length about how a TV show about gay hockey players hit me like a fucking truck, and I’m posting it here because I want to get these thoughts in…
Marcia and I have been talking about feats for her delightful 5e sorta-pseudo-clone, Cinco. I find Cinco really charming and have been toying with it as a set for Gran Carcosium, a dumb Final Fantasy-inspired setting living in my head that
I’m not the first to remark that a lot of what we’re calling “zines” aren’t really zines. They’re fine, glossy magazines, or beautifully crafted books. While these products may share zines’ craft ethos, they don’t share another, equally imp…
I am running Deep Carbon Observatory again, this time in 5e. The players have expressed an interest in hunting the infamous Alpha Platypus. So, in preparation for our next session, I used John B.’s “Running Technical Plots”, plus some light…
Oops! It’s been a while. I’ve actually had a lot of gaming stuff going on lately that I haven’t gotten around to blogging about! For one, I kinda sorta went and wrote a game. More on that in another post. This one is about how my husband an…
This is a writeup of Session 7 of Miranda Elkins’ Cuccagna campaign, where we exploring and plundering the mysteriously abandoned manse of the famous wizard Prospero the Blue. It was hastily written up for record keeping purposes during pla…
This is a writeup of Session 6 of Miranda Elkins’ Cuccagna campaign, where we exploring and plundering the mysteriously abandoned manse of the famous wizard Prospero the Blue. It was hastily written up for record keeping purposes during pla…