On the Explicit Procedure of Play
This isn't about bad-wrong-fun.The discussion yesterday about behaviors we've all come across at the gaming table are not gaming problems. They are related to cognitive distortions. I get that...
View ArticleOn the Rules of the Game
Aggressive DenialIt's hard to let go of your preconceptions. Like, it's giving up an addiction hard. I know this will be a bitter pill for some people, and others will find themselves amazed that it's...
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On the So-Called Wilderness
The seminal work on this topic is done byVictor Raymond in Fight On #2 & #3It's Citizen Kane all over again.It says it right on the cover of Dungeons and Dragons Volume 3 of Three Booklets: "The...
View ArticleOn Why Bother
So, anyone that updates a blog regularly is a writer. Regular updates to a blog equate in word count to a novel or two a year. So what is it that makes us bother?I mean, if one were going to write for...
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On a Future Coming
Hey all.I've been busy writing. It turns out that when you write for a living, it's hard to write on a blog.The good thing is, there's actual professional work coming out. First, I've written a funnel...
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On Ecology Completed
So that happened. Bestial Ecosystems created by Monster Inhabitation is out. I'm getting better at it. There was something off about the softcovers, so it'll be a few days on those. Amazon should go up...
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On the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Stroll
I've played a lot of adventures. I've never been able to easily find out what happens in an adventure without playing it. I've always wished someone talked about the adventures that they've been...
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On the Sunless Citadel Stroll
I've played a lot of adventures. I've never been able to easily find out what happens in an adventure without playing it. I've always wished someone talked about the adventures that they've been...
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On a Sinless update and the gameplay loop.
Honestly, I'm so chuffed.I isolated and read a lot as a child, and when I imagined the future as someone who made these rpg books it seemed like a fantasy. It's amazing every day I wake up. And it's...
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On Sinless Combat!
Sinless combat is so cool!I remember, once, during a game of 4e Dungeons and Dragons, I had enough time between rounds to calculate every one's average basic attack damage (since all our...
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On the Final 48 hours
Sinless has just been amazing guys.If you haven't checked it out, you should back now. Campaign ends Friday. It's around 700 people, which is enough for success you know? It's a big enough network. I...
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On Mace
Sinless is just going great. Everyone is working, we've got people playing, the final parts are getting shored up; it's exciting.Years ago, I noticed someone whose work reminded me of Halloway and the...
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On Reader Mail, The Comprehensive Search Bypassing Play
'J' writes in again with another question."One of my players wants to bypass the game-play by saying 'I search everything'. I've responded in the past by asking them to be more specific, but this isn't...
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On Reader Mail, Find Traps skill
A completely different Nick than yesterday writes: "Do you use a "Find Traps" skill for your thieves? Reading your materials, I can't really tell. I know you favor description and discovery through...
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On Reader Mail, Table Talk & Communication
Evelyn writes in:"In Pandemic, how the players communicate with each other influence and change the game a lot; since the main challenge of the game is to cooperate efficiently, I think communication...
View ArticleOn the Creative Crocodile Conundrum
Are modern gamers objectively less creative than old-school gamers?Here over at Monsters and Manuals, Noisms discusses some of the agency-sucking, mind-reading, poorly presented, 'Gotcha!' ideals that...
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On the Changing Landsacpe
One of the following statements is true.There are ten million empty houses in the United States, and only around 900,000 homelessPods of orcas are organizing and attacking fishing boats off the coast...
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On the OSR Christmas in July
Isn't it disappointing that only digital files are on sale at DTRPG?So I've dropped the prices of print copies of my books!Bestial Encounters Caused By Monstrous Inhabitation is now 19.99$ 9.99$ in...
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On Sinless Released!
Get the PDF here on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/472142/SinlessPrint on DTRPG and Amazon coming shortly.Sinless is an original human-written and human-illustrated cyber sorcery table-top...
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On the Walmart Peeper Toucher and the arrival of Cyberpunk
I watched a video where a Walmart peeper toucher was chased through the store and shot with an electric gun. The body-cam showed the officer take the Walmart peeper toucher to the police station jail...
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On Dice and Mechanics
So, obviously a D&D clone uses a d20 right?We know there are certain expectations for certain types of games. Cyberpunk uses a d6/d10 system with edge case weirdness. Shadowrun uses giant pools of...
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On Sinless Art
I just want to share some of the art from the project. Get your own copy: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/472142/SinlessHack & Slash Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5...
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Sinless in print
So, Sinless is in printThat's not all. You get assets, and you can use them to do things. Like Morgana.You're smart. You have seen an action movie. Someone knows an explosive guy, and then Jean Reno...
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On the Sector Turn
It's very simple.There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents need to do: Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the guy down at the bowling alley that he works for...
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