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D6 Magic Blade Tables
When you acquire a magical blade, either finding an artefact or having one created for you, roll 5d6 and assign as you wish. Found Over 100 years old, forged for…
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Fantasy TTRPG Actual Plays I like
Here’s a list of Actual Plays I like and recommend listening to. I love TTRPG Actual Plays. I don’t quite know why. For sure it’s not for their audio book…
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The Overloaded Overloaded Encounter Die
You know the Overloaded Encounter Die. Here’s my take. At a glance: the players roll a die for each turn and leave it lying on the table. The first time…
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Whence cometh “Railroading”? Some history of the term, and on the German love for trains
Inspired by a blog post by Tom, I wanted to look into the history of the term “railroading”. What follows are the earliest occurrences of the term I could find.…
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Diegetic World
This is a draft for the rules I’m currently playing with. It will probably be updated frequently: I use these rules with an FKR mindset and thus they are subject…
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More on Rules Funnels: Closed vs. Leaky, and some benefits thereof
I want to clarify three things about Rules Funnels. First, to repeat that they’re not bad. Second, that there’s a gradient of funnel-y-ness. Last, that one benefit of funnels is…
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Rules-Light vs. Rules-Sparse vs Rules-Simple
I want to draw a distinction between TTRPGs that are “Rules Light”, “Rules Sparse” and “Rules Simple”. By Rules Light I mean a very basic thing: the game, as in,…
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No rolling for initiative, to hit and damage: action scenes instead of combat scenes
The saddest moment in every TTRPG player’s career is their very first fight, when they say, I don’t know, “I pull the rug under them”, “I set their cape ablaze”,…
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I want my games to be about what the players are saying.
I had a revelation: I want my (TTRPG) games to be about what the players are saying. Or to be more precise, I want my games to be about what…
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The Rules Funnel
What I mean by “Rules Funnel” is when, in a TTRPG, mechanics are triggered or accompanied by some narration, and the mechanics shape what happens next, but the content of the narration…


