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January 20, 2026

The Loot Sicko's Dilemma

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October 15, 2025

Coloring Book Game Design - The Glamour Pt.2

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October 13, 2025

The Glamour

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September 09, 2025

Appendix A

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December 03, 2024

Just One Thing Per Hex

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September 17, 2024

BlazBlue Crosstag is a Comedy Game (And an Aside on Balance in Tabletop Games)

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Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Grackle’s Vale - Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my o...
Break!!

FREEBIE: The Architects of Promise (Unterkin) - *The Unterkin are a reclusive species that reside in Lost Crystal. While good natured, they are secretive to the extreme and rarely interact with outside...
Rise Up Comus

LORE - A Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Retroclone - *"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic who...
Prismatic Wasteland

Chain Stocking the Hex Map - A new method for procedurally generating the terrain of a hex map that adds some level of “memory” to the otherwise disconnected random tosses of the oracl...
mindstorm

Quick Stakes For Tense Situations - Below is a small lightweight procedure to use when your players have found themselves in a complex and tense situation. Multiple threats and vectors thre...
Traverse Fantasy

Resourciv: Social Models, Part 2 - Well. How quickly did you expect an update? When I ran my inheritance simulation, I also calculated the Gini coefficient of the population’s wealth distr...
I Cast Light!

FRIDAY NIGHT DUNGEON DRAFT: Editing Six Doors of the Forgotten Lord Rooms 01 to 06 - *CONTEXT & GOALS* I have a slight fascination with understanding how much creative mileage one can get out of the Basic D&D and a couple of sheets of ...
A Knight at the Opera

How to Talk About Difficulty - Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mire...
i'm going to blog here

What's Gadda Up To? - Spring 2026 - This, mostly. Howdy, Farmhands! This January, I posted a year-in-review to cover what I'd accomplished (or neglected) in 2025, as well as posite...
Benign Brown Beast

Notes from Unpub Fest - Unpub Fest is a great time! If you have a game you want to playtest you can reserve a table and timeslot for it or play it during open playtesting later ...
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been. I am still not over stuff t...
Crab Dungeon

Carver's Ridge - I dropped into a fugue state for four days and cobbled together this big wilderness pointcrawl! It's a horror adventure through the woods of Washington, ...
PinkSpace

ID Tables - Inspired by the mobile roguelike "Pixel Dungeon," Item Discovery Tables add dual-layer randomization to items (and more!) in any RPG. The post ID Tables ...
ONEZERO

Three kinds of wealth abstraction rules - I don't always have the time or the energy to track currency in my elfgames, and although I see the merit in doing so when you're aiming for a specific k...
Borderline Manifesto

Concealability in Cyberpunk 2020: A mechanic at odds. - I love Cyberpunk 2020, and I would be lying if I told you it wasn't an influential work in just about all of my creative projects. Needless to say, in...

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