Friday, 31 January 2025

On Resurrection in D&D: The Pincher Martin Gambit

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Why are D&D PCs resurrectable?  We do not like to think about the metaphysics or theology of D&D settings, so it is generally a ques...
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Tuesday, 28 January 2025

The Adventurer's Vow

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A long, long time ago, I can still remember when I wrote a blog post about the Book of Judges , reasoning that PCs-as-Biblical-Judges had an...
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Thursday, 23 January 2025

Mode, Not Genre or Type

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We tend I think to classify or categorise campaigns into genres (fantasy, SF, horror) or sub-genres (high fantasy, sword and sandal); or int...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2025

An Incomplete Theory of -Taurs

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It is easy to 'grok' (sorry) centaurs. Half-human, half-horse, their behaviour and culture is obvious: they are souped-up raiders of...
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Friday, 17 January 2025

Distance and Vastness in Hexmaps

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  The world is extremely big. It's hard to appreciate how big it is without spending a lot of time of it on foot, and without making the...
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Monday, 13 January 2025

Authority at the Table

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The start of an RPG campaign is always an interesting anthropological moment - particularly if, as is often the case with an online game, th...
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Thursday, 9 January 2025

Repository of Incompletely Systematised Campaign Types

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This post is a proposed Repository of Incompletely Systematised Campaign TYpes (or RISCTY - yes, I went there) for D&D and other fantasy...
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Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Chaos: The Investigation Without End

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Over the Christmas break, I caught up on a bit of reading for 'pleasure' with CHAOS , Tom O'Neill's account of his madcap 20...
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Monday, 30 December 2024

2024 in Review

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Another year has been and gone - we are now four years past 2020 and I'm still  waiting for Arasaka Corp to even be founded! - and anoth...
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Monday, 23 December 2024

The Fiction Becomes the System for Advancement; Or, Something Needs to be Heavy

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In the comments on a recent entry , the subject of rules-lite games and level advancement came up. It has always been my position that probl...
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