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When a player stumps you #1
Not a direct quote. More an essence of things that have happened at games I've run at events. #Intro spiel is all about "this is a low...
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Feb 242 min read
Brain Juice. Snail dust.
Potions thinking
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Feb 181 min read


Hexcrawl25 - Central Region.
By the end of this month I should be on schedule. This is the first region. Five big hexes. I will turn it into an overview point crawl I...
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Feb 181 min read
Name Generator Table. - Animal, Relationship, Job.
Quick and easy tables for name creation.
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Feb 131 min read
Why TTRPGs? How did that happen?
TTRPGs: a love story.
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Feb 64 min read
That First Session.
The first time I ran a DnD session.
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Feb 63 min read


#hexcrawl25 Begins
<p>Huge shout out to – <a href="https://maatlockstavern.com/hexcrawl25" rel="nofollow">https://maatlockstavern.com/hexcrawl25</a> for coming up with an amazing way to organise, create, and hopefully finish the big picture of the grand duchy – Samogotia. I think I have a different shape to the original plane, long instead of round. But this is going to be so fun. I started with the […]</p>
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Feb 21 min read
The Clicky Clacky Math-rock Dilemma.
<p>The rolling of pretty dice is a beautiful thing. They sound great, they look great. It is exciting waiting that moment to see if you have received the hoped for result. The different combinations of possibilities. Rolling with advantage. That first time rolling a fire ball with all those D6s. It connects with something very […]</p>
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Jan 303 min read
A Wolf A Light.
<p>There had been three of them in the forest. Birds singing. Berries sweet. Naked and warm. Safe in trees, sometimes not as much on the ground. They walked around. Looking. Wondering. The hairs stood up on the back of their necks. Pursuit. Their pulse quicken. Fear. Before taking flight a calm voice echoed through the […]</p>
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Jan 292 min read
Lazdynuks 1C
A small hazelnut monster
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Jan 281 min read


Swamp Beaver 1B
Swamp Beaver.
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Jan 282 min read
Koalas and Magpies.
Austalian animal themed Honey Heist hack.
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Jan 274 min read


Kikrala 1A
Fast kicks. Moves in packs of 4-8. Knee high. Tongue in its nose for eating. Listens through hair.
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Jan 252 min read
Stupid Idea Post 1: Monopoly but
Monopoly. But its a dungeon crawl. Every colour is a different type of beast with random tables so each time its different. Roll dice (with changing dex) and when you land, you battle the monster, if you win you own that region and can either rent it out to other adventures as a safe place.
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Jan 232 min read
Why a blog?
I grew up online when Xanga was a thing and myspace was just beginning.
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Jan 231 min read
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