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A collection of 89 posts

community

Payment Processors are Critical Infrastructure and should be treated as such

Visa and MC are at it again.

24xx

Generation Ship Destiny - 24xx Edition

No one remembers why Destiny left your progenitor planet, nor where it was headed. The only life you’ve ever known is the ship. It’s vaulted halls, its leaking pipes, the vast botanical gardens. In a word, home. It’s been nearly 1,000 years since your ancestors fled

24xx

Neko No Mura - 24xx Edition

Neko no Mura is a micro-rpg based on the 24XX SRD by Jason Tocci. You play as magical cats who's mission is to find the spirtis and enlist their aid in stopping the creatures. It's designed as a one-shot experience.

musings

Low Prep GMing

A few ideas on how to prep less for your sessions as a GM.

musings

On Closed Ecosystems

A bunch of thoughts around closed ecosystems and the consequences of using them for TTRPG community.

gm-advice

Designing Outside the Character Sheet

Alex goes on a semi-coherent discussion about how the presence of large skill lists in ttrpgs push the game into simulation territory

solo-play

Oracles and Omens

A brief discussion on how Alex uses oracles in solo play.

tencandles

It Lies Dreaming in the Deep

Stranded on a mystery island with mind-bending structures, can you repair your ship and escape? Will you wake the dreamer instead?

tencandles

The Last Flame

Take the light of the last flame and save the world (or die trying) in this module for Ten Candles

tencandles

Modern Prometheus

Become a modern Prometheus in this setting for Ten Candles, and escape from a research facility deep on the edge of colonized space.

offline-random-dungeons

Random Maps 3 - Four Against Darkness

The third post in the random dungeons series, looking at Four Against Darkness as a dungeon generation mechanism.

tencandles

Inside the Ancient Castle

Deep in the forests of the Homeland lies your ancestral home, a castle built in a time before memory. Before history. As far as you know, it has always been there. Each stone laid by hands lost to time. Every feature carved with an artistry that borders on the supernatural.

tencandles

It Came from the Sands

On its face, the proposal was preposterous: “An instant oasis, deep in the desert. Just add a single drop of water.” But this wasn’t a hoax, nor an elaborate ruse to gain additional research funding. It was real, and you were there to witness the very first field test.

tencandles

Ye Be Cursed

For centuries you’ve plied the open waters of the Atlantic, eternally seeking ships to drag down the briny depths. Countless vessels have fallen to your predations, consigning their souls to hell simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yours is a name that strikes fear

tencandles

Chionophobia

It started with the weather forecast. A foot of snow predicted over the next several days didn’t seem like much of a problem. Unfortunately, the snow never stopped falling. Ten days ago, the dream of a winter wonderland turned into a climate disaster, as the sky grew dark and

maps

Map Mine: Shadowdark Random Dungeon Generation

Welcome to part 2 of this mini-series where I'm walking through some random dungeon generation methods found in various tabletop game systems! In the previous post, I examined D&D 5th edition's random generation rules. This time we'll be walking through creating a

tencandles

The Proposal

Get ready bachelors, bachelorettes, and non-binary dateable entities! You’re the latest contestants on “Haunted Love”! In this thrilling new game show, 16 contestants will compete for the love of the elusive "Apres Sovereign". No one knows much about them, for the duration of the show their voice

tencandles

Carl: Your Robot Overlord

We have been on the cusp of the most fundamental breakthrough in human history for years now: Artificial General Intelligence. Now, we may have finally broken the barrier and created a being born of our collective imagination, feeding the world's content to it until it awoke to a

tencandles

Sailing the Starlit Sea

You know not when the first ancient ones rose from the depths of the sea. Massive creatures, reminiscent of whales, yet ancient and terrifying. Your ancestors made the pact with them (or perhaps, more accurately, they made the pact with your ancestors). In the centuries that followed the Aspidochel have

tencandles

Sleep Paralysis

The scientific term for those little demons that sit on your chest in the dead of night, holding you still, dripping ruin into your nostrils and stealing your breath is "sleep paralysis", apparently. A trick of the brain, they say. It's not really a hellspawn ready

maps

Random Dungeon Generators Part 1

Hello, and welcome again to another edition of the Map Mine. After a brief hiatus (due to Extra Life 2023, replays of which will be up soon) we're back to bring you some random map generation techniques from various games. In this two (or three?) parter, I'

product reviews

Avatar: Legends

Welcome back again for another review / introduction to a game that I definitely wanted to love, but ultimately had a lot of problems with. This week is Avatar Legends by Magpie Games. I was a Kickstarter backer for this game for the digital version of the game (really, I am

tencandles

Resist

⚠️Content Warning: Depictions of Suicide "... at this time we do not know what is causing the mysterious psychosis, only the rapid onset of symptoms which invariably leads the afflicted to engage in extremely risky behavior. The government has advised that all families stay in their homes unless absolutely necessary,

tencandles

Malevolent Gods

(Inspired by "I have no Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison) It's been over a century since the world ended. Since we ended it with our never ending desire for war. We were obsessed with fighting over the same scraps of land. Perpetuated the

tencandles

Stained Glass

Crunch. Snap. The sounds of the glass breaking under the weight of something large. Something deadly. That noise will be etched into your mind until you lay down to rest. Ten Days ago the sun went out. For the first couple of days, it was just like any other natural