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Daily TTRPG Blog Posts – Sunday, 17 November 2024

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Bunny Malone: The Subtle Seduction of Zoo Mafia’s Femme Fatale

Nerdarchy – Sat, 16 November, 06:14 PM

In Zoo Mafia, a game powered by the Powered by the Apocalypse engine with custom rules, every mob boss has their own unique method of maintaining power. For Bunny Malone, it’s all about patience, subtlety, and the art of manipulation. Known for weaponizing her charm...... read more.

"Don't Be Another Statistic!"

GROGNARDIA – Sat, 16 November, 05:00 PM

Since my Retrospective on the video game Pitfall! was so well received, I found myself delving a bit deeper into the history of the game. In doing so, I was reminded of several things related to it that I had long forgotten, starting with this advertisement that appeared in various magazines around ... read more.

100 Rumors To Hear In A Brothel, 100 Airs and Atmospheres to Encounter in a Dungeon (5E) and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Crucible Now Available

Azukail Games – Sat, 16 November, 04:26 PM

100 Rumors To Hear In A Brothel, 100 Airs and Atmospheres to Encounter in a Dungeon (5E) and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Crucible are now available to buy on DriveThruRPG. Rumours can be heard in or about brothels just as with other places, and 100 Rumors To Hear In A Brothel has 100 … Continue re... read more.

Deep Time Monster Groups - Adversary design notes from Hexcrawloween

Seed of Worlds – Sat, 16 November, 04:11 PM

Background to the hexcrawloween region that I cooked up was twists on classic monsters - taking the 'niche' of certain monsters and imagining their equivalents for other species and times. I had a notion of what this patch of the world was - Land of the Dead, ruled by Theocracy of Kirianshalee, c... read more.

Bureaucracy, Ritual and Games

Planets & Monsters – Sat, 16 November, 03:59 PM

Proto-Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars. Probably from the city of Uruk.This will be my last blog post directly based on Graeber and Wengrow's book, The Dawn of Everything, an anthropological critiq... read more.

The Wizard May Be Weird But The Game Is Great

EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Sat, 16 November, 02:54 PM

A less grimdark version of Shadow of the Demon Lord.... read more.

Dropout Releases Never Stop Blowing Up Ruleset

EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Sat, 16 November, 01:10 PM

The system was featured on a recent Dimension 20 season.... read more.

Order versus Chaos

GROGNARDIA – Sat, 16 November, 05:00 AM

As I mentioned previously, one of the highlights of this year's Gamehole Con was attending Marc Miller's panels, where he talked about Game Designers' Workshop and the many games it published, including my beloved Traveller. During one of these panels, the subject of Twilight: 2000 came up. Given th... read more.

Friday Roundup

Dungeon Fantastic – Sat, 16 November, 02:02 AM

Just a few notes. - I've finished up the NPCs for Felltower, mostly due to a lot of help from Vic. Making the guys was easy; putting them on paper was fast. Getting them into GCS is harder for me, and Vic stepped up to deal with that. I'll just lightly modify them according to the Hidden Traits tab... read more.

Line-Ways Hexflower 1

The Foot of Blue Mountain – Sat, 16 November, 01:00 AM

IntroductionI'm working on the first few big hexflowers for my next project and, in the interest of keeping an active blog, I figured I'd post the first draft one I wrote here. It'll eventually get polished and bundled up with the rest of the setting, I think, so if you're intrigued by this keep an ... read more.

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