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Rimward
In a rash of May 4 fever, I’ve started work on a Star Wars-inspired Cairn hack that I’m calling Rimward. My major design goal is to bring some of my favorite features of Edge of the Empire (the debt-based gameplay loop and the space combat mechanics) into a lighter and grittier system. Cairn is my…
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Cat TTRPG Idea #56
A warning of giants is usually expected; the thud of massive feet stomping over the countryside or ripples in a glass of water. However, one giant creature is known to move silently, its victims only realizing their danger at the moment they are swept up in its paw. The giant cat stalks the land like…
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Cat TTRPG Idea #55
High in the eastern mountains there is a cat—a large grey cat sitting atop the peaks and watching, always watching. Normally, the cat lets things be and is happy to observe. But, sometimes, it sees something it doesn’t like. It’s hard to predict what it will be. Maybe it’s two armies making a racket at…
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Cat TTRPG Idea #54
I have started and stopped this series multiple times on different platforms (hence starting here with #54) but I’m giving it a go again with trying to make a more regular practice of putting out cat-themed TTRPG ideas. When stats are needed, as here, I’ll provide them for Cairn since that’s the game I’m most…
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Duck Crawl 2023 – Bugs on a Duck
I’m running a collaborative jam over on Itch to create a point crawl set on a giant duck, and I’ve just finished my first contribution, a random encounter table of giant bugs living on the duck. Check out the bugs below, and check this link to find out more about the jam: https://itch.io/jam/duck-crawl-2023
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Dungeon23: The Frog Supertable
I’ve fallen out of my regular Dungeon23 habit, and I need to get back into it more consistently before I’ve got something to post. But, in the meantime, I did put together this table of frogs for two days of my Dungeon23 work recently. I’ve already shared it on my Itch page, but I wanted…
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Dungeon23: Week 2
This is my second weekly post summarizing the progress I’ve made on my hexmap for Dungeon23. My project for the year is “The Swamp of the Great Honker” a big swamp hex map. You can check out all of the posts for the project here. This week has honestly felt a bit less exciting than…
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Dungeon23: Week 1
This is my first weekly post summarizing the progress I’ve made on my hexmap for Dungeon23. My project for the year is “The Swamp of the Great Honker” a big swamp hex map. This week, I started out populating hexes in the northwest corner of the map. I thought about trying to go through the…
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The Dark Grave: A Mörk Borg Puzzle Dungeon
This is a little puzzle dungeon I ran for a Mörk Borg one shot in 2022. I found it again the other day in the notebook I’m using for Dungeon23. It’s nothing too special, as I just made it from prompts from DNGNGEN, but it was a lot of fun to run a group through,…
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Dungeon23: The Beginning
Like many in our online tabletop community, I’m taking part in Dungeon23 this year. In my case, I’m doing a hex map of “The Swamp of the Great Honker.” I’ll be doing regular (not daily) posts about my work to share how things are going. This week, I got started by sketching out my hex…
Cats Have No Lord: System-Ambivalent Tabletop Roleplaying Content 