Check out my post on a #shadowdark mass combat system.
It's designed to complement complex mass combat systems like Hellmarch, by offering a quick resolution in a few rolls, but still have a variety of outcomes.
It's free to use, let me know what you think.
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New Blog Post — I've joined rootring by @elmc.at , a webring for TTRPG blogs
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Rakshasa kicks off the Rs of the Monster Manual #rakshasa #shadowdark #monstermanual #dndart #osrart
Why let a good controversy go to waste?
An addendum to “An Illiterate Hobby”.
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This is a good look at the dice math of Shadowdark RPG difficulty mechanics.
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Version 4 of Open Shadowdark has released, now with improved search.
Open Shadowdark is a site that attempts to catalogue all of the content released under open licenses for Shadowdark RPG.
It includes first party and third party stuff, although currently it is very limited on the third party […]
“Feel free to retract your post” was said to me this morning. And people get mad if I say hobbyists are bad at reading. Look at the frame from Alice I picked for the other post’s thumbnail. There’s…
“No amount of layout, bullet pointing and simplification will ever reach those who hate reading. It will only enable them.“
Using Monday for its intended purpose: to make enemies.
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Alice, dir. Jan Švankmajer. TTRPGs are a primarily literary hobby. This statement has many implications. Foremost that it is communicated through text.
