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How Difficulty Class and the D20 engine ruined roleplaying (mythlands-erce.blogspot.com)

10 TTRPG Podcasts (that are not Critical Role) (gmkeros.wordpress.com)

Adapting Linear Stories (thealexandrian.net)

What would it mean to take a traditional, linear story and adapt it to your gaming table?

Diablo is getting a board game and tabletop RPG that will “continue the lore and story” of the video games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Critical Role’s Candela Obscura is but a pale shadow of its inspiration, Blades in the Dark (www.polygon.com)

Daggerheart is apparently a 2d12 system (comicbook.com)

just came across this comic book article about daggerheart at gen con. I find it interesting that daggerheart is moving away from d20s.

Why "Roll under" Ability checks really are the best of checks (mythlands-erce.blogspot.com)

What is high-trust trad adventure design? (blog.indre-auge.studio)

The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row (web.archive.org)

For a group of men in a Texas prison, the fantasy game became a lifeline — to their imaginations, and to one another.

Not all games can or should be Burning Wheel, but every game can learn from it (www.runehammer.online)

Hankerin Ferinale simplifies Burning Wheel down to three steps:...

Coyote and Crow rulebook is free today to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day! (shop.coyoteandcrow.net)

What is PbtA? (by Vincent Baker) (lumpley.games)

PbtA means “Powered by the Apocalypse” — games inspired by Apocalypse World, as self-identified by their creators.

I've just discovered the wealth of mad RPGs that Grant Howitt has written (gshowitt.itch.io)

Most of you are probably already aware of prolific game designer Grant Howitt, I’ve only just realised just quite how prolific he is. There are 79 RPGs on his itch.io page, most of which are pay-what-you-want, and several of which contain multiple different games!...

Campaign maps that do their job (ttrpg.network)

What’s in a good RPG map, and all the ways I got mine wrong.

On Character Death and Long-Term Play (attronarch.com)

Meta Unveils Its New AI Dungeon Master, Snoop Dogg (themessenger.com)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pulled a surprise out of his enchanted bag of holding for viewers of the company’s annual Meta Connect product summit on Wednesday: An artificial intelligence version of Snoop Dogg playing “The Dungeon Master.”

Shared review of Trophy Gold (bonesofcontention.blogspot.com)

Ram: As I said at the start of this post, Trophy Gold is great. The game is mechanically interesting and novel, while remaining quite simple. What I love about the game is that it’s a little bit messy when it comes to what it’s about. It’s not trying to a Story Game or an OSR game. Trophy Gold is very much its own thing,...

Scene Tags - A way to make descriptions matter (ttrpg.network)

Let me begin by making it clear this is not my invention, I encountered the method in City of Mist but I doubt it debuted there. But it is a nifty method....

Has anyone played Fate Accelerated Edition? (www.faterpg.com)

I had been wanting to try it for a while and saw it at a local game store. I picked it and some fudge dice up and want to try it soon. It seems like it will provide the sort of flexibility and less specific focus on combat that I want out of D&D. It also is simple enough that I read the entirety of the rules in one day (and...

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