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Why are these notebooks so elaborate?
I get that question a lot now that the Cube World pdfs are coming out and people can see what my notes look like.Part of the answer is that while I'm trying to think up an adventure I sit and draw. So...
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This Whole Cheesy Place
Here for the first time is the whole map of Broceliande, the knights-and-faeries part of Cube World:Click to enlargeAs I may have mentioned before, it's based on a cheese map of France.If you zoom in...
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Your Radar Sucks
This will be my 15th post under this label:So, one of the first people I'd never heard of to write a big post railing against me ("the Internet is screaming with the harm you caused" he said "What...
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Enjoy The Weird Gap Between My Teeth (video interview about everything)
I can't think of a bigger endorsement than that:
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Dear Chris McDowall and the OSR Discord
Dear Chris,After the accusations, you had a big conversation about it and explicitly changed the rules of the OSR Discord to allow lying. This isn't my interpretation, this is literally the decision...
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Recently, Jeff Gameblog was reminding everyone the reason he got started blogging back in 2004 was that the forums sucked, and he wanted to get away from them. The Old School Renaissance he helped...
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Simple Weapon Hairsplitting
I can't remember who wrote it, but there was a blogger post years ago about how every pre-modern weapon developed, from the dart to the bohemian ear-spoon, was developed for a reason. There weren't...
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Hey, You Want To See Something Heartbreaking?
If you don't follow gamer drama, lucky you--here's a free dungeon by many of the most well-known authors in Old School gaming, and it's pretty good, too.If you are up on gamer drama then most of the...
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An Unrepeatable Test Of A Theory About Games
The Problem of TestsTheories about the impact and function of tabletop RPGs games are notoriously difficult to test. Playtesting--that is, testing whether a game can be fun for some people or whether...
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Unlimited Spellbook Rule
Somewhere, in all these dusty RPG books, a great idea got lost--that spells are for wizards, and wizards should have to look them up.This is also a nice option for those of you who don't like Vancian...
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Demon City Coming Along
These just arrived from the graphic designer (yes, there are typos). Click to enlarge.
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The Right To Suck
So here's a thing a game designer said. It's a simple line of reasoning so I'll just quote it:The first obvious conclusion here is that if this incredibly elementary idea wasn't even brought up, these...
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Inside-Outside Dungeon
You can get killed outside or inside...29 pages plus. 15 bucks. Lots of art. Now available in The Store.
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Wonderful News!
Life can be weird for Demon City contributors, but The New Yorker has reported that Vanessa Veselka has The 2020 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction for her new book The Great Offshore...
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The Barony That Has The Temple that Has The Room That Has The Toad Demons
New stuff. Check the Store.TheBaronyThatHasTheTemplethatHasTheRoomThatHasTheToadDemonsBad monsters are in a room. It’s a pretty good room, as fantasy adventure module rooms go, and presents some...
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Doing Random Encounters the Hard Way
So, if you're like me, you're sick of rolling random wilderness encounters in a sandbox campaign and then it just says like "57-Ghost" or "34-Venomous snake" and then I'm like "Fuck who wrote this...
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I was the editor on Veins of the Earth. Here are a few excerpts from the first round of edits, from like 2014 or whatever.Patrick's text is in italics..... PHANTOM HAND OF GARGAS"...Hit Dice 5, 23hp,...
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Patrick Stuart, Maze First Draft, and the Tale of Helboria
Fans of Maze of the Blue Medusa will probably remember Lady Crucem Capelli, who appears just after you enter the painting:You might also remember the way that the Maze was written was:1-I drew the...
View ArticleA Legal Update?
I filed my first suit--against Mandy--well over a year ago. A lot of documents, legal argument and testimony has been filed since then.Since then people who believed her have made it clear repeatedly...
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