Game Design Isn't Engineering It's Biology
One thing you notice if you pay attention to critical indie game designer circles is: jesus christ these people play a lot of D&D. I mean, even the ones who have a critique D&D or hate the...
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Donna Brazile Kills A Duck
Inauguration day. This is only a little political but trust me, it'll be worth it.Ok, so:Over on the left of this inauguration photo there's Donna Brazile, former chair of the Democratic National...
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Unseelie Fae Race, for Old School D&D
Dad, where do new character races come from?Well, sometimes a gamemaster gets a text from a goth girl who is also a game master...UNSEELIE FAEcharacter race (part fae / part tiefling)Fly: 30’/round...
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Old School Gamer's Guide to Short-Selling
Ok, so my players accidentally summoned Cthulhu and next week they have to fight him. Luckily I have the 1st printing of Deities and Demigods, with Cthulhu in it...So I'm all ready to play on...
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The Plague Pyramid
A new cult has arisen, worshipping death by plague and its locus is somewhere in the hinterlands, centered around a bizarre structure. Whether the plague pyramid is the result of a mad necromancer’s...
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To Shanna Malcolm (re: muppet tits)
I saw the news that you're going to be in a D&D show--congratulations! I hear there will be muppets.I'm also scared for you because you're about to be extremely harassed a lot by assholes online....
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Cesaire
A place of great waterfalls, green-blue jungle and wide, bloodstained savannah.The Gods in CesaireAll gods have visited Cesaire, but when they visit, they must walk on two legs. When in Cesaire the...
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Secret Wars Toys As A Parable of Design, Detail and Giving People What They Want
This is a design-is-not-engineering parable:It should've worked perfectly.Mattel--fresh off the success of He-Man--decided to make some superhero toys with Marvel. You know Marvel, right? The company...
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Pattern? Anyone?
So two more of the game designers who participated in the smear campaign about me got called out for being creeps since my last post. (I was wrong, I thought they would cancel Daniel Fox next.) Anyway,...
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Still not seeing the pattern?
So, AuraTwilight, aka Paimon Prowler has been accused of being an abuser and no longer runs the OSR Discord.So, as I suggested we might three days ago, we now have a D12 table:1. Luke Crane (Burning...
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Still not seeing a pattern?
Reposted because the original was posted on a weekend and it's important:So, AuraTwilight, aka Paimon Prowler has been accused of being an abuser and no longer runs the OSR Discord.So, as I suggested...
View ArticleWow. WOW.
Nobody wants this to be a Daily Gamer Drama Blog but jesus:So it's Wednesday, and on Saturday I first posted about wow we had three people in the RPG world cancelled in the same week and surprise all...
View ArticleWhat Are You Playing?
Simple questions, leave your answers in the comments1) What tabletop RPG are you playing?(We're playing D&D in Cube World, as usual)2) What are the players up to?(The girls just went into a shark...
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Now It Can Be Told--If Any of You Care
So, two of the most aggressive harassers online--people responsible for more hate directed against me and the other D&DW/PS crew since 2011 than almost everyone else put together--got cancelled...
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Note on The Vampire 5e Story
In case you missed it, I asked readers to vote on whether they wanted to hear the whole story on Vampire 5e--I set the threshold at 100 votes and reached it, so I will be getting to work on that,...
View ArticleAlien, Predator, The Problem of Interesting Monsters
Note: If you voted to hear the Vampire story, it's still coming in early May, don't worry.-The Alien and The Predator are both interesting monsters.-One reason Alien is a better movie than Predator is...
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What Really Happened To Vampire 5e, Chapter One: Olivia Hill
Note up top: A lot of people are asking about the case against Gen Con--the next step is we file a motion, then a notce within 30 days of that response, then it's in appellate court for a year,...
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What Really Happened To Vampire 5e, Chapter Two: Video Games, Bailey Jay,...
20,000 Words Worth Of Text MessagesSo it’s summer 2016 and Paradox has commissioned two World of Darkness mobile games. I get the Vampire one. It’s been explained to me as “Basically a Choose-Your-Own...
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What Really Happened To Vampire 5e, Chapter Three: Is There An Idiot In Any...
Previously: Chapter One Chapter TwoThe VillageIs there an idiot in any village who trusts Little Finger?Yes there is. Without people trusting Little Finger, King Robert's first Hand of the King...
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What Really Happened to Vampire 5e, Chapter 3.5: Interesting Feedback
Previously: Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter ThreeSo if you've been reading along, you know that most of the problems Vampire: The Masquerade 5e faced began with a small group of haters, most...
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