Tag: osr

  • Removing the “Null Result” from tabletop RPG combat

    I was inspired by a tweet. In many combat systems of many tabletop RPGs, if you roll to attack and miss, then nothing happens. Both as a GM and a player, I’ve always disliked this. It feels like a waste of a turn, and it feels boring. I can even hear a strawman that says,…

  • It’s a life update! 6

    [This is an old blog post that I wrote at the end of April 2022, but I gotta just get it out there.] In my last update, I was all like, oh yeah, I’ll totally post a conlang update soon. So, as you can see, I definitely did not do that. I was working on…

  • How do you play d6 ARKFORT?

    After watching the Questing Beast review of Disciples of Bone and Shadow (a very chunky solo OSR tabletop RPG), I’ve become even more convinced that including an example of play for a tabletop RPG is a great idea. It came up just the other night for d6 ARKFORT. My life-long bestie is very supportive, and…

  • What is d6 ARKFORT?

    I’ve enjoyed playing some DARK FORT on my own. The group for which I was GMing was no longer able to meet consistently, and not playing tabletop RPGs killed the momentum that I had with my then-current tabletop RPG project, so I side-stepped into messing around with solo/GM-less tabletop RPG stuff. I’d honestly been intimidated…

  • It’s a life update! 5

    And here I thought that the time between 2020’s end of October report and my catching up report at the beginning of the year was a long time to go without a blog post. So much has happened in the past year. We found out that my partner was going to need surgery for the…

  • End of October report

    I’m just squeezing this in under the wire. It’s going to be short and sweet. Happy Halloween! Conlang stuff report Yet another slow month for any kind of conlang stuff, but I know I’ll be returning to it sooner rather than later. It’s just been nice to work on other fun projects from which I…

  • Designer’s Notes: The Psyber Devangelist and Other Psi-Sci-Fi

    Yes, I made another thing! By thing, I mean I made something cool for MÖRK BORG. By something cool, I mean I spent a lot of time—possibly too much time—on a new class along with some new equipment, weapons, powers, things to kill you, and some additional mechanics. It’s all inspired by science-fiction, cyberpunk, psychic powers,…

  • End of September report

    Life still slowly goes on, even with that disaster of a presidential debate last night. I don’t even have to get political to say that I got really tired really fast of watching the impeached president act like a petulant child. It doesn’t matter whose side I’m on (which is a dumb way of putting…

  • Designer’s Notes: Séquelle — an Album Crawl

    As I’m recovering from my surgery, I suppose it couldn’t hurt to throw up some— Actually, that’s a poor choice of words since I’ve been feeling pretty nauseous since the surgery. Anyway, here’s some designers’ notes. Yes, plural—I created this with my amazing partner. Séquelle — an Album Crawl by GreysonWHY We had been listening…

  • Designer’s Notes: Carousing in the Dying World

    Yes—I published something! Carousing in the Dying World — for MÖRK BORG by GreysonWHY I had finished the first inkling of a ‘draft’ for Carousing in the Dying World and posted it to the MÖRK BORG Discord just minutes before there was an announcement of the brand-new MÖRK BORG Third Party License. My fun carousing…