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Professional Game Master Services, Blogs and Poetry about Tabletop RPGs and Decolonization

The goblins and orcs don't live here anymore, they said. The Imperial Legion of Yalen has claimed this place in the name of the King, they said; whatever the hell that means.

This was supposed to be a single, quick and easy job. But you're still hearing talks of raids, political backstabbing, undead, and a damn dragon.
You're stuck here for a while, might as well make the best of it.

Next Public Game:
Founding of Ryoshi
12/20 7:00PM AST

A low-power campaign in a high fantasy world set on the outskirts of a growing empire. The party is part of a faction involved in the founding of a border settlement and will tangle with threats from without and within.

Pseudo-West Marches/Marshes, where multiple parties of player characters exist and operate in the same persistent world where time moves forward consistently. Fantasy Western Vibes. 

Themes: Decolonialism, Community Building, Dragons are Assholes, Drugs, Life vs Undeath, Tenacity.  


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Poetry:
Roll, Play.

because Playing TTRPGs like a bad videogame is a waste of everybody's time.  

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11/29/24


Some roll the dice and

Become a hero because

Badguys need to die


But.


The swordplay's easy

Let me hear your monolgue

You fucking coward


Invisible Walls

Don't live here; let go

For just a second

A planet-hopping hivemind is portalling into this world. Can players get past its horde to stop it before it's too late? 

Shadowdark/OSR and Systemless verisions coming soon!

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Blog:
5 Questions Before Combat


TTRPG tip:  Combat can be fun. Combat for combat’s sake is trite and you're better than that. So here are some questions to ask yourself before you throw some hit point bags at your characters. Let your combats be more than shaving off HP.. Throw some interesting objectives and hard decisions at them. 

Read in full here 

Tabletop Supplements, Adventures, and more

Articles and Resources for the aspiring Game Master

Thoughts and feelings about Tabletop RPGs, game design, and fantasy writing.

Mixed form work mostly about love, death, and decolonization.

Giant crystal spiders, warring goblins, and ancient powers at work in an abandoned mine! 

Devils from Mars and their thralls have made their move on an unsuspecting village. These villagers may be more than they seem, though