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Intro Follows is a campaign retrospective for my Ashes Without Number, Cities Without Number, Stars Without Number mashup game set in a hollow planetoid soon after humanity discovers faster-than-light travel. It's the Ashes Without Number game I mentioned in my 2026 goals post and ran weekly for about 40 sessions. Like the vast majority of my games, I greatly enjoyed the social interaction and…
INTRO It's a well-trodden joke on the rainbow OSR discord server that sometimes well-meaning but lost players of OldSchool RuneScape (OSRS) enter, looking for a different server. My argument is that while the rainbow OSR server is definitely not for OSRS, OSRS is definitely OSR. I'm hardly the first to argue for this, see Benign Brown Beast's posts here and Ewen Macalister's post here on the…
Blogwagonning off similar posts by Grace , Louis and Phlox , I thought I'd describe how I run and prep games. Running Games All of my games are run virtually over Discord and various online tools at this point. The dread Scheduling Beast came for the hobby time of my players and I shortly before Covid and we regrettably never returned to meeting physically. We always use voice and sometimes throw…
Follows is a reflection on my 2025 in gaming and a look ahead to the games I'm running in 2026. 2025 ======== 2025 was a quiet year for blogging (both writing and reading), but I was still running quite a few games. I ran a Cataphracts game and finished running my Pokemon hack . I started and ended a few other campaigns (including one that's still going into 2026), but those two were my…
Merry GLoGmas Vivanter ! Follows are some tables for their Dungeon Mail game about being dungeoneering couriers. I thought their idea to add a direct linear objective to existing OSR adventures is a great touch, it gives less-focused parties some direction and provides easy hooks for GMs. What is the Delivery target doing in the dungeon when you arrive? d12 Dungeon Activity 1 Cooking and eating a…
Earlier this week I wrote about the end of my Pokemon RPG campaign . A few folks reached out to me to ask about how I actually ran the game, especially the non-combat portions. We got to talking about a procedure I used for a Bug Catching Contest session and I thought I'd share it here as well. I think its pretty flexible and could be used to do a Fashion Contest as well. The SUCKI System…
I wrote about a custom Pokemon TTRPG game I was running for my friends a while ago here . We were about a year into the game at that point and we just finished our last session on Friday. (April 2023 - November 2025). Follows are my thoughts on the game, pitfalls I ran into, and some thoughts on anyone else wanting to run a similar game in the future. Why Pokemon and Why Write a New Game? I chose…
I mentioned that I had some smaller tips and thoughts on how to run a Cataphracts game of your own in my last post . Folks mentioned they wanted to hear 'em, so I thought I'd make this post collecting all the minutia that helped my game run smoothly. Initial Setup ====== I got my map by cutting out a chunk of Pathfinder's setting map, link here . I found it more ideal than using a real-world map…
Recently, I ran and completed a Cataphracts game, inspired by Sam Sorensen's blog posts. The gist is that it's a logistics wargame that occurs in real time over Discord. All credit to Sam, it's a captivating game and just the first two articles on his game was enough to convince myself and my friends to try it. I summarized the events of my game here . What follows are some thoughts I have on the…
Recently, I ran and completed a Cataphracts game, inspired by Sam Sorensen's blog posts. The gist is that it's a logistics wargame that occurs in real time over Discord. I ran my game for about 2 months, and ended it when one of the factions completed all three of their original objectives. This article is intended as a record of what happened over that timespan. The intended audience is mainly…