# dungeon world (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dungeon world. Page: Feed: --- ## [Worf, from First to Last](https://troypress.com/worf-from-first-to-last/) _2026-08-21 · troypress · Troy Press_ Worf in Picard seems true to this quote from the very first Worf-focused episode, “Heart of Glory”: “The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within.” ## [Quick Polls: HP or Conditions; Debilities & Damage](https://troypress.com/quick-polls-hp-or-conditions-debilities-damage/) _2026-08-20 · troypress · Troy Press_ Most PbtA players of Reddit prefer conditions 4-to-1 to hit points (63% vs. 16%). A separate poll, on just the Dungeon World subreddit, asked how often GMs dispensed damage with a debility. All but a few do it occasionally, with “sometimes” the most popular answer. ## [Pop Songs Inspired by The Odyssey](https://troypress.com/pop-songs-inspired-by-the-odyssey/) _2026-08-19 · troypress · Troy Press_ I’ve loved The Odyssey since junior high (I bounced of The Iliad in high school but it might have been because of a dated translation). I first built this playlist of pop songs referencing The Odyssey on my birthday in 2013. I’ve added songs and re-arranged their order over the years. Here’s the current version. Playlist Order Song Artist Description 1 Calypso Suzanne Vega Calypso’s perspective on… ## [Gramma C’s Rules for Rummy 500](https://troypress.com/gramma-cs-rules-for-rummy-500/) _2026-08-18 · troypress · Troy Press_ Today would have been my maternal grandmother’s 111th birthday (1915). Alas she was not as long-lived as a hobbit with a corrupting magic ring. ## [Board Game Plays So Far in 2026](https://troypress.com/board-game-plays-so-far-in-2026/) _2026-08-17 · troypress · Troy Press_ In the original spirit of Blaugust, here are some random observations of some of the games I have managed to play so far this year. ## [Esperanto Words with Ambiguous Segmentation](https://troypress.com/esperanto-words-with-ambiguous-segmentation/) _2026-08-16 · troypress · Troy Press_ Some Esperanto words can be parsed into roots and affixes in multiple ways. ## [The Prehistory of Cycladic League](https://troypress.com/the-prehistory-of-cycladic-league/) _2026-08-15 · troypress · Troy Press_ Early versions of my civ-lite BASIC game, Cycladic League. ## [Esperanto Homographs](https://troypress.com/esperanto-homographs/) _2026-08-14 · troypress · Troy Press_ A look at seven word forms in Esperanto that are homographs. ## [The Caves of Ateşkazé: Two Tables for Immersive Caving](https://troypress.com/the-caves-of-ateskaze-two-tables-for-immersive-caving/) _2026-08-13 · troypress · Troy Press_ The details and discoveries tables from “The Paths of Ateşkazé” by Jeremy Strandberg in Perilous Almanacs remain my favorite caving adventure. ## [Mango Man](https://troypress.com/mango-man/) _2026-08-12 · troypress · Troy Press_ Mango man, mango man Thinks he’s the entire universe, man Usually mean to smaller man Mango man Is he depressed or is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless? Who came up with mango man? Degraded man, mango man. ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OSHk0Mh7wANB) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [The Stages of Learning](https://troypress.com/the-stages-of-learning/) _2026-08-11 · troypress · Troy Press_ As an adult, I rarely try to do things I’m no good at. At work, I do things I’ve done for decades. Same for my hobbies. Trying something new means being embarrassingly bad at it. That was awkward and difficult to work through. ## [Cyclades Boardgame vs. Cycladic League](https://troypress.com/cyclades-boardgame-vs-cycladic-league/) _2026-08-10 · troypress · Troy Press_ I developed Cycladic League by re-imaging what Cyclades might be like it were a BASIC game, then iterating on the design in an agile fashion. ## [Planet of the Week, Summer 2026](https://troypress.com/planet-of-the-week-summer-2026/) _2026-08-09 · troypress · Troy Press_ I have created three new background playbooks for Planet of the Week: the Belter (inspired by The Expanse), the Throwback (think Buck Rogers, or Steve Rogers, and maybe John Crichton), and the Terran. ## [Agon: A TTRPG Odyssey](https://troypress.com/agon-a-ttrpg-odyssey/) _2026-08-08 · troypress · Troy Press_ "On their way back home from the war, the heroes have become lost among strange islands populated by mythical creatures, dire beasts, treacherous landscapes, legendary kingdoms, and desperate people—all somehow cursed or abandoned by the cruel power of the capricious gods." — Evil Hat ## [Lapine: The Rabbit Language from Watership Down](https://troypress.com/lapine-the-rabbit-language-from-watership-down/) _2026-08-07 · troypress · Troy Press_ Richard Adams' Watership Down (New York: Macmillan, 1972) is one of the classic works of xenofiction (the fiction set in strange cultures, real or imagined), placed as it is among and between the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside. Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created. ## [Furbish](https://troypress.com/furbish/) _2026-08-06 · troypress · Troy Press_ This is an analysis of the Furbish of the first-generation Furby toys. ## [Intermythic English](https://troypress.com/intermythic-english/) _2026-08-05 · troypress · Troy Press_ Inspired by Tamarian, here's a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of 150 words. ## [Pidanjinu](https://troypress.com/pidanjinu/) _2026-08-04 · troypress · Troy Press_ In 2002, I started a sketch of a fictional Astronesian pidgin, reflecting a then emerging obsession of mine: conlangs that used all 26 Latin letters. I wouldn't return to Pidanjinu until 2021-2022, working on it 15+ minutes a day, at which point it became the conlang that I am the most proud of: Muna Lingi. Here are its humble beginnings.