Alex Schroeder 🧞‍♂️ @kensanata@tabletop.social

Working on spellbooks… today I finished the Book of Weaving (spider magic and the likes). Very traditional stuff for the OSR, to be honest. https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/spellcasters/Iauniel.pdf

"Diegetic & Non-diegetic as terms for RPGs. Now go forth and use them in conversation, it will make you sound clever and help explain your thoughts better."
https://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2019/09/terminology-diegetic-vs-non-diegetic.html
«… consider a football game in which a character has the One-Handed Catch ability: Once per game they can make an amazing one-handed catch … No player, after making an amazing one-handed catch, thinks to themselves, “Wow! I won’t be able to do that again until the next game!”»
https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/17231/roleplaying-games/dissociated-mechanics-a-brief-primer

A nice blog post full of one-sentence reminders if you're going to write a RPG book.
https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2019/09/osr-sharpening-axe-how-i-plan-and-write.html

“I've decided to put all of the Lulu print versions of the Advanced Adventures line on sale for 25% off at Lulu for the whole month. So now's the time to grab 'em, folks! Here's just a smattering of covers - there are now 43 in the entire line of 1e/OSRIC goodness! Discount Code: ONEFIVE gives you 15% more off.”
https://josephbrowning.blogspot.com/2019/09/25-off-advanced-adventures-at-lulu-for.html

I’m still fascinated that publishing for 1e/OSRIC still is a thing.

I brought 2d6 on this trip and still haven’t used them.

Just found an old blog post of mine on how I handle skills in my games.
«I ask the player: do you think your character would know this? Is this something they have done in the past? If so, auto success and write it on you character sheet. So if a player says they know the weather because they grew up as fishers, fine. But next time I ask about finding water in a desert, it is more difficult to explain.»
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2014-10-29_Skills

"… what I am looking for in third-party artefacts I put on my game table is … This artefact is of comparable value to the home-made artefacts that are on the table with it. It’s not better or more important than them. (Even if it is better, and indeed that’s why I brought it to said table, I don’t want that to be obvious. I want it to snuggle in with the rest and to work its magic subtly.)"
https://mhuthulan.mediumquality.uk/2019/08/31/aesthetic_i_want/

I’m reading the Troika! rules for the first time and enjoying the initiative system: tokens for each participant go into the pot, plus an “end of the turn” token. Thus, turns are cut short. Interesting.

Leonardo Da Vinci made some maps for your D&D campaign!
https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/43556/roleplaying-games/check-this-out-da-vincis-maps

Now that I've disabled the "advanced" mode (i.e. I'm using Mastodon with the single column layout), I always have 15 unread notifications when I load the site. This glitch-soc fork is not my favourite thing about tabletop.social.

New spells: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2019-08-29_Warp_Spellcaster

On the one hand, I'm as fascinated as @lskh by all the 2d6 mechanics surrounding me, from Traveller to Powered by the Apocalypse rules, and like a siren it's calling me. And when I look at Dave Arneson's table in Secrets of Blackmoor and see his friends and his daughter still playing, and also using just 2d6… And so:
https://darkwormcolt.blogspot.com/2019/08/pre-d-how-dave-gary-phil-and-original.html
https://darkwormcolt.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-grognards-really-played-3rd-edition.html
https://darkwormcolt.blogspot.com/2019/08/back-to-really-simple-roleplaying.html
Ahhh... and yet here I am, writing spells and spellbooks. 😆​

When writing spells, two functions come in handy: "have I used this word before?" and "look this word up in a dictionary."

"They're the post-apoc story of Chandi Choudary, a 16 year old member of the Church of Parkour. Chandi's lived a relatively sheltered life beneath the shattered moon, but all of that changes when a meteorite falls from the sky and into her possession."
https://josephbrowning.blogspot.com/2019/08/three-more-shattered-moon-novels.html

I like the "Church of Parkour" bit!
#Parkour

Bryce Lynch has a review site and he’s brutally honest and very peculiar in what he likes and what he doesn’t like. I happen to agree with it but it’s hard to extract it all from the reviews. Luckily, somebody else has: http://vanishingtower.blogspot.com/2019/08/into-dark-bryce-lynchs-adventure-design.html
The review site: http://tenfootpole.org/