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Friday, July 31, 2026

Impromptu Campaign Primer

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I wrote this yesterday in response to a player wanting to learn more about our campaign setting. Up until now I have been drip-feeding littl...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Darkmantles

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Chthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace . Conical indigo bodies ringed with crimson eyes; dense membrane we...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Friendship Simulator: a Procedure for Friends and Contacts

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The same way equipment and gear help you get things done in the dungeon, friends and contacts help you get things done in the city. What thi...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The Banter Grew Tense at the Springtime Soiree

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“So tell me,” Gredarius said, “how is Fabiola?” His prodigious waddle bobbed as he spoke. The particular emphasis he gave the word “is” coul...
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Saturday, May 30, 2026

So You Slept with a Succubus... (+ rules for cambions)

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One for the Sex Bandwagon .  Sex with a succubus is much like sex with anyone, which is to say it's absolutely horrifying.  The first ti...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

The Inverted Palace

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This is what I sent my players as a little backstory for the big dungeon at the center of our campaign: The Inverted Palace  On clear days, ...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

DM tip: write fiction

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I started writing little scenes about the locations keyed in my hex map and it's transformed my game for the better. The player-facing m...
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MUD in torrents, worms in the mud, in every worm the primal helix of future life. A million years of rain. Then the sun asserts its tyranny, evaporating oceans, fish cast ashore to writhe on bellies, grow limbs, shed scales, grow fur while the earth's crust grinds, cracks, and ejaculates columns of magma. Cities piled on a bedrock of predation, copulation, assassination. Every port a gate of fire through which each must pass who seeks his true and ancient parentage.
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