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  • Hunt For Cadeus (Dungeon World) Session Report 1

    This is a session report for a game of dungeon world that I recently ran for some friends! This is a session report for the first two...

  • Mothership Session Report 1

    I’ve recently started running two friends through the space horror ttrpg Mothership scenario Dead Weight (warning - itch page contain...

  • Class-Based Setting Design #1: Intro and the Fighter

    1: Failing at setting creation I’ve been thinking recently about my methods of prep for dnd style ttrpgs. My prep for such games ha...

  • Bottom-Up Generation - Part 3: Settlements

    This is a procedure for generating settlements for a fantasy setting. These are the base components of out fantasy world, the geograp...

  • Bottom-Up Generation - Part 2: Geography

    This is a procedure for generating the geography of a fantasy region. A follow-up from my previous post on what I’m calling “bottom-u...

  • Bottom-Up Generation - Part 1: Introduction

    I’m a big fan of how the game Stars Without Number does procedural setting generation from the bottom-up. If you are not familiar wit...