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Sales
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DriveThruRPG: 33% off of select Fallout RPG books, 40% off of Rappan Athuk, Bunnies and Burrows, Deities and Demigods, Fiend Folio, and Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes.
Reviews
Bryce Lynch gives “The Best” to Scorchfire and Standoff at Sandfell Sea Fort (available here and here).
Grognadia: Terror in the Streets (available here).
. . . Terror in the Streets is one of the best things Kelvin Green has written for LotFP to date. It's also one of the best historical fantasy adventures I've read in quite some time. Reading it, I was left with a small sense of disappointment that I am not refereeing a game where I could easily make use of it.
Playful Void: Seas of Sand (available here).
If your table loves unique worlds, is interested in a seafaring or mercantile campaign, or wanted to enjoy Ultraviolet Grasslands but it felt too picaresque or undirected, this is a book for you.
Jorphdan’s Jocular Junction looks at Adventure RPG (In Need of Translation) on April 1.
RPG Backpack: Mythic Bastionland review
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Free Stuff
Explorer’s Design: Classic Explorer Starter Template (an incredibly useful pre-designed layout template to get you started in making RPG products)
Complete Monstrous Compendium: Stats for every monster from every book in 2e.
Coins and Scrolls: Mirrors, Cubes, Rods, Staves, and the Deck of Motley Things
Luke Gearing: d100 Carousing
Orbital Crypt: The Darkest Outcome
The Alexandrian: The False Tomb
Robotic Topologist: Minimalist Solar System Generator
Nocturnal Peacock: 10 free old-school adventures
Yochai Gal: Rise of the Blood Olms
brettfp: Arcane Brawl 28 (review here)
News
On his new D&D podcast, historian Ben Riggs asks “How would you save D&D if you were the new CEO?” following Cynthia Williams resigning from WotC.
Chris McDowall interviews Quintin Smith (from Shut Up and Sit Down) and Laurie O’Connel on the new season of the Bastionland Podcast.
Luke Crane has started a new podcast on RPG theory.
Explorer’s Design: 2024 RPG Design Prophesies
At Questing Beast, I look at the data showing how the OSR has grown on Kickstarter over the lat 10 years
History
Ben Riggs discusses the negotiations between TSR and the Tolkien estate.
Grognardia: Retrospective: Cyberpunk
Awesome Lies discusses the history of soul-draining demon swords.
On a related note, Wandering DMs interview Michael Moorcock, last living Appendix N author.
Mythlands: Appraising ADVANCED D&D - Part 1 (Ability Scores)
Jordan Sorcery interviews legendary fantasy illustrator Ian Miller.
At Questing Beast I discuss my experiences at GaryCon playing Braunstein and Blackmoor.
Rules, Theory, and Advice
At Questing Beast I discuss the perennial question of whether games are “about” their rules.
Trollsmyth responds to my video.
The levikornelsen blog responds as well, focusing on the “Fruitful Void” concept.
Monsters and Manuals: Play as Sculpture, Play as Prism
Rise Up Comus: Interesting Social Situations, or The Discourse Post
Explorer’s Design has been killing it recently with useful posts on layout: Killing Good Games with Bad Titles, Graphic Design 101 (A Beginner’s Glossary), and Turn the Character Sheet Sideways.
Bob World builder looks at how much of a stat block you can cut:
Bastionland: Making the Game Happen
Rise up Comus: A Campaign Where There is One of Anything
Whose Measure God Could Not Take: Why Are You So Emaciated and Your Face Half-Crazed? (Carousing Rules)
The Alexandrian: Rolling for Riddles
Lost Pages: Stocking Interesting Places: a writing template for Zones
Prismatic Wasteland: Do Fear the Reaper
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