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Spellcasting for Apes

Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.

I set a goal for myself of making at least one post a month every month this summer. It's now the tail end of September, and I've got one po...

A reading informed review of Girl Frame

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here . The series will, when necessary, go ...

A New Frontier of Brutality for Sci-Fi Fantasy Heroes and Villains!!!

Have you ever lived in a city? Think back and you will notice: your experience was mainly a series of rooms. You visited perhaps 6-12 rooms each day. (Usuall...

We've all been there: You're just trying to move on from the recent encounter, direct the PCs somewhere interesting. Meanwhile, your players...

Seraphina shares some beautiful stories about her wide-ranging RPG collection.

Here’s an offering for you, D&D DMs, adventure game masters, old school referees: a wounds system where your hit dice are a pool to roll from every time you get hit. Use it, hack it, mock it. It’s you...

When designing a downtime procedure for a long-running campaign, you want to know how involved you want the procedure to be. I’ve run campa...

This isn't a fighter, thief, wizard or cleric (I think!) Its intended to be pretty versatile, but I bet it's especially compatible with Unus...

TTRPG where you play as pocket-sized monsters in a Pokapocalyptic world

The third entry in the Final Fantasy series was a departure from the game design of Akitoshi Kawazu and a spiritual return to the first game. It’s a story about four prophesied heroes destined to rest...

Subcreation for all!

I've been running Night Tripper recently. It's fun, you should do the same. Broad strokes, it's a space opera/pulp game in the style of Classic Traveller wit...

Rules for medieval skirmishes

Exploring yesterday's adventures with tomorrow's technology...today!

Links to all the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon blogposts

Every week, you'll get photos of a person's TTRPG shelf and a short interview about their collection.

This is a little grungy forged in the dark game I've been working on for the last few weeks. This is a first look, so it's missing downtime

A survey on campaign length and lethality

Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.

There was a post on Facebook (cess pit that it is) that I found really inspirational. Here's a screenshot so you don't ritually defile yours...

My design philosophy has long been rooted in the idea of permissive and cooperative design – the idea that a game’s text and rules should serve to help the players. However, I’ve started to s…

Magic system based on Indonesian occult practice

A being for Cairn.

Unsurprisingly, I love Pokemon. It is such a fascinating and creative space to make things in. I firmly believe that is the closest we have gotten

An Earlybird Playtest Kit for the Space Fantasy Experience of a lifetime!

A TTRPG about Childhood

Further Advancement for extended play

Beywatch Meets Lovecraft. It's 1994 and the lifeguards are keeping watch over the beaches of Southern California. Not only do you need to keep beach-goers safe from dangerous riptides, heavy surf, and...

How marginalized voices, Indonesian cultural concepts like Gotong Royong, and the psychological magic of 'Bleed' can rescue your tabletop campaigns from repetitive storytelling.

Investigate a sabotaged shipyard in this NULL_SPACE job!

a MarkoftheOdd TTRPG about enjoying Childhood

There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...

Humanity is gone... from -this- world

Welcome! We're coming off a whirlwind month after July's game jams, and everyone's refilling the creative well in different ways. Luckily, there's no shortage of inspiration with all this new blood in...

I talk about the Indonesian language, why it's surprisingly easy for English speakers to pick up, and how we use it to seamlessly codswitch during our TTRPG sessions.