Post Index

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Adventures

The Bones of Ol' Bill

*Colonialism, Dragons, and the Endless Possibilities of Perspective

The Festival of Fair Dreams

The Yorde

Adventure Journals

The Goblin Tomb

Game Recap: The Mirror Academy

Game Systems

A Bowl of GLoG Soup

Best* Job on Earth: One Page Modern Sci-Fi Dungeon Clean-up

*Bitterwood: A Solo Horror OSR

Burning Stars - A Game About Stories

GLoG for Foundry VTT (Probably Outdated)

Goblin Finder: GLoG PF2e Crossbreed

*Goblin Tales: A Fairy-Tale GLoG

Luckless, an RPG without RNG

Magus Ludus

*MiniGLOG MiniTALES MiniTACTICS

MythicGLoG: Knights

Roam: A Game of World-Wanderers

*Shadow & Fae Houserules (An OSR for 5e's Lost Children)

"Take Courage!" - And the Purpose of Rules in TTRPGs

Trespasser: Old School Fantasy Tactics (A Review)

*Westcoast GLoG (Renamed "Shattered Coasts")

Game Mechanics

AC/DC and Ability Scores (Or, Yet Another Post on d20 Mechanics)

Backstory or Destiny?

Character Retirement Perks (GLoGueLike)

D66 Arcane Dooms

*Merchant Campaign Market Rules

OSR Boss Fights: A Simple Recipe

OSR Religion: Eserra, The Wanderer's Star

Realms, Warbands, and TTRPGs (An early look at Domain Play)

Rethinking the Game: Combat

Uber Simple Combat

Gamemaster Tools

*D&D Motif Index by Theme

*GLoG Solutions (Or, How to Kill the Devil When You've Only Got 30 HP)

GM Pointers: Live-Text Games

*Flash 20-Room Dungeon Creation

MiniDELVE

MiniREALM

Module Design Masterlist (Not a post, but a list of excellent posts on Module Design.)

The Story of the Road

*The Ways of Folk - A Template for Cultures, and an Example

GLoG Classes

5E Class Conversions (Updated Version)

Alcomancer

Delver: A Classless GLoG Class

Fae: A GLoG Race-as-Classis

Fighter: Secrets of the Blade

Monk: Students of Wind & Stone

Ranger: Leader of Men, Slayer of Beasts

*Remembrance: An Enchanter Class for the GLoG

*Story-as-Class: The Divided

*Story-as-Class: The Fugitive

Story-as-Class: The Impaler

Story-as-Class: The Oaf

The Scrappy Teen


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