qwitwa

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Unpacking reaction rolls (eucatastrophic.bearblog.dev)
[–] qwitwa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The bag of holding is a small sackcloth bag filled with down, with two glassy eyes sown to it, and perhaps a pleasant mouth painted on. It is intended as an attachment object for children, and is not dissimilar in that respect to companion cube from portal.

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Steps to Demonetize the TTRPG Hobby (traversefantasy.blogspot.com)
 

This (excellent) blog post came up in a 2h conversation with a friend with dyslexia so I spent an hour or so today recording it.

 

I'm playing a campaign that's LotFP plus slot based encumbrance house rules, and I've been disappointed in a lot of hexcrawling rulesets I've seen from the OSR. I particularly don't like Black Hack type usage dice / the Necropraxis overloaded encounter die, and that seems to be where thought has coalesced, with Errant being an example of a game that goes all in on that.

So I was delighted to discover that 1e AD&D has a supplement with workable mechanics for temperature (including wind chill!), foraging, hunting, etc. I need to massage it a little to fit into the LotFP skills system because it comes with its own but on the whole I'm excited that I have a way to go inside hexes and give players meaningful decisions about how they dress, where they camp, etc.

What about y'all, what material have you been reading recently?

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Keystone blog posts of the OSR (traversefantasy.blogspot.com)