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On Creative Theft

I’ve experienced creative theft at the beginning of my career and recently. It always hurts and has never stopped being wrong.Continue readingOn Creative Theft

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Muse Other

On generative ai

half-baked thoughts on generative aiContinue readingOn generative ai

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System Vastlands

Cocreation: Local Cultures

A random cultural trait generator for the Rainbowlands (and other places in the UVG).Continue readingCocreation: Local Cultures

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System Vastlands

Mechanics: Assets

This is a post on one of the resource mechanics in SDM – Our Golden Age, but it should be applicable to any rpg system that uses some kind of discrete wealth (as opposed…Continue readingMechanics: Assets

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Muse System

Principles: Like Friends

Principle 1: to build trust in a roleplaying group, behave like you would with friendsContinue readingPrinciples: Like Friends

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Muse System

Principles: Can’t Wrong

A zero principle for my games: you can’t do roleplaying wrong.Continue readingPrinciples: Can’t Wrong

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Development News System Vastlands

UVG2E & the Synthetic Dream Machine

Where to sign up for UVG 2E? Where to get the freshly released SDM: Eternal Return Key ruleset? How to put up with the author’s maudlin ways? News for this blog?Continue readingUVG2E & the Synthetic Dream Machine

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Roleplaytime Vastlands

The Purchased Brother: One-Shot Heist

on running a one-shot heist / a game accelerating rule (criticality) / the story of the Purchased Brother / aftermathContinue readingThe Purchased Brother: One-Shot Heist

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Roadmap: S.E.A.C.A.T. & the Synthetic Dream Machine

A couple weeks ago, the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the 23rd year of the 21st century of our reckoning, I published a 32-page zine on my patreon, on the stratometaship. Synthetic…Continue readingRoadmap: S.E.A.C.A.T. & the Synthetic Dream Machine

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Muse Other

Roleplay Is Folk Art

Adapted from the original I wrote for the fantasy audio magazine CANDLE. Under the Ogl’s Gaze Recently there’s been plenty of turmoil in the roleplaying hobby, especially among publishers, about the rumored moves by…Continue readingRoleplay Is Folk Art