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Running Mythic Bastionland
Run Mythic Bastionland with confidence: map creation, realm population, sparking conflict, Omens, Sites, calendars, and lightweight prep tools.
elmc.at
I fell hard for Mythic Bastionland this summer. Here's exactly how I prepped and ran it (plus a pile of resources). If you're asking "where do I start?", this is for you:
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Spent the past week mining my RSS reader to map what I'm calling the "Blogverse"
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Spent the past week mining my RSS reader to map what I'm calling the "Blogverse"
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
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Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north...
Here's 10 special doors that prompt OSR problem solving to put in your dungeon.
Here's 10 special doors that prompt OSR problem solving to put in your dungeon.
d10 Special Doors
Hookay, writing this blog post not because I have good ideas, but because I don't have any ideas. Bashing my head against a writing prompt i...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north...
Here's 10 special doors that prompt OSR problem solving to put in your dungeon.
Here's 10 special doors that prompt OSR problem solving to put in your dungeon.
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I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out!
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
smoke, fuel, & fire faction generator
perchance.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out!
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
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Spent the past week mining my RSS reader to map what I'm calling the "Blogverse"
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Spent the past week mining my RSS reader to map what I'm calling the "Blogverse"
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
Still adding data and tuning the graph, but I'll share soon
Early stats: 1027 blogs, 13393 links, 203918 posts - and counting
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Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Stepladder Tables
I am not certain that I am the first to have this idea. In fact, I most certainly am not; there's nothing new under the sun (especially in R...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
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Did a little write up of my Feast for a Sphinx duet session: discodanlives.bearblog.dev/a-feast-for-...
A Feast for a Sphinx 1-on-1 Play Report
Had a great time running <tab:https://evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-a-sphinx> one on one with my partner yesterday. He hasn't played a ton of tabletop, but he re...
discodanlives.bearblog.dev
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Did a little write up of my Feast for a Sphinx duet session: discodanlives.bearblog.dev/a-feast-for-...
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oh my god they actually did it lmao
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
oh my god they actually did it lmao
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i want to highlight some submissions to the #icon0clasm ball for fantastic medieval campaigns!
thank you to everyone who has submitted so far, especially for developing such thoughtful and effortful works 😊
blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gene...
itch: itch.io/jam/icon0cla...
thank you to everyone who has submitted so far, especially for developing such thoughtful and effortful works 😊
blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gene...
itch: itch.io/jam/icon0cla...
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i want to highlight some submissions to the #icon0clasm ball for fantastic medieval campaigns!
thank you to everyone who has submitted so far, especially for developing such thoughtful and effortful works 😊
blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gene...
itch: itch.io/jam/icon0cla...
thank you to everyone who has submitted so far, especially for developing such thoughtful and effortful works 😊
blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gene...
itch: itch.io/jam/icon0cla...
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🚨NEW WEIRD GAME KLAXXON🚨
ECO MOFOS sets sail!!
Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells.
tinyurl.com/yfryeat8
ECO MOFOS sets sail!!
Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells.
tinyurl.com/yfryeat8
September 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🚨NEW WEIRD GAME KLAXXON🚨
ECO MOFOS sets sail!!
Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells.
tinyurl.com/yfryeat8
ECO MOFOS sets sail!!
Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light procedure-heavy TTRPG for solo and group play. Smash Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves, guzzling ambergris to learn new spells.
tinyurl.com/yfryeat8
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Heyy, I have a blog now!
PUT PIKMIN IN YOUR MAUSRITTER GAME YOU COWARDS
I figured I’d test out my new blog by reposting one of my favorite takes on with some quick art.
Happy !...
toucant.bearblog.dev
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Heyy, I have a blog now!
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Cheney dead
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Cheney dead
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There is no world where I'm fine but other people are suffering and miserable. Even if we imagine I have no empathy or conscience, if I were smart, I'd know that other people having problems always causes for me. Every time. Guaranteed. Even if I only care about myself, helping others helps me.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is no world where I'm fine but other people are suffering and miserable. Even if we imagine I have no empathy or conscience, if I were smart, I'd know that other people having problems always causes for me. Every time. Guaranteed. Even if I only care about myself, helping others helps me.
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The problem with Hard Men is that whenever it turns out that What Needs To Be Done is actually something soft and feminine like giving away free money to buy food, healthcare, housing, etc, the Hard Men simply refuse to Do it and start Hard planning human sacrifices instead.
November 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The problem with Hard Men is that whenever it turns out that What Needs To Be Done is actually something soft and feminine like giving away free money to buy food, healthcare, housing, etc, the Hard Men simply refuse to Do it and start Hard planning human sacrifices instead.
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The lack of a "anti-Fox News" is not a story of market failure. Media plutocrats have chosen to leave money on the table because they don't want to support challenges to plutocracy.
Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%
Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’
Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The lack of a "anti-Fox News" is not a story of market failure. Media plutocrats have chosen to leave money on the table because they don't want to support challenges to plutocracy.
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I had a great time talking about Mythic Bastionland on the Smiling Fox podcast, which is a whole podcast just about that one game!
I talked a lot about @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social's wonderful approach to running the game in a way that facilitated lots of great character drama.
I talked a lot about @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social's wonderful approach to running the game in a way that facilitated lots of great character drama.
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I had a great time talking about Mythic Bastionland on the Smiling Fox podcast, which is a whole podcast just about that one game!
I talked a lot about @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social's wonderful approach to running the game in a way that facilitated lots of great character drama.
I talked a lot about @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social's wonderful approach to running the game in a way that facilitated lots of great character drama.
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I posted this on Tumblr a few days ago: www.tumblr.com/secretsnowcl...
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💬 0 🔁 51 ❤️ 113 · TTRPG School: Required Reading · This is an alphabetical list of writing on tabletop games, video games, games broadly, and a few adjacent topics. It is required reading. I am n…
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November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I posted this on Tumblr a few days ago: www.tumblr.com/secretsnowcl...
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A blogpost that I made out of pettiness. Gamemasters are Game Designers!
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
Gamemasters are Game Designers!
Yes. Tabletop RPG Gamemasters are Players as well. But they are also Game Designers.
What made me to make this blogpost? Pettiness. Someone said that one ...
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A blogpost that I made out of pettiness. Gamemasters are Game Designers!
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/gamemasters-...
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Why not start the domain game early with Medieval Farming Simulator?
Costs are completely whacky due to the need to interact with B/X D&D's funny prices, but the flavor is mostly based on Frans Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," where Orm spends his adventuring gold on raising a hall.
Costs are completely whacky due to the need to interact with B/X D&D's funny prices, but the flavor is mostly based on Frans Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," where Orm spends his adventuring gold on raising a hall.
The Sunbold Farm
EveningStardew Valley, more like One of the conditions for Trigg being allowed to marry Emelda was that he purchase a farmhouse for her to l...
houselesshills.blogspot.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Why not start the domain game early with Medieval Farming Simulator?
Costs are completely whacky due to the need to interact with B/X D&D's funny prices, but the flavor is mostly based on Frans Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," where Orm spends his adventuring gold on raising a hall.
Costs are completely whacky due to the need to interact with B/X D&D's funny prices, but the flavor is mostly based on Frans Bengtsson's "The Long Ships," where Orm spends his adventuring gold on raising a hall.
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meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)
I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)
The Chapel of the Green - Hexmas Blogwagon 2025
I’ve been meaning to start a TTRPG blog for a while and the Hexmas Blogwagon from Prismatic Wasteland seemed as good an excuse as any. In s...
meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
meadowofthewitch-hares.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)
I've started a blog! My very first post is joining in the Hexmas Blogwagon by Prismatic Wasteland. (It is christmassy, in a catholic way, maybe not Rankin Bass-esque but it does have a headless cleric class to unlock, if you'll indulge me)
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I'm here with a very exciting announcement: The Awards 2026 is happening! The SEO-friendly TTRPG awards show has had a refreshing year off and is back with a vengeance.
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Awards 2026 Design Diary #1
Inspired by Clayton Notestine's debrief on his participation in the 2025 Ennie Awards and Split/Party's "What awards do for us?" articl...
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'm here with a very exciting announcement: The Awards 2026 is happening! The SEO-friendly TTRPG awards show has had a refreshing year off and is back with a vengeance.
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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Blog Preview! Last Friday's Blogpost is finally done being edited (I say as if I'm not the one who was taking his time editing it) Patrons at the Dollar Tier or higher can give it a read early! Or Less Late, as the case happens to be. It's about Trains. www.patreon.com/posts/blog-p...
Blog Preview - I Like Trains | Farmer Gadda
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Blog Preview! Last Friday's Blogpost is finally done being edited (I say as if I'm not the one who was taking his time editing it) Patrons at the Dollar Tier or higher can give it a read early! Or Less Late, as the case happens to be. It's about Trains. www.patreon.com/posts/blog-p...
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From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes my entry to this year's Christmas Blog Bandwagon: An entry in a hex crawl inspired by Rankin/Bass! We've got orcs, we've got labor disputes, and boy howdy we've got pop culture references galore!
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
Blog Bandwagon: Orcish Toy Factory
Definitely a lawyer and allegedly a blogger Prismatic Wasteland has issued a new Blog Bandwagon wherein everyone comes up with a hex an...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes my entry to this year's Christmas Blog Bandwagon: An entry in a hex crawl inspired by Rankin/Bass! We've got orcs, we've got labor disputes, and boy howdy we've got pop culture references galore!
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...