Primæval Fantasy RPG
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#Fantasy #TTRPG, #Tolkien.
-U-TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Primaeval/videos
-Blog: https://danielionson.wixsite.com/good-daemon
-Old Pod: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/primeval-fantasy/
#Fantasy #TTRPG, #Tolkien.
-U-TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Primaeval/videos
-Blog: https://danielionson.wixsite.com/good-daemon
-Old Pod: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/primeval-fantasy/
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This week on RPR, listener Alex asked a question about how to make player-driven play work in shorter games. Thanks for the question, Alex! This episode is my answer —> #5 Player-Directed Goals: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...
Player-Directed Goals | Roleplay Rescue
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November 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This week on RPR, listener Alex asked a question about how to make player-driven play work in shorter games. Thanks for the question, Alex! This episode is my answer —> #5 Player-Directed Goals: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A quick, minimalistic mass-NPC generator I made for my AD&D pals that may save you a little time.
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Downloads
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November 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A quick, minimalistic mass-NPC generator I made for my AD&D pals that may save you a little time.
primaevalfantasy.com/downloads.html
primaevalfantasy.com/downloads.html
We learn by doing. The right way to learn new RPG mechanics (or anything complex) is not to read it all at once, but to absorb just enough info to start practicing 1 small section at a time. Learning is also tactile, so actually rolling/writing, etc. With each new section, repeatedly practice it.
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We learn by doing. The right way to learn new RPG mechanics (or anything complex) is not to read it all at once, but to absorb just enough info to start practicing 1 small section at a time. Learning is also tactile, so actually rolling/writing, etc. With each new section, repeatedly practice it.
This is an excellent read/listen: academyofideas.com/2025/11/what...
What Fairy Tales Teach About Life
“…the fairy tale is the great mother of the novel, and has even more universal validity than the most-avidly read novel of your time. And you know that what has been on everyone’s lips for millennia, ...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is an excellent read/listen: academyofideas.com/2025/11/what...
There is no such thing as "free" time. Ultimately, time is the only true commodity we have. Every minute wasted is an irretrievable loss.
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
There is no such thing as "free" time. Ultimately, time is the only true commodity we have. Every minute wasted is an irretrievable loss.
Mid Nov and windows open with 70F outside. Hard to complain.
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Mid Nov and windows open with 70F outside. Hard to complain.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense should learn from their mistakes. True wisdom is shown in those who learn from the mistakes of others as well.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Anyone with a modicum of common sense should learn from their mistakes. True wisdom is shown in those who learn from the mistakes of others as well.
Fatty Bolger: The Porkins of Middle Earth.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Fatty Bolger: The Porkins of Middle Earth.
Pictured: Any RPG designer who claims they can edit their text without tweaking the rules:
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Pictured: Any RPG designer who claims they can edit their text without tweaking the rules:
Make Hobbits Fat Again!
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Make Hobbits Fat Again!
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TFT V: The Lost Lair, on the magic of playing around enough to make a simple dungeon: roleplayrescue.com/2025/11/09/t...
TFT V: The Lost Lair
Last week I ran my first session with The Fantasy Trip by Steve Jackson Games as part of my most recent hobby pact. This weekend, after a positive session of something completely different, I found…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
TFT V: The Lost Lair, on the magic of playing around enough to make a simple dungeon: roleplayrescue.com/2025/11/09/t...
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RPGs manifest at the intersection of each player's actions, reactions, and interactions in play, where they are filtered through each person's perceptions of that play, before being morphed by memory, relating those memories as a story, and then by each retelling of that story~
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Episode 3: On Genre being Rule 0
This post relates an idea which appeared in written and video form in 2013, as an expression of earlier and less specific ideas. Genre is Rule 0 is a set of posts which have proven to be of more us…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
RPGs manifest at the intersection of each player's actions, reactions, and interactions in play, where they are filtered through each person's perceptions of that play, before being morphed by memory, relating those memories as a story, and then by each retelling of that story~
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Ep2 Jamison and the Magical Bio Sheet: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...
Jamison and the Magical Bio Sheet | Roleplay Rescue
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November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Ep2 Jamison and the Magical Bio Sheet: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...
Happy Bday to Tom Moldvay, whose edition of D&D was the first so many of us enjoyed as kids.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Happy Bday to Tom Moldvay, whose edition of D&D was the first so many of us enjoyed as kids.
'Discord' is the most honestly named social media site in existence.
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
'Discord' is the most honestly named social media site in existence.
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To improve access to episodes of the Casting Shadows podcast and the relevant links pertaining to them, I have caused CastingShadowsPodcast.com to come into being. A more memorable link, search and tags which work, and optional notifications are the result~
Episode 65: On Memory and RPGs (with Arcane Alienist)
This is an OctOSR-adjacent episode. Thanks go out to BJ Boyd, the Arcane Alienist, for being a guest on this episode to help frame and execute a discussion on the nature of memory and some key ways that can affect our play and understanding of RPGs.
castingshadowspodcast.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To improve access to episodes of the Casting Shadows podcast and the relevant links pertaining to them, I have caused CastingShadowsPodcast.com to come into being. A more memorable link, search and tags which work, and optional notifications are the result~
Cmpgn experiment: Have a date set where the world gets suddenly wrecked. The PCs are involved with whatever other plans & BOOM- Earthquakes, cities destroyed, fire from the heavens, whatever. >90% pop. is dead.
Further, NO foreshadowing. No Seers dropping hints. No explanations.
Further, NO foreshadowing. No Seers dropping hints. No explanations.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cmpgn experiment: Have a date set where the world gets suddenly wrecked. The PCs are involved with whatever other plans & BOOM- Earthquakes, cities destroyed, fire from the heavens, whatever. >90% pop. is dead.
Further, NO foreshadowing. No Seers dropping hints. No explanations.
Further, NO foreshadowing. No Seers dropping hints. No explanations.
Anyone else use the Pomodoro Technique?
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Anyone else use the Pomodoro Technique?
I sometimes find myself a bit envious of those who believe in ghosts.
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I sometimes find myself a bit envious of those who believe in ghosts.
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."
Chesterton
Chesterton
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."
Chesterton
Chesterton
The 1920s - A great decade for horror movies.
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The 1920s - A great decade for horror movies.
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Heresy alert! Rules Get Out Of The Way, where I report that solid rules actually make roleplay easier: roleplayrescue.com/2025/10/19/r...
Rules Get Out Of The Way
For years, fans of so-called ‘rules lite’ games have been telling us that the big benefit of such systems is that the “rules get out of the way during play”. The claim is th…
roleplayrescue.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Heresy alert! Rules Get Out Of The Way, where I report that solid rules actually make roleplay easier: roleplayrescue.com/2025/10/19/r...
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