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This account exists to spare my friends from my D&D obsession. Lots of Warhammer too. #OSR #TTRPG #40K. Part of the #torontOSR!
My blog: save.vs.totalpartykill.ca, just like my username! He/Him.
My blog: save.vs.totalpartykill.ca, just like my username! He/Him.
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Need to learn the rules to Blood Bowl as fast as possible.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Need to learn the rules to Blood Bowl as fast as possible.
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If I was the sort of person to seek online attention, I would write about this topic under a headline like "This is the *real* Matt Mercer effect" or similar.
But I do think a default assumption of long, epic campaigns can both intimidate and cause people to reject shortform systems
But I do think a default assumption of long, epic campaigns can both intimidate and cause people to reject shortform systems
December 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If I was the sort of person to seek online attention, I would write about this topic under a headline like "This is the *real* Matt Mercer effect" or similar.
But I do think a default assumption of long, epic campaigns can both intimidate and cause people to reject shortform systems
But I do think a default assumption of long, epic campaigns can both intimidate and cause people to reject shortform systems
A new post, so that this idea can be the focus. Most of the campaigns I've run or played in fizzle out for all sorts of random reasons. Such is life!
December 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A new post, so that this idea can be the focus. Most of the campaigns I've run or played in fizzle out for all sorts of random reasons. Such is life!
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Really enjoy the practical advice Ram summarizes here born out of mistakes and holes he wished he had known about.
If you are thinking about running a hexcrawl OR just want to know how much you should fleshout in a region-- look no further!
If you are thinking about running a hexcrawl OR just want to know how much you should fleshout in a region-- look no further!
This was a long time coming: Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, a Decade Too Late.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, A Decade Too Late
Masters of Carcosa is the longest campaign I have run. My friends and I played 23 sessions, starting at the end of 2014, ending near the start of 2016. The game began after Brendan took a break from r...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Really enjoy the practical advice Ram summarizes here born out of mistakes and holes he wished he had known about.
If you are thinking about running a hexcrawl OR just want to know how much you should fleshout in a region-- look no further!
If you are thinking about running a hexcrawl OR just want to know how much you should fleshout in a region-- look no further!
This was a long time coming: Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, a Decade Too Late.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, A Decade Too Late
Masters of Carcosa is the longest campaign I have run. My friends and I played 23 sessions, starting at the end of 2014, ending near the start of 2016. The game began after Brendan took a break from r...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca
December 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This was a long time coming: Advice for Running a Hexcrawl, a Decade Too Late.
A reminder there is an OSR feed that pulls OSR posts from BlueSky. Or tries its best to, anyway.
I have republished Yochai’s OSR feed, which I was the co-moderator of. Should be working exactly as it was before.
December 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A reminder there is an OSR feed that pulls OSR posts from BlueSky. Or tries its best to, anyway.
And so we come to the end! Masters of Carcosa was the longest campaign I have run. Reading all these recaps again has been a lot of fun for me, hopefully you as well. In session 23 the Rainbow Connection finally attack the Jale Slavers base!
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 23
And so we come to the end. Did I know this would be the last session of the campaign? Hard to tell, but I posted about it going on hiatus shortly afterwards. This session ended up being a fitting conc...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
And so we come to the end! Masters of Carcosa was the longest campaign I have run. Reading all these recaps again has been a lot of fun for me, hopefully you as well. In session 23 the Rainbow Connection finally attack the Jale Slavers base!
Session 22 of Masters of Carcosa was typical player hijinks, trying to trick the Space Alien Strike Force into thinking the evil Slavers desecrated their former leaders tomb.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 22
This session was all about trying to make friends. The players had a zany scheme: dress up a slaver in the space alien amour they had stolen from a tomb in order to convince the space aliens it was in...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Session 22 of Masters of Carcosa was typical player hijinks, trying to trick the Space Alien Strike Force into thinking the evil Slavers desecrated their former leaders tomb.
During session 21 of Masters of Carcosa I tried once again to remind the players the Putrescent Pits of the Ameboid God existed. Too little too late? I found my short notes about the site.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 21
More slaver killing antics, as the party heads north to investigate rumours of slaver activity. The party had liberated the Orange Man citadel North of their home base of Invak many sessions ago, but ...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
During session 21 of Masters of Carcosa I tried once again to remind the players the Putrescent Pits of the Ameboid God existed. Too little too late? I found my short notes about the site.
A @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io classic I had 100% forgot all about. Short and to the point.
Perhaps my favorite blog post of all time. Super influential on how I think about adventure games because it resonated perfectly with my instincts about sword and sorcery gaming.
#TTRPG #swordandsorcery
Tl;Dr: Hack of OSR to use one adventurer class that levels up thief, fighter, or wiz per choice.
#TTRPG #swordandsorcery
Tl;Dr: Hack of OSR to use one adventurer class that levels up thief, fighter, or wiz per choice.
How to be an adventurer
Everyone is an Adventurer, if you wanted to be a wizard or specialist you should have stayed in school. Characters: All saving throws st...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io classic I had 100% forgot all about. Short and to the point.
I hope they make an extra fancy giant hardcover version of Blame one day. What an incredible manga.
Still don’t really know what the fuck is happening, but whatever.
Still don’t really know what the fuck is happening, but whatever.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I hope they make an extra fancy giant hardcover version of Blame one day. What an incredible manga.
Still don’t really know what the fuck is happening, but whatever.
Still don’t really know what the fuck is happening, but whatever.
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Don’t roll! The most OSRish one and a third page RPG ever.
OFDR RPG
Oh Fuck, Don’t Roll! By Claytonian of Killitwithfire, but with ideas from this The Dice Want to Kill you When you fail to describe your actions in a way that can be resolved with dungeon logic, you h...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Don’t roll! The most OSRish one and a third page RPG ever.
Blame is a real mood. Really making me want to re-run Gradient Descent.
December 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Blame is a real mood. Really making me want to re-run Gradient Descent.
I don’t remember anything about this book or why I backed it on Kickstarter. It looks cool, so I assume past Ramanan had some good taste.
December 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I don’t remember anything about this book or why I backed it on Kickstarter. It looks cool, so I assume past Ramanan had some good taste.
Session 19 of Masters of Carcosa was pretty quiet, but session 20 had the players manage to free the giant monster-god Yog to tear up the town of Torok
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save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Session 19 of Masters of Carcosa was pretty quiet, but session 20 had the players manage to free the giant monster-god Yog to tear up the town of Torok
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/masters...
In session 18 of Masters of Carcosa the players almost investigate the Snake Men ruins — but don't.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 18
The previous session the players rolled a 1 on the Hazard Die when travelling back to town. We didn’t want to play out the encounter at midnight, so I told them it’s how the session would start. I had...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In session 18 of Masters of Carcosa the players almost investigate the Snake Men ruins — but don't.
In session 17 of Masters of Carcosa, the Rainbow Connection meet the Protector of Truths and learn about his war with the Mi-Go.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 17
I forgot the man himself Daniel Dean also made an appearance during this campaign. This might have been the only session he managed to play, but the nice thing about G+ was people would sometimes drop...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
In session 17 of Masters of Carcosa, the Rainbow Connection meet the Protector of Truths and learn about his war with the Mi-Go.
Tania and Johan 😮
Fomoria Quickstart is crawling out of the earth now, free to download! Includes core rules, an intro adventure and 8 pregen characters ready to be consumed by the Darkness. An epic folk horror TTRPG created by Tania Herrero, laid out and published by @nohr.se
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Fomoria - Quickstart by Tania Herrero, Johan Nohr
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December 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Tania and Johan 😮
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Blog map update!
- Added many more blogs
- Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others)
- Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer
The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now.
graph.elmc.at
- Added many more blogs
- Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others)
- Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer
The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now.
graph.elmc.at
Blogosphere Map
An interactive map of TTRPG related blogs, linked by who cites whom.
graph.elmc.at
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Blog map update!
- Added many more blogs
- Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others)
- Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer
The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now.
graph.elmc.at
- Added many more blogs
- Pulled in more historical post data (Substack, Ghost + others)
- Reworked the side-panel stats to be clearer
The new data also reshaped the communities. We're at eight now.
graph.elmc.at
The blog post that got me even thinking about running Carcosa crossed with He-Man is this classic.
How brightly-coloured should Carcosa be?
Edit: Robert Parker’s essay on Carcosa = Masters of the Universe is here. It is better than mine, and it was he who first got me thinking on these lines (although at the time I wrote what fol…
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December 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The blog post that got me even thinking about running Carcosa crossed with He-Man is this classic.
In session 16 of Masters of Carcosa the players finally discover the lair of the Jale Slavers. They also totally killed the Frog-God Llothali.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 16
Some important discoveries this session. The Rainbow Connection finally discover the lair of the Jale Slavers. They had first learned of it after rescuing some slaves in the wilderness. They would beg...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
In session 16 of Masters of Carcosa the players finally discover the lair of the Jale Slavers. They also totally killed the Frog-God Llothali.
A day late! Session 15 was when the player's finally met the Space Alien Strike Force. They had to pretend they hadn't robbed the tomb of their fallen warrior a few sessions earlier. Somehow that worked, and they become bros.
Save vs. Total Party Kill - Masters of Carcosa - Session 15
The players had their home base in Invak, and had a strong relationship with the merchant town to the south, Jahar. At this point in the campaign they wanted to try and unify the region around the com...
save.vs.totalpartykill.ca
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A day late! Session 15 was when the player's finally met the Space Alien Strike Force. They had to pretend they hadn't robbed the tomb of their fallen warrior a few sessions earlier. Somehow that worked, and they become bros.
Die Hard is OSR? Noel answers the question with science.
Die Hard is OSR
"The more of the following a campaign has, the more old school it is." - Principia Apocrypha.
In , Nakatomi Plaza is a fabulous dungeon. It is jacquaysed t...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Die Hard is OSR? Noel answers the question with science.