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Paul VX2
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Creator of GRIDSHOCK 20XX. Half of VX2, purveyors of tabletop roleplaying games - now including Terminal State.

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Hell yeah brother
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Women don't like the vehicle
Ford Bronco Montana Lobo, 1980. A radical prototype truck based on a 1977 Bronco chassis. The concept was a collaboration between Ford's design centre in Dearborn and the Ghia Design Studios in Italy. It showcased futuristic styling and advanced features such as digital instrumentation and tinted Plexiglas doors. The louvered "flying buttress" design had side-facing benches in the rear bed with storage underneath.
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Surprised to find a couple of (very thorough) summaries of two of the GRIDSHOCK 20XX zines on Reviews from R'lyeh recently.

It sounds pretty nuts when you boil it all down the way these reviews to, and I guess it kinda is!

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October 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I wrapped up a year-long Dragonbane campaign last night. That's the longest stretch of uninterrupted time I've spent running any TTRPG, by far.

I had a few problems with the adventure, but I definitely got my money's worth out of Path of Glory. Thanks, Free League!
A rather old-looking collage image of a ruined castle on an island, with a green dragon taking flight into a starry night sky.
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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It's been fun to see YZE's core audience announce that they're not big fans of superheroes, but Free League's Invincible RPG looks like it was their excuse to make a TSR Marvel Superheroes (FASERIP)-style game using the Year Zero Engine, and I'm absolutely on board with that. Target audience: me.
A frame from the INVINCIBLE comic series, depicting the villain Conquest holding the titular hero by the throat and declaring "I WANT MORE!"
September 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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When I run published adventures, I have this tendency to want to just get to the next section. Usually not a big deal, but if I've been running that published adventure for a year, the lack of roleplaying opportunities starts to become noticeable. Something I need to work on as a GM.
A pen-and-ink illustration of a fighter, a thief, and a magic-user in a cave, looking unhappy with each other. By Greg Harper, from the AD&D Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1986).
September 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Last year, I converted three character options from Operation Unfathomable to Dragonbane. Now that I have much more experience with running Dragonbane, I think two of them are rather underpowered, but I still think I did a decent job with them:
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Previously unseen artwork of a citizen lich that was a mallard before becoming semi-undead, by Jason Sholtis. A mummified, ducklike humanoid figure, wrapped in strips of cloth and wearing a hooded cloak, clutches a staff with a winged skeletal duck at its tip. Around its waist is a belt with a demonic face as its buckle, attached to which are various arcane implements, including vials, tubes, and a dagger.
September 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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When you upload a battlemap to Forge and THEN upload it to Foundry successfully without fucking up even one time along the way
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Is it just the people I game with, or does nobody give their fantasy TTRPG characters swords these days? I hardly ever see anyone make a sword-wielding warrior. Shit's played out! (The adventure I'm running is full of masterwork and magical swords, which none of the PCs are any good at using.)
Black and white pen and ink illustration by Denis Loubet of four helmeted swordsmen fighting, from Heritage USA's Swordbearer RPG (1982).
August 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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If you see this post a robot
The illustration for GRIDSHOCK 20XX's Rogue Bot template: A woman in a country & Western-themed performing outfit, with sequins and fringe, has removed her face to reveal a grinning mechanical visage. She holds a "flying V" guitar while raising her detached face like a mask in one hand. Artwork by Steven De Waele, from GRIDSHOCK 20XX Zine 2: Roster.
August 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I just realized I've been running the Path of Glory adventure for Dragonbane since September 2024.

And I still suck at using Foundry VTT! Been fun regardless. Should blog about what worked and what could have been streamlined or done better (both on my end and on Free League's) when it's over.
An image of the death wight, Mogdath, from the Path of Glory adventure for Dragonbane. He is an imposing, shadowy cloaked figure in black armor, shrouded in gray-green mist. Mogdath wears a spiked helmet that obscures his face, other than his glowing eyes. In one hand, he brandishes a large sword. His other gauntlet reaches menacingly toward the viewer.
August 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Introducing the gods for my next fantasy TTRPG campaign.
A manipulated photo of four housecats. One is yellow with five eyes, one is blue with four eyes, one is green with three eyes, and one is pink with one eye. Each has four ears.
August 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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All I see are GIFs of MTV "The Osbournes" era Ozzy, fuck that, let's get some bleached perm and sequin blouse Ozzy up in here
July 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A still image from Princess Mononoke (1997) depicting the bandaged face of a leper, who is lying down with a reed blanket on top of him. Subtitle text reads "The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living."
July 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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July 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I certainly put more stock in this review than Google's AI summary of GRIDSHOCK 20XX, which sure sounds nice, but I think is based on the one or two other reviews that exist. Not exactly a huge sample size.
July 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that is not from Star Wars or Transformers
A cute toy robot made of blue and white plastic, holding a cross in one hand. Next to the toy is the box it came in, which depicts the same robot holding a bouquet of flowers, including Japanese text and the words GOD*JESUS in Roman letters.
June 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When the song sucks so bad you have to time travel to when you hadn't heard it yet
A screengrab of a YouTube comment from blubblubwhat that reads "wow what a horeible song had to go back in time"
June 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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get off my property
May 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I've tried running fantasy RPG campaigns set in the immediate aftermath of your typical "good vs. evil" war (ended in a stalemate, of course) at least twice but haven't quite nailed it yet. Maybe the third time will be the charm.
An Ivan Bilibin illustration of a wolf regarding the spear-impaled corpse of a warrior lying on a moonlit forested hill.
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I want to make a revised version of GRIDSHOCK. I have a pretty good idea of which parts of these zines didn't work, and can see multiple ways to fix them. The problem is that they're mutually exclusive. I can't decide what to keep and what to cut, and that means I can't start working. 🫠
May 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I played Mothership for a year plus and had fun. Maybe because the Warden changed or ignored a ton of the rules. It frustrates me; the game both is and isn't my style. I even wrote a pamphlet adventure for it, but if I publish it I might do the unthinkable and add sneaking rules.

Also, ALIEN better
A tight closeup shot of Parker (Yaphet Kotto) screaming in ALIEN (1979)
May 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A couple of images (WIP) from the most recent Terminal State update: Concepts and Encounter Cards. Character images by @stregawolf.art

Terminal State is our upcoming cyberpunk TTRPG powered by the Year Zero Engine. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cve...
Interior spreads for the Active, Errant, Factor, Ghost, Hacker, Idol, Patch, Savant, and Tank character concepts from the upcoming Terminal State rulebook. Artwork by Strega Wolf Eden Van Den Berg. (Not final.) A page of Encounter Cards from the upcoming Terminal State rulebook. A sampling of events that can be drawn: Mandatory Checkpoint, Aftermarket, Drunkards, Street Preacher, Gang War, Protest, Grand Theft Auto. (Not final.)
April 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The retreat from (or attack on) setting detail in DIY TTRPGs has been demoralizing for me. I haven't been serious about getting back to GRIDSHOCK because I feel like I need to decide what it's about *as a game*, and until I do that, I'm just adding "lore" that most players won't give a crap about.
Steven De Waele's artwork for Seaboard Sector, from GRIDSHOCK 20XX Zine 3: Regions. A four-armed neogenic youth defaces a propaganda poster of Supreme Administrator Brace with spraypaint while three armored and hooded Enforcer "bagmen" beat a down-on-his-luck veteran with stuncheons. In the background is a smog-filled futuristic cityscape.
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM