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Robert
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I haven't posted in awhile because I'm busy earning my teaching credential. I have had this idea on my mind for awhile but haven't had time to write up a post on it: I think that GMing and teaching are congruent skills, especially thinking of it as I work on a grading rubric at the moment
#osr #dnd
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sometimes in life you're the smiling DM asking "Where exactly do you touch the idol?" Other times, you're the fighter failing his save vs. death ray
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Today I'm going over skills and magic in my homebrew game. How do you like magic to work in your games? That's still something a little up in the air for me.

Cast the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle: strages.bearblog.dev/cne2/

#dnd #OSR #TTRPG
Skills and Magic in Covenant & Empire
20,000 hours in AnyDice.
strages.bearblog.dev
August 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There comes a point in life when your homebrew reaches critical mass and you should just make a whole new game. That time for me is right now.

Cast the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle: strages.bearblog.dev/cne/

#ttrpg #OSR #DnD #Daggerfall #TES
Covenant & Empire
Bursting forth from my mind like one of Vance's demons.
strages.bearblog.dev
August 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A delayed casting of the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle: strages.bearblog.dev/000d/

Here is my promised play report from the con. I left the day after for a week-long camping trip, so forgive the wait.

#WWN #DnD #OSR #TTRPG #fantasy
The Death of Cassutus the Heathen
Why are there bandits? Well, let me tell you...
strages.bearblog.dev
July 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My local con is a week away and I have this feeling of dread because I'm going to be mostly relying on random tables and procedures, not something I've really done before. Will be posting a play report ASAP! #TTRPG
#DnD #OSR #WWN
July 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My local gaming con is approaching and I think I'm going to be running a scenario using the excellent Chainmail retroclone, The Old Lords of Wonder and Ruin. My big question right now - whether to do cooperative or PvP

#OSR #wargames #TTRPG
#Chainmail
April 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This week I've been working on this table; I had some thoughts about how to make each entry more interactive, and expanded some of what I wrote last time. How do you like to differentiate your tables?

Cast the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle! strages.bearblog.dev/btg2/

#DnD #OSR #TTRPG
Random Encounters: Golden Valley
Random encounters in the northern Valley, and some thoughts on how they might interact.
strages.bearblog.dev
April 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This week I'm getting into the guts of a campaign - the random encounter tables. How do you like to manage random encounters? Any good stories? Let me know down below!

I cast the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle! strages.bearblog.dev/btg1/

#OSR #DnD #RPG
Dice-math & Decimals
A good wilderness exploration procedure can totally change how a campaign unfolds. Can I design tables that steer my campaign in the right direction? Let's find out together.
strages.bearblog.dev
March 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Wait, those Worlds are Without Number?
Wait, Bastionland is electric?
Wait, they mork those borgs?
March 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
On this week's casting of the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle I'm talking system - particularly my system of choice, Worlds Without Number. What's your favorite system?

Read it here: strages.bearblog.dev/000c/

#OSR #DnD #TTRPG #WorldsWithoutNumber
Why Worlds Without Number?
Singing the praises of Sine Nomine.
strages.bearblog.dev
March 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Another blog post, this time it's something a little different. A preview of some of the setting my campaign takes place in, as written by two different scribes.

Cast the Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle! strages.bearblog.dev/aiga1/

#OSR #DnD #worldbuilding #TTRPG
The Annotated Imperial Guide to Almorin, Vol. 1
You go to browse your bookshelf and pause when you find a strangely archaic leather folio. Upon inspecting it, a leaflet falls out simply addressed "To S-U, from Y-R"
strages.bearblog.dev
March 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This week I'm discussing how I'm setting up my campaign region as well as my goals for doing it the way I am.

Read it here: strages.bearblog.dev/000b/

#OSR #DnD #RPG
Building the Campaign Milieu
Thoughts on building a region for the campaign and procedures to make the world feel alive.
strages.bearblog.dev
March 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Introducing Dazzling Prismatic Hemicycle! I wrote this as an afterword to my setting guide and homebrew compendium, but thought I ought to edit it and make it my first post.

strages.bearblog.dev/000a/
My Game-mastering Philosophy
Some musings on my general approach to running a campaign, somewhat of a preamble to my open-table campaign I hope to begin soon™.
strages.bearblog.dev
February 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM