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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2023


KNOCK! NEWS



I have some exciting news to share: I have been brought on board as the
editor-in-chief of Knock! magazine moving forward.

Eric Nieudan, the once and future editor-in-chief, is still very Merry and
Mushmany. He has just brought me on so he can focus on the other Merry Mushmen
projects. (Speaking of, I really enjoyed the free playtest of Dungeon, Inc.,
where players play the dungeon's monsters endlessly cleaning up and resetting
traps for rude adventurers.) 

By the way: I'd love to see you on the Merry Mushmen Discord. Come chat with us
about games!


NEW SUBMISSION PORTAL

Since I'm coming into this role as an erstwhile contributor to Knock!, I wanted
to make sure the submission process was smooth and simple. To this end, I've
made a new submission portal on the Merry Mushmen website:

Now taking submissions for Knock! 5 and 6





THE WORKFLOW

My intention is that you'll get an email for each step in this process for
transparency. (Watch me rue these words.)




SUBMISSION

If you have an article, a dungeon, a class, a random table, a magic item, a
trap, etc. that you want to submit, we've love to see it! Because we might be
able to use one thing but not another, please only submit one thing at a time,
but feel free to submit as much as you want. 

Two big things here:



 * We need your name as you want to see it in print. 
 * We need your email so we can talk to you if we decide to accept your
   submission.



Because everything will be pulled into our chaotic neutral layout by Olivier the
Layout Lord, plain text format is preferred. If you have a specific graphic that
is needed to make the piece work (like a hand-drawn map for a dungeon), please
submit that too. 


PONDERING THE ORB

We will ponder everything we receive. 

Because Knock! is a kaleidoscope of content, we might take one thing or another
(sometimes leaving things we really love on the cutting-room floor). The book
works because it's a collage of lots of different things, so we value variety.
If a piece is rejected, you can submit it again a bit later and we'll see if it
fits in better with a future volume.


EDITING

If accepted, I'll place the text into a Google Doc and make edits for our house
style and for print/space considerations. 


AUTHOR APPROVAL

I'll email you a copy of the Google Doc so you can see the tracked changes.
Accept them or push back to make the changes better. Let's talk about the
piece! 


LAYOUT

Once everything sounds good to both the editor and submitter, we'll pass things
on to Olivier, High Graphic Artist. He'll make the words look good. 


MANIC LAST TOUCHES

Of course, putting everything together into a magazine is a near endless series
of edits, re-edits, typos, touchups, collapsing, expanding, inserting, moving.
We'll be fitting everything together until the book is ready to print. If we
need anything else from you, we'll make sure to reach back out.


PREP FOR THE CAMPAIGN

Once the book is mostly assembled and we're prepping the crowdfunding campaign,
we'll reach out to all contributors to get details for payment and to get final
sign off. 


20 HOURS LEFT ON THE KNOCK! 4 KICKSTARTER 

Don't miss out!





The Knock! 4 Kickstarter is in the home stretch with just 20 hours left. If you
haven't already backed, don't miss out on completing your collection. 

(I am just a contributor on this volume, but my "1937 Hobbit as a Setting" post
made its way in, so I am very excited.)


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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2023


REASONABLE REVIEWS



Recently, the RPG social media sphere reheated one of the classic controversies
du jour: Should RPG critics write a review of an RPG product they have not
played?

Some insist that playing a module / an adventure / a zine / a supplement is a
minimum requirement. Not just a minimum requirement, but a bare minimum
requirement. How could it be any different? How could you write a review of a
music album without listening to it?

Is it reasonable to write a review of an RPG supplement without playing it
first? 


REVIEWS I LIKE

I've mentioned before that I like Between Two Cairns. 


In the most recent episode, Brad and Yochai were joined by Amanda Lee Franck to
review The Reach of the Roach God. The Reach of the Roach God consists of three
adventures and supplementary text (I learned from the review).


Brad had run the first adventure, a Quiet Lake (using Spenser Campbell's
Slayers? Haha!). 


Amanda had run the second adventure, Spider Mountain Temple. She regretted that
she jumped straight to this adventure instead of running the first one first. 


Nobody had run the third adventure, City of Peace. Everybody on the podcast
highlighted they thought this adventure seemed the most challenging to run and
they weren't sure how they would start to go about it, although they liked
certain things about it.


As always, they gave an overview of the product and talked about what they liked
and didn't like in the product. Subjects of discussion included: 
 * the quality of the art
 * the amount of art
 * the position of the art on the page related to other content
 * the NPCs
 * the boxed text
 * the procedures
 * the maps
 * the keying of the maps
 * the (custom!) font
 * the layout of the pages
 * the terseness and humor of the writing
 * the relationship of the art to the text, etc. 

(This content seems to be the same regardless of whether or not the hosts have
actually played the product or not.)


Was this a reasonable review of The Reach of the Roach God?




REVIEWS I DO

I have tried to review a few RPG products. I tried really hard to do a good job.
It was a difficult task to do well (and I'm not sure I did do well). So I do not
do RPG reviews.


I do have a job where reviews are a regular part of my job. 




PRODUCT REVIEWS

 * Is this feature aligned with the overall strategic goals of the company?
 * Does the feature solve the actual needs of a specific user profile? Does it
   balance the needs of multiple user profiles? What are the tradeoffs?
 * Is this the right level for an MVP? 
 * What metrics will be used to determine next steps?
 * Are there bugs in the MVP?
 * Are these bugs launch blockers?
 * What is the correct positioning for this product?


DESIGN REVIEWS

 * Are the CTA buttons the right size?
 * Do the navigation buttons make sense?
 * Are elements that look interactable actually interactable?
 * Is the design responsive to screen size?
 * Is the UX copy primed for translation?
 * Is the color contrast accessible?


TECHNICAL WRITING REVIEWS

 * Are the instructions consistent? 
 * Are the screenshots up to date?
 * Are unhappy paths documented?
 * Do code samples exist?
 * Do code samples have proper formatting and highlighting?
 * Will the sample code provided actually run if you copy and paste it?
 * Is the language in active voice?
 * Are the headers descriptive?

Because my job is in software, I am not an end user. I do not do the job that
our end users do. Nobody I work with uses the product that my company produces
on a day-to-day basis. 


Is it reasonable to provide reviews for a product I do not use?




USER TESTING AND FEEDBACK

For all of the above, something that is missing is the feedback from actual
users. Did we get it right? 
 * Are we providing value to our customers? 
 * Is the UX delightful? 
 * Is the documentation helpful? 

We spend a lot of money and a lot of time to try and get these answers out of
real users. Our business depends on it. 


Does the the need for user feedback invalidate the other types of reviews
provided during the product development process?


Is user feedback helpful in the same way as other types of reviews?

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2023


GODS ARE HIGH LEVEL PCS



Listening to Between Two Cairns about Caverns of Thracia, and I was thinking
about Greek-mythological elements in the hodgepodge mélange of D&D. 

I realized: Greek gods are just high level PCs. 


GREEK ELEMENTS IN D&D

A preponderance of fantastic elements in vanilla D&D are Tolkien-esque,
North/Western European. Old-school D&D is definitely more of a melting pot, with
a Saturday morning cartoon blending of dinosaurs, samurai, and spaceships thrown
in the mix. But even in the most vanilla D&D have these decidedly Greek
mythological elements: hydras, harpies, medusa, minotaurs. 

Gods in vanilla D&D have a Greek pantheon vibe. They have these very Greco-Roman
spheres of influence - Raylor is the god of the sun, good, human fighters, and
archery. There's usually a ruling hegemony of major gods and dozens of minor
gods. In major cities, you can find temples to any god. Gods can be patrons to a
particular race or people. When you say, "I worship the god of the sun and you
worship the goddess of the moon," nobody blinks.

(This is often very boring. The endless iterations on this theme, with vaguely
different names and groupings, are so tedious to read. Not to yuck anybody's
yum, but there should be public decency laws  where you go to jail if you make
me read your re-coloration of the Faerun pantheon.)

It would be more interesting if the gods in D&D acted more like the gods in
Greek mythology. And the gods in Greek mythology act like high-level player
characters, overloaded with magical items, zipping around and causing trouble
for everybody.


RETHINKING THE GODS

People say "Greek gods are more human." I guess that's true. But they don't act
rational, like normal humans. They act irrational, like a 14 year old boy
playing "Mars, God of War" who asks for his PC to bang every bar wench the
adventuring party encounters.

They are not omniscient. When you pray to them, you hope they or their
messengers are nearby in shape-changed form or invisible. You offer them things
not abstractly, but in the deliberate hope that you're luring them to your
altar.

They are not omnipotent. They are powerful beings who wield technologies
invisible to humankind: weather, seasons, disease, emotions, birth, death. 

When gods act for or against you, they do so very directly:



 * They give you magical items - a helm of invisibility and a mirror shield - to
   slay Medusa. 
 * They summon a monster to devour you.
 * They summon veils of mist to obscure you from your enemies in battle. 
 * They cast Clone on you so that your eidolon can take your place in an
   unpleasant situation.


GAMIFYING THIS

Anybody can pray. When you make a prayer to a god, you have a 1-in-20 chance of
having your prayer fulfilled. 


 * +1 if you make a significant offering (at least 10% of gold value to advance
   to your next level)
 * +1-3 for doing something awesome that that god likes (feats of battle for war
   gods, clever plans for wisdom gods, good deeds for good gods, etc.) since
   your last prayer



On a successful prayer, call a friend that's pretty good at RPGs but isn't part
of this particular game. Tell them they have a level 20 PC, with any build they
want. Tell them they're given a quest to do X (where X is the other PC's
prayer). Ask what they do.


That's how the god reacts to your prayer.




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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023


FAMILIARS



(Hey look, I can make posts that aren't just His Majesty the Worm shilling. I
still am playing games and thinking about them!)

For my current Dolmenwood game, my players said they wanted to all play witches.
To play to this gimmick, I wrote a magical familiar subsystem. Rules below in a
His Majesty the Worm parlance, but can be adapted to any OSR system without
difficulty. Lots of inspiration for this system came from the unparalleled
Goblinpunch. 

A thing I really like about this subsystem is how it creates trouble for the
players. Each familiar wants something weird and outrageous, which pushes the
characters into interesting/dangerous situations to try and keep the little shit
happy. 

Also, because this system creates such interesting little personalities, the
players never have the "Oh right, I have a pet I forgot about" moment. Actually,
they're penalized with an in-character justification if they ever have that
realization as the familiar has felt neglected and slipped away into the
dreaming world (see below).

The one big con about this system is that I have to talk in a lot of funny
voices to handle the bonded NPCs that the players all have now. Exhausting on my
vocal chords. 


BINDING YOUR FAMILIAR

To bind a familiar to your service, you must go on a vision quest into the
lowest realms of Dreaming (the parts that are tangent to the upper levels of
Hell). Find some drugs that can get you there, if you have no spells that can do
it.

Creating your familiar is like going to Build a Bear Workshop. Choose three
representative pieces of the familiar and combine them together. (The art I made
for my players for this is amateurish, but was accepted with applause, which
made me feel good.)










FORM

In my heart, I know my familiar is:

 1. Toad with teeth, speaks in a deep baritone voice (my dear boy!)

 2. Blind crow, flies backwards

 3. Black goat, always stands on your shadow, causes discomfort on places where
    it's hoofs touch

 4. Shoulder imp, smug as Hell (literally)

 5. Fat hare, walks like a man, fond of eating bones and skin

 6. Moth, tiny crown, everyone gets goosebumps when it appears, speaks like a
    king





FUNCTION

I most desire:

 1. Ghost. Can teleport you (only) to the nearest graveyard. 

 2. Fat. You can tickle it and it opens up to reveal an extradimensional space 1
    slot large (does this for free, no need for a favor). Can burp out 1-21 gold
    coins, but these fade away during the next full moon. 

 3. Circle-Square-Triangle. Can conjure 1 random spell component every month. 

 4. Spellbook. Can ask it a question about the future: “If I do X, what will
    happen?”

 5. Silvery. Your familiar is white. Once a month, it can speak to the moon. The
    moon can see anything that happens out of doors during the night, except for
    nights of the new moon. Can tell you where something is or how something
    went down.

 6. Bat wings. Your familiar gains bat wings. It can lend them to you, allowing
    you to fly. 






FAVOR

For this, I would trade:

 1. Silver lantern. The familiar seeks new frontiers (especially of the mind
    and/or other planes) and cosmic truth

 2. Gilded birdcage. Familiar craves political power to rule the world and
    become a leader of men (preferred: starting a cult, marrying royalty)

 3. Cookie jar. Strange, dangerous, and terrible things to eat. 

 4. Cage carved of a single ruby. Money. Give it treasure.

 5. Doll-sized wizard tower. Familiar desires the construction of a vast object,
    built for some distant, undefined purpose (preferred: tower, ziggurat, ship)

 6. A mirror (familiar appears as a reflection). Familiar wishes for your
    ego-death through dissociative drugs, anomie, and constant exposure to
    danger.




Lastly, each familiar is unique. Roll on the 1d100 Familiar List to see how your
combination is different from every other familiar. This also gives your
familiar a random name.




Feed your familiar a portion of your own blood mixed with milk and honey to bind
them to you. 





FAMILIAR RULES

Once a familiar has agreed to work with you, it is your familiar for life. You
and your familiar may fall out, get into fights. It might leave. It’s still your
familiar, but until you come to mutually agreeable terms, you won’t be able to
work together.




When you have a bound familiar, you can ask it to dwell with you in the dreaming
world or the waking world.





WAKING

When in the waking world, your familiar is physically present with you. It rides
on your shoulders, trots at your side, sleeps in your sleeve. 




Familiars don’t like to be ignored. Every time you—as the player—mention it,
describe what it’s doing, talk to it in-character, the familiar is pleased. It
can feel it is being noticed.




Every time the GM has to say, “Wait, what is your familiar doing while you do
that” the familiar feels hurt. You’ve forgotten about it. When this happens, it
slinks off into the dreaming world. Summoning it is done with disfavor.




Familiars go into the dreaming world when they’re hurt. They rest there for 1-21
days.

You can dismiss a familiar to the dreaming world whenever you want, if it would
be dangerous or inconvenient to have them around.





DREAMING

When in the dreaming world, it appears to you in your dreams. You can talk to it
here, if you want. 





SUMMONING

Whenever you attempt to summon your familiar from the dreaming world to the
waking one (or vice versa) make a Wands test. Success means that the familiar
arrives immediately. Otherwise it arrives in 1d4 watches. If you have annoyed
your familiar, you automatically fail this test, while familiars that are
extremely pleased will always arrive promptly.





SERVICES

Familiars can perform services, but never more than 1/day. However, for every
service it performs, you owe a favor.




1. Familiars can use one of their special powers at your behest.




2. Familiars can give you a spell slot.




3. Familiars can do just about anything that a normal animal could do—and then
some! They could fly away, spy on a bandit’s camp, and report back. It can even
give its opinion about plans on how to ambush the bandit leader. 




4. You can ask a familiar to fight with you. This counts as one service. In His
Majesty the Worm, use Cups cards to command them during a Challenge.




5. Familiars can save you from a violent death—but only once ever.





FAVOR

Each favor is always something that the familiar can call in immediately, or at
a later date. 




If you perform the favor that the familiar requests, that's the end of it. But
if you refuse, that is a violation of the contract with the familiar, and
deserving of a roll on the Breach of the Covenant table.




Playtest Note: There's a bit of extra mental load with keeping track of all the
familiars, their names, and their desired favors. Write a notecard with all this
information to keep next to your campaign notes. At the start of each session,
go over who owes their familiar a favor, and think about nearby things the
familiar would be interested in. You can have the start of a session be a
familiar demanding something troublesome nearby.




BREACH OF THE COVENANT 

1. random curse 2. random mutation 3. -1 to a random attribute 4. lose 2-8 XP





BONUS PICTURE












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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023


HIS MAJESTY THE WORM DEEP DIVE - THE ADVENTURER SHEET



 His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the
classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the
mundanities and small moments of daily life inside the dungeon. This post is
part of a series of deep dives into the mechanics of the game.


THE ADVENTURER SHEET

Here are two mild takes:

1. I think you can figure out what an RPG is about by looking at the page count
dedicated to discussions of that subject.

2. I think you can figure out what players do by looking at the character sheet.

Here is the adventurer sheet* from His Majesty the Worm. 




Click here to download a copy of the adventurer sheet. What do you think players
do in this game?

The front of the booklet is who your adventurer is at a glance. Their name, kith
& kin, their motifs, attributes, their relationships with other characters. 

The back of the booklet is a rules reference for players. The book is a shared
resource. Pull as much commonly-referenced information out of it so people don't
need to hog it.

The inside of the booklet (page 2) is where the stuff you track is kept. On the
left page, you track your talents, conditions, and animal companions. Talents
can be wounded, so they're included near the status tracker. On the right page
you track your equipment, separated between what you're carrying, your pack and
your belt. (It's easier to grab things from your belt than your pack!)

Read on to learn more about the design decisions involved here.




* I think "adventurer" is the more natural-language sounding word for a player's
character (as opposed to the insurance-salesman-sounding acronym "PC"). 


CREDIT

First, let me call out the people who actually designed the sheet. One of my
players, M. Finch, designed the initial version of the sheet in more-or-less its
final form. One of the contributing artists, Michael Strange, gave this sheet a
nice design. My graphic designer, Pete Borlace, iterated on and finalized the
sheet.


DESIGN DECISIONS

First, the adventurer sheet is designed to be printed double-sided and folded
into a booklet. (I don't know if this is the first game with a booklet-based
character sheet, but I have not seen one in the past.) It is aesthetically and
tactically pleasing (to me) to have a pretty little folded booklet in my hands.
It's appealing.

There's a subtle visual language to the sheet. Circles tend to signify resources
being taxed: damage taken, light flickering out, Resolve weakened. Squares tend
to signify resources gained: Bonds charged, Arete triggered. Your light source
is carried, as shown by the etched line connecting that section of the sheet to
your hand slots.

If you have the Beast Master talent, an animal companion you have can be
upgraded to a familiar and learn five commands instead of three. Notice how the
4th and 5th command slots are slightly rolled up to show that they're
non-standard. 

You have four belt slots and twenty-one pack slots. This was done for a game
design reason: it allows the GM to randomly target a piece of equipment. Either
glance at the suit (1 of 4) in the minor arcana discard pile to target the belt
or in the major arcana discard pile (1 of 21) to target something in the pack.

When I say that "His Majesty the Worm focuses on the human elements of dungeon
exploration," tracking what's in your hands is sort of what I mean. It's
important to think about what's in your hands. It changes as you adventure. If
you're carrying a shield and a mace and you say, "I want to cup the moth in my
hands," the GM can follow up to see how you're trying to do that. Do you put
your weapons down? These things feel important to think about.





WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIS MAJESTY THE WORM?

If this sounds interesting and you'd like to check the game out, please sign up
for the mailing list in the sidebar of the blog. I will email you to tell you
when the game is ready for purchase. 








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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023


HIS MAJESTY THE WORM DEEP DIVE - CHARACTERS



His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the
classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the
mundanities and small moments of daily life inside the dungeon. This post is
part of a series of deep dives into the mechanics of the game.


WHAT DO CHARACTERS DO?

Players take on the role of adventurers. Adventurers descend into the Underworld
in search of impossible things that can never exist on the surface world. They
explore collectively as a guild—a  chartered union of adventurers. Adventurers
fight monsters, avoid traps, get treasure, spend it all on drink, and maybe live
long enough to do it twice.

This is all pretty bog standard stuff for folks used to games with dragons and
dungeons.

I do think there are innovations in His Majesty the Worm that I want to talk
about, though. There's something about the character lifecycle that's really
compelling to me as a player and a game master. That's what this post is about.


PATHS




Adventurers walk one of four paths. 



 * The Path of Swords is that of violence.
 * The Path of Pentacles is that of slyness.
 * The Path of Cups is that of learning.
 * The Path of Wands is that of sorcery.



Your attributes are the four suits of the tarot. Think about them like jobs -
fighter, thief, scholar, wizard. By putting points into them, you determine
which job is your focus and which jobs are your back up. Your highest attribute
determines your path. 

When you select your path, you gain access to a set of talents that define your
special abilities.


QUESTS




The GM creates the underworld - an exciting megadungeon to explore. The players
create their quests. 

Quests are your reason for going into the underworld. Normal, healthy-brained
people don't want to go there. That place sucks.

The GM places your quest somewhere in the underworld. There, it sits fermenting,
gestating, and shaping the world around it--sending out rumors like satellite
signals to lure you towards it. 

You get 3 XP for agreeing to help one player with their quest. 

XP is spent as a resource to use talents that you do not have mastered. You get
XP at the start of an adventure to help you use new talents during the
adventure.

You get 3 XP whenever you complete a quest.

You also get 1 XP (much less) for taking on assignments for NPCs and for blowing
all your coin on drink at the City. Little incentivizers. 

When you have finished your quest, you're encouraged to retire your character.
You've done what you've made that character to do. Retire them to the City and
have the fun of playing a new type of dude for a little while.

In the last quest before we called the playtest "finished" (after 7 years!), one
player defeated the Locust Lich that ruled the first level of the Underworld,
rescued her dryad girlfriend, married her, and carved her tree into a figurehead
for her pirate ship so the two of them could return to the surface and sail
together forever. 

That's the sort of stories I want to be a part of.


WIDE, NOT DEEP GROWTH 



It’s worth noting that adventurers in His Majesty the Worm grow “wide” not
“deep.” That is, XP allows you to use and master more talents, broadening the
options available to you. You do not gain bigger numbers, +1s, more hit points,
etc. 

You can learn any talent in the game. Your path determines what talents you
start with, but you can train with your other adventurers or NPCs to learn their
talents too. 

In my current campaign, I've put like 30 more talents into the game and seeded
their trainers around the map. I'm having fun with players trying to find the
right dude to teach them X talent. 


ARÊTE AND BEYOND




In addition to XP, there are two other types of growth that adventurers benefit
from. The first is arête, a feature of your kith. 

Each kith (your larger racial group) has three arête triggers. For example,
here's the ones for the fay kith:




When you check all of your arête, you gain a new talent specific to your kin.
These unlockable talents are the only example of "deep growth" in the core game.

The second is “weirdness.” As you journey through the Underworld, you get
weirder. You accumulate scars, mutations, magical items, pets, mutilations,
phobias, etc. There are no rules governing the latter. Finding out how your
adventurer gets weirder is essentially the whole game.


TO BE CONTINUED

My next deep dive is going to discuss the tech of the character sheet. What
better way to learn about what characters do in the game? Stay tuned!


WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIS MAJESTY THE WORM?

If this sounds interesting and you'd like to check the game out, please sign up
for the mailing list in the sidebar of the blog. I will email you to tell you
when the game is ready for purchase. 





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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2023


WHAT I'M LISTENING TO



Despite the fact I GMed for an AP podcast, I've never really liked podcasts.
I've found them difficult to listen to. However, luckily, local millennial with
beard has gotten into podcasts. (I also enjoy the works of one "Modest Mouse.")
Rejoice. 

I've gotten into a few podcasts that talk about the theory of RPGs (especially
indie/OSR play). This is my jam. My jim jam. 

Here's what I'm listening to.*


BETWEEN TWO CAIRNS

Local dudes Brad Kerr and Yochai Gal talk about modules (NOT SETTINGS) in
Between Two Cairns. I'm hooting and hollering. Yochai talks about the folklore
and background of modules, and I say "Ha ha yeah, that's right." Brad does a
long form joke. I laugh and say "Ha ha yeah! YES!"


BLOGS ON TAPE

I already read blogs. But someone has done the hard work of aggregating them for
me, and read them to me aloud? So I can listen? At the gym? THANK YOU NICK LS
WHELAN OF BLOGS ON TAPE. 


INTO THE MEGADUNGEON

So few genres of RPG are as close to my heart as the noble megadungeon. Ben L's
deep dive into megadungeon theory, Into the Megadungeon, is a super helpful,
super insightful look into the place I've spent - shucks - I guess most of my
time. Every episode has some new insight. 







* The fact that I'm on a few of these has no** bearing on me recommending them.

** It has enormous bearing.








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STUFF I'M DOING

 * HIS MAJESTY THE WORM - In development
 * Under Hill, By Water - A cozy halfling game
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