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Between the cracks and hollows
verdantcore
Aug 264 min read
Point crawl or pointless crawl?
It's been a while, eh? I think I'm going to start using the term 'infrequent' for this blog, though I don't think it's ever been anything...
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verdantcore
Jun 223 min read
Making items magic
Through 2024, I'm writing an encounter / event prompt every day. I like 365 projects, last year I took part in #Dungeon23 and created...
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verdantcore
Mar 84 min read
They burned their bushes behind them: Using omens
Omens are a funny thing, when you get down to it. In 'actual life', there is a rich history of divining the risks and rewards in the...
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verdantcore
Feb 64 min read
No-weird, low-weird, high-weird, gonzo: thoughts on weirdness in games
How weird is your game? How weird would you like your game to be? Do you suffer from weirdness-creep? These thoughts and others have been...
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verdantcore
Nov 19, 20232 min read
Needs more duct tape!
When I first started writing Treasured Posessions (TP), it was a TTRPG, not a solo game at all. At some point, I spun off the original...
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verdantcore
Sep 3, 20233 min read
Drop-in gaming?
What if I said I was going to be somewhere, a cafe or whatever and that I was going to run a game? What if I didn't try to find people to...
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verdantcore
Aug 30, 20233 min read
It's cards, all the way down...
I've been playing catch up with myself - I got behind on my #dungeon23 locations and then hit a bit of a wall and wrote ...nothing... for...
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verdantcore
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Forgetting to press publish and the progress of time...
It turns out that the last post I wrote (in March) never got published. I hadn't finished it and got distracted with other things....
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verdantcore
Feb 8, 20233 min read
Lions and pythons oh my!
I haven't added lions into NineTenths yet, but I think it's just a matter of time. Lions are pretty cool, aren't they? What I have been...
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verdantcore
Jan 16, 20232 min read
RPG: Making small places big
I've ended up doing two things for #dungeon23 - a conventional megadungeon, creating one are per week with a different theme and also...
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verdantcore
Dec 11, 20223 min read
The joy of possessions and the importance of play testing
Play testing is important. Why? Well, you might have made some broken thing that doesn't work. Or it might be balanced but boring....
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verdantcore
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Drop the title, find the mechanism
I'm giving up on the 'Making RPGs in public' thing, as the fact that it's here and you can read about it sort of gives the game away....
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verdantcore
Nov 14, 20223 min read
Creating RPGs in public: 6. Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map
Maps, map, maps, maps, maps. I think I've realised a flaw in my personality. Or a "character trait", if we're being charitable. Hmm. When...
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verdantcore
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Creating RPGs in public: 5. Refining the idea
I can't write quickly. Or at least, I can't write things I'm happy with quickly. It seems like my style of working is to have an idea,...
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verdantcore
Oct 23, 20224 min read
Creating RPGs in public: 4. It's only public if they're watching
So, I got distracted by thinking about room tiles. I'm not even sure why or how that started. Before I knew it, I'd drawn a page of rooms...
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verdantcore
Oct 9, 20222 min read
Creating RPGs in public: 3. Spurt of creativity!
Unexpectedly, we've had a couple of days off, and today I got some time to have a good look at what I'd written so far for the game. I...
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verdantcore
Oct 5, 20223 min read
Creating RPGs in public: 2. A crooked path
Oh, but it's been a while, eh? Where does all that time (a whole month and then some) go? Well, there's been a lot of plumbing, the house...
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verdantcore
Aug 27, 20223 min read
Creating RPGs in public: 1. Writing an adventure, part 1
After many years of playing role playing games and board games, and a long time since I last ran a game for anyone, I find myself running...
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verdantcore
Aug 23, 20221 min read
I published a thing for Mausritter!
The first thing I've published, the first time I've used itch.io and so I'm a little excited! It all grew out of our game, and realising...
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verdantcore
Aug 16, 20221 min read
Why is Mausritter such a lovely setting?
I just realised one of the things that I'm really loving about Mausritter. Because the setting is based on the actual world sort of, it...
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