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Colossal Cave Adventure Module Template

The following map and location template are for you to use to develop your own cavern-exploration adventures. They’re derived from William Crowther’s descriptions of the Bedquilt section of Mammoth Cave.

pyramid on a promontory on an alien planet

Designer Diary for Planet of the Week

After a thorough review of dozens of science fiction PbtA games, and after hacking the last two TTRPG systems we played quite a bit, I decided to create my own game with exactly the vibe I wanted. Why a new system? I didn’t want to set an adventure in a cinematic universe so that we could capture that feeling of exploring the unknown.

RPG-a-Day 2024 calendar, see accompanying article for themes for each day (in bold)

RPG-a-Day 2024 Recap

Over on Mastodon, RPG fans spent August posting on the above themes, and I decided to as well:

A cairn on the Gilly crest trail

Customizing Stonetop

During its beta, I ran Stonetop pretty much Rules As Being Written, though we didn’t always update to the latest version.  As I wrote in my review of Stonetop, “My hacks to the system were minimal: integrating a Flashback move to keep things advancing, and experimenting with different forms of prep (threat maps, Monster of the Week countdowns).” More often I brought in material that Jeremy Strandberg, Stonetop’s author, and Jason Lutes, his publisher, had created elsewhere. Flashback For my Dungeon World campaign, I had hacked together this move: Flashback When you propose that you took some previously undeclared action in the […]

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