campaigns
Below are all of the posts with the campaigns tag. A post tagged with campaigns means that it is about campaigns. If a post references campaigns but does not have the tag, then the post will not be in the list below. If a post has the campaigns tag or mentions campaigns, then it will be in the Glossary for "campaigns".
I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:
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A Post-Apocalyptic Caravan Campaign Using Worlds Without Number
Drawing Inspiration from Reading and Listening
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Sitting Down and Reading “The Atlas of the Latter Earth”
A Quick Summary of a “Worlds without Number” Campaign Setting
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Trying to Find My Way Back into Tabletop Role-Playing Gaming
How to Rebuild a Hobby Habit after the World Changed?
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Core Pirates of Drinax: Session 1
A Letter of Marque from a Court Now Primed for Intrigue
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Pitches for an Upcoming RPG Campaign
A Preponderance of Options
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Gearing up to Run Creative Options Role-Playing Engine (CORE)
Seeking Free and Open Source Systems
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Using PlantUML to Model RPG Relationship Maps
Leveraging Open Source Software for RPGs
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The Mistimed Scroll: Character Brainstorming
Laying Out Some Next Steps
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The Mistimed Scroll: An Eberron Campaign
Establishing a Situation for Character Creation
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Using the Eberron Setting and “Worlds without Number” System
Doing Just in Time Translations
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Interrupting the Game to Refocus
Diversions Are Fine but Sometimes You Need to Stop and Clarify
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Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-17)
Campaign Play, Mystery, and Group Mythology
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Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-11)
Campaigns, Bingo, and Breakinig Changes
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Embracing Tropes while also Substituting an Ingredient
More than Just Amplifying the Blogosphere
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Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-07)
A Mix of Old and New Gaming and Software
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Revisiting the “Red Hand of Doom”
Reflecting on Campaigns Past as Fuel for Campaigns Future
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Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-06)
The Comingling of Gratitude, Inspiration, and Sharing
- Hiatus: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
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Burning from Within
Starting a Burning Wheel Campaign in the Warhammer Fantasy Setting
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Session 16: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
A Short Session with some Information Gathering
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Session 15: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Prosthetics and Petty Thievery
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Session 14: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Digital Forensics and Oracular Skulls
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Preamble to Session 14: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Exposition
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Session 13: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Charting a Course through the Intersection of Future and Past
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Sending some Interstitial Love Letters to the New Vistas Crew
Dear Player Characters, Tell Me More
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Session 12: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Skullduggery and Explosions
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Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Alternate Character Creation)
Burning Up a Different Character
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Burning Warhammer: The Captain and the Witch (Character Creation)
Positioning a Character for the First Session
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Strategies for Cold Opens of Impromptu Games
Also Applicable for Getting Any Game Going
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A Situation and Adventure Design Process
An Approach that Works for Me
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Session 11: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Fleeting Thoughts and a Gunfight in a Library
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Session 1: A Grain of Truth in the World of Ardu
Investigating Descrepencies in Provincial Reports
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Session 10: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Stacks of Papers, a Medical Facility, a Pre-Tech Workshop, and a Psychic Hazard
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An Initial “Worlds without Number” Situation from the Ministry of Harvest
Beginning a Campaign in the Latter Earth
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The Geemit - A Worlds without Number Demihuman
A Sentient Species of Amoeboid Storytellers
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Using the Organization Generator from “Soft Horizon” with a “Worlds without Number” Campaign
Drawing Inspiration from the Collision of Varied Randomization
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Session 9: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Shots Fired, Lab Entered, and Talking with a Rock
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The Kvarzflett - A “Stars without Number” Sophont
A Rock and Lichen-Based Psychic Creature
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Revisiting Hydra Menu for Org Roam Lookup in Emacs
A General Solution (Thusfar)
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Session 8: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Bringing Chekov’s Gun to a Recon Party
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Adding Hydra Menu for Org Roam Lookup in Emacs
Pre-Populating ‘org-roam-find-file’ to Help Topic Lookup
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Creating a Post-Human Ethnicity for a “Worlds without Number” Campaign
The Konuk, One of the Governing Ethnicities of the Latter Earth
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Session 7: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Detectors, Escapees, and Beauracratic Moles
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Session 6: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
A Quick Meeting at a Public Tavern
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Using Emacs While Running Online Games
These Are The Tools I Use for Table Top Gaming
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Session 5: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Back from Haitus with Subterfuge and Reconaissance
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Session 4: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Many an Interview Leads to a Reveal
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The Player Characters (and new Alien) of New Vistas
Not a Warrior Amongst Them
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Session 3: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Archaic Laws and Arms Sales Gone Wrong
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Thel Sector System Overview
A Systems Overview from New Vistas
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Session 2: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Making an Arms Deal and a Contact
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Session 1: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Into the Utopic and Pastoral Past
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Once More, a “Stars without Number” Campaign
Getting Started with a Campaign and Repurposing Past Work
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Desperate Role-Playing Moments
Shared Fictional State with Clear Tightening Consequences Build Desperation
- 5th Edition House Rules: Ray of Wounding
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It Finally Happened: A Doppelgänger Infiltrated the Party
I’ve been playing for 31 years and this was the first time a doppleganger infiltrated the party.
- Once More Into the “Tomb of Annihilation”
- Session 2 exploring the Thel-Sector of “Stars without Number”
- Session 1 of a “Stars without Number” Campaign
- Preparing a Short-Term “Stars without Number” Campaign
- Situation Mining: It Begins in Graywall
- Revisiting Eberron: Why I am Excited to Explore the Campaign Setting
- Eberron Resources
- Grinding through the Tomb of Annihilation
- Three Book RPG
- Using Adventures in Middle Earth procedures for Tomb of Annihilation
- Marching through the Sandbox
- Looking to the Horizon
- Everything I Ever Wanted in an RPG
- King of Feathers Brings the Chomp
- The Stage is Set for an Epic Battle in Omu
- Plan for Complications - Tomb of Annihilation
- Behind the Screen
- Polymorph, Wild Shape and the Barbarian Rage
- Tomb of Annihilation - a quick update
- Barrow Wife - A DCC Monster
- Chip - Plague Ensorcelled Corpse - A DCC Monster
- Randomizing My Way Through Tomb of Annihilation
- The Campaign Timeline Thusfar
- Heeding Gygax's Admonition
- Expanding on My Procedures for Open Table Gaming
- My Procedure for Facilitating Open Table Gaming
- Guess Who’s Coming to Bitterweed Barrow?
- Preparation for Session 2 of DCC Better World Gaming
- Random Tables to Help Preparation for the Unexpected
- Running DCC at my Friendly Local Book and Game Store
- The Rise (and Fall) of Session 0
- Burning Sanctuary - Session 1
- Further Work on Beliefs for Burning Sanctuary
- Working Through Beliefs for Burning Sanctuary
- Burning Sanctuary - Session 0
- Life During a Wartime Random Table Redux
- Burning Sanctuary
- World of Steve - Session 2
- Early Experience running Out of the Abyss
- Out of the Abyss - Session #1
- House Rules for upcoming D&D 5E campaign
- Building a Set of D&D House Rules
- An Upcoming Campaign Map with Tech Tomfoolery
- Back on the Gaming Treadmill (maybe)
- Scenic Dunnsmouth by Zzarchov Kowolski
- A Collection of Short Session Recaps
- Fade into Fey – Session 2
- Fade into Fey - Session 1
- Dungeon World Campaign Playbook
- Bracers of the Bound - A Dungeon World Item
- World of Steve - Session 1
- A Bizarre Ritual of Mine
- Success and Failure in Role Playing Games
- Floundering Around the Burning Wheel
- Dining with the Baron
- Make a Decision Already
- Dual Duel of Wits and Dangerous Stakes
- Liberating the Village only to Stumble into the Dungeon
- …And Finally, Bloodstone
- Advancing the Timeline in an RPG Campaign
- Border Crossing and Culinary Explorations
- A Circles Epiphany - Burning Wheel
- A New Year's Eve Tradition - The One Shot
- Bloodstone Observations
- Bloodstone Session #4
- Assassin Lifepaths for Burning Wheel
- Never Split the Party - Worst Duel of Wits Compromise Ever
- Inn Witch They Pig Out
- Bloodstone Session #3 Recap - It's Always More Interesting When a Cuddling Instinct Comes Into Play
- In Which They Find Their Tub
- A Wedding and a Wyrding
- Playing Burning Wheel Gold With The Kids
- Hacking Together a Burning Wheel Conflict Resolution on the Fly
- A Missed Opportunity for Burning Wheel - Duel of Wits
- Life During a Wartime - Random Village Generator
- The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker
- Bloodstone Character Beliefs, Instincts, and Traits
- Bloodstone Character Questionnaire
- Bloodstone Party Composition
- Cribbing Ideas from Apocalypse World and Dungeon World for Bloodstone
- Contemplating Scene Economy with Seven Players
- Running and Playing Bloodstone in Burning Wheel
- Burning Wheel and Bloodstone
- Bloodstone Campaign Introduction
- Bloodstone - It Is Time
- Random Notes from my Burning Wheel Campaign Journal
- Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5
- Breaking the Stonewall with Vincent's Admonition
- U is for Underdark
- S is for Scales of War
- R is for Red Hand of Doom
- Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4
- N is for Night Below
- J is for Jaiman the Land of Twilight...kind of
- H is for H-series The Bloodstone Pass Saga
- Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2