Month: March 2024
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Thoughts on Magic Realm
Magic Realm is a 1979 board game which badly wants to be D&D. Players take the role of adventurers seeking gold and glory in the titular realm. I’ve been digging into it over the past few weeks using Tabletop Simulator and the fan-made Book of Learning tutorial [1]. During that time it established a firm grip on my mind,…
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Misc Campaign Ideas
A few undeveloped campaign ideas from previous years, updated with commentary. I like the “In [world] the players are [X] who do [Y]” format for campaign descriptions. I think I stole it from somewhere but I’ve lost the post. Imperial Patrol On the frontier of a vast empire, the players are rangers whose responsibilities are…
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Moss Woods Campaign Review, Part 1
What do you call a retrospective for something you’re currently doing? I’m currently running the largest and most successful OSR-style campaign I’ve done so far, with fourteen players across three different parties in the same world, using a system of my own creation (read: cobbled together from other people’s blog posts). I’ve yet to find a way…