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  • Bathtub Review: Midnight in Bonetown

    Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique well-regarded modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited harsh critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Midnight in… Continue reading

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  • The Session Report

    In a recent RTFM episode, Chris Bisette talked about how they wish there were more session reports. However, they aren’t the session reports I’m reading out there, which are usually narrativisations of play (the kind of reports we often write as records for our play groups themselves). They’re suggesting we talk about how the referee… Continue reading

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  • Bathtub Review: What lies within the pools which like upon the shoreline?

    Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I do them to critique well-regarded modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and minimally edited harsh critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. What… Continue reading

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  • Bathtub Review: Ingrown Hairs

    Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique well-regarded modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited harsh critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. I reached… Continue reading

  • Warning! Promotion Ahead!

    It’s been a big week for releases for me this week! I mentioned a few days ago that I’d released my Mothership module written in collaboration with Hodag! It’s called HELL ON REV-X, and is a depth crawl through a derelict space hulk with four factions to interact with! I’m really proud of it and… Continue reading

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  • Antiblorb: The Answer To All Your Questions

    Read this. People wonder why I write modules in the unique style I do, and wonder how the hell I run games the way I do, and I’m always like “well, anticanon and blorb play aren’t mutually exclusive” and then they’re like “please explain” and I’m like “I can’t, read Bridewell or Hiss maybe that… Continue reading

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  • The $3.33 Community Copy

    So today, I released HELL ON REV-X, a Mothership module I collaborated with HODAG on. Here’s the pitch: The Revelation X, a derelict city-sized generation ship, is adrift. Something apocalyptic is amiss. A space cult! An extradimensional god! A resurrected alien civilisation! A malevolent AI! Welcome to HELL ON REV-X, a depthcrawl for Mothership RPG,… Continue reading

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  • Bathtub Review: Hounds of Hendenburgh

    Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Hounds of Hendenburgh is… Continue reading

  • Every Character A Major (Character)

    This is a polish-up of a tweetstorm I wrote a while ago. I keep forgetting that it’s better to write here than on Twitter; force of habit I guess. I saw someone talking about how “only certain important NPCs really need detail”. I came to thinking of how I applied the concept “all NPCs are… Continue reading

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  • Bathtub Review: Hull Breach

    Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath.… Continue reading

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