If You Haven't Tried Group-Based Initiative, You're Missing Out Man, Chrono Trigger is rad as hell. I'm not a JRPG connoisseur, but it's definitely my favorite of the genre by far. Nothing from my childhood will ever be cooler than seeing the characters in that game perform sick ass combos where a guy throws a
Reveal Enemy Intents; Or, How I Run RPG Combats Like Slay The Spire TL;DR: Tell your players what the enemies are about to do, let them respond to those threats with good plans as a group, and deliver on threats that were not mitigated. In the hit 2019 rogue-like deck-building video game Slay The Spire, one of the fundamental aspects
The Demon of Dogwater Gulch is out! Just a quick one to announce that my adventure, The Demon of Dogwater Gulch, is finally out! Get it here: The Demon of Dogwater Gulch by Gordian BladeAn Introductory LANCER One-shot for 3-5 LL0 Pilotsitch.io I'm really happy with how this turned out, and with
Lancer Supercharge Your Lancer Campaign with Faction Rosters One of the best decisions I made when I ran my last Lancer campaign was putting together a faction roster. Instead of making new bespoke NPCs for every single combat, I made a list of 9 NPC "builds" that I always drew from when putting together a combat
The Demon of Dogwater Gulch Pre-Postmortem I did it! I published my first RPG module! Here it is: https://gordianblade.itch.io/the-demon-of-dogwater-gulch That is, it's mostly published. It's still in a WIP/early access/beta stage. Listen, a two week jam is a challenge for anyone, let
Lancer Balancing Lancer Combat for One-Shots In my earlier post about expectations for Lancer one-shots, I concluded that combat was pretty much a mandatory inclusion for any Lancer one-shot, despite necessarily taking up a vast majority of a one-shot's allotted time. However, I didn't go into detail about how
Publishing First Impressions of Typst, a Promising New Layout Tool In my ongoing "design diary" of sorts for the Lancer One-Shot Jam coming up next month, I took a few days to explore the possibilities of laying out a TTRPG module using Typst, a relatively new markup language and tool for laying out print media. I only
Lancer Expectations for a Lancer One-Shot I have been stewing on the idea of publishing a one-shot for Lancer for over a year at this point, so I was thrilled to hear that Lancer community member Suji/nimoos volunteered to host a Lancer One-Shot Jam on Itch this December. I've decided to
new blog, who dis Welcome, traveler! Pull up a seat by the fire, the air's gotten chilly lately. This blog is a continuation of my Substack blog of the same name. You can read more about why I've moved to this blog on my Substack post here, but the bottom
