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The Compleat DM: The Architecture of Play and Pathos

Compleat DM

Obsessive dissections of games and imagined worlds from both a mechanical and thematic perspective.

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Brawnstorm: Factions and Time

Bouncing between UMBROS play and Brawnstorm’s design has actually been really helpful to the process of both. I say that because I have a tendency when exploring new concepts like I am in running Braunstein to want to add or remove things d...

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Brawnstorm: An Age Undreamed

As we move into UMBROS week 3, we have through our experience identified the wheat and chaff of Braunstein. (Hint: the chaff is big unwieldy mass battles and boring resource farming.) We have developed our own personal theories on this, and...

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Braunstorming: Considerations for a 2nd Age of UMBROS

Week 2 orders in UMBROS are close to resolution. There is a great battle currently being worked through, with the forces of Law attempting to retrieve the stolen Home Stone and put an end to the terror of Ferigno.

I want to preface by say...

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UMBROS: If You Build It, Ferigno Will Steal It

This is the tale of an idiot who sits on a computer more than he wants too, which is any amount of time at all unless it was made before 1985, and is trying to run the most interesting game in the world.

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Cruciform Sword UMBROS Clubhouse

We have 6 players participating in our first session Braunstein for UMBROS tomorrow at 3PM MST. And a further 6 or 7 in the Discord beyond that who are interested in the campaign to follow.

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