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The 2 axes of abstraction
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About 5 years ago, Luke Gearing wrote a blog post called Mechanisms as Abstraction. It has become an infamous piece of ttrpg design thinking, and comes up pretty often in g...
Side project: beginnings
MurkMail Premium Issue 38
Unbalanced combat is cool
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In Quinns’ review of ’s Mythic Bastionland, Quinns asks for encounter balancing advice. In the OSR/NSR zone of the hobby, we often talk about how combat balance isn’t...
'No' is the most interesting answer.
There’s a lot of talk in the ttrpg world about ideas like ‘yes, and’, ‘no, but’, and similar improv-style narrative scaffolding techniques. All of this is often in fear of the simple ‘no’. I love ‘no’. I think it’s the most important respon...
A list of OSR problems
MurkMail Premium Issue 37
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