Notes from Ben M, a New Zealand TTRPG creator.
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Recent TTRPG posts of interest
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Some recent links from around the 'web DM David's history of the astral and ethereal planes - https://dmdavid.com/tag/the-astral-and...
Friday, 26 May 2023
Encumbrance: Shifting the Burden
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Character encumbrance has long been a hot-button issue in tabletop game design circles. Part of this is because in our time-starved modern l...
Friday, 19 May 2023
Scattered thoughts on old-school play
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I'm always interested to read about the roots of the modern tabletop roleplaying game. It usually leaves me speculating how things might...
Sunday, 16 April 2023
A puzzle from the 1978 AD&D 1st Edition Monster Manual
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This is about creature intelligence in original AD&D. Others have noted these foibles before, but I wanted to note down my take. The gam...
Monday, 10 April 2023
Early impressions of Diablo IV --- Thoughts on ARPG vs TTRPG
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Let's consider some general design principles for traditional role-playing games and modern action games. Traditional role-playing games...
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