Lysus
@lysus.bsky.social
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Posting about roleplaying games, history, and politics. Wisconsinite. My blog - table46.bearblog.dev
I liked this one, particularly the thoughts on "generic" RPGs at the end.
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Now that it's been a week, I finally finished my wrapup for Gary Con 2026. I had a good time overall, but there's some things the con could do better.
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Gary Con XVIII Recap
Last weekend I (officially) attended my third Gary Con. My first was in 2020, which was unfortunately moved online for obvious reasons, and I also attended i...
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cavegirl
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"A good GM can make any game work" - trite, thought terminating cliche, simplistic "A well designed game is fun even when you aren't very good at it" - actually useful design advice.
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I'm really looking forward to this one! I'm very curious how the gender questions that Jay brings up will play at the table - I imagine it will depend very much on who has sat down to play.
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I've been looking forward to this going live! We'll see if I manage to get my blog set up for it before I need to depart for Gary Con.
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This is a great simple addition to OSE-style fighters. I don't know that it's enough what make me want to play one, but my problems with the class have always been more with utility then combat prowess.
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I love the point that Nick makes about avoiding repeating redundant bits of a plan. As a GM, I'm bored to tears if planning eats up half of a session though.
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If you're not reading Carouse, Carouse! every month, you should be!
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It's the middle of March, which means it's time for another newsletter! Within you'll find a selection of the best RPG blog posts of the last month along with my roundup of what I'm reading and playing.
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The 46er - March 2026
A month has passed yet again and I have continued to track my favorite blog posts from across the RPG blogosphere this month. There's a lot of great writing ...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-march-2026/
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I'll only accept Demotic, the first script of the people, by the people, for the people. It's in the name!
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I thought this was a good post!
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Funhouse dungeons are not for me, but I really enjoyed this detailed, insightful review!
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In which I opine as to what I thought the best blog posts of last year were -
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What Should Have Won the Bloggies
The Bloggies wrapped up this week. Congratulations to the winners! Now I'm here to tell you which posts I thought should have won in each category. We are al...
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I've been working on how I want to model dodging within the bounds of an Oddlike. I don't think this is it for me, but go take a look yourself! It's an interesting (and good) bit of design work!
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Every bit of rules weight added to a design needs to pay off - I like Sandro's take on this.
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I wrote a bit about why a wilderness full of scary monsters and complex societies can coexist in my Jewelsea setting -
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Why don't the monsters simply eat the people?
I was reading Pikliz Dungeon's most recent post and thinking about one of the contradictions of the Jewelsea that I haven't yet resolved - why does a world f...
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I love Final Fantasy Tactics and I love this post.
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I wrote a little bit about giants for the February 2026 Blog Carnival -
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Giants in the Broken Lands
Written for the February 2026 Blog Carnival. Giants only enter the Jewelsea rarely. The low latitudes are unpleasant at best for these relics of a bygone ...
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This one is a great look at how to stop your encounter tables from being boring!
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Microblog time! Why not speed your investment in a character by putting yourself on the line to buy snacks for the table if they bite the dust?
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The Snack Fund
Last week, there was some discussion on the Prismatic Waystation Discord of how high danger or lethality in OSR-inflected play combined with the ease with wh...
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This is a fun post about OSR principles in Pokémon!
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Why would Adam attack me like this?
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The micro fic in this one is good and I also like the cursed blades!
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about 1 month ago
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen
about 1 month ago
Okay, serious face, though: If we actually do want to move the way we talk about TTRPGs "forward" on the theory front, develop that more beyond the bounds of academia, here's what we need to do: Start treating clarified views of gaming as distinct lenses you can put on and take off. 1/
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It's the middle of February, so that means it's time for another edition of my newsletter, featuring a roundup of interesting OSR blog posts, a look at what I've been reading, and what video games and RPGs I've spent my time on this month.
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The 46er - February 2026
It's been a great month for blogging! The Bloggies are in full swing, with voting about to begin. There's been many great posts - I've curated a selection of...
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen
about 2 months ago
Giving a game credit for things that it's not doing, that you are, creates a cushion of deniability that lets people push past their "making shit up in public" boundaries (since you can also flip to giving it blame if you err), and games that don't cooperate with this cause problems in some cases.
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Markus did a great job laying out some principles for what analog games do better than digital!
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about 2 months ago
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I love every part of this except the Cthulhu stuff (not my jam) but I'm excited to see where it goes!
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If audio is your preference to words on a screen (weird choice for someone on Bluesky, but nevertheless) a big cast of cool characters are reading this year's Bloggie nominees out loud. Go check it out!
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I'm looking forward to seeing which post comes out on top this year!
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Great post - I particularly like the idea of making players use time and resources if they want to get the exact dimensions of rooms.
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Inspired by
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's post this week, I wrote up my own framework for how to handle knowledge questions in RPGs -
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Knowledge, General and Specific
I've been thinking about knowledge this week, prompted by Elmcat's . It's a great framework for thinking about how to provide characters with knowledge that ...
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I decided to start a newsletter tracking some of my favorite blog posts around the blogosphere and a few other gaming-related sundries. Here's the first issue -
table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-jan...
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The 46er - January 2026
I thought it would be a fun idea to regularly call attention to the great posts that the writers of the RPG blogging communities gift to us. I am , but I ...
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I love this rework of B2 - it makes it into something that I'd be much more interested in running myself.
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This is a great thread full of insight about what random encounters mean. I hope it gets preserved as a blog post!
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I wrote a bit about the posts I nominated for the Bloggies this year! If you haven't yet, go submit your favorite posts.
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Bloggies 2026 - My Nominees
It's the most wonderful time of year, the ! The RPG Blogosphere all gathers around, has a contest in which we pit the year's best blog posts against each oth...
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I wrote up my 2025 wrap-up, featuring what I played, what I read, and my plans for the coming year, among others.
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The Rearview Mirror - Endies 2025
It's the start of a new year and a lot of folks have been posting their yearly wrap-ups, so I thought I'd get in on the show and talk a bit about what I've b...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/the-rearview-mirror-endies-2025/
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I updated my friction pool system for my WIP project, the Jewelsea RPG. It's a combination of ideas from the overloaded encounter die and the Underclock along with the One Roll Engine -
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Jewelsea RPG - Friction Pool, Second Draft
I've been working with the friction pool (my answer to the random encounter check, overloaded encounter die, and underclock) since I first posted about it . ...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/jewelsea-rpg-friction-pool-second-draft/
3 months ago
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I'm looking forward to seeing Yochai's new work!
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3 months ago
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lumpley
4 months ago
My friends! The Apocalypse World 3rd Ed kickstarter ends on Friday night. We launched with a Q&A on Reddit and I think we'd like to wrap up with a Q&A here. Ask me anything! Ask
@megueyb.bsky.social
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lumpleygames/apocalypse-world-burned-over
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The synthesis - Die Hard is an OSR Christmas movie.
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Beneath Foreign Planets
4 months ago
Bluesky has fallen. Lysus of
table46.bearblog.dev
, a linguistics obsessed nerd, has provided a bevvy of blogposts on language that I'll share in a thread as I read through them. Check out his blog. 1/8? 🧵
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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I enjoy reading MurkMail every week and Blood & Salt was fun, so I'm looking forward to this one.
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4 months ago
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I've been watching elmcat build this for the last few weeks and it's super cool!
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I wrote up some injury rules for my WIP game -
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Jewelsea RPG - Injury
I've been mulling over how I want to handle injuries for quite some time. Critical damage and mortal wounds are both good systems for knocking people out of ...
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David J Prokopetz
4 months ago
This is my favourite game. Every part of it sucks, but each part sucks in a way that GESTURES TOWARD something that would be awesome were it not undermined by every other part. It can't be improved because everything that's terrible about its load-bearing. Did I mention it's the best game ever made?
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Another great look at the interesting (and odd) implications of the rules in the 1st Edition DMG.
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I've been enjoying the snippets of the Great Antarctic Hexcrawl as they're released. I'm looking forward to when the anthology is released!
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Adam Serwer
5 months ago
Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start. Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later
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