Lysus
@lysus.bsky.social
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Posting about roleplaying games, history, and politics. Wisconsinite. My blog - table46.bearblog.dev
I'm looking forward to this one!
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Quality theorywank.
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about 23 hours ago
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This is a great way to get your players to feel connected to the world.
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Ellen Clair Lamb
4 days ago
Both are true: 1. You are not the intended audience for everything. 2. It's good for you to consume culture targeted to other audiences.
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A great post! System matters, but play culture matters more. What system can do is make its best effort to shape culture or teach people how a new culture works.
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4 days ago
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A great post, full of both genuine information about wildfires and good ideas about how to implement them in a game.
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5 days ago
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Quote this with a game you're currently playing
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6 days ago
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Lagoogoo Doll
6 days ago
You're laughing. Socialists are buying Culver's shrimp and you're laughing
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I think he failed on the "worse" part.
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6 days ago
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There were a lot of good posts for this one! And also my post!
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6 days ago
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Maz
9 days ago
maybe it's the heat exhaustion but I decided to create a helpful guide
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I love when older literature is mined for ideas like this!
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8 days ago
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cavegirl
9 days ago
jesus is the columbo's wife of veggietales
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I like neither halflings nor dogs, but Forlorn Encystment posts are always fun.
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9 days ago
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Monsters that mess with the character sheet are always fun!
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10 days ago
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Nael Fox -> Extortin' and Gamin'
11 days ago
Wrote a post about my experiences playing
@evlynmoreau.bsky.social
's Orbital Megastructure.
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Your Favorite Game (You Haven't Played Yet)
It's very likely you've never played my favorite RPG. Probably you haven't even heard of it yet because it's still in development. It's called Orbital Megast...
https://billhook.bearblog.dev/your-favorite-game-you-havent-played-yet/
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Here's mine, both my personal desk and my work desk.
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12 days ago
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Nael wrote a pretty nifty little dungeon for the Blogwagon! I applaud the effort - it's a lot more work than what I did.
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13 days ago
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Woefully Encysted Creature
14 days ago
A very good newsletter! My post on using AD&D's spying table to resolve NPC missions & my post on AD&D's sages are included! As well as many others, some of which I am reading right now!
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This dungeon is rad as hell; I'd love to play in it.
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14 days ago
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I forgot to post this month's 46er here! Including links to several ongoing blogwagons as well as the usually roundup of good posts from the last month.
table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-jun...
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The 46er - June 2026
There's (at least) three blogwagons currently ongoing! I encourage you to post about randomness, sex, or girly games if those interest you! Also, Valeria ...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-june-2026/
14 days ago
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You can't argue with Hodag's logic.
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15 days ago
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Valeria Loves
18 days ago
"Why are you so focused on today’s pleasure, today’s pain? Don’t you realize how quickly today will leave you?" My 'You should do stuff' manifesto.
valerialoves.com/fail-more-co...
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Fail more, coward đź–¤
Comfort is atrophy. Time is killing you.
https://valerialoves.com/fail-more-coward/
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I am forever searching for a method of handling hit locations quickly and sensibly and I like the direction this one is going.
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20 days ago
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Kids say the darnedest things!
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21 days ago
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I'm eagerly awaiting more information about Clayton's narrative first procedures for action. I don't think mine are developing in quite the same direction, but there's a lot to learn from in his work.
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22 days ago
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This is a good roundup of methods for dealing with your random tables getting repetitive.
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22 days ago
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I've followed along as my friend attempted to understand and play this game. It's great to get another perspective on it!
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22 days ago
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I wrote my entry for
@prismaticwasteland.com
's latest blogwagon, in which I tell you when and why you should include randomness in your play.
table46.bearblog.dev/when-to-be-r...
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When to be random
I waited a bit too long to roll my post for Prismatic Wasteland's Randomness Blogwagon, so when the d20 came up 6, it put me in a bit of a bind! Thankfully I...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/when-to-be-random/
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"Lore" sucks and you should delete it from your vocabulary unless you're talking about TNG.
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27 days ago
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I worry that this survey won't reveal the universal truth that all bloggers crave only to play Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game.
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29 days ago
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Todd's work is great and worth checking out!
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29 days ago
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One of the best blog posts of the year so far!
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30 days ago
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Democrats
about 1 month ago
Trans rights are human rights.
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This is a fun one!
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about 1 month ago
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New blog alert!
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about 1 month ago
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As Gadda's rootring neighbor, I endorse this message.
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about 1 month ago
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Prismatic Wasteland
about 1 month ago
There is (was, maybe I'm late) a sex blog bandwagon going on, so here is my submission: six sex spells for your game
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Six Spells — Prismatic Wasteland
Six spells all involving the magic word “fuck”.
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/six-spells
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This is a fun post! Potions and poisons alike.
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about 1 month ago
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Nael Fox -> Extortin' and Gamin'
about 1 month ago
Been waiting on this one.
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A bit about how "magic" works in the Jewelsea and the draft rules I used for last month's playtest -
table46.bearblog.dev/magic-in-the...
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To Call Upon the Powers of the World - "Magic" in the Jewelsea
I've long disliked the way magic is portrayed in fantasy RPGs, with a neat delineation between "magic" and "mundane." I prefer a vision more accommodating of...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/magic-in-the-jewelsea/
about 1 month ago
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This is a fun lens to use for looking at the fruitful void and how rules direct play.
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about 2 months ago
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This is exactly the kind of vibe I would love in a role-playing game.
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about 2 months ago
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It's the ides of May and I'm back with another monthly newsletter, containing links to a thematically appropriate 46 blog posts I thought were good this month.
table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-may...
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The 46er - May 2026
This Month on Table 46 I blogged about why hex maps need blank spaces for the Maps Blogwagon as well as attending Forge Midwest 2026. In the next few weeks ...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-may-2026/
about 2 months ago
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It's the ides of May and I'm back with another monthly newsletter, containing links to a thematically appropriate 46 blog posts I thought were good this month.
table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-may...
#nsr
#osr
#rpg
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The 46er - May 2026
This Month on Table 46 I blogged about why hex maps need blank spaces for the Maps Blogwagon as well as attending Forge Midwest 2026. In the next few weeks ...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/the-46er-may-2026/
about 2 months ago
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Better late than never! My blog post recapping Forge Midwest 2026 is now up.
table46.bearblog.dev/forge-midwes...
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Forge Midwest 2026 Recap
Forge Midwest ran April 24-26 this year, so I'm quite late getting this report out. I had a blast as I do every year. I'd planned on running one session for ...
https://table46.bearblog.dev/forge-midwest-2026-recap/
about 2 months ago
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There's a lot of good stuff in here and it's for a good cause!
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about 2 months ago
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Great minds think alike - this is basically a better version of my post on hexcrawls for the maps blogwagon.
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about 2 months ago
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I need this to be real.
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about 2 months ago
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This is a thoughtful and interesting method of handling swimming with applicability far beyond His Majesty the Worm, which it's written for.
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about 2 months ago
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