The state of the world is pretty bleak right now. State governments all across the United States, my home, are continuing to soldier forward in their efforts to write people like me out of existence and law alike. My country is embroiled in yet another senseless, meaningless, reasonless war. The
How much effort is too little?
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The origins of The Loom System
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The Loom System is a tabletop role-playing game system that replaces dice and the Game Master with player-driven, archetypal storytelling. It empowers players through shared and individual playbooks, and pushes you to ask: what does a game look like where progression is mechanically irrelevant?
Long ago, before our world, there was another. There was a Flood once, or so I have heard. It was vast and terrible in the way that only the greatest of disasters can be, a cataclysm so total in its destruction that when it swept the world, there was nothing
Hark, Brave Adventurer! These lands are wild and untamed, and the journey you set forth upon shall be perilous. Prithee, take care, brave adventurer. Thou must traverse many obstacles to deliver thou’est most magicalest of art’efacts to the most neediest of people in need. Of course, thou must
Welcome to Gravemire, a horror TTRPG by Sylvan Lawrence, published by Clawhammer Games. Set in an uncanny, creature-infested version of 1890s Louisiana, Gravemire uses an original D12-based system of mechanics and a deliberate focus on character relationships to help players tell meaningful stories of fallible people coping with unfathomable odds.
