Chance L.
@unturnedhovel.bsky.social
I write stuff that's meant to be played. Making things work in the digital rodeo.
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Amazing post about the problems that modern reviews have with actually doing the work of play. I tried to combat this with my review of Mandog being rooted in how I prepped it (minimally) and how it played.
Amazing post about the problems that modern reviews have with actually doing the work of play. I tried to combat this with my review of Mandog being rooted in how I prepped it (minimally) and how it played.
Chew Your Own Damn Food
There's this idea I've noticed over my past few years in this corner of the hobby that I want to talk about at a length a little longer than a discord post. ...
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January 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Amazing post about the problems that modern reviews have with actually doing the work of play. I tried to combat this with my review of Mandog being rooted in how I prepped it (minimally) and how it played.
Amazing post about the problems that modern reviews have with actually doing the work of play. I tried to combat this with my review of Mandog being rooted in how I prepped it (minimally) and how it played.
I finished my review for The Door in Murex Canyon, @evilgoblin.wedding ‘s fantastic science fantasy dungeon and hexcrawl. It’s a truly alien and alive setting, much better than the tepid Wolfe rehashs that usually dominate the genre!
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The Door in Murex Canyon After Action Review
Buy it! https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/cairn-2e/products/the-door-in-murex-canyon-for-cairn-2e-rpg-and-b-x-ose
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January 20, 2026 at 9:06 AM
I finished my review for The Door in Murex Canyon, @evilgoblin.wedding ‘s fantastic science fantasy dungeon and hexcrawl. It’s a truly alien and alive setting, much better than the tepid Wolfe rehashs that usually dominate the genre!
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My wilderness rules for my Troika! megadungeon game I got running. Happy Troika! Tuesday all!
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Troika! Wilderness Crawling Rules
Travel speed dictates how many hexes, grids, points, etc can be traveled along during one day's travel. and these rules can serve as a useful scaffold for t...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:34 AM
My wilderness rules for my Troika! megadungeon game I got running. Happy Troika! Tuesday all!
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If you ever struggled with trying to learn how to play OD&D then you have to read the Littlest Brown Book. It clarifies and explains so much of the hard to parse information of the originals. It is also very funny.
Turned one of my better blog posts into a Littlest Brown Book supplement
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Supplement א: Chromatic Charms & Spectral Sorceries by idraluna-archives
Color-coded magic-user sub-classes for The Littlest Brown Book
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January 12, 2026 at 1:48 PM
If you ever struggled with trying to learn how to play OD&D then you have to read the Littlest Brown Book. It clarifies and explains so much of the hard to parse information of the originals. It is also very funny.
I am a player in this campaign and this one of the most engaging, layered games I’ve been a part of. The world Chao presents us is so fully realized. Getting caught up in the details of it is a highlight of my week.
Just made the first video covering an intro to the worldbuilding of my current weekly RPG campaign - Think OD&D meets Roadside Picnic!
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Bear Witness - Ep 0: Introduction to the World
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January 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
I am a player in this campaign and this one of the most engaging, layered games I’ve been a part of. The world Chao presents us is so fully realized. Getting caught up in the details of it is a highlight of my week.
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Merry Troika! Tuesday to all who celebrate! Here is a dungeon ready to go for your campaigns!
Merry Troika! Tuesday to all who celebrate! Here is a dungeon ready to go for your campaigns!
Troika! Tuesday: Yvild the Mold Maker's Magnificent Lab
I wanted to practice writing a dungeon so I took a Watabou layout I liked and riffed on it.
Unless stated otherwise the general construction is sleet gr...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Merry Troika! Tuesday to all who celebrate! Here is a dungeon ready to go for your campaigns!
Merry Troika! Tuesday to all who celebrate! Here is a dungeon ready to go for your campaigns!
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Here is my review of Mandog! @gromb.bsky.social's fantastic investigation module. Something that should be an inspiration to other adventures in the same space. You should run this module.
Here is my review of Mandog! @gromb.bsky.social's fantastic investigation module. Something that should be an inspiration to other adventures in the same space. You should run this module.
Mandog After Action Review
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January 5, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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Here is my review of Mandog! @gromb.bsky.social's fantastic investigation module. Something that should be an inspiration to other adventures in the same space. You should run this module.
Here is my review of Mandog! @gromb.bsky.social's fantastic investigation module. Something that should be an inspiration to other adventures in the same space. You should run this module.
Reposted by Chance L.
go ahead. post another "discourse". tell me incentives are fascistic in nature. say that blorbo is downstream from the forge. accuse an indie designer of stealing spark tables. come up with a woke way to fuck a dragon.
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 AM
go ahead. post another "discourse". tell me incentives are fascistic in nature. say that blorbo is downstream from the forge. accuse an indie designer of stealing spark tables. come up with a woke way to fuck a dragon.
Wrote up some stuff about Luck for the last Troika! Tuesday of 2025!
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Luck Gained and Lost: Troika! Tuesday
Luck is one of the three pillars of stress that you can apply in Troika! Stamina and Skill are things I'd like to look at a later time because uses for Luck ...
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December 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Wrote up some stuff about Luck for the last Troika! Tuesday of 2025!
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#OntheRailsJam is live! You have one month to design a rail car for the Rose & Thorn, a train traveling across the frontier! Have fun!
On the Rails Jam
A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-02-01 hosted by Sivad's Sanctum. WHAT IS SETTING SUN? In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite tabletop roleplaying game of wild west adventure and shenanigans....
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December 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
#OntheRailsJam is live! You have one month to design a rail car for the Rose & Thorn, a train traveling across the frontier! Have fun!
Use this to fill up your games with tons and tons of magical Knick Knacks that will surely cause more problems than they solve! Happy Troika! Tuesday everyone!
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Enchanting Troika!
Every game needs a way to make all these baubles magical and useful right? Troika! is not different and so for this Troika! Tuesday we're writing up an Encha...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Use this to fill up your games with tons and tons of magical Knick Knacks that will surely cause more problems than they solve! Happy Troika! Tuesday everyone!
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Run this adventure for your friends this weekend! It’s easy to prep and they will be terrified of the beast.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Run this adventure for your friends this weekend! It’s easy to prep and they will be terrified of the beast.
The world has blessed us with another Tuesday, so we have all been blessed with another Troika! Tuesday! Here are some more spells to inflict upon the Spheres while I work on more backgrounds.
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Six More Fantastic Spells for Troika!
Troika! Tuesday has blown into town again and while I am still working on the Gygar backgrounds I am not quite ready yet. So here! Have some more delightful ...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The world has blessed us with another Tuesday, so we have all been blessed with another Troika! Tuesday! Here are some more spells to inflict upon the Spheres while I work on more backgrounds.
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I just finished running Mandog and my experience with the adventure is ENTIRELY different from this review. I wholly recommend the module and my players all bought a copy they loved it so much.
RUN GAMES. DON'T JUST READ THEM.
RUN GAMES. DON'T JUST READ THEM.
I'm not gonna comment on the layout comment because well you know what fair I heavily prioritized the PDF as a physical object than I did other things so it didn't come out searchable
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Critique Navidad: Mandog
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
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December 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I just finished running Mandog and my experience with the adventure is ENTIRELY different from this review. I wholly recommend the module and my players all bought a copy they loved it so much.
RUN GAMES. DON'T JUST READ THEM.
RUN GAMES. DON'T JUST READ THEM.
Reposted by Chance L.
I'm not gonna comment on the layout comment because well you know what fair I heavily prioritized the PDF as a physical object than I did other things so it didn't come out searchable
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Critique Navidad: Mandog
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
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December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm not gonna comment on the layout comment because well you know what fair I heavily prioritized the PDF as a physical object than I did other things so it didn't come out searchable
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Troika! Tuesday will continue until morale improves. I decided to write something out based on the implications of result 34 of the feast of the chiliarch plothooks. https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/2025/12/encounters-is-tsark.html
Encounters is Tsark
It's Troika! Tuesday. I made a micro setting based on a d6 encounter table for troika. A PDF for home printing can be found here.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Troika! Tuesday will continue until morale improves. I decided to write something out based on the implications of result 34 of the feast of the chiliarch plothooks. https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/2025/12/encounters-is-tsark.html
Another Tuesday, another Troika! Tuesday post! Tried to write out some of the rules I have been using for Troika! Mega Dungeon play. GO PLAY SOME TROIKA!
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Troika! Crawl Rules
After an exchange with Melsonia last week for Troika Tuesday I thought I would expand on the dungeon rules I have been using and get them posted.
And ple...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Another Tuesday, another Troika! Tuesday post! Tried to write out some of the rules I have been using for Troika! Mega Dungeon play. GO PLAY SOME TROIKA!
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The Troika Citizen generator should be the ONLY thing you use for statting out hirelings for your megadungeons.
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The Troika Citizen generator should be the ONLY thing you use for statting out hirelings for your megadungeons.
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I heard it is Troika Tuesday, so I made some spells for my Castle Gygar Megadungeon game I've been working on.
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I heard it is Troika Tuesday, so I made some spells for my Castle Gygar Megadungeon game I've been working on.
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6 Spells for Troika-Crawlling
I have been running a Castle Gygar table using Troika! and it's been an absolute blast. A bunch (nearly 36) of backgrounds relating to the dungeon are on the...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I heard it is Troika Tuesday, so I made some spells for my Castle Gygar Megadungeon game I've been working on.
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I heard it is Troika Tuesday, so I made some spells for my Castle Gygar Megadungeon game I've been working on.
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