AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
TTRPGs, sandbox campaign design, worldbuilding systems, and tools for running tabletop games.
elmc.atAMONG CATS AND BOOKS is an independent blog covering game development and personal. It publishes on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, with 2 readers following along on Blogs Are Back.
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A World That Answers
Do not give me the story, give me a world already in gear, a beginning loose enough to leave the ending unclear, restless hands already at work for what someone holds dear, and let my choices reveal me through every unintended mark I leave by being here. For the RANDOM BLOGWAGON, after reading The Retired Adventurer.
CATMAIL #4
Look what the cat dragged in. Switching things up with a shorter CATMAIL. Let’s see how it works. To reduce eye-glazing for you, dear reader, I moved the big link pile out of the newsletter. Worry not, it isn't gone. The newsletter now includes the posts I have extra thoughts about, while the longer archive list lives on the blog as a companion piece. I'll see how this turns out. Let me know if you have suggestions! In this Issue New blog posts Rootring and map updates Favorite reads from the m...
Cat Scraps: Apr 26
A monthly pile of blog links dragged home by the cat. The highlights and commentary live in the corresponding CATMAIL. If you want those in your inbox, you can subscribe here. Among CatsScene, community, publishing, and hobby culture Congas.blog: Is the OSR evolving? Crow's Corner: Designing Pamphlet Games (With Shitty Printers in Mind) Hilander RPGs: You Should Publish That Idraluna Archives: AAJ Reflection 2: The Future of The Antarctic Adventure Jam in lowercase: the first encounter of the r...
Against Maps
Post is part of the blog bandwagon about maps. You sit down ready to play some sicko dungeon ass dragons, all hyped up for the first session. The referee asks everyone to turn around while he preps the table. When you turn back, you see a map. At least, you think it's a map. A single hex is revealed, with a marker supposedly representing the party. Everything else is covered in black construction paper. With a wry smile, the referee asks, "Where do you want to go?" After a brief pause, someone s...
Fullstack Refereeing
This post is about me taking an analogy way too far, but I think it's useful. As a referee, you are doing several different jobs at once. A lot of advice about running games gets muddy because it never says which of those jobs it's actually trying to help with. Sometimes the fictional world feels flat. Sometimes players stumble because they don't know what they can do. Sometimes a session keeps bogging down even though the prep was fine. Those are different problems, and they need different solu...
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