AMONG CATS AND BOOKS
TTRPGs, sandbox campaign design, worldbuilding systems, and tools for running tabletop games.
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CATMAIL #1
Look what the cat dragged in. Yeah, that's right another newsletter. I figured I'd surprise my 40 odd subscribers who've never gotten an email from me with a little treat. This is a lightweight monthly digest: what I've been working on (accountability so I don't procrastinate) plus a pile of great posts I've read. If that sounds like something you are interested in and want to get email updates feel free to subscribe! In this issue Two recent posts from me Blogosphere graph updates Featured rea...
Common, Recalled, Obscure
I've been reading a post by Random Ape Encounter about knowledge checks. One quote that stuck to me: Perception is basically a solved issue for me; Landmark, Hidden, Secret covers most cases, and in games that still have a Perception and/or Insight skill, I tend to use it sort of like a Perception Save. It made me think a heretical thought. What if you use L/H/S for character knowledge as well? I've unconsciously done this already. A classic example is a character with a fitting background so...
2025 in Blog Data
It's the end of the year, which means yearly reviews are everywhere. I wanted to do one too—but with a slightly different focus. Instead of talking about me, I'm going to poke around in the blog data I've been collecting for the blogosphere map and make a few amateur data-analyst observations (with some fun visualizations along the way). Quick note on the data: these numbers come from my RSS reader and use the set of blogs I track for the blogosphere map. "Still posting" means a blog published a...
Mapping the Blogosphere
Always pondering the blogs. It all started when Mr Prismatic Wasteland posted a picture on Discord of a TTRPG blog edge graph someone had made years ago on /tg/. When the folks started wishing for an updated version, I thought: I already follow a lot of blogs via RSS—maybe I could use that data to create something similar. A few weeks later, I'm crawling back out of the rabbit hole with an interactive map of the TTRPG blogverse, and I'd like to show you what I found. Explore the graph: Open the...
Glory as Reputation
First impressions are easier when you're already a legend. Playing Mythic Bastionland, Knights gain Glory as they resolve Myths and pull off other feats. When they meet someone for the first time, there's a chance their reputation gets there first. At the table I wanted a simple procedure I could run in the moment: has this specific person actually heard of you or your accomplishments? I stole the mechanic from Sam Seer's dead-simple Mothership Reputation hack, which turns a character's High Sco...
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