Goblin Digest - March 25
Apologies for the significant delay this month! Here are the posts that stood out to me this (that?) month from around the GLoGosphere. I had a heap of work-related writing to get through at the beginning of April and I find it hard to sit down to write a blogpost while I have an upcoming deadline looming.
That said, this raises an interesting questions: what makes a memorable blogpost? In my art classes, I ask students to keep a sketchbook. Some of their assignments are done in that book, but really the goal is for it to serve as a sort of prosthetic memory of passing impressions. I ask them to attend to two types of things:
- Anything they find themselves looking at for more than a minute.
- Anything they find themselves remembering more than a day after they saw it.
The posts that follow are memorable ones to me. Not necessarily the most useful or artful (though some are!), but the ones that fit in one of those two categories.
Gameable
- Numbers Aren't Real: The Bazaar of the Memorable (Obol Desert) - A setting in a table of trade goods. Immediately borrowable for any game set in a desert-setting in whole or in part.
- Archons March On: D100 Signs of the Warp Spasm - A mutation table that you couldn't possibly construe as a positive to roll on. Maybe a touch gorier than what I actually would want to use at the table.
Theory
Nothing jumped out to me this month.
Class
- Whose Measure God Could Not Take: My Conduct Can Want No Vindication (GLoG Class: Princess) - Real Princess Leia vibes. A class that gets by on imperious commands briefly and will constantly pull the party towards at least trying to parley with the world.
- Sundered Shields and Silver Shillings: SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES (GLoG class: DOPPLEGÄNGER) - An oddball that really shows the strengths of GLoG's template system. Something like a doppelganger being modeled in the same system that handles being a fighter has an inherent charm to me.
- Grackle Court: {GLOG} Magic User - An elegant class in practice disguised in paragraphs of text and paratextual reference to other GLoG Wizards. I love the way the class recontextualizes the semi-rare class of magic consumables like potions and scrolls.
Fluffpost
- Spiceomancy: Veils (a magic system) - Purportedly not an ARG.