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The April Foundry Recap: A Tour of Keladrea

The April Foundry Recap: A Tour of Keladrea

Towards the end of March, I saw a post in the NSR Cauldron discord from PermanentBacklog's Substack detailing a world building challenge for April called The April Foundry. The TL;DR of that is it was a series of prompts, one each day, designed to help flesh out

By Gordon Kirchner 02 May 2025
Why I'm Breaking Up With Running Pathfinder (For Now)

Why I'm Breaking Up With Running Pathfinder (For Now)

I thought about a million rom com/dating tropes to start this blog with. I even thought about opening up with a "It's not you, it's me" joke. But sometimes simple is just better (a philosophy that the developers at Paizo have never once

By Gordon Kirchner 25 Apr 2025
The Best Free/Cheap RPGs Out There

The Best Free/Cheap RPGs Out There

Okay so there's an orange elephant in the room, particularly if you live in the US these days. Everything is on fire, everything is crazy, people are losing jobs left and right, eggs cost eleventy million dollars, and it turns out every RPG product ever made is printed

By Gordon Kirchner 19 Apr 2025
The Best Habit for Improving Your DMing

The Best Habit for Improving Your DMing

Being a DM is kinda hard actually. Your job is to be part storyteller, part NPC voice actor, part game designer, and part rules expert, along with 5 other roles that I'm probably forgetting at the time of writing this blog. It's made harder by the

By Gordon Kirchner 11 Apr 2025
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