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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Undead Part 1Physical Description Undead are the animated corpses and spirits of the deceased. Their dead forms move as they did in life, but now as horrid monsters. Most undead are warped to think only of the consumption of living beings from their previous species. This obsession is further twisted by undead…
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Continue reading →: Outer Invasion (Chapter 12)Chapter 12 Finished! Well, not really finished because this is all a first draft. But ready to read! Chapter 12 – Guild Members The trio greeted Phoenix as the sun rose over the city. Their return journey took longer than the way to the Artemis shrine due to the extra…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Giantkin Part 3Location Giants live in the mountains, hills, and caves of Cimmeria. Their tendency towards violence makes them incompatible with the settled development of civilization. A giant is likely to accidentally destroy a building in anger, so the little folk have banded together to push giants away from buildings. There are…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 73 – Duncan and Extraordinary LocationsDuncan Rhodes comes on the show to talk about his new book, The Creative Game Master’s Guide to Extraordinary Locations: & How to Design Them or just Extraordinary Locations. The book is filled with 30 adventure locations to drop into your campaign, modify, or use as a full adventure path!…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Giantkin Part 2Subraces Giantkin come in many varieties. All giants are descended from the first giants and cyclopes birthed from Gaia. While the different subraces have diverged over time, they all maintain the general humanoid shape, large size, and powerful musculature iconic of giants. Elemental Giants: Elemental giants are the most pure…
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Continue reading →: TTRPG Customer Profiles – First DraftThe Setting the Stage podcast had a really good year in 2025. My audience went from 6143 downloads to 9743. My listeners on Spotify multiplied by 5 according to the 2025 Wrapped feature so I’m guessing most of my reach came from there. Along with those numbers, I got approved…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Giantkin Part 1Physical Description There are many kind of giants in Cimmeria but they are all huge, strong, and ferocious. The smallest giants stand at about eight feet tall while the largest are more than twenty feet tall. Weights are similarly variable with giants often being heavy for their relative height due…
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Continue reading →: RPG Player Motivation TypesWhy do different people play D&D and other RPGs? You’ll get different answers whenever you ask different people. The combat, the puzzles, the roleplay, the stories, the snacks, the people, and so on. What motivates them to play? The idea of player motivations wasn’t well formulated when RPGs were getting…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 72.5 – CalicoVisions and Psychomortis (Part 2)This is the second of a two part interview with Calico. If you haven’t listened to the first episode with him, you should go do that before listening to this one. The first episode was #72 and this is #72.5. Calico returns with additional info on the world of Psychomortis.…
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Continue reading →: Tabletop Community Spotlight Jan-March 2026I took on a new project a few months ago, but haven’t announced it on my blog yet. I’m one of the two people in charge of the Tabletop Community Spotlight (TCS). TCS History The Tabletop Community Spotlight was originally started by Peter from Tales from Elsewhere and Zarek from…





