Whose Measure God Could Not Take

I've tried to use "Oblique Strategies" to encourage creativity before without much success.

As part of my weekly Endless Eon game, the party eventually gained access to the aid of the wise man Jake, an orthodox adherent of the Emulators of Jake.

Sundered over on his blog asked to hear about others' methods for coming up with the names featured in their games, even being so kind as to call me one of the good name-finders.

Writing on the theme of a lost spellbook, suggested by Semiurge for Glaugust 2026.

Playing around with the Appendix A generator I made a while ago, as well as the dungeon generator I made for my Endless Eon, I notice that each does some of the work for you, but asks different things.

Satisfying PRIMEUMATON's prompt for Glaugust 2026 by bringing on a guest star, Mergo-Kan of A Sense of Immersion.

A "short" "adventure" "about" a printing press, a very loosely fulfilling one of Locheil's prompts for Glaugust 2026.

Still from Dracula (1931) featuring Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra and Count Dracula as himself Fulfilling my own prompt, reviewing another's blogpost, for Glaugust 2026.

Quick premise on da boss's orders: Shrewfield-On-Avon, a rustic village whose particular location has swamped it with glaziers and pane-mongers after a longstanding window excises has ended.

Battle Scene, by Samuel Johnson Woolf Written in the words of A.E.

These are the terms we’ll be having people pick up starting in early 2027 and ongoing through the following five fiscal years, to accommodate the need for rhetorical conflict and animus in the RPG scene.

Writing on the theme of "Dracula!!!"

A stronghold for a New God for Locheil’s Invisible Hands setting.

This is not largely for dungeon rumors, but the sort of thing that people might talk about happening one town over, or on the other side of the kingdom.

The first and last stories are essentially direct adaptions.

Imagining a pulp globetrotting Cthulhu campaign.

Some notes: The generator is stupid.

Akhs, like all thoughts, can be helpful or destructive.

Over on Craggenloch Tribune, the author discussed his dislike of empty rooms and offered three creative “dungeon-stuffers” to quickly populate an unexpected and undescribed empty room.

My nephews have recently started asking their dad for stories about Odysseus, that complicated man of pain from the Bible.

When I was first getting into Vampire: the Masquerade, it seemed like the perfect setting for an urban sandbox campaign, but as I learned more it seemed the procedures just weren't there.

Experimenting with regions in the vein of Luka Rejec's Holy Mountain Shaker.

In 2019, Anne wrote a partial survey of the big names and blogs related to the GLOG scene.

Everyone has a homebrew ruleset, and everyone wants to show it to other people, or at slap it around until it's presentable.

Like many people, I like to rely on a random name generator for the names of incidental characters in the games I run.