Author: Aaron Schaedel
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Lessons From AD&D’s Temple of Elemental Evil, Part 1 – Murder Hobos and Death Matches
When Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition was on the way out, but 5th Edition was still in the works, there was a massive playtest conducted via the Internet to shape what the new D&D would be like. I took part in this, as many others did. For our efforts, we were rewarded with a PDF…
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Machine Guns in ttRPGs, Part 1
“I’ve got a bullet with your name on it, and we’re gonna keep firing till we find it!!” A friend of mine was discussing Cyberpunk RED with me; he was talking about how he didn’t like the auto-fire rules; how the game handles machine guns being used to spew out bullets. He said he ignored…
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Jujutsu Kaisen, Gurps, and Multi-Genre Games
A common sort of comment I see when folks are discussing tabletop RPGs, is whether or not a certain game could be used to run something from a particular media. Since it’s still kind of popular in the zeitgeist, as of early 2026, I’m going to revisit a question I had awhile back about running…
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Mobs in Konosuba TRPG
I had a commentor on one of my YouTube videos about Konosuba TRPG ask why some enemies are listed as “Mobs,” and was wondering if there was any special rules pertaining to them. Straight Through the Heart All I was able to find, was that page 261 of the English edition describes them as 2~10…