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The Missing Quadrant

Why TTRPGs Struggle With Kind Chaos Mapping the Emotional Landscape If we plot tabletop roleplaying games along two axes—order versus chaos and kind versus mean—we get four quadrants that describe most of the hobby's emotional territory. And when we look at what games actually occupy those

Metal & Mayhem: A Headbanger's One Shot

We’re on a Mission from Satan. Or Something. Based on Lasers & Feelings by John Harper You are headbanging pilgrims on a sacred quest. Your tools are distortion, chaos, and unshakeable devotion to the riff. Your enemies are corporate promoters, poser cops, and anyone who'd silence the

The Silence at Saint Corvin's: The Mirror Text

A designer's essay on inverting Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose through procedural gothic INTRODUCTION: THE INVERSION ENGINE The Silence at Saint Corvin's is a mirror text to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. The monastery remains. The investigation remains.

Mecha Borg: Operation Neighborhood Watch

A scenario in the rubble Introduction Premise: A squadron of mecha has been left behind during a city-wide withdrawal. The comms grid collapsed in the first hours; all command frequencies are jammed. The patchwork unit huddles in the ruins—half scratch barricade, half inherited scrapyard—waiting for extraction that will

The Döömenvalley Redux: The Karelia Offensive

Mörk Borg One-Shot of Retribution and Remembrance THE SITUATION The DNS (Definitely Not-Sees) remnants fled east. Now the So-Be-It Regime occupies what's left of Döömenvalley—claiming "liberation" while cataloging everything that made it home. Commissar Draganov, the officer who killed Döömenpapa's family during the

Ledgers of Myth: A Designer's Essay on Mecha Borg

I started where many of us did—with Battletech, where mechs were battleships on land. Every tonnage chart was a psalm of control, every heat-sink a prayer for mastery. The pilot mattered as acolyte and priest because the cockpit was a cathedral of precision: your decisions, your initiative roll, your

Women At Arms: The Silence At Saint Corvin's

A One-Shot Scenario of Women at Arms WHAT YOU NEED * Mörk Borg Bare Bones Edition (core rules) * JARLS: Pressure Drop (Stress, Bonds, Heat mechanics) * Four players, one GM * Standard polyhedral dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) SETTING & TONE You are officers of the Ordo Arbitrae —a sisterhood empowered

Mecha Borg: Operation Outback Echo

A scenario expansion for Mecha Borg: Under Falling Skies 1. Introduction Premise: In the aftermath of the war, the conflict's detritus litters the Earth. In the Australian interior, among the rust-red mesas and ruined airbases, small remnants of the original antagonists continue to fight in disconnected skirmishes—conflicts

Mecha Borg: Under Falling Skies

Giant robots clash. You are not the hero. You pilot mass-produced war machines in a conflict where individual heroics are temporary and systemic violence is permanent. Roll d20. Tick the clock. Say something before the heavens bury you. You need: standard set of gaming dice (d20, d12, d8, d6, d4)

One Steppe Beyond!

A road rally game of junky vehicles and janky friendships Play Time: 1–2 hours | Players: 3–5 (+ optional Road Marshal) | Tone: Comedy → Contemplation | Note: This game deals with exhaustion and frustration; use safety tools and check in after heavy scenes. YOU ARE A CREW DRIVING JUNKSTERS ACROSS TRANSISTORSTAN Your