HeyJaredRulings, Not Rules
Formerly Rulings, not Rules. Kind of means the same thing but a little more unique. This is a place where I write about games, mostly tabletop RPGs, and mostly Shadowdark and Schadengard, my online West Marches campaign
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I’m Just a GM Who Can’t Say “No” (opens the original)
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How many is too many? How many is not enough?Table size was a brief topic on the Murkdice Discord server this week (great conversations there, you should join! Or at least follow the Substack). I very much identified with this statement:<source type="ima
A Week of Transitions (opens the original)
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As I’ll get to in my gaming recaps this was a week of endings and beginnings. My D&D 5e game entered its final battle. I started a new Mythic Bastionland campaign. And we played the last planned session of our Flail campaign. So it’s a challenging time for me as a GM because I’m getting excited for all these future plans, but I also have to focus on wrapping the existing games up with style. New games are exciting! But I don’t want existing games to just peter out. I feel like I’m very good at e
Ad Hoc Play Reports 8/29/26 (opens the original)
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