Ian O'Rourke

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130 Stories by Ian O'Rourke

S6 – The Sea Hag

Welcome to the sixth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
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Accepting YouTube Failure

I am writing this on the same day I released a new YouTube video. It was the first one I’d released in three months....
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The Left Behind

While travelling I tend to have time to think. One of the things I got thinking about is what it must feel like to...
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Before The Dice Drop

The tools and techniques we used before the dice dropped that contributed to a campaign's success.
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The Literal Extremists

Did you know you are a psychopath? I bet you didn’t. I also bet you didn’t know that some of the life choices you’re...
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Where Is The Allegory?

I watched the first episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds yesterday (as of writing this) and it got me thinking about something as...
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S5 – Dastardly Duerger

Welcome to the fifth set of game notes of our The Rime of Frost Maiden campaign from a player’s perspective. We’ll discuss the pre-game,...
0 3 min read

Losing The Signal

I’m not the biggest fan of playing tabletop role-playing games online. I have played a few online games. I’ve run parts of a campaign...
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Fudging Dice Is Dysfunctional

The need to fudge the dice rolls in a ttrpg is born out of dysfunction.
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D&D: A Lifestyle Brand

The D&D DIrect Livestream really showed how now, more than ever before, D&D is a lifestyle brand often only seen in other media.
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