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Dev Diary: Tactical Map Feature Populating
Working on systems for Extraction Command zine game design...
Oct 29 • 
Alex Tzakis
Hex Grid Map Systemization
Developing The "Nixy" Grid System!
Oct 15 • 
Alex Tzakis
One-Page TTRPG Musings
Thoughts after reading "Make Your Own One-Page Roleplaying Game" by Skeleton Code Machine...
Oct 8 • 
Alex Tzakis
The Site of The Megalo Released
OD&D adventure site hopefully compatible with The Wight Box!
Oct 1 • 
Alex Tzakis
Fantasy Populace and Hex Math
Abstracting sizes of cities and farm land for practical use. What the hectare?
Sep 24 • 
Alex Tzakis
Thoughts On TTRPG Table Culture
At the intersection of design, incentive, and setting.
Sep 9 • 
Alex Tzakis
Metagaming and Tabletalk
Differences in traditional versus OSR metagame
Sep 2 • 
Alex Tzakis
Make Your Quests "Mythic"
Elevate your prep by using ideas from the Myths of Mythic Bastionland...
Aug 27 • 
Alex Tzakis
Gencon 2025: Something Else
One for the books!
Aug 6 • 
Alex Tzakis
Hexflower Exploration
Building a hex flower! Weather hexflower for download at the bottom!
Jul 22 • 
Alex Tzakis
Review: Knock!
A high-density OSR ideascape...
Jul 15 • 
Alex Tzakis
Running High Player-Count Shadowdark
Big Game Hunting...
Jul 8 • 
Alex Tzakis
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