The Misadventures of Hareng Rouge

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A Manifesto or an Indulgence – Let’s Play to Find Out

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Let’s Play to Find Out

This is a learning by doing project. A project for my own education and knowledge. I’ve no great pretension or aspiration for the quality of the outputs. If you’ve come here for insight then you, you’re fishing in the wrong water for the wrong fish..

  • Actual Play Plans and Posting Schedule

    Coming Later This Year Starting probably in September 2026 and lasting a year, perhaps more, I will be posting a mixture of Actual Play reports, campaign material, setting notes and reflective essays drawn from my ongoing tabletop roleplaying campaigns. The main campaigns currently in rotation are Cyberpunk 2020, Dungeon Crawl Classics and Mutant Crawl Classics.…

  • Mutant Crawl Classics and the Death of the Author

    Mutant Crawl Classics could do with a good edit and some more playtesting. The solution to that is to embrace the death of the author or hire a better editor. The text is unstable. It shares a clear heritage with Dungeon Crawl Classics with similar mechanics and the same ethos of embracing the chaos. Dungeon…

  • Series: Adaptation and Attrition – Natural Selection in the Dungeon Part I – Death is Character Creation, What Survives is a Story

    In this Series I will argue that evolutionary pressures exist in the game and table ecology of the table-top roleplaying game Dungeon Crawl Classics. Characters survive in Dungeon Crawl Classics because their stats fit the environment, the party invests resources in them, their abilities fit the party, players emotionally value them, and prior survival grants…