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Hugh Bongo

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Mar 31

followed @prismaticwasteland.com to @elmc.at's post on Settlements in Sandbox Campaigns. Seed planted in my head about social contracts.

Probed buddies: I need 100 of these, says I.

Result: drive.google.com/file/d/1FoA-...

Blog: auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/03/d100...

#osr #ttrpg #development

a partial image of a d100 table of Social Contracts and the Ways they Might Be Broken

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 20d

Wholesome. Dig++.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Aug 23

Bro, @lukegearing.bsky.social : To Reveal the Secrets of the Anatomy...

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Me proper birthing an abomination to gain the spell extension on this one over and over, don't care what it takes or what my womb looks like after.

The organs will delight, and best believe there will be witnesses.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Aug 16

also, fukit.

a rangu treehouse; —orangehaired, apelike creatures with toolmaking & weaving capacities—, practicing sketch to digital photoshop transfers for someday, maybe.

Black and white drawing of Sir Perry on Plenz the Steed in front of gnarly thick tree leaning over; an intelligent monkey's house is done up in the branches. Everything is very textured.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hesitate to call it a 'playlog', as

ToC =
/ How AI will fails you
/ Making imprisonment complex
/ The fear of darkness
/ Faeries have entered my weapons

auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/08/sess...

@davidhoskins.bsky.social
@lukegearing.bsky.social if use of be-riddled Swyver is sacrilege, say so.

Session 10 - Playlog - Corrhéo

As it worked nicely last time and I'm forever a creature seeking habit, I'll offer another ToC. Working Player's Survey of Corrhé...

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Aug 3

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

fodder

Language of Corrheo.docx

Language I've struggled with a development in language that several new characters have brought to my table. Two of them have five starting languages. One wants to learn an immigrant tongue. Too: I'v...

docs.google.com

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Aug 3

Coo. Cut it up. Glue it in. I'll post you a .doc version so you don't have to rewrite it.

First a shower tho.

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Aug 2

@grinningrat.itch.io — yo, read your anti-frictionless memo on the Rat, and was already thinking about language because of some new characters to my game.

they rolled in with 5 languages and all I could think was I GOTTA ATTACK THAT.

so I wrote this:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ec5n...

Language of Corrheo.pdf

drive.google.com

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 31

You're on point with interviews. Most people buying games regularly also make -something- on the side. People who make something on the side like to know others are doing the same. One four-page effort at making the effort less lonely.

These interviews will reveal what's going on by their nature.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Whims do work only if followed.

Stunning form. Very like my home.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 31

My fault. Public access now.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 31

More from Big Dave, @lukegearing.bsky.social

I took your Grand Unified Theory and applied it. I couldn't hit so many dice pools and stay sane so I tightened it to only d8's.

Re: the Wé, here—

drive.google.com/file/d/1txdU...

And thanks for the seed.
Implemented this eve.
1 success.

drive.google.com

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ah. The shirt tightens around my chest. I scratch at a bit of chest hair. I enter through the exit at the shopping market and ignore the old man grumbling as he exits. I even ignore the way the basket hits the sliding door. I tell you now because I don't care. This haircut has me. This pink skin.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 30

Dog day aside: @lukegearing.bsky.social, the fact that Big Dave of Swyvers example text fame showed up at number 6 in the Random Affairs table behind the Duke of Shalshrop sent me absolutely sniggering this eve.

Kudos.

Sincerely hope there is a real Big Dave out there.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 22

Great subject matter for lichdom, if you're looking to saturate enemies with a basis in reality, yah?

"You enter the chamber. Lots of oranges with the fuzz of rot around. A teenager lounges nearby, shirtless, in the same pants as a tight-skinned man who does not appear to blink as he looks at you."

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 22

@lukegearing.bsky.social, it was this particular Mien table when I hit my stride with the poetry of Acid Death Fantasy.

I know that's a long way in, but it prompted me to go back and back again.

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 22

Not the first time I've felt strange when someone from back when says 'remember when it was cool to be here' as I actively try to make the space cool to be in.

Same trouble one faces with gentrification, methinks.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Good review. I was ten pages in feeling similarly.

Captured my sensations with a healthy balance of fairness.

Review of a review says won't read it again but it met all my expectations and filled me up, early in the morn.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 18

tempted to suggest there's little difference

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 18

whats this execution? whats these fingerteeth playing around greedy tongues like bits of anemone?

and did anyone deserve it?

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 17

ohmy

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 17

also dis quickstart 80pgs long, bruv

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 17

ben milton don't like white space?

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 15

I realize you said sessions, not combats.

I'm not sure what an intense session entails. Intensity is the gauge of good sessions, so I seek it by avoiding multi-tasking. Me looking elsewhere for things to throw at characters usually is me not remembering whats prepped that's most exciting.

Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 15

Don't use initiative, increase speed of my voice, become very demanding, make enemy death a single strike, use AC as measure of difficulty.

Favor sensing who cares the most to find who to involve most; reward involvement with being called.

I imagine those who don't speak prefer other aspects.

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Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · Jul 15

1d4 misfortunes on those who desecrate that Skull

1 water to dust, 10', repeats thrice
2 anything touched it becomes bone
3 rations sour nightly
4 smellable by undead

- a DM reader who wanted it