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Angry Check-In: My Christmas Accident
I decided to increase the difficulty level I was playing on by injuring myself on Christmas and landing myself in the emergency room. I'm still working away, but I'm a bit limited for at least the next week. How was your Christmas?
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December 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Angry Check In: December 22, 2025
Hiccups keep hiccuping, but I ain't giving up. Just keeping the lines of communication open.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The Lost Adventuring Day (Part I): Merely Building an Adventure Day
The new...ish D&D DMG is actually a pretty good resource for adventure building tips, except for omitting one thing everyone stupidly hated because they were stupid. Let's talk about The Adventure Day and what it really means.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Ask Angry: Gold for XP
I'm not picking a fight with the OSR grognards, I swear. I'm just answering a legitimate question sent in by a legitimate fan about why gold-for-XP should stay dead and buried.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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How Well Do You Know Your PCs?
How much of your prep time should you spend before the start of a campaign reviewing the players' characters? How much time should you spend before each session reviewing their Reactions and Bonus Actions? I'm willing to bet the correct answer is, "More than you do."
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December 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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More Shapey Goodness
Before I move on from Scenario Shape, let's talk a bit about we might apply these ideas to detailed Encounter building. When we actually get to that. Someday.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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The Angry December 2025 Update and Content Calendar
Happy December everyone. It's high time I get back into the habit of actually communicating with all of you. So here we go. Here's the big-ass plan for December of 2025. It's an exciting one.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Two Things I Hate About Virtual Tabletops (And One Thing I Love)
Time for me to be a cranky old grognard and yell about modern technology again. Except, actually, that's not what I'm going to do at all. I mean, I am going to yell, and I am going to be cranky, but it won't be what you think.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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A Personal Message To My Readers, Supporters, and Friends
The final October Feature has been delayed until early next week. I will still deliver it and then four November Features. The letter is explanation, apology, and a promise to do better.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Ask Angry: The RP and The G and Mere Adventure Buildery
Yes, another Ask Angry, but it contains an important apology I must deliver to all of my Mere Adventure Builders before I write you an article about designing adventures around days and rests and things.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Ask Angry: Passive Knowledge and Other Examples of Passive Play
It's time for me to answer a question from my Ask Angry mailbag. This one is about the proper and correct use of Passive Checks for Intelligence-based skills in D&D. Regardless of what the rules might say.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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When Is a Scenario Not a Scenario?
I lied. Everything isn't a Scenario. Also, Santa isn't real. But Scenario Design is as real as Christmas and it's just as magical.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Ask Angry: Player-Facing Rules, Death Saves, and Nothing About Alignment
In this Ask Angry Mailbag, I address several important topics, such as when I edit people's messages, which books in my collection are the lightest, and whether I care about my readers opinions. I also answer at least a few questions I was actually asked.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Fixing Initiative Because I Want To (Part II): Angry’s Recovery Time Initiative System
Remember that long-ass rant I posted about why I thought it was worth rewriting the turn order and initiative system in modern D&D even if you didn't? Well, guess what? I went and did it.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Fixing Initiative Because I Want To (Part I): The Ugly Rant
Yes, I know Initiative doesn't matter but, like, what if it did matter? It really should? Whose fault is it that it doesn't? How can I fix it? More importantly, who can I scream at about it?
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September 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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How Shape Shapes Scenarios
Now that you've learned how to break a scenario design into hierarchical levels, I can show you how to spot — and plan — a scenario's shape. And what that means. And why its good.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Update: I Overstated the Fineness of Everything
An update on where I've been, upcoming content, and some fixes made to the site.
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September 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Don’t Panic, Everything Is Fine
Everything continues to be fine and nothing continues to be ruined. I'm just out sick for a couple of days.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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The Campaign Manager’s Guide to Conflict Resolution: Part I
I may have put True Campaign Managery on hold, but I'm still delivering on my promise to teach you how to resolve table conflicts like a True Campaign Manager. Settle in; it's a long ride.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The Angry August 2025 Mostly Monthly Update
New month, new monthly update. This is one is better than the last one. That's why it's shorter.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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When to Stop Narrating
In this throwback to my classic Up Your GMing Level style advice, I provide a simple... ish way to adjudicate and narrate protracted, time-consuming actions that don't need a bunch of moment-by-moment gameplay.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Structure All the Way Down
More True Scenario Design and more on structure. Actually, the real structure discussion starts here. Last time, I breathlessly yelled about what makes good structure good and bad structure suck. Now I'm actually going to show you structure. I'll even outline a crappy adventure you can finish for your own use if you suck at tone and genre.
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August 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Real Game Masters Run Half-Baked Adventures
Let's celebrate the start of the year's back nine with an inspiring and uplifting message about how you misunderstood everything I said about everything about whether or not you suck and you suck for that. Or, to say it another way, let's talk about real, human Game Masters balance good design with practical prep and polish.
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August 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Struction: An Introduction to Structure
It's time to open a new chapter in our True Scenario Designery journey. So let's talk about how scenario structure is like the beams and masts that hold up a confection shaped like an animated porifera. You heard me.
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August 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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A Quick Angry Message: July 15, 2025
Just a quick message to tell you that everything is fine and nothing is ruined. Seriously.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM