Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 2, Issue 38)

Welcome to your weekly tabletop RPG newsletter. This week the most popular posts on the blog were Kickstarter Whales, Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Improvised Daggerheart Encounters, and Prepping Myths in Mythic Bastionland. If you like the blog, subscribe to get this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday, plus my other posts when they appear! Table of Contents Discord Discussions Blog Posts to ReadProjects to bookmark and downloadArrivals Chez PaladinPlay ReportsPoem Discord Discussions Inspired in part by elmcat’s rant against magic as a thing you just use in your game, we had a long discussion about magic, about how to make magic magical and about when and whether it is desirable to have push-button magic instead of magical magic. In some games, no doubt, each over-the-top move by the PCs would grant them a magical effect (“OK, you ate the brains of the defeated zombie tower. You can see everyone’s death, now, and by concentrating on that you can show it to them as well, so they are…