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The Alexandrian
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The Alexandrian is a personal blog at thealexandrian.net about games and writing. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Alexandrian for tabletop RPG writing, including its Three Clue Rule post on mysteries and its articles on node-based game design and campaign building.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to The Alexandrian!
What Hacker News says?
- https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ - detailed posts about procedural generation of fantasy maps - https://thealexandrian.net/ - for tabletop rpg content
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Essential Reading List for TTRPGs as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI think you will find interesting Three Clue Rule of rpg mysteries: http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/1118/roleplaying-games/t... Justin Alexander also has nice set of articles about node based (role playing) game design, which is like an extended version of Three Clue Rule.
Comment linking /wordpress/1118/roleplaying-games/three-clue-rule
on “Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5”Submitted Jupiter Is Angry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWizards were definitely weaker and more. Limited in those early levels In early dnd. In retrospect with the way "modern" dnd has removed those limitations it's definitely skewed the internal. Class balance now if youre not a spellcatser you're objectively worse at almost everything. See the whole. Linear fighter and quadratic wizard debate. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LinearWarriorsQu... The bigger c…
Comment linking /wordpress/44578/roleplaying-games/whither-the-dungeon-the-decline-and-fall-of-dd-adventures
on “Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today”Submitted Three Clue Rule (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> However, they also point out you can waive your rights to use content under 1.0a if you were to agree to 1.1, e.g. to get access to 6e content. This is more or less what Hasbro tried to do with 4E's GSL,[1] which is why nobody used it. 1: https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/48761/roleplaying-games...
Comment linking /wordpress/48761/roleplaying-games/open-gaming-license-a-brief-history-part-2
on “Wizards of the Coast Trying to Retroactively Cancel OGL 1.0a”Submitted Random Worldbuilding: The Nation in History as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The internet is awash with people trying to glue their ramblings back into coherent campaigns Cases in point, for the unaware: https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/44214/roleplaying-games... https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/41217/roleplaying-games...
Comment linking /wordpress/41217/roleplaying-games/dragon-heist-remix-part-1-the-villains
on “Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling”