https://outofdepth.com/feed.xml 2025-11-12T00:00:00Z Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/faith-in-rosemary-and-her-baby/ 2025-11-12T00:00:00Z 2025-11-12T00:00:00Z

Rewatching Rosemary's Baby after some time away, and finding something new: what Rosemary believes, and what it means to be a shepherd.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/how-gold-for-xp-changed-my-game/ 2025-08-15T00:00:00Z 2025-08-15T00:00:00Z

A follow-up to my gold-for-XP experiment -- what actually happened when a real group of players had to earn, hoard, and blow their gold to level up.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/katek-fantasy-dwarves-part-4/ 2025-02-06T00:00:00Z 2025-02-06T00:00:00Z

Part four of the Ka'tek worldbuilding series -- a creation myth for the Fellows, the seven gods of the Ka'tek, and what they mean to the species today.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/katek-fantasy-dwarves-part-3/ 2025-01-18T00:00:00Z 2025-01-18T00:00:00Z

Part three of the Ka'tek worldbuilding series -- how a species with furnace hearts feels about water, and what cricket flour, eel sausage, and mushroom tea taste like underground.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/katek-fantasy-dwarves-part-2/ 2024-09-27T00:00:00Z 2024-09-27T00:00:00Z

Part two of the Ka'tek worldbuilding series -- how the dwarf-like species of Sapphire Doom see art, religion, and identity through seven sacred metals.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/katek-fantasy-dwarves-part-1/ 2024-09-24T00:00:00Z 2024-09-24T00:00:00Z

Building a fantasy dwarf species from scratch for the Sapphire Doom podcast season -- starting with reproduction, gender, and how the Ka'tek measure time underground.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/using-gold-to-level-up-in-5e/ 2023-08-18T00:00:00Z 2023-08-18T00:00:00Z

An experiment in replacing XP with gold pieces, making character advancement feel diegetic, tangible, and properly expensive.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/reconsidering-alignment-language/ 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z 2023-01-10T00:00:00Z

A deep dive into what Alignment Languages could actually mean -- and how redefining them reshapes what it means to be a Cleric.

Jae https://outofdepth.com/blog/5-mothership-android-variants/ 2022-08-14T00:00:00Z 2022-08-14T00:00:00Z

Five unofficial android variants for Mothership RPG, each with unique stats, skills, and bugs. No playtesting was done. I don't even know what that means.

Jae