[Exalted Essence] Artifact: Handwraps of Telestic Might

Now, Exalted is one of my long-time obsessions. I've had scant few chances to play the game - and even fewer chances to run it. Additionally the rules are somewhat clunky and not quite ideal for the intended power level.

Despite the above I've always been eager to homebrew stuff for the system and found it easier than many other, better designed systems.

This blog was almost wholly dedicated to Exalted, so you can expect that a significant chunk of my content will be for this game.

 My history with the game began with the tail-end of 2nd edition, but I didn't actually get to play it before the Third Edition. I found it fun to play, but too heavy to run with my current after-burnout GMing style. So I reluctantly gave up on the game. Until Essence came about and I regained hope of ever running this game!

 

Hollow Fountain

 

About a week ago I went on a weekend getaway by myself and during the six hour train trip I finally got to dive into Silksong. I take a lot of inspiration from the media I consume, but I'm also a practical GM: I seldom have the time or the spoons to homebrew unless it has direct potential for my game.

Posting Schedule, or What to Expect

 

Hulloh!

Am I on your radar? Good!

When this project gets some wind under its wings, our content will probably grow to be more spontaneous and topical, but until that happens, I’m want to draw up a rough publishing schedule.

I’ll be posting at least once a week - I haven’t decided on my preferred publishing day, but lets start with Monday (with Thursday reserved for possible bonus posts) and see where it gets us, yeah?

Autumn 2025 at Rambling Marionette

Here’s what this Autumn looks like at the time of writing. Some topics will probably swap places, get delayed, or change enough to be completely unrecognizable, but that’s creative process for you.

See something that interests you? You should probably check this space periodically or sub to my RSS. I’ll try to post links to any relevant Discord servers, but I might forget. 

September

PERSONAL: Autumn 2025 Posting Plan (It's this post right here!)

OSR: A piece of  homebrew inspired by Hollow Knight

EXALTED (3e/Ess): Artifact and a bunch of evocations designed for a brawling sorcerer.

RED MARKETS/RETROSPECTIVE: Year in Red Campaign Retrospective Begins 

October

L5R (5e): C/F/S: Murder at the Lantern Castle -adventure seed

PERSONAL: What’s behind the name of this blog?

EXALTED: Post on Remystifying Creation (this might become a series)

RETROSPECTIVE: Year in Red Retrospective continues

November

OSR: Homebrew about forging gods

CYBERPUNK: City Sandbox Generator for Cyberpunk

RED MARKETS: What Red Market has to say about Capitalism?

RETROSPECTIVE: Year in Red Retrospective continues

December

EXALTED: Two artifacts for an old Elephant

L5R (5e): C/F/S: Winter of Spirits - adventure seed
RETROSPECTIVE: Year in Red Retrospective continues

PERSONAL: Writing plan for Spring 2026

Hope to see you again!
- RM

Lets get started, shall we?

 

 

 

Hello world!

Welcome to my fresh, new RPG blog, the Rambling Marionette.

Lets get the obvious questions first:

Does the RPG blogosphere really need yet another generic blog? And isn't blogging a long obsolete form of doing the Internet? Those are really good questions! 

Anyway...

This blog is my attempt to get back into a regular writing schedule, and to act as a place to deposit my various ideas and opinions about RPG's and related stuff.

 My life as of now has few chances to actually run or play games, but a lot of time to think about them. I'm one of those types of people who runs up the walls if they don't get their weekly dose of gaming - and I'm really hoping this will work as a substitute. 

About the Blog

This is a blog about RPG's. My target schedule is one post a week so I'll get this thing running. Later, once I run out of old material, we might settle for a post every two weeks. 

This blog is about RPG's. I'm still fumbling around for this space's final form, so I'm not ready to set out anything more specific. You can expect to find posts about various different games, such as OSR and Exalted, but also more niche (and maybe even mainstream games). I enjoy reading and trying out new, interesting game systems and this blog should reflect that.

 I'm Finnish, but I chose use English as my main working language so that more people might find me. If I happen to post something in Finnish, I'll try to include a rough translation for the international crowd.

And, as with all times one doesn't write with their native language, if you read something that looks strange, please leave a comment and ask me to elaborate! I'm trying to be more spontaneous and less perfectionist than I tend to be, so we better expect there'll be rough and unfinished thoughts in the mix.

Want to know more? There's a bit longer version introduction on the About Me page! 

 

Watch this space!

This whole project is still very much Work In Progress, so things will look crude and unfinished. I'll be tinkering with the theme when I have the time and when it interests me (like when I'm supposed to be writing my next post), but I had to get this published now or I'd never do it.

 So if you want to share any hot tips about the exciting world of RPG blogging, or about Blogger as a platform, please drop a comment!