How psycho-social patterns of expected behavior erode the fundamentals of RPG play.

No quantum ogres were harmed.

Every movie has lessons for running your game if you are sufficiently TTRPG-brain-poisoned, but Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) has more than usual.

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

A rant.

I claim somewhere on this blog to be an adventure writer, but I don't have any adventures I've written on the blog. I've been running a lot of Shadowdark thi...

Figuring out why your favorite dice mechanic hasn't been replaced with drawing things out of a bag. Yet.

When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random encounter tables.

I want to see how different the TTRPG blogosphere is from DungeonTube. Three questions: - What games are you running? - What games are you playing in? - What game do you most want to play next? If y...

Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.

Search indexed posts from across rootring.

In 2025, I wrote a post called “alternative game fantasy: a manifesto“. It was my best attempt at expressing dissatisfaction with the six cultures of play, specifically because I feel left out of the ...

I have been running RPG sessions for the best part of thirty-five years and I still make mistakes. Not little mistakes either. I mean huge, campaign-derailing, momentum-killing, structurally catast…

The author of "What do we mean when we say a game supports play?"

Where Old School Principles and Horror Meet

Where Old School Principles and Horror Meet

Several times on here, I've referred to a "GLOG-o-sphere" - a sub-scene of RPG bloggers who use the Goblin Laws of Gaming, aka, the GLOG. So...

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this...

A decade of knowledge applied to the most common questions in tabletop.