I watched Princess Arete and it got my brain going . What's the right word for this genre? I hesitate to say "Ghibli-esque" because it's s...

Not Dead...Yet... Related to this very long ago post , but demonstrates why blogging is peak when its just half-scribbled notes to yourself....

OD&D elves have the ability to automatically Detect Secret Doors.  I do not like hidden information rolls and prefer my rule systems that do...

Where once dwelt the servants of darkness, only ruin and desolation remain.

Low fantasy by way of Traveller. 2d6 down the line for STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA. HP is average of STR and CON, rounded up. Allocate 5 rolls

The first 20-room floor of my OD&D game's tentpole dungeon.

I wrapped up my first brief Classic Traveller campaign this week. I had a huge amount of fun running it and am extremely grateful to everyone who showed up t...

Get more from Miranda on Patreon. Become a member for just $1/month. I write the rpg blog In Places Deep, where I have described the mega-dungeon…

I’m thinking about XP, I read this and this and like… it’s fine. It’s cool. I’ve played Wolves and I think boasts are a fun and slightly more

This a reference to make running Classic Traveller faster, for the 1977 version of the rules.

While work has kept me from doing a lot of thinking on BX D&D, it hasn't kept me from exploring a latent hobby of mine very close to D&D, wh...

I just got back from Ottawa for work. I fly out to Victoria tomorrow to enjoy the sights of the West Coast. The summer is rushing by and I have been quite busy. How is it already GenCon? I feel partic...

A follow-up to One Million Worlds. One million characters took too long to generate so I went down an order of magnitude. The median planet population has 10...

During some downtime at work I wrote up a little R script to generate Classic Traveller[^2] planet UPPs and then made a dataset with one million worlds.[^3] ...

DESIGNING (THIS) DUNGEON'S THEME In the last post, I talked about how easy it was to make a simple dungeon that could fit on 2 sheets of pa...

It's going to be a long, cold night at the Golden Goose Inn...

rootring has grown over the months. Here is what's new, what's changed and where it's going.