Exploring yesterday's adventures with tomorrow's technology...today!

A survey on campaign length and lethality

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Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...

A Scenario for Violence

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Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...

Oddlike Weird Dungeon Crawling Survival SCIFI TTRPG

I call upon my fellow RPG bloggers to produce Orpheus themed texts during the time of July 17th to July 24th.  During this time I hope to se...

This is the second in my series of “Lunch Break Lectures”. I’m trying to create an avenue for putting my thoughts out there without worrying too much about edits or rigor. Does this mean I’m g...

In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!

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...

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 come home from work to see a package on my porch. In theory, I know the game that is inside. I sit down, open the package, look inside. Three large symbols that tower over every other element look u...

We played the tenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here . Th...

No NPC embodies the Gygaxian maxim that dealing with NPCs "should be expensive and irritating"  quite like the sage. Like the spy , the sage...

on fantasy, oppression, and the responsibility of making imagined worlds

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...

A miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and oozing body-horror.

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.

I've long disliked the way magic is portrayed in fantasy RPGs, with a neat delineation between "magic" and "mundane." I prefer a vision more accommodating of...

TTRPG Maps, but make them Anti-colonial.

I gush about my favorite world map.

Session 2 - Cloud Empress

What is “true” about the fiction of your world? I present a tier list (no S tier, sorry) of sources of truth and argue that the paramount source is what actually happens in play, rather than what is m...

Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversat...

There are quite a few puns I could make to introduce this topic, so I'll save us both some time and let you imagine your favorite one. There, feeling better? Now you're ready to watch the sixth instal...

This is the first in what will probably be a series detailing my method for developing a sandbox. I will be using my sandbox for Dungeon Mod...

Explore a mauve-tined forest full of lumberjacks, maple syrup, sinking mansions and strange ghosts. A Cairn Forestcrawl Adventure.

My friends David and Sandro AD were kind enough to join me on a maiden voyage of my Honeybee RPG tonight and we had a rip-roaring good time. This past weeken...