Games about games

Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal . Click to download the full-sized image Children wer...

A witch knows how to petition the old gods. Such knowledge leaves debts.

Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.

A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

My day job consists largely of reading adventures and providing feedback. And while I've read hundreds of OSR modules by now, I still don't have a good way...

A New Frontier of Brutality for Sci-Fi Fantasy Heroes and Villains!!!

My First Dungeon · Episode

I’ve been inspired by Hilander’s ZLDA dungeons recently. It’s made me reconsider what I view as the essential components of a dungeon. This is not the first time I’ve mused about dungeons, but I’ve ga...

Juice and Value Chains in RPGs

The Dog is one of the hitchhikers you can meet while traveling. She is unique in the fact she is only accessable when picking up The Punk with you also. Impressions: "Soft white fur on a bony body. Sh...

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here . The series will, when necessary, go ...

Someone's probably done this before, but it seems fun, so I'm writing it down. Vigor Dice Player characters have an attribute that represents their physica...

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 new expansion for Beneath! The Dungeonfloor! Plus other rarities and curiosities!