In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet.  The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they ar...

Intergalactic Bastionland is now ready for public playtesting.  Go here to find everything you need . We're a way off the Kickstarter yet, ...

There are only two genders: male and female. Men are strong, stoic, brave.  They protect the weak and build great things. Women are sensitiv...

The party has a shared resource called Spirit.  This is confidence or good cheer.  A party gains Spirit by (1) resting in safe places, (2) b...

Remember that post I did about dwarven gender?   If you haven't read it--you're in luck.  You can be just as confused as Podrick, below. It...

Every adventure's puzzle should have multiple solutions. In this article, we figure out how to give all of our metaphorical locks a ring of keys.

Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you.   Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down ...

Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky.   It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed together. ...

Monstrome v6 is now complete.  It's up to 60,000 words and approaching book territory, which is cool.   MONSTROME v6 New monsters include: ...

Your blade pierces his heart and the man reels against the dungeon wall before collapsing against the floor.  A few seconds of labored gaspi...

Old School, New School, and Weird School RPG Ideas and Hobby Blogging.

Kev Walker, Glen Elendra Archmage   Arnold K’s most recent edition of his excellent monster manual, the MONSTROME , laid out some thoughts o...

D&D’s 2024 DMG sabotages itself for OSR appeal.

I joined Bluesky last month and decided to pretend that it's actually G+ and the year is 2015.   This means that I'll be trying to have con...

Work continues of the Monstrome. I'm now on v5. You can read it HERE Feel free to comment on any typos or confusing parts. I've added Craf...

A visit from Josiah Graves, director of the Alabama School for the Negro Deaf and Blind. A pale spherical egg.

Monstrome v4 is complete.  New in this version: Barlutra (Giant Otters) Smirches (pure evil shaped like a bird) Wolves, Etc. "Mundane" Anim...

1 BATTLE Site of a battle. 2 dead barbarians, 3 dead porcelain golems. A mutant barbarian with crocodile heads for hands is smashing open golems for silver threads inside (worth 2d6s each). As s...

I reread some old blogposts today.  Holy shit, remember the horses  I did with Chris McDowall ?  Those were great. The d6 Dungeon Merchants...

Progress on my bestiary continues. I've completed Monstrome v3 !  New monsters: Morlocks Ogres Skeleton Jellies Thank you Louis, Claytonian,...

Mendalusus Trovalos Mendalusus is a wizard.  Although he is hardly a world-class archmage, he is known within Meltheria as a summoner of n...

Bospero I’ve sure you’ve heard many stories of Cailish Andorum, and his great sin.  However, I suspect that few of you know how it begins, o...