The Living Economy — Part 1: Making Fantasy Worlds Feel Alive Imagine your adventuring party arriving in Kettlebeck, a prosperous mining town tucked into the mountains. The streets are busy, the tavern is full of miners spending their wages, and the local merchants seem to be doing rather well. Iron is valuable, after all, and Kettlebeck has plenty of it.

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It’s October again, and a lot of tables are going to be rolling up horror RPGs to celebrate Halloween. In honor of that, I want to start what I hope to make a regular series here at Wally DM, Toolboxes. The core idea of Toolbox articles is that there are fundamentally three things a GM can use to shape the genre of a game:

This month I'm sketching some of my favorite animals that frequent stories: pigs, mice, and coyotes. If you'd like to know more about the project, please join us on Patreon. See creatures and read…

Today I'm sketching "Big Thing" who is the companion to "Little Thing". Little Thing will be a piece about loving the "little things aka tiny animals" in your life - pets and kids. If you'd like to…