Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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.

DK King of Swing Last night I finished DK: King of Swing for the Game Boy Advance. This was a very odd game, recommended primarily as a piece of Nintendo hi...

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

The seven greatest wizards in the world convene upon the Faraway Sea, their magic aligned in the service of an ancient Pact. Each governs…

Looping forests. Creepy basements. Crawl spaces whose darkness can't be pierced by your flashlight. Wouldn't it be great to have a game that...

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Jay Dragon about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

I have long been a big fan of the Semiotic Standard developed for Alien (1979) by Ronn Cobb for "all commercial trans-stellar & heavy eleme...

Song titles as spell names. Spread a little bit of authorial love for a whole lotta fun.

Warren over at Prismatic Wasteland recently made a post  titled: “Pokemon is OSR”, and in the storied tradition of bloggers everywhere I am ...

Pre-Order a Pokémon tabletop roleplaying game parody of Into the Odd with Vileplume Mountain, a funhouse dungeon adventure.

Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Series Category): Seven-Part Pact: Time by Dwiz (A Knight at the Opera) Series: Seven-Part Pact Narrated by Dwiz Episode Links: The Seven Part Pact by Possum Creek Games Old Men Running The World: The Seven Part Pact: the First Actual GM-Full Game A Knight at the Opera: Gritty Realism: Adventuring in Weeks, Not Days Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus

Basically: I was inspired by Dwiz’s post about how ‘ the maze game ’ of charting sites was central to early D&D in contrast to later approa...

Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Series Category): Seven-Part Pact: Time by Dwiz (A Knight at the Opera) Series: Seven-Part Pact Narrated by Dwiz Episode Links: The Seven Part Pact by Possum Creek Games Old Men Running The World: The Seven Part Pact: the First Actual GM-Full Game A Knight at the Opera: Gritty Realism: Adventuring in Weeks, Not Days Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus

Bloggies 2026 Nominee (Advice Category): Look Before You Leap by Dwiz (A Knight at the Opera) Narrated by Dwiz and friends!

Over 90+ blog posts. And a surprise category for 2026.

Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked abou...

Dungeons & Dragons  began as a game about exploring mazes, trying not to get lost as you navigate spaces with complicated layouts. At some p...

A   B   C   D   Demon   Dragon   E   F   G1   G2   G3   H   I   Jackalwere   K   L   M   N  O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: John Bauer Alrea...

A retrospective on the jam. My hopes and dreams and oh so many dungeons.

Some rules guide play. And some rules monopolize it. Designing by omission.

A   B   C   D   Demon   Dragon   E   F   G1   G2   G3   H   I   Jackalwere   K   L   M  N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit:  Joe Sparrow, from...

A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

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Ark Defender is a Roguelike Missile Command by Mischief & Mayhem Studios. Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885080/Ark_Defender/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MischiefandMay3 Inspired…

Experimental mechanics that combine Mausritter inventory, Tetris, and engine-building into an alternative Vancian magic system.

I had been playing RPGs for many years before I ever even considered getting into homebrew. Of course, I wasn't against  homebrew. I routine...

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Welcome to the Blogosphere

Discussion on Discord about has prompted me to get back to this post. I started writing it before in browser, got logged out and lost my progress, but there...

A dungeon’s challenges should teach, test, and twist its core gimmick. Build puzzles that reward player mastery and stack mechanics creatively.

I bought Sherwood by R.Rook Studio about a month ago, and the only thing that got it off my mind was Pax Unplugged. I had intended to blog about Sherwoo...

An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.

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