The fractal game of epic histories

Publisher, distributor, and manufacturer of tabletop games including RPGs, Solo RPGs, and Story Games.

I went back on Justin Gary's Think Like A Designer podcast to ramble about the new Microscope and the strange and magical experiences of playing This Means War. We also got into a debate on AI. That'...

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Podcast Episode · Dice in Mind · August 24 · 1h 21m

My fellow designer Caroline Hobbs has described Microscope as my Silmaril, 'the work of my heart that cannot be remade'. And she was not wrong. For a long time cracking open Microscope and revising it...

When I was a kid watching movies with my Dad, he would sometimes frown and say, "they left out the reaction shot". What he meant was the movie showed some important moment like the bad guy getting de...

It's hardly revolutionary to say that in the vast majority of role-playing games, your character is your single strongest vector of contribution, so making a good character is critical. But what's a "...

I'm making it official: a new edition of Microscope is in the works. I've looked in my crystal ball, laid out my schedule, and set crowdfunding for October. If you've been following this blog, you ...

I've talked about how This Means War strives to simulate a believable (but surprising) war. But now I want to talk about the other half of the game: the character-side. The idea all along was that th...

The old Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh was the game store of our childhood. It's where we went to buy RPGs, modules, dice, and a whole pile of miniatures. We rummaged through the shelves in the far bac...

The Blue Way is a game of lost stories, colonialism, and its cultural aftermath from Jason Morningstar and Central Michigan University Press.

Serve the gods, protect the city, save yourself

Review and solo actual play of Ben Robbin's newly released playtest version of This Means War.