No consequences, no regret — and no pride either. On why you should let your characters regret everything they've ever done, and why so many games quietly forget the consequence that makes it possible...

Some games treat the people who matter as pure flavor. The good ones make them the point — bonds that grow and sour in Ironsworn, playbook friends in Scum & Villainy, and the spy game where the only w...

Distance is the gap between places, times, and people — and the quiet one between you and the game you keep meaning to play. Here, at last, it gets crossed with a live solo delve into a haunted barrow...

Fortune is only worth tracking when it's out of the ordinary. Abstract the everyday down to a single trait, and keep the real bookkeeping for the cargo nobody else can price.

He reads D&D's history beautifully; the story-game side of his spectrum he clearly never cracked. They're bound by the fiction, not the accounting — which is exactly the mechanism he's missing

Designing a death spiral is easy; designing your way out of one is the trick. Boundless absorbs it, Loner sidesteps it, and the eldritch chickens just push their luck through it.

A tour through the open-licensed games in the library — what each license actually lets you do, why 'open' means you can publish for money without asking permission, and which SRDs are worth building ...

ALT: Alien Xenomorph Confronts Ripley