A millennium ago, the city of Lydiphon was dragged underground by its Sorcerer King in a desperate attempt to avert disaster. The ritual failed. The city lies shattered in a network of volcanic caves,...

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A hybrid session report, review and introduction covering the first session of our His Majesty the Worm campaign in The Castle Automatic — the tarot mechanics, the City we built, and a wyvern with lig...

Or, rather, making a sword magic. Y'see, a sword ain't magical when it's forged. It's just a peice of steel hammered all to hell and sharp...

His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small moments of daily life inside t...

An antimemetic scenario for Into the Oddish

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here . The series will, when necessary, go ...

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A Tier 2 Encounter Supplement

Random tables give you the answer; I wanted something that just gives me a spark. So I built a generator that serves random lines from public-domain literature, then used it to build a fantasy capital...

A player's retrospective and review on 72 sessions, three characters, and three arcs in Necrotic Gnome's Dolmenwood — the best TTRPG campaign I've played.

A reflection on how Jim Henson's advice about collaboration applies to running and playing TTRPGs, breaking it down into five principles: talent, trust, ideas, space, and invitation. What makes great...

Our Daggerheart game kills off characters on the regular. Surprising, but I encourage you to embrace the death, danger, and destruction.

Into the Odd famously jettisoned the “roll to hit” aspect of D&D derived combat. How can accuracy, specifically reducing an opponent’s accuracy by means of sand in the eyes or otherwise, be re-introdu...

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Talking about Marathon as a proverbial

A review of Kobold Press's Tales of the Valiant 5e TTRPG after playing 50 sessions with it. What's in the books, how it plays and whether it is worth switching from D&D

A link to the #Hexcrawl25 “Three hundred and nineteen hexes in a year” challenge and a downloadable hex-y Obsidian vault for you to manage it all.

Playing TTRPGs other than Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition has been on my to-do list for a while, but it was an aspirational goal rather t...

I read a blog article by my friend Patchwork Paladin, where she gives an overview of the week’s releases on the DMs Guild. I thought it w...