A pressure cooker investigation for Mothership RPG

Mythic Bronze Age Hexcrawl

An idea for Thief progress cobbled together from Hags’ Folks of the Guild and Nathe’s Superthief. Quantum as in discrete values, not as in the

Please try to answer the questions as accurately as possible to your actual experience. This is a shitpost joke survey

Magic has become boring.

I've had no time to blog this year! But I do now.  Here's some stuff that's been on my mind. Let's talk about... War-Torn Ice Moon Other FIS...

Low fantasy by way of Traveller. 2d6 down the line for STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA. HP is average of STR and CON, rounded up. Allocate 5 rolls

A Newsletter by Lone Archivist

When the people of the Pellish Isles die, their souls go to the dead lands in the underworld. It is impossible for a person to travel to these lands

I recently discovered Best Case Scenario, a punchy micro wargame for modern supernatural horror scenarios. In fact, when I run modern horror games

Traced public domain woodcut prints for use in your games

I wrapped up my first brief Classic Traveller campaign this week. I had a huge amount of fun running it and am extremely grateful to everyone who showed up t...

Panic effects for Violence Riffing off Hawkeye’s Panic in Classic Traveller. When something warrants panicking roll 1d20. Add +2 for every injury

<p><strong>Mothership Month is coming November 1 - November 30,</strong> back to our regularly scheduled timeslot. With one big caveat: <strong>No crowdfunding this year.</strong></p> <p>I don’t know ...

A game jam from 2026-10-01 to 2026-11-03 hosted by Thriftomancer. It's fall once again, so let's make more Halloween hexcrawls! In the next month create a 1-ring system-agnostic hexflower that can be ...

In the isles of Pel the people have three names: Their child name, given by a guardian and discarded when they come of age, their use name chosen

A mini-hexcrawl through tarnished lands.

(Note: Hex key numbers are temporary while I figure out how to fit this into a larger map. Icons denote points of interest, but there are many

Played a game inside. The rules were scraped together from a fading memory of B/X and scratched onto the back of commissary receipts. The dice were made of f...

There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...

I just finished up running Lair of the Lamb for a group brand new to D&D (or any RPGs). We ran it over the course of two 6-ish hour sessions. This