For whatever reason, you’re considering using baseball cards as game pieces. Maybe you’re thinking about the Baseball Jam ’26, or maybe you’re just

I got kicked off of Noah's Ark I turn my cheek to unkind remarks There was two of everything But one of me > And when the rains came tumbling dow...

I set a goal for myself of making at least one post a month every month this summer. It's now the tail end of September, and I've got one po...

Hi-tech sci-fi hack of Wayfarer by Chaoclypse .  Character Creation  Roll 2d6 down the line for the four Stats: Strength (STR), Speed (SPD),...

A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

My day job consists largely of reading adventures and providing feedback. And while I've read hundreds of OSR modules by now, I still don't have a good way...

I don't really have time to write this, but I was already spending the time i didn't have discussing it on discord. This will be fast and dirty. We've bee...

How psycho-social patterns of expected behavior erode the fundamentals of RPG play.

H ere is a fun one! A fellow Referee is running an “Ocean Themed” OD&D Campaign and requested some assistance with generating interesting...

The idea was that I am running an elfgame forest campaign for my young son and his friends, teaching them how to GM.  They find a portal in ...

H ere are a hundred Minor Magical Wonders that didn’t quite fit nicely into lists of their own. The intention was to provide some ideas f...

OD&D elves have the ability to automatically Detect Secret Doors.  I do not like hidden information rolls and prefer my rule systems that do...

A reading informed review of Girl Frame

A poem to play with IRON on IRON on IRON

An announcement of a new live text discord megagame starting October 16th 2026.

There is a vast variety of settlements throughout Outer World. The most common of these are the small towns and remote villages that dot the...

Roll d10 for a futuristic fashion trend for Mothership, Traveler or whatever your preferred spacefaring horror or horror-adjacent game is: 1...

a “fish eat fish” party game

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 ...

A New Frontier of Brutality for Sci-Fi Fantasy Heroes and Villains!!!

We played the twenty-second session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports h...

Great covers from across the tabletop rpg industry.

Expectations for Monkeying About

Get a Job Opera Eterna (OE) is a game of operatic science fantasy set in the World of Saints: a post-catholic imagination that echoes my family’s stories of post-war Italy....

We've all been there: You're just trying to move on from the recent encounter, direct the PCs somewhere interesting. Meanwhile, your players...

With Cadastre and RAM out the door, I've been noodling on which projects to push forward to something like completion this fall. Last week I sat back down wi...

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A baseball simulation

Here's a short blog post. More of a rant. If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when some...

Seraphina shares some beautiful stories about her wide-ranging RPG collection.

This Month on Table 46 No posts from me this month, but there's plenty of good reading down below. Hopefully I'll finish up some of what's in my drafts in...

A while ago (almost a year, time flies!) I wrote a post asking whether we should bring back Hit Locations, including an example of a Dragon...

You are the first Heroes who have reachedthe Evil that rules over the realm.  The Quest was difficult and full of sacrifice.But despite all this, victory will not meet you.  The ones who come after yo...

Welcome! The seasons are changing, the harvest is coming, and our lives are suffuse with community and creativity. This issue, our featured reviews both cover different flavors of early access: Kati t...

Here is a modular dungeon node to connect to others, with potential connectors left exposed for the GM. Since I showed my brainstorming pro...

I’ve been inspired by Hilander’s ZLDA dungeons recently. It’s made me reconsider what I view as the essential components of a dungeon. This is not the first time I’ve mused about dungeons, but I’ve ga...

Juice and Value Chains in RPGs

Someone's probably done this before, but it seems fun, so I'm writing it down. Vigor Dice Player characters have an attribute that represents their physica...

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 ...

Every movie has lessons for running your game if you are sufficiently TTRPG-brain-poisoned, but Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) has more than usual.

It is, in fact, On.