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

Thirty years late. I finally review this 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 ...

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.

Dice are fine. That might've been inflammatory to say, once. I recall a certain zeitgeist of everyone and their aunt coming out with bespoke dice sets——a...

a flex-system flex-player MMOTTRPG

Yesterday, I was crushed by the weight of a thousand suns.

A TTRPG about halflings who don't want no adventures, thank you

While I have discussed the AD&D DMG in great length on this blog , my interest has largely been in interpreting the general feel of the game...

This is a touchy subject, and I'll try my best to discuss it with care, but I want to talk about children in D&D - human children, halfling ...

Horizon Design in Hexcrawls

A microlite mecha roleplaying game

where everything has six hit points

Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy

CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the art. Full PDF downloadable...

The conceit of my current OD&D game is "OD&D without context". What weird mutant offshoot of the tree of RPG development will we create if...

This is a topic I've been dancing around a lot for the past few months. As my observations have accumulated, I've begun to feel that it woul...