Landsharks, Ash, a sandy isle: a deadly one-shot for Pirate Borg.

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 ...

No matter what you call them , Beholders are vile servants of the coastal wizards.  But worry not. They have monstrous cousins that can be u...

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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.

YouTube video by Murkdice

Exploring yesterday's adventures with tomorrow's technology...today!

"When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, kn...

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness." --Tecumseh (apocryphal) If the world is a tree, its roots are legends....

Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.   But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." -...

A tarot-powered tabletop game about borders and the surveyors who draw them

Somehow my map for the first "These Sorcerous Lands" dungeon disappeared from my computer. I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to show

Fuck it.

Right now my brain is jetlagged between thinking it's 8 am and 2 pm, I haven't played RPGs in a month, and writing words is honey on a col...

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...

TW: the game i'm reviewing is about body horror, which i’m not discussing in depth and leaving in the footnotes anyway if you wanna skip them, but be warned~...

Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...

itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

Part 3 of my investigation into "Hobbits have a Roadside Picnic."  Part 1 is here.  Part 2 is here. Traps "I don’t exactly understand your t...

In many old school games and AD&D, you hire retainers to help you in the dungeon, which can give a player lots of actions (see my last post...

My release of a new online-play tool for the tabletop RPG His Majesty the Worm, and how I came to discover this game, and my early experiences with it.

Travel rules for dungeon games in the mythic underworld.

(wrt the above image) You lot, after reading the clickbaity title. You are correct to do so. Pull the trigger, Piglet.  Howdy, Farmhands!

Half of you are legally obligated to euthanize me after this

A werewolf inspired murder mystery adventure, written for Cairn

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Cleaning up after slaying the dragon

A Sci-fi Forestcrawl for the 2026 Appendix N Jam

1. It's pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a g̷̫͍͓͙͔̒̅̈́́̇̏̑͂͗̽̿͝r̷̟̬͛̓͌̐͆̈͛͐̽̓̚̚͝͝u̵̗̭̗̤̭̤͖̱̹̠̙͎̝̲̼͈̩̿̇̒̐̌̌̃̄̏̍́̀͋̅̋͘͝ẻ̶̡̧̱̜͚̲̗̞̘̩̼͎̬̘̲͔̽͑̀͋͑͗̓̒. - You cautiously grope through the darkness. ...

Where to get public domain art and how to use it.

As I write this, Deathbringer , the self-proclaimed most anticipated RPG of 2026, is entering day two of its  Backerkit campaign  and h...

I played one hell of a TTRPG this month. This game is called The Seven-Part Pact. It’s enormous. It’s labyrinthine. Apparently some folks ha

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project.  Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. Art by Goran Gli...

A bestiary of 56 or so monsters, written initially for Dungeon World but useful for any fantasy game, reviewed.

How many things can one do in a round, and how does it change the feel of the game?   I am playing OD&D this week, running through Thracia w...

This article contains artistic nudity At the start of 2025, I set out a simple goal for myself: get good enough at drawing that I can draw art of my TTRPG characters. Some of the factors that spawn…

Horizon Design in Hexcrawls

Last year I wrote a couple of essays wrestling with the concept of Narrative in tabletop RPGs. In the first, I waddled through the delineation of diegetic an...