The Cairn principles for wardens says:"NPCs don’t want to die. Infuse their own self-interest and will to live into every personality."I saw two movies this summer that connect...

This week we played session 45 of our Mythic Bastionland campaign. This was a rare occasion where I had a good idea of what the Company would be doing next. In session 44 they...

I've been solving cryptic crossword clues recently on Parseword and Minute Cryptic so I've tried making my own one.Across5. Men or rats kneeling before old reliquary ghosts,...

Here's a quick post with some rambling updates.I released episode 8 of my solo actual play of Mythic Bastionland today. (You can find the links for subscribing here.) As I said...

“Craggy cave mouth” by Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0As a design goal for Earth Resists, I want to think of adventure sites as recipes. The written description is not a prepared meal,...

There was a conversation recently in the Bastionland Discord about a Mythic Bastionland  session which the referee felt didn't go well. It sounded like they had fought a...

I've played two games this week that involved secret information.First was my regular Mythic Bastionland game. The company of knights had planned to visit a town where one of...

 A test map for Earth Resists (ignore the text on the bottom left)(I believe this may be mappy enough to count for Prismatic Wasteland's map bandwagon.) I first mentioned my...

I've been thinking for awhile about how to make an X-COM like experience in a TTRPG. I played a lot of the 1994 original back in the day, and the emergent aspects of play left...

This is a half-baked idea for managing the pacing of RPGs. You have a restricted amount of time in a play session, and plenty of flexibility in how much in-game time that can...