I've spoken before about implied worldbuilding, how fun it can be to tease apart the world that the rules of Dungeons and Dragons build. This has been done before for the...

As part of my crawl through the history of Dragon Magazine, something I have noticed is that from an early age the Gaijin Gamer has always been particularly fascinated by the...

This post is part of a series: Stranger Than FictionIn the second area of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the city of Kutna Hora has a fountain in it that most first-time visitors...

     I'm a big fan of taking notes when playing video games, I'm the kind of pervert The Painscreek Killings was made for. Writing stuff down on a piece of paper helps make...

     I recently joined Meet the RPG, a round-robin thing organized on the Paper Cult Club forums, and we just went through three-ish sessions (plus a Session Zero) of Sentinel...

I've started work on an RPG named Elfkisser, and while I was discussing it Elizabeth of Patchwork Paladin jokingly asked when I was working on Orcstabber. I now present,...

    One of my longer-running side projects has been going through the ENWorld Gary Gygax Q&A. It ran for several years, up to Gygax's passing, and is the source for a lot of...

    One of the central maxims of the OSR is that the answer is not on your character sheet. "Builds" as such aren't really a thing, between games offering random stat...

     I did not grow up in the Call of Duty lobbies. As a child, I wasn't really allowed to play shooters, and the closest thing I ever got to a proper multiplayer match was...

"You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to meet girls"-Shamus Young, DM of the...

This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourSo, you've finally gotten yourself a group of players and are preparing your first session. So,...

Fellow RPG creator Snow posted BULLET POINTS LIKE DUST IN THE EYE OF GOD, a discussion of whether or not editing and layout in standards in tabletop roleplaying are strangling...

 This post is part of a series: Stranger Than FictionHello all, and welcome to the first installment of an ongoing series I've decided to call Stranger than Fiction! As I've...

Last night I saw Dracula: A Love Tale (the French one, not to be confused with the American one), and I realized partway through the screening that I've now seen three Dracula...

This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourSo you've gone ahead and sketched out a rough outline of where you want your campaign to go. Now...

I'd like to talk to you today about my favorite dungeon. It's not some sprawling multi-layered thing like Arden Vul, or the old 3.X era delves like Rappan Athuk or Slumbering...

This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part FourLast time on Prepping Plots, we discussed why the enterprising GM might consider a more linear...

     I've been spending a lot of time playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. To sum the game up briefly, imagine if Skyrim or The Witcher 3 were made by the most annoying person...

Lots of digital ink has been spilled on the merits of hexcrawls and pointcrawls (though I think Dinkie Rizzle has the right of it), and something I've always noticed when...

This blog post is part of a series! Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four"Don't prep plots" is a fairly common saying in RPG circles. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure...

    My mom is a big fan of the Paul Mitchell haircare company, and has been my entire life. Their flagship product, the one she still uses to this day, is the Awapuhi line....

    If you spend a lot of time in the blogging circles I do, you'll notice the term "Gameable content" crop up a lot. I was first introduced to the term in Prismatic...

     It is a well known truism in games media that the more colons there are in a game's title the more likely it is to be ass. Usually this kind of thing smacks of Suit...

Welcome one and all to the first annual Lizzies, a celebration of all things Liz (that's me)! 2025 has been...a fucking year to be trans in America, so we're going to end this...

I have a distaste for a lot of terms bandied about in the OSR sphere. Gameable Content is one. Another, apparently is "Player Skill." During yet another roundabout discussion...

     I am not exactly a connoisseur of first dates, but I feel like "Watch someone else play Huniepop" is probably among the lower echelons of what one would consider a...

     Earlier tonight (11/22/25) there was a discussion in valor stealer Farmer Gadda's discord about this post from the Dododecahedron, specifically this passage:"Players...

  Definitely a lawyer and allegedly a blogger Prismatic Wasteland has issued a new Blog Bandwagon wherein everyone comes up with a hex and then connects it to other hexes that...

  Fans of Magnolia Keep may have noticed I've been quiet the last few weeks, and the simple reason for that is that Ghost of Yotei came out. Setting aside the shitty conduct of...

A few days ago in somehow actually a Farmer Gadda's discord we discussed the idea of humans in your typical fantasy games, especially seeing as it is, largely a D&Dism. I can't...