Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.

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.

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...

Orcs are green Slime is pink But what if they weren’t? Really makes one think

Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.

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

In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!

There is a contrarian hot take chestnut that gets bandied about occasionally against the prevalence of randomness in roleplaying games. I articulate a simple...

When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random...

Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.