When you no longer believe in metaphor, all that’s left is simulation. What happens when the sparkles of clever allusion grow dim, when resonance tends shallow, and the waters...

Anyone who talks to me about games hears about Nomic sooner or later. I bring it up all over the place, in any conversation having to do with rules as such. My excitement over...

Furthering Yolmiposting, here are some illustrations based on the monster descriptions in The Realm of Yolmi. These drawings are frankly not at all what I first envisioned when...

“Our first assignment—“ “Our, that’d be… me and you.” “—will be to locate and restore to its owner a somewhat tasteless lamp, indeed among lamp collectors considered the crown...

The aim of D&D -1 is to never quite get around to playing D&D. Rather than eschewing Session 0, D&D -1 is composed entirely of Session 0s. Here’s how to play: The first few...

Each session of Redux begins with 45 minutes of paperwork. Here’s a rough list of things which have to be worked out before the party can leave town. The week in which the...

Abandoned missile silos and bunkers are particularly dungeon-like places. Beyond just being big underground complexes with lots of empty space, they are places into which vast...