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This blog post is inspired by a panel I was on at Sabrecon in 2025. Unlike most panels, we ended up with two and a half hours to talk about making RPGs with a small group of...
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Here’s a neat little dice idea I’m thinking about. If you roll 2d6, the odds of rolling exactly 7 are around 16%. The odds of rolling an odd number other than 7 are around 30%....Linked by the ring
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I was involved in organizing Designed in the DMV, a local group of mostly-but-not-exclusively-RPG designers in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area. I’ve had to leave the area for...
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The rules of Estoc are as such: Each character has four Qualities. A Quality can be anything – a title, a piece of equipment, a skill, a career, a conviction, a supernatural...Linked by the ring
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For much of the early 2000s and 2010s, whenever a TV show wanted to signify that a character was supposed to be a geeky type, they would have them express a strong opinion on...
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I’ve been asked a couple times by people looking to make RPGs about what kind of math goes into designing an RPG, and if they need to study any particular mathematics in order...Linked by the ring
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It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines. -“Dark As A Dungeon”, Merle Travis The dungeon holds no special nostalgia for me – I started gaming with the libraries and...Linked by the ring
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It's no secret that I like Orcs. I just released a GMless game about their origins, I’m working on a trad game where everyone plays Orcs, and as a player I often enjoy making...Linked by the ring
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The following is an except from The Lurking Fear GM's Guide, an upcoming companion to my game The Lurking Fear. The final text may change before the guide is published, but I...Linked by the ring
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The following is an except from The Lurking Fear GM's Guide, an upcoming companion to my game The Lurking Fear. The final text may change before the guide is published, but I...Linked by the ring