Between my new job and my attempt to make another Planegea product, I've been neglecting my blog. I don't mind that so much, as blogging about games is really a second-order...

I have struggled, lately, to write anything for the RPG Blog Carnival. For the sake of collegiality I like to take part if I have something to contribute, but for more than a...

In my last post, I described some of my prep for a game about ghosts, necromancers, and the use of history for political ends. The players gave me permission to share their...

A write-up of the prep I did for a session of a ghost game.

Resources for names in ttrpg games, and notes on the use of assonance, consonance, and similar techniques.

In which I announce the release of The Salt-Goddess and Her Wares, a ready-to-run location for David Somerville's Planegea!

Before a game of Falling Tides, I was complaining about the difficulty of getting a decent battlemap of a road in the woods. If I had a combat encounter in a crystal palace...

Delvers are explorers, salvagers, and tinkerers. Any group of people that braves a pre-Arrival ruin, takes something valuable out of the wreckage, and uses it to make or...

The Joesky tax pisses me off more than it should. But it only pisses me off more than it should. It should piss me off, and it should piss you off, too.

For my weird post-apocalyptic setting, for now called the Lakelands, there's a needle I want to thread between giving GMs ways to make the setting their own and giving them...