I ran a three-month campaign of Veins of the Earth, which to my understanding makes me one of the select few who actually attempted to run that beast of a book! Unfortunately,...

Something must be in the air, because it seems like everybody is blogging about magic. I read Nael's post about magic and thought I might have something of interest to share....

I was listening to the Dead Letters episode on Magical Industrial Revolution, and they were talking about the difficulties of representing cities in tabletop roleplaying games...

In Luke Gearing's Wolves Upon the Coast, there is an ogre that lives on the isle of Ruislip, and can be encountered randomly within a three-hex radius of his shack. If a group...

A work in progress. Last updated September 23rd, 2026 ReginaldA ruby-pommelled bastard sword in an ornate scabard made to look as if a (somewhat goofy-looking) wolf was...

In a lot of media (especially games), the purpose of magic, from both a Doylesian and a Watsonian perspective, is in part to elide logistical concerns. While this may make...

I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? the other day (good movie, minor spoilers ahead). While OBWAT is openly inspired by Homer's Odyssey, it makes some changes to the structure...

I was listening to the Dead Letters podcast's newest episode about Mythic Bastionland. I tend to disagree with them about most things, but I find that this provokes me to think...

(Challenging myself to express this thought in under 500 words) What kinds of obstacles do OSR characters typically encounter? The broad categories of traps, puzzles, combat...

After writing Rules Don't (Necessarily) Elide, I've been thinking a lot about mechanics that exist not to simulate a fictional space but to create other kinds of associations...