(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...

This is a shortish post about a moment that happened today in my ongoing Veins of the Earth campaign (set in 1980s Thailand, using Liminal Horror) and a principle I'm beginning...

This post is the result of two post ideas I had around the same time and thought would be better as one interesting post than two mediocre posts. I've been thinking about...

This is an outline of a solo dungeon game (game, not necessarily TTRPG) inspired by this Tumblr post by Carlos, a.k.a. imsobadatnicknames about turning the Escape from Terminus...

Thinking about putting my pitches for campaigns I won't get around to for a while here, both to hopefully inspire others and just as a sort of archive. Pitch: The Society for...

This is a kind of chaser to my post describing the Rainlands subregion of the Woland collaborative Mythic Bastionland realm. In the MB campaign I'm in, our knights have just...

IntroductionI love Mythic Bastionland. It's one of the only games I've played but not GMed, and I'm currently in an awesome long-running campaign. I've actually gone to great...

I find the ubiquity of the sentiment that "rules elide" genuinely puzzling for a couple of reasons. This argument comes from a blogpost by Jared Sinclair, but similar...

This is an archive of sorts for all my random monster ideas I'm not able to put anywhere else. Many of them are dumb, but that's what I like about them. Last Updated: July 11,...