As a writer and designer I am always trying to do less exposition, less lore-dumping.My new tabletop roleplaying game + adventure, MACE OF THE MONKEY KING (coming soon!) will...

Here’s a TTRPG play-culture axiom I have been thinking about and consciously using, recently:Factions / characters whose values align with the values of your players should be...

Last Saturday morning we were at Balai Seni Negara, the National Art Gallery, to visit its conservation unit, to pore over its collection of wayang kulit puppets.Balai has over...

In Kuala Lumpur, in Brickfields, there is a temple called Sree Veera Hanuman, whose vimanam is a green furry tail coiled 41 times into the shape of a tall dome.This tail drops...

It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been.I am still not over stuff that happened in 2023....

Islands of Weirdhope, the maritime expandalone to ECO MOFOS!!, by the fearsome pairing of David Blandy and Daniel Locke, is currently crowdfunding.Scant hours left! The...

CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the...

NO SPUR BUT YOU, MY BROTHERA powerful gang of cockerels, a series of killings, and bitter quarrel between siblings.+++IN DEEP NIGHT, A COCKEREL CROWINGAn ill omen, folk say—of...

A trader selling herbal medicine, her beautiful children, and a trail of empty cribs.+++A DAY FROM TOWN, BY A MUDDY BANKAuntie Sa is breaking camp. Her four daughters douse the...

Names of places come difficult for me, too!I wrote Lorn Song as being suitable for slotting into any "peripheral" territory---ie: any region outside a metropole / imperial...