When you roll the dice to do something and you fail, it's not because your character is dumb and bad at what they were doing. It's because the situation didn't allow for it. If...

Just like the last post, if you are party of my normal gaming group, don't read any further! Not until after our gaming getaway weekend, anyway! Recap In our last session, our...

I was watching the most recent Quinns Quest Reviews, covering Stonetop, when I was struck with the most important tidbit of wisdom I've yet heard in the RPG hobby at large....

If you are party of my normal gaming group, don't read any further! Not until after our gaming getaway weekend, anyway! Setup In the Hammerhead Tavern in the city of Bruhl, our...

Mythic Garden! Mythic! Mythic GME is how I've come to understand solo games. It was hard for me to really wrap my head around the large structures of solo play until I found...

Suikoden is one of my favorite video games of all time. This quaint, rustic JRPG is based on the oldest Chinese fiction novel, Water Margin, and tells the story of the young...

If you are one of the players in my Legend in the Mist game, turn back now! There's nothing here for you! Have they left? Okay good, now I can talk shit about them behind their...

The study of magic is fraught with perils - but wisdom, caution, and a reliable friend to steer you away from poor decisions are often enough to keep a practitioner from the...

I don't know who needs to see this today, but I've been needing to see this for quite some time. The stuff you write for your table doesn't need to follow the same principles,...

Preamble Before we begin, there's a fair amount of cleaning up to do. Firstly, my dogs ate two of my character sheets, so I needed to crawl through my own session reports to...

The swordsman is standing on the furthest edge of the promontory overlooking the Whorl. He can feel the spray of waves against stone on his face, with the Whorl thrashing so...

In Science Fantasy, one of my favorite tropes is "deep history" or "deep time". I.e., time scales of civilizations that stretch beyond understanding. Hundreds of empires rising...

Hello, Rootring! You may have noticed that little widget to the bottom left of the page. If you haven't, what are you doing? Well, that's the Rootring, a modern Webring for...

Setup After defeating Amelia and scouring the ship for weapons to use against the cosmic beast that is tearing the ship apart, the crew ready themselves to free themselves for...

Setup In part 1, our players escaped from captivity when the ship they were imprisoned on, sailing the vast astral sea, was seemingly attacked by a cosmic kraken which...

Session 1 Date: 2026-02-19 What the PCs know: You were taken by raiders in a flying ship You've been locked up at least a week, up to a month You've been able to talk in...

Scene 1 Expected Scene: Arriving at Ekkurad and meeting with the Seekers Test: 3, Altered Scene The ruins of Ekkurad are known to local Faa tribes. These dusty, crumbling...

Setup Pidash is in Moongaze, in a tucked away upper room at the inn. He's known to Hegemony soldiers for some petty crimes, and has no desire to be shipped off to Gnomon. He'll...

[This is the first in a hopefully long running series of flash fiction that I aim to write as exercises in writing daily. I will not post all of them, but this is the first,...

I get into ruts. A lot. I have bursts of passionate playing and working and reading and writing, and then feel drained, disinterested, unmotivated. To try to rejuvenate those...

Hey, players, it’s me again, trying to tell you how to play better. Thanks for putting up with me. I just wanted to share a quick thought on scenes, momentum, and...

Vaults of Vaarn is one of the coolest, sleekest, most imaginative settings out there for tabletop RPGs. Set in a dying world of blue sands and indigo skies, the eponymous...

A perpetual qualm I have with dungeon maps is that I either have to give it to my players (which I normally do), which takes a ton of work on my part to remove all the secrets...

I was reading through Grimwild when I was struck by a lightning bolt of "Oh, duh!" It was one of those revelatory moments that change how you think of games forever. You should...

Setup Pidash is in Moongaze, in a tucked away upper room at the inn. He’s known to Hegemony soldiers for some petty crimes, and has no desire to be shipped off to Gnomon. He’ll...