After a particularly violent Sunday Session with some of my Classic Traveller players I felt the urge to write up a death and dismemberment chart that fits the style and mood...

Sorcery in Classic TravellerMagic in skill based games can quickly lead to feeling very gamey-y due to escalating skill levels completely negating other parts of the game....

It's been a bit since we caught up with intrepid Travellers of Frydheld Sector. Instead of a blow by blow play report I am going to try and summarize the moments that stood out...

A little bit behind on play reports for the awesome Griffin Mountain game being run by Oldskolgmr. These aren't exhaustive notes but should catch us up to where we are...

Spuk ran the fourth super adventure a few weeks ago and it was a weekend long super crawl of a collage of famous dungeons both from the past and present. Tomb of Hoors led to...

I had planned to do three campaigns this year for Campaign 2026. One ended to make room for another, another never started cuz I started reading Classic Traveller, and...

We all have an understanding of HD. Bigger amounts are better, heartier, can likely do more damage. Lesser amounts are weaker, chaff, the yet-to-be-bleeding meat to be cleaved!...

Been thinking a lot about Dungeon Crawl Classics recently and of course the thought of converting it to Troika! crossed my mind. So here is my attempt to model those amazing...

For the charmers, liars, deal makers out there! The RakeAttribute Requirements: Strength and Dexterity must be 5 or lower. Hit Dice: 1d4 -1 To Hit: As Thief Saving Throws: As...

These are my initial observations after running the first half of my Super Adventure. I will be writing more concrete advice on how to structure one after that one finishes up...

I've run two sessions of Classic Traveller in the past week, one in the gay beholder server and another at my home table. Instead of doing a big AAR for both I have the time to...

Party Bronir - Diaz Daranth - Me Grundle - N Olyandor - Oly Rosrolar - Stroszek Ulia - Deb Oldskolgmr - GM SessionWe start on the road to Elkoi (sic) westernmost citadel of...

This post is full of good advice. A lot of folks toil under the expectations of the hobby and what they feel they need to write or run an RPG. I've talked about that in the...

ThoughtsClassic Traveller continues to amaze me with how well it lines up with my sensibilities as a GM. I've never had a system that was so easy to prep and play before. CT's...

ThoughtsReally cool the players found one of the few areas in Dolmenwood that directly ties to the Cold Princes and would know the consequences of the actions the main party...

Troika! is the new OD&D. And after looking at these fantastic OD&D backgrounds I was thinking about Troika!'s luck applying to the classic Five Saving Throws. When a PC Tests...

Idraluna has an excellent point in the back of the Littlest Brown Book about how some of the XP rules were written with longer play sessions happening multiple times a week and...

I have recently fallen down the Classic Traveller rabbit hole. I think about UPPs in my free time, design spaceships in my mind, and play the character creation minigame to...

Farmer Required Skills: none Required Equipment: none Players' Information Out in the countryside a disheveled young woman corners the players when they are away from prying...

Army Officer Required Skills: none Required Equipment: none Players' Information: While walking around the city, the players are approached by a scarred man in homespun...

Bateman's excellent Facilitating Fiendish Fights should be considered a sister piece to this article. It is filled chock-a-block with good advice for running combat. It's...

The party has gone off to train for level 6! So for the next two weeks we're going to the other party up in the northwest who are basically bandits. I could probably be more...

Hard to get by in the Spokelands when you're hard up for gold. 1000 Statues got too hot. I heard that Tiramisu fella got run out on a rail by some fearsome robot. Fine by me,...

Lightning in a bottle blog posts hit the scene and arc from community to community inspiring a new wave of ideas and what makes a good game. We've seen it happen with all sorts...

Play reports are important folks.... We all know it and that's why we gotta write them! I don't remember the beat for beat stuff as this campaign has been going on for a while...

Well I never would have thought that a bunch of Level 5s could have taken on the AC20, +8 to hit, bile breath beast that was the wyrm. And if they had fought any other way but...

When I was running Delta Green every week I had to think of ways to expedite prep without sacrificing the sandbox nature of investigations that I really value in my games. One...

I got into the hobby late compared to most folks, no dad that grew up in the advent of the hobby or brother to let me play at his table jealously. Tabletop games occupied a...

The rumor tables really put in the work of getting the ball rolling with today's session. The players latched onto the rumor about the mossling bones being used in the brews...

I was having a conversation with my friend Liquid Video the other day about how piracy acts in the Far Future. He wrote a great response and I wanted to share it. __ Well, hey!...