A few fellow bloggers and I held a Work in Progress show-and-tell last weekend, and I was excited to talk through some of the development work that I had come through on...

One of my most-visited web pages in the last two years is d4 Caltrops's Dungeon Stocking - Expanded table. I could not have finished and stocked my megadungeon for my year-long...

Meta Image from Michael Q Powell's Photography Blog I've spent the last few days going back through the notes and feedback from last week's playtests. In The Wax Marches I...

I had a chance to run a second session of the Honeybee RPG this past Friday afternoon with my friends Zak (of Bommyknocker Press), Kati (of The Play Reports), and Scott (of...

My friends David and Sandro AD were kind enough to join me on a maiden voyage of my Honeybee RPG tonight and we had a rip-roaring good time. This past weekend I decided to...

WF over at Prismatic Wasteland called for a blog bandwagon back in February to discuss the topic of maps. I perseverated for a while about whether I had anything interesting to...

Hello! Long time no blog. The last month has been busy as all get-out and I haven't been trapped inside by a snowstorm in a little while, so I've been occupied with my day job...

This morning I was listening to Boonta Vista, an Australian comedy podcast, and they were discussing a part of the brain called the Corpus Callosum. This is a bundle of neurons...

This post was originally titled "A Lightweight Reputation System" and it turned out to be truly anything but. Meta Image courtesy of DesertUSA. I've been sharpening up the...

Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers, Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin… Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not Chronology, for that is left to...

Meta image for this post courtesy of DUNGEON WEED at bandcamp Over on the His Majesty the Worm Discord, one of the perennial pairs of questions is: How the hell do I restock...

This morning Liz over at Magnolia Keep offhandedly made a joke about a tactical RPG for concealing your affair at a Coldplay concert (it made sense in context of the...

My friend over at A Shrike for my Dreams made a very fun post last week about the Overloaded Reaction Roll. It's an awesome post, so this is a pretty paltry contribution to the...

Last time we took a step back from the playtested mechanics and meditated on the first principles of this survey game project. We arrived at three major themes for future...

My friend Blazer19 recently prompted me to take a read through Vincent Baker's blog series reflecting on Apocalypse World and Powered By The Apocalypse. It was an entrancing...

I've been thinking about loot for the past two days, ever since Sandro wrote The Loot Sicko's Dilemma. I think Sandro's interests and touchpoints vary from mine, so it was a...