There are quite a few puns I could make to introduce this topic, so I’ll save us both some time and let you imagine your favorite one. There, feeling better? Now you’re ready...

The Bloggies, the premiere awards for tabletop roleplaying game blogs, was on a month ago, and This Vorpal Coil was nominated for Best Debut Blog! However, it did not win, with...

Classic Megaman (AKA Rockman) games maintained a nonlinear structure: they presented the player with a stage select screen showing the set of bosses they could fight, and...

Comedy: not a standard topic of TTRPG discussions, but a highly pertinent one all the same: if you haven’t laughed at your table, then you need to find a new group. In this...

Early in the history of the hobby, a number of factors (including primordial Gygaxian authoritarianism) led to the perception/practice of game masters as petty tyrants who...

It’s been close to three months since I updated Protoplastic officially, but believe me, I never stopped working on it. In spite of a variety of other projects and things going...

The Bloggies, the premiere awards for tabletop roleplaying game blogs, is currently on, and This Vorpal Coil has been nominated for Best Debut Blog! If you’ve enjoyed reading,...

If you can believe it, it’s an episode of Rose Playing Games once again! Watch it here! Today we’re talking about crafting systems in RPGs: gathering materials, assembling...

Mausritter is a fantastic game – very few get as close as it does to the Platonic ideal of a post-OSR ruleset, covering so much ground yet remaining so brief. While most of it...

Welcome back to Rose Playing Games, the Rose-only (count: 2) tabletop RPG show! This episode we’re talking about the history of mechanics like Call of Cthulhu sanity and other...

Today I was catching up on a recent Dice Exploder episode about the chit-based inventory mechanic in Mausritter – which is a great system, which the hosts come up with some...

Hello, and welcome to episode two of the only tabletop roleplaying game video podcast featuring two simultaneous Roses! This time our topic is economies in RPGs: gold pieces,...

So I got the chance to run another playtest session of Protoplastic, this time with an entirely different group of players. I ran essentially the same scenario as the last...