Today, in conversation with mandy brown, I realized that prepping slides is neither fun for me nor for my students, but I do it because it's expected. My best classes have been...

One of my favorite GMless games is i'm sorry did you say street magic, largely because of the following rule: A true name: Every Neighborhood has a magic all its own. To confer...

I've been reading a lot of Alfred Adler's psychology/philosophy recently, and it has inspired the following rule: Am I posting to demonstrate that I am better than someone...

When running an RPG, I often improvise details about the world. And, it is then often true that these details do not make any sense. For example, in a recent Stonetop session,...

I ran a Stonetop session today where I decided an old Hillfolk woman wanted Blodwyn (a PC) to drop the Twisted Spear on the ground. The woman needed this before her Hillfolk...

I am answering the call of [rolls] Pris's Random Blogwagon. I rolled a critical fail so I have to write it right now. I am supposed to write [roll] 2d6 paragraphs [rolls...

I continue to work on Triangle U, but it's slow going! As a creative warmup, I'm going to try writing microfiction in the Triangle U setting before I get started on the actual...

An unedited creativity exercise, borrowed from Throne of Salt. Enjoy! Comprehension and DeconstructionGoing Postal Moist von Lipwig Con artist Strangely trustworthy Hard to...

I have been running Triangle Agency1 for the past year. This game requires Mission-focused prep: the players receive Missions from the Agency and then they perform those...

The Black-Blood God promised Senator Johnson that, in exchange for extracting more fossils fuels from the Tennessee hills, it would save Senator Johnson's wife from lung...