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...

One of my players, Dave, plays Smokestacks: a Hound who also works for a large paper. We named it The Doskvol Times last session, so I wrote it up as a faction so we could use...

a theory post, written with apologies to those who have actually read The Rule Book. When I chat with my mother on my way to work, I usually only hear the news of the house,...

Writing a book is awesome. Writing a book is terrible. My current main creative project is Triangle U, a campaign guide and mission collection for Triangle Agency. It is an...

Everyone who says how they know your RPG notes should be organized is wrong. Except for me. In this post, I am going to outline a theory of bottom-up organization for RPG...

I've been taken with perusing random GLoG stuff, so without any prior experience, I am choosing to make a GLoG class inspired by the Deep Apiarist. I chose this class because I...

One of the great challenges with writing good NPCs is to present them in such a way that the GM can easily portray them in a scene. I am experimenting with punchy descriptors...

I'm in beginning-of-year cleaning mode, and as part of that project, I reorganized my PDF archive. Here's how I did it. Maybe you'll find it useful. The key element of this is...

My contribution to the Christmas 2025 blogwagon, written with apologies to Max Gladstone. Bonus points if you know why he deserves said apology. NeighborsNorth, Northeast,...

"The more of the following a campaign has, the more old school it is." - Principia Apocrypha. 1. Concrete SpacesIn Die Hard, Nakatomi Plaza is a fabulous dungeon. It is...

Yesterday, I ran some Blades in the Dark and I thought the scenario was a lot of fun, so I'm posting it here! It includes a custom starting situation - my group was playing as...

One of my greatest challenges when running Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) games is the underspecified 7-9 result. A few examples follow, all from games I enjoy and admire:...