I’ve been running Mythic Bastionland as an open table game. Each session, I put out a call for players from a pool of eight to see who has availability to jump on Discord for...

This is a collection of thoughts around Mythic Bastionland. I like talking about this game. I like addressing players by their knight title instead of the name they made up....

There was a poll a few months back on the Mythic Bastionland asking how many player characters is optimal for a long-running game. And of the 27 responses, the results were...

This post is part of an ongoing collaborative Realm for Mythic Bastionland. If the Luck Roll blog is going to pull from the FKR’s “every book is a source book”, then I shall...

Structural PC group cohesion problems BEGONE! I really like the Oath from Mythic Bastionland: These are the statements the PC knights live and die by. It’s how they move...

High scripts = domain documents, ritual instructions, holy scripturesUsers of high scripts: heralds, sages, priests Low scripts = trade orders, posted signs, most writingsUsers...

If you should apply anything from this article, you must, like me, apologize for adding cruft to Chris’s elegant design. Shame, shame! Apologies also if you read this and find...

When extracting goods from a corpse, plant, or quarry with sufficient tools, roll d6 to see how it goes: GOODS Find more Mythic Bastionland greatness on the Syllabus! Looking...

This is a simple procedure for a squire to swear the Oath and become a knight. It requires a seer to lead the ceremony and at least one witness must be present. The squire...

…If you’ve heard them called social matrix games from this blog and other places, that’s fine too. Basically, I’m over bifurcating my brain to make posts for two separate...

I’ve always appreciated one (of many things) Yochai Gal did for Dungeon World, Into the Odd, and Electric Bastionland: collecting resources. He put together a syllabus for...

With baby in month three and the holidays here and family in town and work ramping up, time is short. Here are a bunch of topic ideas and short thoughts, bones only. If you...

(Somehow I missed posting this here, whoops.) Talking about the execution and intent of my new Mythic Bastionland supplement, designed to thicken the delightful and captivating...

Weak signal boost to this article from reader Dave over at University XP. If you have an interest in open-ended, problem-based scenario games that are matrix games, this is a...

A world odd and wayward characters! An unofficial supplement for the RPG sensation Mythic Bastionland featuring a dozen Denizens to thicken the delightful and captivating...

In this podcast, I draw a through-line from Free Kriegsspiel to Braunstein to Matrix Games to Indie Narrative Games to the OSR to the FKR to Modern Story Games. It’s a...

This idea has been fleshed-out into a full-blown supplement. Read more here! In Mythic Bastionland, you travel the world and the myths reveal themselves with each roll of a 1,...

Y’all can thank Varzival for this one. They pinged me about their excitement for a post about MB from me 🙂 So I deliver. MAPS Having a map players can see is nice. Have minis...

A happy birthday month to my father! I just recently recovered a box of his Tolkien materials and discovered an essay he wrote 32 years ago. Did some quick speech-to-text...

When talking about the next storygame we wanted to play, my buddy threw out this moment as something that captured his imagination. Watch this to understand where my head is...

…And that is not an inherently good quality. It’s like in Harry Potter: when Dobby the house elf dies, Harry insists on giving him a burial dug with his own hands, rightly...

104 days of summer vacation seems a lifetime away for you and I…. Nevertheless, today we join the boy geniuses of Phineas and Ferb in a social matrix game podcast actual play...

My buddy Kyle Burger and I played a social matrix game, a kind of storygame with incredibly simple rules: Start with the mystery. Set the scene by describing the episode’s...

Listen, I’m a snob in many areas, but especially in how I have fun. If a game is pitched to me as “popular”, I’m wary of it. “Everyone’s doing it” is one of the fastest ways to...

Dear Mr Dragonslayer 🙂 How do you handle resource management in an open table campaign? Your wrote a great article on “returning to base” each session in an open table...

Keeping this project alive in my imagination with smaller projects while BIG things marinate in the background… Added character sheet, updated for Skorne v2.1. See the...

​The dark world just became deadlier. The Fiends of Skorne, the latest supplement for the role-playing game Skorne, unleashes a host of terrifying creatures to haunt your...

Welcome! Music is important to me at the table. It brings about a gravity more than the other senses. This is the official prep playlist for Skorne, the dark fantasy RPG about...

Then play begins. The renegades awaken in the ruins of a village, surrounded by smoke, fire, and the dead. One of Skorne’s warbands has already come and gone, leaving nothing...

Here’s the thing: sometimes the most practical advice is something you already knew. My top book of 2024 doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It’s not a new philosophy or a...