Reskinning the BeholderThis is an attempt to reskin Dungeons & Dragons classic weird and terrifying monster the Beholder in a way that works for less generic fantasy settings…...

My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.

Been thinking a lot about Dungeon Crawl Classics recently and of course the thought of converting it to Troika! crossed my mind. So here is my attempt to model those amazing...

Listen to this episode here. Austin Walker's new game Realis is on Kickstarter now, and it's been making splashes in the indie rpg scene since last year when the ashcan...

I’ve been procrastinating on Resourciv because I couldn’t come up with a demographic or economic framework (or perhaps meta-framework, since I really want to support different...

A few years ago, I played in a game of Vampire the Dark Ages that ran from 793 to about 1463. It was my first real introduction to the World of Darkness, and was a great way to...

I was playing that very fun mtg counterspell guessing game and thought that a lot of counterspells aren't really counterspells if you take their names literally. So I decided...

Links of great interest from the breadth of the interweb. Not sated? Try last weeks collection or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated....

The first set of hexes for a new Antarctica Adventure Jam region. The keys are labelled "yyy-xxx" because I haven't decided on specific locations yet. You should do your own!...

Having given up on fussing with adding a second sidebar onto the right side of my blog for the time being, I have juggled the footer section a bit to make room for Daniel...

Came For The Pun, Stayed For The Giant Fish Probable Claws is a 16-page adventure for Shadowdark by Jordy Milano of [Normal Press Co.] (https://normalpressco.itch.io/). This is...

I am converting Dark Souls into a 5th edition D&D rule set. I've been working on this off-and-on for a few months now. I chose to start with 5th edition D&D because that is the...

Tim Brannan over at The Other Side set out to do a different sort of April challenge this month: to comment on at least one blog a day, really engaging with the subject matter...

This post by subjunctive moods earlier in the year got me thinking about ablative mechanics in combat, and Phlox’s All Damage As 1d6 reignited some of those thoughts.. We all...

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...

I'm currently running a weekly campaign called Beyond the Purple Haze using Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City. We're about 2 months into the game and not very far into...

Recently I had an opportunity to run a game for a group of people who were almost 100% new to Cairn (one person had played Mausritter before), and I felt that this would be a...

I have been creating a D&D hack that emulates the gameplay of Dark Souls. I'm starting to put these notes and ideas into a single document, and in true old school fashion I...

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I was geas'ed to run D&D for one of my colleagues. They ambushed me at the office Christmas party and asked could I do it. This was a fair bit into the party so I filed it away...

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here. The series will, when necessary, go into detail on the development of my...

 THE USA IS, The branches and mechanisms of the government of the United States have been subsumed into the paradigms of differing New Gods. The House is in the thrall of...

Because it’s my blog and I can do whatever I want, here’s something I hope someone finds some joy in: This is the live performance of Veteran of the Psychic Wars by Blue Öyster...

Playing role-playing games with my kids has taught me, more than anything else, how to be a better GM. It is incredibly fun when it goes well.  But it can be hard when it does...

We played the fifth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as...

For the charmers, liars, deal makers out there! The RakeAttribute Requirements: Strength and Dexterity must be 5 or lower. Hit Dice: 1d4 -1 To Hit: As Thief Saving Throws: As...

Welcome back to another episode - number 40 - of BREAK!!: The Wandering Trio! We left off having just arrived in the sanctuary of Evergrove. Here sits the home of Elix the...

Apparently, today is CSS Naked Day where participating sites turn off their CSS for 24 hours. So here you go! I'll have to tidy up a few things before next year, it looks like.

“Craggy cave mouth” by Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0As a design goal for Earth Resists, I want to think of adventure sites as recipes. The written description is not a prepared meal,...

A review of the one page dungeon, Eroding Isle of the Executioner for Shadowdark RPG