I regret the decisions that I make when eating at buffets. Time and again, I fall for the classic blunder of piling my plate high with a semi-enjoyable dish from near the...

I regret the decisions that I make when eating at buffets. Time and again, I fall for the classic blunder of piling my plate high with a semi-enjoyable dish from near the...

Rarely do I have two gaming sessions in the same week. Even more rare is running both of them. But that's how last week worked out, with the first of my recurring OD&D/White...

I don't really have time to write this, but I was already spending the time i didn't have discussing it on discord. This will be fast and dirty. We've been discussing Warren...

How psycho-social patterns of expected behavior erode the fundamentals of RPG play.

 RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL In the UK, the god who rules is Flood, much like the Economy dominates the USA. The other...

I am still several weeks off from starting either of my upcoming Curse of Strahd games, but I've been starting to do some general prep for the campaign. I did a full read...

My day job consists largely of reading adventures and providing feedback. And while I've read hundreds of OSR modules by now, I still don't have a good way to refer to all the...

Here is a fun one! A fellow Referee is running an “Ocean Themed” OD&D Campaign and requested some assistance with generating interesting Jellyfish for the Adventurers to...

The idea was that I am running an elfgame forest campaign for my young son and his friends, teaching them how to GM.  They find a portal in the city, a la Ultan's Door, that...

The company stage a two-pronged assault on the hobgoblins encampment, slaughter them all and close the portal to the elven lands. Party Members Tina the Titanic - Level 7...

A standard 52-card deck of French-suited playing cards has a lot going for it. The biggest benefit is its ubiquity and low cost; there’s almost nowhere in the US (where I live)...

Previous: PurplecthulhuNext: Zmia GariniaIt is a strange sort of mask. The outside is a featureless dome of unlacquered hardwood, stained dark by years of handling. The inside,...

A reading informed review of Girl Frame

A few more random worldbuilding ideas that are free for the taking if someone wants to flesh them out or incorporate them into their worlds! Intended to be quick and encourage...

Stronghold building rules that push the campaign forward

Each in TurnCaitlin was exactly as good a student as she remembered. The reason that she does not remember working is because she spent all of her time in the active pursuit of...

Farmhands pledging $1 or more over on patreon got to read this a week early!     Howdy, Farmhands!    I need to level with you for a moment. This post is going to be me telling...

Before the monolithic ‘multiclassing’ of later editions, there was AD&D’s demihuman-only Multi-Class and human-only Dual-Class (or, as it was called in 1e, “The Character With...

Session Date: 09/23/2026 Players The Great Beast - Weird Writer Mikele Colucci - Prometheus Xocolatl - Bue School Locker - Bubblegum Coral Kid - Podunke Lots of Little Stripes...

Beautifully written, expertly crafted, powerful narrative. I hated it. I recommend it.

Recently my cousin who had been a player in my Shrike game for the last half year asked me to run a long and classic D&D session. Well I love running games and I used to run...

For Spuk's Ocean DnD Attribute Requirement: DEX 12 Alignment: Chaotic Weapons: None Armor: None Languages: Reef, Fish Bubbling Movement: Free Swim 45m (150ft) Flying Fish live...

Issue 5 of Unnamed Worlds has dropped, the theme is Sci Fi. It is a collaborative collection of new and twisted worlds suitable for roleplaying, it includes: fiction and art as...

 They see you as subsentient. The only value they see in you is your reproductive ability. It doesn't matter that it will destroy you. All that matters to them is you have...

Have you ever lived in a city? Think back and you will notice: your experience was mainly a series of rooms. You visited perhaps 6-12 rooms each day. (Usually the same rooms...

1d10 Adjective Energy Type Weapon Beam Color Noise 1 High-frequency Neutronium Projector Electric blue Pew pew pew! 2 Supersonic Gamma-ray Beam Purple-black Bzzzzzt! 3...

After three years of massive multiplayer asynchronous play-by-post domain gaming, I am ecstatic to declare DoN officially DEAD. *champagne pops* *cork crashes thru a window*The...

A weird thought came over me. "What if players could keep a character from dying?"It was an odd thought, especially as I'm specifically designing a game where characters can,...

     At the end of my review of the original HuniePop (HuniePop 2 review coming eventually I promise) I mentioned I didn't really have a lot of experience with Match 3 games....